2018

Criminology
Katherine Beckett, Professor of Law, Societies & Justice, and Sociology 
University of Washington 
"The Place of Punishment in 21st Century America: Toward the End of Mass Incarcertation? 

Marcel Fournier, Associate Professor
Université de Montréal
"Pierre Bourdieu and His Legacy" 

2017

Medical Sociology
Jason Schnittker, Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania 
"Birth Conditions and Adult Depression Over the 20th Century" 

2016

Medical Sociology 
Richard Carpiano, Professor of Medical Sociology
University of British Columbia
"Public Conceptions of Child Undervaccination: A Randomized Experiment on Evaluations, Stigma, and Support for Policies"

Race and Ethnic Relations
Joe Feagin, Ella C. McFadden Professor
Texas A&M University
"Why we need systemic racism/white racial frame concepts to make sense out of US racism"

Criminology 
John Hagan, John D. MacArthur Professor
Northwestern University
"Iraq and the crimes of aggressive war"

2015

Race and Ethnic Relations 
Tony Brown, Associate Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University
"Development and Validation of a Racial Trauma Measure"

2014

Medical Sociology 
Phil Brown, University Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences 
Northeastern University
"Flame Retardants as a Prompt to Chemical Reform In the United States: A Multisector Alliance"

Criminology
Alex Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology
University of Texas at Dallas
"Describing Criminal Career Patterns among First and Second Generation Serious Youthful Offenders: Trends in Offending and Legal Socialization"

Medical Sociology 
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology
Princeton University
"Rethinking the Deserving Body: Immigration and Health"

2013

Medical Sociology 
Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology 
Indiana University, Bloomington
"The Structural and Cultural Cartography of Tolerance: Stigma, Mental Illness and the Public"

Race and Ethnic Relations
Adia Harvey Wingfield,  Associate Professor
Georgia State University
"No More Invisible Man: Race and Gender in Men's Work"

2012

Criminology
D. Wayne Osgood, Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology
Pennsylvania State University
"Adolescent Friendship Networks, Delinquency, and Substance Use: Findings from the PROSPER Peers Project"

Race and Ethnic Relations
Lawrence D. Bobo, W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
"Post-Racial Dreams, American Realities: Does the Color Line Endure?"

Race and Ethnic Relations
David Maume, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Kunz Center for the Study of Work & Family 
University of Cincinnati
"Race Differences in Wage Growth in the New Economy"

Criminology
Robert Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
"Inequality and the American City: Implications of the Neighborhood Effect"

2011

Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor 
of Sociology
Princeton University
"Dreams Fulfilled, Dreams Shattered: Determinants of Segmented Assimilation in the Second Generation."

Criminology (deferred to 2012)
Robert J. Sampson, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences
Harvard University
"Inequality and the American City: Implications of the Neighborhood Effect"

Medical Sociology 
Bruce G. Link, Professor of Epidemiology and Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"Evaluating the Theory of Fundamental Social Causes of Health Disparities: Recent Developments"

Medical Sociology 
Jo C. Phelan, Professor of Sociomedical Sciences
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
"The Genomic Revolution and Beliefs about Essential Racial Differences: A Backdoor to Eugenics"

Race and Ethnic Relations
Stephen Steinberg, Distinguished Professor of Urban Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
"The Death and Resurrection of 'White Sociology'"

2009

Race and Ethnic Relations
Monica McDermott, Assistant Professor of Sociology
Stanford University
"Unstable Hierarchies: Race, Class and Immigration to the Southeastern United States"

2007

Criminology 
Janet Lauritsen, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
University of Missouri-St. Louis
"The Gender Gap in Violent Victimization, 1973-2005"

Medical Sociology 
Duane McBride, Research Professor of Sociology
Andrews University
"United States Public Health Agency Involvement in Youth-Focused Illicit Drug Policy, Planning, and Prevention"

2006

Race and Ethnic Relations 
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Professor of Sociology
Duke University