2024: Dr. James Joseph "Jim" Scheurich, An Anti-Racist Critique Related to the Ontology and Epistemology of Qualitative Research

2023: Kakali Bhattacharya, Parikrama: Contemplations on Circles and Cycles in Anti-Oppressive Qualitative Research

2021: Mirka Koro, Speculative Experimentation in Methodological Pluriverse

2019: Leigh Patel, Troubling Categories In and About Qualitative Research

2018: Janet Miller, Post Autobiographic Re-turnings Relationalities: Feminist, Curriculum and Qualitative Inquiries

2017: Elizabeth St. Pierre, Postqualitative Inquiry in the Ontological Turn

2016: Cynthia B. Dillard, To (RE)search is to (RE)member: Endarkened Feminisms and the Work of Qualitative Inquiry

2015: Patricia Leavy

2014: Michelle Fine

2013: Iris Carlton-LeNey

2012: Marie Battiste

2011: Delores Delgado Bernal

2010: Handel K. Wright

2009: Yvonna S. Lincoln

2008: Rebecca Bloom

2007: Yvonna S. Lincoln 

2006: Mica Pollock

2005: Patrick Slattery

Pre-2005 Lecturers 

Elliot Eisner

John Ogbu

Lou Smith

Gail Mccoutchen

Valerie Janesick

Yvonna Lincoln 

Thomas Schwandt 

Nel Noddings

Patti Lather

Joe Maxwell

Norman Denzin

Joe Kincheloe

Gloria Ladson-Billings