1922 – Samuel A. Barrett
1923 – William C. Mills
1924 – Berthold Laufer
1925 – Charles E. Brown
1926 – Charles R. Keyes
1927 – Fay-Cooper Cole
1928 – Carl E. Guthe
1929 – Ralph Linton
1930 – H. C. Shetrone
1931 – Henry Field
1932 – Melville J. Herskovits
1933 – Will C. McKern
1934 – Warren K. Moorehead
1935 – Robert Redfield
1936- William S. Webb
1937 – Wilton M. Krogman
1938 – Leslie A. White
1939 – W. Lloyd Warner
1940 – Paul S. Martin
1941 – George R. Fox
1942-45 – Wilson D. Wallis
1946 – Fred Eggan
1947 – Georg Neumann
1948 – James B. Griffin
1949 – George Quimby
1950 – William R. Bascom
1951 – Madeline Kneberg
1952 – James B. Watson
1953 – Donald Collier
1954 – Oscar Lewis
1955 – Thomas Sebeok
1956 – David A. Barreis
1957 – David F. Aberle
1958 – Chandler Rowe
1959 – Robert Ritzenthaler
1960 – Alan P. Merriam
1961 – John W. Bennett
1962 – John W. Bennett
1963 – Andrew H. Whiteford
1964 – Stephen F. Borhegyi
1965 – Harold K. Schneider
1966 – George Fathauer
1967 – Nancy O. Lurie
1968 – James Vaughan, Jr.
1969 – Leonard Moss
1970 – June Helm
1971 – Bernice Kaplan
1972 – Lowell Holmes
1973 – Ernest Schusky
1974 – Milton Altschuler
1975 – Carl Jantzen
1976 – Leo Despres
1977 – Dorothy Willner
1978 – Robert Maher
1979 – Eugenie Scott
1980 – Robert Maher
1981 – Beth Dillingham
1982 – John Messenger
1983 – Raymond Fogelson
1984 – Michael Salovish
1985 – Charles Warren
1986 – Ellen Holmes
1987 – James Hamill
1988 – Oswald Werner
1989 – Alice B. Kehoe
1990 – Cara Richards
1991 – Daniela Weinberg
1992 – Jack Glazier
1993 – Myrdene Anderson
1994 – Martin Ottenheimer
1995 – Lawrence Breitborde
1996 – James Hopgood
1997 – James Dow
1998 – Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer
1999 – Anne Terry Sawyier Straus
2000 – Alan Sandstrom
2001 – Phyllis Passariello
2002 – Robert McKinley
2003 – E. Paul Durrenberger
2004 – Richard Feinberg
2005 – J. Patrick Gray
2006 – MaryCarol Hopkins
2007 – James Hamill
2008 – Claude Jacobs
2009 – Margaret Buckner
2010 – Robert Ulin
2011 – Margaret Buckner
2012 – P. Nick Kardulius
2013 – Bill Guinee
2014 – James Stanlaw
2015 – Willie McKether
2016 – Willie McKether
2017 – Nobuko Adachi
2018 – Nobuko Adachi
2019 – Angela Glaros
2020 – Angela Glaros