2012 Winner
Amara Lopez, "Notions of Home Beyond the Field"
2013 Winners
Jasmine Reyes, "Violence and Agency In Lorraine Hansberry's play Les Blancs"
Lorna Mosher, "To be Attractive and a Comedienne"
2014 Winners
Carlina Duan, "I am Not a Geisha"
Kavitha Iyengar, "The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Creating the Mexican-American Frontier"
2015 Winners
Ariel Kaplowitz , Mujeres Por La Causa: Chicana Feminists in the International Women’s Year
Patrick Mullen-Cuyoy , A Not-So-New Colossus: United States Response to Central American Immigration in the Mid-1980s and the Mid-2010s
Nour Soubani , Complicating the Arab-American Identity: The Role of War and Violence in Arab-American Creative Writing from 2001-2014
2016 Winners
Mena Hermiz, Criticism of the 'Clashing Civilizations' Theory
Dylan Nelson, Relational Resistance: Misunderstanding, Race, and Sacred Power in Mid-Eighteenth Century Delaware Nativist Revival
2017 Winners
Ashley Bock, "Detroit Skylines"
Charlene Franke, “Southwest Native American Artistry in the Twentieth Century”
Jocelyn Reinert, “Selling Humanitarianism”
2018 Winners
Madison Jones, "We Must Secure the Existence of Our People"
Kristina Perkins, “Uses of the Cut-up: On (Re)Producing Collective Authorship”
2019 Winners
Caitlyn Zawideh, "Deepfakes, Truth, and the Individual"
Holly Reynolds, “Summary of the 1868 Crow Land Session”
2020 Winners
Anne Boyd, "A Nation That Forget its Past Has No Future: White Supremacy and a Confederate Monument in Phoenix, Arizona"
Syd Lio Riley, "Transgender Inclusion in Residential Communities at the University of Michigan"
