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| 2025 | Professor Laurajane Smith | Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University |
| 2024 | Professor Lorna Williams | |
| 2023 | Professor Sarah Tarlow | |
| 2022 | Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes | |
| 2021 | Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen | |
| 2020 | Professor Alice Roberts |