2024 Co-Winner: Jacob Bunch. Assistive technology lifeworlds: Inclusive qualitative methodological innovations for diverse bodyminds. (Arizona State University, 2023)
2024 Co-Winner: Patricia (“Tita”) Feraud-King. 'You Crazy': Examination of Black transnational collegians’ mental health at historically white institutions. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2023).
2024 Honorable Mention: Anani Vasquez. Micromoments in neuroplexure: creative (professional) learning for post-oppositional transformation in inclusive education. (Arizona State University, 2023)
2023 Winner: Giovani Pietro Dazzo. Restorative validity: Exploring how critical participatory inquiry can promote peace, justice, and healing. (George Mason University, 2022)
2023 Honorable Mention: Jonathan M. Coker. A Bathroom Break for Teachers: An Institutional Ethnotheatrical Inquiry. (University of South Florida, 2022)
2023 Honorable Mention: Brian Mooney. To Speak a True Word: Remixing Hip Hop Pedagogies, Poetics, and Literacies (Columbia University, 2022).
2023 Honorable Mention: Janie Copple. Making Menstrual Knowledge Through Multi-Genre Methodologies: Mothers’ Encounters with Children at Menarche (University of Georgia, 2022).
2022 Winner: Kahdeidra Monét Martin. Counterstories of Black High SchoolStudents and Graduates of NYC Independent Schools: A Narrative Case Study. (CUNY, 2021)
2021 Winner: Dr. Marie C. Vea. Sense of Place and Ways of Knowing: The Landscape of Experience for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in in Natural Resources, Environmental Education, and Place Based Learning. (University of Vermont, 2020).
2020 Winner: Mauren Flint. Methodological Orientations: College Student Navigations of Race and Place in Higher Education. (The University of Alabama, 2019)
2019 Winner: Travis Marn. Performing the Black-White Biracial Identity: The Material, Discursive, and Psychological Components of Subject Formation. (University of South Florida, 2018)
2018 Winner: Felicity Molloy. Fit to Teach: Tracing Embodied Methodologies of Dancers Who Come to Academia. (The University of Auckland, 2016)
2017 Winner: Tristan Gleason. Scientific Literacy and the Ontology of Science Education: A Case Study of Learning in the Outdoors. (University of Oregon, 2016)
2016 Winner: Courtney L. Rath. "Not a Thing but a Doing": Reconsidering Teacher Knowledge Through Diffractive Storytelling. (University of Oregon, 2015)
2015 Winner: Emma Rowe. Geo-Identity, Urban School Choice, and Education Campaigns for Public Schools. (Monash University, 2014)
2014 Winner: Marek Tesar. Governing Childhoods Through Stories: A Javelin Analysis of Childhood Subjectivities. (The University of Auckland, 2012)
2013 Winner: Jessica Lynn Van Cleave. Scientifically Based Research as a Regime of Truth: An Analysis Using Foucault's Genealogy and Governmentality. (University of Georgia, 2012)
2012 Winner: Crystal T. Laura. "Bad Boy": My Baby Brother and the Social Ecology of "Difference". (University of Illinois at Chicago, 2011)
2011 Winner: Amanda Kibler. Talking Writing: Adolescent English Learners in the Content Areas. (Stanford University, 2009)