| 2022 | Bharat Jayram Venkat | ||
| 2020 | Amy Moran-Thomas | (Highly commended Janet Carsten) | |
| 2018 | Lesley Sharp | ||
| 2016 | Elizabeth Hallam | ||
| 2014 | Adriana Petryna | ||
| 2012 | Julie Livingston | ||
| 2010 | Mark Nichter | ||
| 2008 | Ron Barrett & Joao Biehl | ||
| 2006 | Sophie Day | ||
| 2004 | Luigi Capasso | ||
| 2002 | Christopher Davis | ||
| 2000 | No Award | ||
| 1998 | Allan Young | ||
| 1996 | Margaret Lock | ||
| 1994 | Nancy Scheper-Hughes | ||
| 1992 | Paul Farmer & Roland Littlewood | ||
| 1990 | Zachary Gussow | ||
| 1988 | No Award | ||
| 1986 | Francis Zimmermann | ||
| 1984 | Janice Reid | ||
| 1982 | Alan Harwood | ||
| 1980 | Arthur Kleinman | (Highly commended Shirley Lindenbaum) | |
| 1978 | John Janzen & Gilbert Lewis | ||
| 1977 | No Award | ||
| 1976 | No Award | ||
| 1975 | No Award | ||
| 1974 | No Award | ||
| 1973 | No Award | ||
| 1972 | No Award | ||
| 1971 | No Award | ||
| 1970 | No Award | ||
| 1969 | No Award | ||
| 1968 | No Award | ||
| 1967 | No Award | ||
| 1966 | No Award | ||
| 1965 | Donald Patrick Moody | ||
| 1964 | No Award | ||
| 1963 | No Award | ||
| 1962 | Shirley G. Ardener | ||
| 1961 | No Award | ||
| 1960 | P. Mayer | ||
| 1959 | Elizabeth M. Chilver and Phyllis M. Kaberry | ||
| 1958 | Ronald Murray Berndt | ||
| 1957 | George Eaton Simpson | ||
| 1956 | Philip Hugh Gulliver | ||
| 1955 | William Robert Geddes | ||
| 1954 | No Award | ||
| 1953 | Michael Garfield Smith | ||
| 1952 | No Award | ||
| 1951 | No Award | ||
| 1950 | John Arundel Barnes | ||
| 1949 | No Award | ||
| 1948 | William Vernon Brelsford | ||
| 1947 | No Award | ||
| 1946 | Siegfried Frederick Nadel | ||
| 1945 | Max Gluckman | ||
| 1944 | Herbert Ian Hogbin | ||
| 1943 | No Award | ||
| 1942 | No Award | ||
| 1941 | Verrier Elwin | ||
| 1940 | Audrey Isabel Richards | ||
| 1939 | Cyril Daryll Forde | ||
| 1938 | Donald Fergusson Thomson | ||
| 1937 | Meyer Fortes | ||
| 1936 | Charles Kingsley Meek | ||
| 1935 | Lucy Philip Mair | ||
| 1934 | No Award | ||
| 1933 | Francis Edgar Williams | ||
| 1932 | No Award | ||
| 1931 | Jack Herbert Driberg | ||