| 2023 | no award | ||
| 2022 | Jeanne Coppens | On Shaken Terrains – Practices of attention at an urban day shelter | |
| 2021 | Konrad Siekierski | Scripts, Saints, and Scientists: the Social Life of Gospel Books in an Armenian Museum | |
| 2020 | Antonio Montañés Jiménez | ‘Evangelical Gitanos are a good catch’: masculinity, love and Christianity in Spain | |
| 2019 | Jennifer Cairns | Back to the Future | |
| Megnaa Mehtta | Conserving Life: Everyday Ethics as Alternative Forest Governance | ||
| 2018 | Sarah Best | The Cognitive and Cultural Experience of Art | |
| 2017 | Juan M. de Nido | The Scarlet P: Uber in Buenos Aires and the post-political as a modality of reasoning | |
| 2016 | no award |
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| 2015 | Agathe Mora | ‘We Don’t Work for the Serbs, We Work for Human Rights’: Justice and Impartiality in Transitional Kosovo. |
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| 2014 | no award |
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| 2013 | Rodolfo Maggio | “Sikret Fren”: Economic costs and moral values in a friendship ritual in Honiara, Solomon Islands | |
| 2012 | Anthony Pickles | Pocket Calculator: A Humdrum ‘Obviator’ in Papua New Guinea? | |
| 2011 | Philip Kao | A Long Way From My Infant Needs: Performances of the Self in Acts of Formal Caregiving | |
| 2010 | Cristian Simonetti | With the Past under your feet. On the development of time concepts in archaeology | |
| 2009 | Megan Wainwright | Taking constipation seriously: an ethnographic study of the patient’s perspective on illness and interactions in healthcare | |
| 2008 | Farrah Folami-Carrer | Separate Communities, Separate Lives: Bangladeshi Integration in Tower Hamlets | |
| Amy McLennan | What the nose knows. The role of odour in ritually-induced bodily transformation and implications for obesity research in the Pacific Islands | ||
| 2007 | Paul Anderson | Is Altruism Possible? | |
| 2006 | no award | ||
| 2005 | Francis McKay | Archaeology and the Denial of Coevalness | |
| Eduardo Daniel Bogado | Batty fi’ Dead (Homosexual must die): God, gender, body and society in the cultural construction of the Jamaican male homosexual. | ||
| 2004 | Sophie Haines | Landscapes of Terror and Denial in the Israel/Palestine Conflict |