2024 Ruha Benjamin and Joan Donovan

2023 Tressie McMillan Cottom

2022 Apryl Williams, Pablo Boczkowski, and Eugenia Mitchelstein

2021 Sandra L. Barnes

2020 Marc Smith and the NodeXL Project, Social Media Research Foundation

2019 Joseph Cohen

2018 Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

2017 Michael Stern

2016 Eszter Hargittai

2015 Jessie Daniels

2014 Zeynep Tufekci

2013 Shelia R. Cotten

2012 Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp

2011 Lee Rainie

2010 danah boyd

2009 Peter Kollock

2008 Michael Macy

2007 Keith Hampton

2006 Marc Smith

2005 Stephen P. Borgatti

2004 Earl Babbie

2002 Robert Wood

Prior to 2008 this award was for teaching or the design of a computer application.