- Daniel Miller (anthropologist) (1956)
- Evon Vogt (1957)
- Claude E. Shannon (1958)
- Frank X. Barron (1959)
- Gerald S. Blum (1960)
- Edward M. Bruner (1961)
- Joseph LaPalombara (1962)
- George Trager (1963)
- Lee A. Elioseff (1964)
- M. N. Srinivas (1965)
- Norman R. C. Cohn (1966)
- Nicholas Hobbs (1967)
- Meyer Fortes (1968)
- Stanley J. Tambiah (1969)
- J. Clyde Mitchell (1970)
- Luiz de Aguiar Costa Pinto (1971)
- Edwin Mansfield (1972)
- Terrance Sandalow (1973) [1]
- Aaron Wildavsky (1975)
- Martin Rein (1976) [2][3]
- Emmon Bach (1977)
- Cynthia Fuchs Epstein (1978)
- Bruce Kuklick (1979)
- Lewis P. Lipsitt (1980)
- Hazel Rose Markus (1981)
- Walter Kintsch (1982)
- Joan Bresnan (1983)
- Ramón A. Gutiérrez (1984)
- Paul DiMaggio (1985)
- J. Lee Greene (1986)
- John Witte (1987)
- Barbara Heyns (1988) [4]
- Ian Shapiro (1989)
- Kenneth A. Dodge (1990)
- Wendy Griswold (1991)
- Louise A. Tilly (1992)
- Susan Cotts Watkins (1993) [5]
- Carl N. Morris (1994)
- Richard C. Connor (1995) [6]
- Kenneth A. Dodge (1996)
- Kurt VanLehn (1997) [7]
- Jan Hoem (1998)
- Susanne Lohmann (1999) [8]
- Joel Sobel (2000) [9]
- Pnina Lahav (2001) [10]
- M. Manuela Carneiro da Cunha (2002) [11]
- Dan G. Blazer (2003)
- William A. Christian (2004)
- Mayer N. Zald (2005)
- Josef Perner (2006) DEWP [12]
- Paula S. Fass (2007)
- Gil Eyal (2008) [13]
- Marion Fourcade (2009) [14][15]
- Aaron James (2010)
- Rhacel Parrenas (2011)
- Pamela Hieronymi (2012)
- Margaret O'Mara (2015) [16][17]
- Shelley Correll (2016) [18]
- Ross L. Matsueda (2017) [19][20]
- Benjamin Mako Hill (2019)
