2007 - Frances Fox Piven
2006 - Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
2005 - Troy Duster
2004 - Michael Burawoy
2003 - William T. Bielby
2002 - Barbara F. Reskin
2001 - Douglas S. Massey
2000 - Joe R. Feagin
1999 - Alejandro Portes
1998 - Jill S. Quadagno
1997 - Neil Smelser
1996 - Maureen T. Hallinan
1995 - Amitai Etzioni
1994 - William A. Gamson
1993 - Seymour Martin Lipset
1992 - James S. Coleman
1991 - Stanley Lieberson
1990 - William Julius Wilson
1989 - Joan Huber
1988 - Herbert J. Gans
1987 - Melvin L. Kohn
1986 - Matilda White Riley
1985 - Kai T. Erikson
1984 - James F. Short, Jr.
1983 - Alice S. Rossi
1982 - Erving Goffman
1981 - William Foote Whyte
1980 - Peter H. Rossi
1979 - Hubert M. Blalock, Jr.
1978 - Amos H. Hawley
1977 - J. Milton Yinger
1976 - Alfred McClung Lee
1975 - Lewis A. Coser
1974 - Peter M. Blau
1973 - Mirra Komarovsky
1972 - William J. Goode
1971 - William H. Sewell
1970 - Reinhard Bendix
1969 - Ralph Turner
1969 - Arnold M. Rose* died in office
1968 - Philip M. Hauser
1967 - Charles P. Loomis
1966 - Wilbert E. Moore
1965 - Pitirim A. Sorokin
1964 - George C. Homans
1963 - Everett C. Hughes
1962 - Paul F. Lazarsfeld
1961 - Robert E.L. Faris
1960 - Howard Becker
1959 - Kingsley Davis
1958 - Robin M. Williams, Jr.
1957 - Robert K. Merton
1956 - Herbert Blumer
1955 - Donald Young
1954 - Florian Znaniecki
1953 - Samuel A. Stouffer
1952 - Dorothy Swaine Thomas
1951 - Robert C. Angell
1950 - Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr.
1949 - Talcott Parsons
1948 - E. Franklin Frazier
1947 - Louis Wirth
1946 - Carl C. Taylor
1945 - Kimball Young
1944 - Rupert B. Vance
1943 - George A. Lundberg
1942 - Dwight Sanderson
1941 - Stuart A. Queen
1940 - Robert M. MacIver
1939 - Edwin H. Sutherland
1938 - Frank H. Hankins
1937 - Ellsworth Faris
1936 - Henry P. Fairchild
1935 - F. Stuart Chapin
1934 - Ernest W. Burgess
1933 - Edward B. Reuter
1932 - Luther L. Bernard
1931 - Emory S. Bogardus
1930 - Howard W. Odum
1929 - William F. Ogburn
1928 - John M. Gillette
1927 - William I. Thomas
1926 - John L. Gillin
1925 - Robert E. Park
1924 - Charles A. Ellwood
1923 - Ulysses G. Weatherly
1922 - James P. Lichtenberg
1921 - Edward C. Hayes
1920 - James Q. Dealey
1919 - Frank W. Blackmar
1918 - Charles H. Cooley
1917 - George E. Howard
1916 - George E. Vincent
1914-1915 - Edward A. Ross
1912-1913 - Albion W. Small
1910-1911 - Franklin H. Giddings
1908-1909 - William G. Sumner
1906-1907 - Lester F. Ward