Year | Recipient | Awarded work |
1998 | Diane Vaughan | The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA |
1999 | Steven Epstein | Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge |
2000 | Wendy Espeland | The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest |
2001 | Andrew Hoffman | From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism |
2002 | Stephen Hilgartner | Science On Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama |
2003 | Simon Cole | Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification |
2004 | Jean Langford | Fluent Bodies |
2005 | Nelly Oudshoorn | The Male Pill |
2006 | Joseph Dumit | Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity |
2007 | Charis Thompson | Making Parents: The Ontological Choreography of Reproductive Technologies |
2008 | Joseph Masco | The Nuclear Borderlands: The Manhattan Project in Post-Cold War New Mexico |
2009 | Jeremy Greene | Prescribing by Numbers |
2010 | Susan Greenhalgh | Just One Child |
2011 | Lynn M. Morgan | Icons of Life: A Cultural History of Human Embryos |
2012 | Stefan Helmreich | Alien Oceans |
2013 | Tim Choy | Ecologies of Comparison |
2014 | Robert N. Proctor | Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition |
2015 | Gwen Ottinger | Refining Expertise. How responsible engineers subvert environmental justice challenges |
2016 | Gabrielle Hecht | Being Nuclear: Africans and the Global Uranium Trade |
2017 | Adia Benton | HIV Exceptionalism: Development Through Disease in Sierra Leone |
2018 | Kalindi Vora | Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor |
2019 | Aya Kimura | Radiation Brain Moms and Citizen Scientists: The Gender Politics of Food Contamination |
2020 | Sara Wylie | Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds |
2021 | Laura Watts | Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands Saga[2] |
2022 | Kregg Hetherington | The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops[3] |
2023 | Michele Ilana Friedner | Sensory Futures: Deafness and Cochlear Implant Infrastructures in India |
2024 | Helena Hansen, Jules Netherland, and David Herzberg | Whiteout: How Racial Capitalism Changed the Color of Opioids in America |