2025 | Professor Caroline Sturdy-Colls | Professor of Holocaust Archaeology and Genocide Investigation, University of Huddersfield |
| 2024 | Professor David Mosse | |
| 2023 | Professor Sushrut Jadhav | |
| 2022 | Professor Raymond Apthorpe | |
| 2021 | Professor Larry J. Zimmerman | |
| 2020 | Dr Sébastien P. Boret | |
| 2019 | Professor Melissa Leach | |
| 2018 | Professor Claire Smith | |
| 2017 | Professor Richard Leakey | |
| 2016 | Professor Ralph Grillo | |
| Dr Paul Richards | ||
| 2015 | Professor Margaret Cox | |
| 2014 | Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond | |
| 2013 | Professor Michael Banton | |
| 2012 | Professor Scarlett Epstein | |
| Dr Roger Ballard | ||
| 2011 | Professor Catherine Panter-Brick | |
| 2010 | Professor Anthony Good | |
| 2009 | Professor C. Thomas Selwyn | |
| Dr John Palmer | ||
| 2008 | Professor Sue Black | |
| 2007 | No Award | |
| 2006 | Dr Alex de Waal | |
| 2005 | Dr Cecil Helman | |
| 2004 | No Award | |
| 2003 | Professor Gerald Mars | |
| Professor Tony Barnett | ||
| 2002 | No Award | |
| 2001 | Dr Marcus Colchester | |
| 2000 | Dr Megan Biesele | |
| 1999 | Dr Nicolas Peterson | |
| 1998 | Professor Thayer Scudder | |
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