| 2023 | Prof Jeremy MacClancy | Morris Maoriesque? Western appreciation of non-Western arts, in New Zealand | |
| 2021 | no award made | ||
| 2019 | Dr Konstantinos Kalantzis | Athens and the Indigenous Sublime: Rethinking Orientalism and Desire from Documenta 14 to the Cretan Highlands | |
| Dr Myriam Lamrani | Images on the Move. Migrant Saints ‘Beyond’ the Mexico-US Border | ||
| 2017 | Dr Paolo Fortis | The aesthetics of ‘time-reckoning’: a Guna chromatic history | |
| 2015 | Prof Lawrence Rosen | Chaos and Choice: The Social Meaning of an Islamic Art Form | |
| 2013 | Dr Huon Wardle | The Artist Carl Abrahams and the Cosmopolitan Work of Centring and Peripheralising the Self | |
| 2011 | Dr Joseph Long | The Buryat circle dance and the aesthetics of belonging: Meaning to perform and performing to mean in Southern Siberia | |
| 2009 | Dr Sohini Ray | The language of hand gestures in Manipuri dance: semantics and politics | |
| 2007 | no award made | ||
| 2005 | no award made | ||
| 2003 | no award made | ||
| 2001 | Dr Sean Kingston | Attention to form in a Southern New Ireland life-cycle | |
| 1999 | Dr James Leach | Drum and Voices: Aesthetics, technology and political relations in a Rai Coast (Papua New Guinea) society | |
| 1997 | no award made | ||
| 1995 | Dr Peter Gow | Piro designs: Paintings as a meaningful action in an Amazonian lived world | |
| 1993 | Dr Nicholas Thomas | A second reflection: Opposition and irresolution in contemporary Maori art | |
| 1991 | Dr Michael O’Hanlon | Unstable images and second skins: Artefacts, exegesis and assessments in the New Guinea Highlands | |
| 1989 | Prof Michael Herzfeld | Icons and Identity: Religious orthodoxy and social practice in modern Greece | |
| 1987 | Dr Howard Morphy | From dull to brilliant: The aesthetics of spiritual power among the Yolngu | |
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