| Year | Recipient | Awarded work | 
| 1998 | Diane Vaughan | The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA | 
| 1999 | Steven Epstein | Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge | 
| 2000 | Wendy Espeland | The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest | 
| 2001 | Andrew Hoffman | From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism | 
| 2002 | Stephen Hilgartner | Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama | 
| 2003 | Simon Cole | Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification | 
| 2004 | Jean Langford | Fluent Bodies | 
| 2005 | Nelly Oudshoorn | The Male Pill | 
| 2006 | Joseph Dumit | Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity | 
| 2007 | Charis Thompson | Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies | 
| 2008 | Joseph Masco | The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico | 
| 2009 | Jeremy Greene | Prescribing by Numbers | 
| 2010 | Susan Greenhalgh | Just One Child | 
| 2011 | Lynn M. Morgan | Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos | 
| 2012 | Stefan Helmreich | Alien Oceans | 
| 2013 | Tim Choy | Ecologies of Comparison | 
| 2014 | Robert N. Proctor | Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition | 
| 2015 | Gwen Ottinger | Refining Expertise.  How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges | 
| 2016 | Gabrielle Hecht | Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade | 
| 2017 | Adia Benton | HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone | 
| 2018 | Kalindi Vora | Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor | 
| 2019 | Aya Kimura | Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination | 
| 2020 | Sara Wylie | Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds | 
| 2021 | Laura Watts | Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga[2] | 
| 2022 | Kregg Hetherington | The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops[3] | 
| 2023 | Michele Ilana Friedner | Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India | 
| 2024 | Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg | Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America |