| Year | Recipients | Institutions | Paper |
| 2023 | C. Shawn McGuffey | Boston College | A Kentucky State of Mind: bell hooks’ Feminist Geography of Subjectivity |
| 2022 | Mary Biggs | University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill | Sight Lines and Curb Appeal: Landscape, Race, and Compromise at Three North Carolina State Historic Sites |
| 2021 | Thomas Saladyga Stockton Maxwell | Concord University Radford University | A Multi-Century Fire History from the Potomac Highlands of West Virginia |
| 2021 | Gabe Schwartzman | University of Tennessee – Knoxville | POWER and the Future of Appalachia: Discursive Framings of an Economic Transition |
| 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 |
| 2019 | Jessica Kirkland and Stephanie Zick | Virginia Tech | Regional Differences in the Spatial Patterns of North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Rainbands Through Landfall. |
| 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 |
| 2017 | Ed Sherwood | Senior Scientist Tampa Bay Estuary Program | Tampa Bay (Florida, USA) Documenting Seagrass Recovery since the 1980’s and Reviewing the Benefits |
| 2016 | Alexandra Giancarlo | McMaster University | Democracy and public space in Louisiana’s Creole trail rides |