2024 Winner: Recovering Black Storytelling in Qualitative Research: Endarkened Storywork (Routledge, 2021) by Stephanie R. Toliver.
2023 Winner: Questions in Qualitative Social Justice Research in Multicultural Contexts (Routledge, 2022) by Anna CohenMiller and Nettie Boivin
2023 Honorable Mention: Decolonial Feminist Research: Haunting, Rememory and Mothers. (Routledge, 2020) by Jeong-eun Rhee.
2023 Honorable Mention: Weaving an Otherwise: In-Relations Methodological Practice (Routledge, 2022) edited by Amanda Tachine & Z Nicolazzo
2022: No award given
2021 Winner: Focus Groups: Culturally Responsive Approaches for Qualitative Inquiry and Program Evaluation (Myers Education, 2020) by Jori Hall
2021 Honorable Mention: Arts-Based Educational Research and Qualitative Inquiry (Routledge, 2020) by Thalia Mulvihill and Raji Swaminathan.
2020 Winner: Qualitative Inquiry, Cartography, and the Promise of Social Change (Routledge, 2018) by Aaron Kuntz
2019 Winner: Photovoice Research in Education and Beyond: A Practical Guide from Theory to Exhibition (Routledge, 2017) by Amanda O. Latz
2019 Honorable Mention: Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research (Lexington Books, 2018) edited by Lucinda Carspecken
2018 Winner: Discursive perspectives on education policy and implementation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017) edited by Jessica Nina Lester, Chad R. Lochmiller, and Rachael Gabriel
2018 Honorable Mention: Modes of Thinking for Qualitative Data Analysis (Routledge, 2017) by Melissa Freeman
2017 Winner: On Mutant Pedagogies: Seeking Justice and Drawing Change in Teacher Education (Springer, 2016) by Stephanie Jones and James F. Woglom
2017 Honorable Mention: The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-telling, and Social Justice (Left Coast Press, 2015) by Aaron Kuntz
2016 Winner: Crafting Phenomenological Research (Routledge, 2014) by Mark Vagle
2015 Winner: Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (Sage, 2014) edited by Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn
2014 Winner: The Constructivist Credo (Routledge, 2013) by Yvonna S. Lincoln and Egon G. Guba
2013 Winner: Urban Youth and School Pushout: Gateways, Get-Aways, and the GED (Routledge, 2012) by Eve Tuck
2012 Winner: Ethnotheatre: Research from Page to Stage (Routledge, 2011) by Johnny Saldaña
2011: Playbuilding as Qualitative Research: A Participatory Arts-Based Approach (Routledge, 2009) by Joe Norris