2008 - 2009 Katherine Rodier "Introducing Writer Bessie Woodson Yancey: Huntington's Other Woodson"

2009 - 2010 Tina Cartwright "Launching Tomorrow's Scientists: Comets" (Urban Appalachian Youth in an After-school Science Program" 

2010 - 2011 - No Award

2011 - 2012 Donna Sullivan "Casework: The Provision of Care in Appalachia"

2012 - 2013 - No Award

2013 - 2014 - No Award

2014 - 2015 - No Award

2015-2016 Allison Carey "LGBTQ Literature in Appalachia"

2016 - 2017 No Award

2017 - 2018 Wendy Perkins "The Acceptance of Rape Myths by College Students from Appalachian Culture"

2018 - 2019 David Trowbridge "Monuments and the Historical Memory of The Civil War in Appalachia" 

2019 - 2020 Tijah Bumgarner "Working Against the Past: Amplifying Student Voices of the Appalachian New Wave"

2020 - 2021 Hilary Brewster "Working Against The Past: Amplifying Student Voices of The Appalachian New Wave"

2021 - 2022 Sarah McDermott "Racial Covenants and  Huntington's Washington Place"

2022 - 2023 Brandi McGhee "Investigating Diversity in Nursing" (Understanding the Past to Improve the Future)

2023 -2024 No Award

2024 -2025 Stephen Young "Lights, Camera, Exploitation: Examining Films Role in Defining Race, Gender, and Deviance in Appalachia"