2009

Linda Molm

University of Arizona

2008

Jane Allyn Piliavin

University of Wisconsin-Madison

2007

James House

University of Michigan

2006

Lynn Smith-Lovin

Duke University

2005

Cecilia Ridgeway

Stanford University

2004

Karen Cook

Stanford University

2003

Peter J. Burke

University of California-Riverside

2002

Bernard Cohen

Stanford University

2001

Edward J. Lawler

Cornell University

2000

Morris Zelditch, Jr.

Stanford University

1999

Harold H. Kelley

University of California - Los Angeles

1998

David R. Heise

Indiana University

1997

Robert K. Merton

Columbia University

1996

Melvin Seeman

University of California-Los Angeles

1995

Harold Garfinkel

University of California-Los Angeles

1994

Anselm Strauss

University of California-San Francisco