Following geographers are the recipients of Southeastern Geographer award for best paper since 2016.
| Year | Recepients | Institutions | Paper |
| 2016 | Alexandra Giancarlo | McMaster University | Democracy and public space in Louisiana’s Creole trail rides |
| 2017 | Ed Sherwood | Senior Scientist Tampa Bay Estuary Program | Tampa Bay (Florida, USA) Documenting Seagrass Recovery since the 1980’s and Reviewing the Benefits |
| 2018 | Jeffery R. Finney and Amy E. Potter | Georgia Southern University | “You’re out of your place”: Black Mobility on Tybee Island, Georgia from Civil Rights to Orange Crush |
| 2019 | Jessica Kirkland and Stephanie Zick | Virginia Tech | Regional Differences in the Spatial Patterns of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainbands Through Landfall. |
| 2020 | Ashleigh Price, David M. Cochran Jr, George Raber, Joshua Hill | University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; University of Southern Mississippi | Evaluating Exposure to Coastal Hazards in the Supervised Offender Population Using Social Disorganization Theory |