Award recipients 2007

• Tamara Afifi, Communication Studies, “Custodial Mothers' and Adolescents' Communication about the Parents' Relationship”
• Walid Afifi, Communication Studies, “The Palestinian Youth Resilience Project:  Ambient Uncertainty and Communal Coping among Palestinian Youth in Lebanese Refugee Camps”
• Mary Bucholtz, Linguistics, “The Role of Social Interaction in the Development of Scientist Identities and the Retention of Undergraduate Women in Science Majors”
• Eve Darian-Smith, Law & Society “Religion, Racism, Rights:  Landmarks in the History of Modern Anglo-American Law”
• Gaye T. Johnson, Black Studies, “The Future Has a Past:  Race, Politics, and Memory in Afro-Chicano Los Angeles”
• Lorelei Moosbrugger, Political Science, “Political Institutions and the Information Environment:  A Test of the Downsian Model of Political Competition”
• Erin Khue Ninh, Asian American Studies, “Ingratitude:  A Cultural Theory of Power in Asian American Women's Literature”
• William Robinson, Sociology, “Global Capitalism and Latin America:  Crisis and Transformation”
• Eric Smith, Political Science, “Public Reactions to Wind Power”
• Stuart Tyson Smith, Anthropology “Implications of Empire:  Identity, Economy and Ceramic Manufacturing in Nubia, 1550-750 BCE”
• Jacqueline Stevens, Law & Society, “A Study of Assassination:  The Politics of Innocence”
• Juliet Williams, Law & Society “Making a Difference:  The Fall and Rise of Single-Sex Public Education in the United States”

Award recipients 2006

• Gerardo Aldana, Chicano Studies, "Indigenous Epistemologies and Cultural Continuity: Maya Mythology Then and Now"
• Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Chicano Studies, "Identifying with the Extreme: Multiple Identities and the Ebb and Flow of Political Extremism"
• Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Sociology, "Creating Alternative Development: A Study of Chocolate"
• Kathleen Bruhn, Political Science, "Leaders or Followers?" Politicians and Issue Emergence in the 2006 Mexican Presidential Election"
• Gary Charness, Economics, "Group Membership and Economic Behavior"
• Diane Fujino, Asian American Studies, "Pan-Asian Organizing and Third World Solidarity: The Asian American Political Alliance in Berkeley"
• Rod Garratt, Economics, "The Role of Speculators in Auctions: An Experimental"
• Marek Kapicka, Economics, "Optimal Human Capital Policies in Life-Cycle Economies"
• Mireille Miller-Young, Women's Studies, "Sexual Minorities, Sex Workers and Human Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
• Geoffrey Raymond, Sociology, "Talk-in-Activity in a material world: The organization of talk and other conduct in co-present interaction in the course of, or as part of, ongoing activity"
• Beth Schneider, Sociology, "Grassroots Political Action Committees: Creating California and National Surveys"
• Phillip Walker, Anthropology, "A Bioarchaeological Study of Health and Social Change in Ancient China"

Award recipients 2005

• Paul Amar, Law and Society, "Police Masculinity and Extra-Legal Security in Urban Cairo"
• Ingrid Banks, Black Studies, "Blurring Racial and Cultural Boundaries: Post-Civil Rights Black Beauty Salon Culture"
• Grace Chang, Women’s Studies, " Redefining Agency: Feminist Responses to Trafficking and Anti-Trafficking"
• Olivier Deschenes, Economics, "The Long Term Consequences of Military Service During The Vietnam War on Post-Service Health Outcomes"
• Jennifer Earl, Sociology, "Arrests, Repression, and the 2004 Republican National Convention"
• Laurie Freeman, Political Science, "Social Capital, Trust and Environmental Activism in China: Evaluating Society-centered versus Institution-centered Theories of Trust Formation"
• Nikki Jones, Sociology, "Pathways to Freedom: How Men and Women Successfully Manage Their Post-Incarceration Lives"
• James Kyung-Jin Lee, Asian American Studies, "Warfare, Welfare, and the Ethics of Asian American Life"
• William Robinson, Sociology and Global Studies, "Research into Globalization: Theories of Globalization/Latin America and Global Crisis"
• Celine P. Shimizu, Asian American Studies, "Race and the Hollywood Sex Act"
• Stuart Tyson Smith, Anthropology, "Interaction, Long Distance Exchange and Secondary State Formation in Nubia"
• Hung Cam Thai, Asian American Studies, "Memories of War among the post-1975 Generation of the Vietnamese Diaspora"
• Xiaojian Zhao, Asian American Studies, "The New Chinese America: Networks and Social Hierarchy"

Award recipients 2004

• Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Sociology, "'Passion for Change: Women Transforming the World"
• Eve Darian-Smith, Law and Society, "Gated Communities and Contemporary Western Understanding of Property, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: A Comparative Project"
• Michael Jochim, Anthropology, "Culture Change at the End of the Ice Age in South Germany"
• John Mohr, Sociology, "Conceptualizing Diversity in a Post-Affirmative Action Era"
• Kathleen M. Moore, Law and Society, "Public Perceptions of Muslims in the United States: Media Framing of Civil Liberties vs. National Security and its Effects on Tolerance"
• Leila J. Rupp, Women's Studies, "Transnational Homophile Organizing: The International Committee for Sexual Equality"
• Cynthia Stohl, Andrew Flanagin, & Bruce Bimber, Communication and Political Science, "Technological Change and Collective Association: Changing Relationships among Technology, Organization, Society and the Citizenry"
• Verta Taylor, Sociology, "Gay Marriage as a Social Movement Tactic"
• Hung Cam Thai, Asian-American Studies, "For Better or For Worse: Marriage and Migration in the New Global Economy"
• Raymond Sin-Kwok Wong, Sociology, "The New Chinese Entrepreneur: Changes in Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong"

Award recipients 2003

• James Adams, Political Science, "'Reasonable Choice' Models of Policy-Seeking Candidates: Can Policy Motivations Explain Candidate Divergence in France and the United States?"
• Kelly Bedard & Peter Kuhn, Economics, "When Women Lose Work: Impacts of Women's Job Losses on Women and their Children"
• Denise Bielby, Sociology, "Institutional Traces of the International Television Market"
• Olivier Deschenes, Economics, "The Long-Term Consequences of Military Service during the Vietnam War on Post-Service Health: Evidence on Work Disabilities"
• Jennifer Earl, Sociology, "Tactical Innovation, Social Movements, and the Internet: Examining Online Tactics"
• John Foran, Sociology, "The Origins of Revolution in the Third World: The End of a Research Project"
• Garrett Glasgow & Stephen Weatherford, Political Science, "Setting the Media's Agenda: Can Grass Roots Groups Call Attention to Emerging National Issues?"
• Cynthia Kaplan, Political Science, "Conceptualizing Ethnicity: Empirical Tests of Competing Theories"
• Carol McAusland, Economics, "Trade and the Environment: Consumer versus Producer Generated Pollution"
• Christopher S. Parker, Political Science, "Fighting for Democracy: Race, Military Service, and Political Engagement"

Award recipients in 2001-2002

• Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Sociology, "Women's Empowerment as Alternative Development: An Examination of Four Women's Organizations in Brazil, India, Israel and Senegal"
• Eileen Boris, Women's Studies, "Re-Valuing Care: IHSS Workers Struggle for Dignity and Recognition"
• Francesca Bray, Anthropology, "Tourism and the New Technologies: A Preliminary Study of UNESCO World Heritage Sites and the Internet in Morocco, Egypt and Turkey"
• Kathleen Bruhn, Political Science, "Partisanship and the Dynamics of Protest in Brazil and Mexico"
• Gary Charness, Economics, "Promises and Contracts"
• Jon Cruz, Sociology, "Digitized Music, Cultural Crisis, and the Political Economy of Sound"
• Eve Darian-Smith, Law & Society, "Attitudes and Reactions to Indian Gaming in Local Californian Communities"
• Olivier Deschenes & Catherine Weinberger, Economics, "Matching Labor Supply with Demand in a Rapidly Changing Economy: The Role of Early Educational Experiences and Other Pre-Labor Market Characteristics"
• Diane Fujino, Asian-American Studies, "Japanese American Radical Activism: Influences of the Concentration Camps and Black Liberation Movement"
• Lisa Hajjar, Law & Society, "In the Interest of Justice: The Role of Lawyers in International Criminal Prosecutions"
• Christopher S. Parker, Political Science, "The Power of Patriotism?"
• W. James Potter, Communication, "Designing Templates for Interactive Research on the Effects of Exposure to Media Violence"
• Celine P. Shimizu, Asian-American Studies, "The Making of 'Asian Women': Racialized Sexuality on Screen and Scene"
• Susan Stonich, Anthropology, "The Political Ecology of Vulnerability in Coastal Zones of Asia and Latin America"
• John Sutton, Sociology, "Incarceration, Crime, and Opportunity Structures in California Counties"
• Tara J. Yosso, Chicano Studies, "Roads to the Ph.D. for Chicanas and Chicanos"
• Xiaojian Zhao, Asian-American Studies, "A Sense of Responsibility: The Life and Career of Y.C. Hong"

Award recipients in 2000-2001

• Shankar Aswani, Anthropology, "Kinship and the Ocean Commons: A Social Network Analysis"
• Eileen Boris, Women's Studies, "Citizens on the Job: Gender, Race and Rights in the United States, WWII to the Present"
• Garrett Glasgow, Political Science, "The Difference between Prospective Economic Voting and Survey Questions on Prospective Economic Voting"
• Michael Glassow, Anthropology, "Ecological Adaptation of Early Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherers of the Santa Barbara Channel"
• Carol McAusland, Economics, and Chris Costello, Bren School, "Predicting and Mitigating Exotic Species Introductions: An International Trade Perspective"
• Miriam Metzger, Communication, "Privacy on the Internet: The Effect of Privacy Statements on Trust and Information Disclosure Online"
• Stuart Tyson Smith, Anthropology, "Egypt's New Kingdom Empire and the Rise of the Nubian Napatan State: Imperial Strategies and the Dynamics of Culture Contact at Tombos and Hannek"

Award recipients in 1999-2000

• Edwina Barvosa-Carter, Chicano Studies, "A Wealth of Selves: Multiple Identity and Democratic Citizenship"
• Sarah Fenstermaker, Sociology and Women's Studies, "Enforcing Hate Crime: California Law and California Practice"
• Peter Kuhn, Economics, and Cathy Weinberger, Economics, "Non-Cognitive Skills and Labor Market Outcomes: An Exploratory Analysis"
• Laury Oaks, Women's Studies, "An Emerging Dimension of the Politics of Reproduction: Catholic Health System Takeovers and Restricted Access to Reproductive Health Services"
• Raymond Wong, Sociology, "To Be or Not To Be: A Comparative Analysis of Communist Party Recruitment Patterns"
• Mayfair Yang, Anthropology, "Redefining Modernity and Civil Society: Local Identity, Popular Religion, and Ritual Economy in Wenzhou, China"

Award recipients in 1998-99

• Bruce Bimber, Kathleen Bruhn, Peter Digeser, Cynthia Kaplan, Alan Liu, Lorraine McDonnell, Stephen Weatherford, and John Woolley, Political Science, "Understanding Democracy at the Periphery: A Collaborative Research Initiative"
• Francesca Bray, Anthropology, "A Preliminary Anthropological Mapping of the Santa Barbara Information Industry and its Global Networks"
• David Cleveland, Anthropology and Environmental Studies, "Local Knowledge, Scientific Knowledge and Sustainability: Comparing Plant Breeding by Farmers and Scientists as the Basis for Collaboration"
• William P. Eveland, Communication, "The Internet and Social Capital"
• Andrew J. Flanagin, Communication, "Preliminary Assessment of Team- and Organization-Based Communication Phenomena in Virtual Organizations"
• John Foran, Sociology and Latin American and Iberian Studies, "The Comparative-Historical Origins of Third World Social Revolutions: Why a Few Succeed, Why Most Fail"
• John Mohr, Sociology, "Jurisdictional Conflicts in the UC Outreach Initiative Project"
• Laury M. Oaks, Women's Studies, 'A New "Irish Solution to an Irish Problem:" The Possibility of Lifting the Abortion Ban in the Republic of Ireland'