2023 Amir Hussain
2022 Mayra Rivera
2021 Marla Frederick
2020 José I. Cabezón
2019 Laurie L. Patton
2018 David P. Gushee
2017 Eddie Glaude
2016 Serene Jones
2015 Thomas Tweed
2014 Laurie Zoloth
2013 John Esposito
2012 Otto Maduro
2011 Kwok Pui Lan
2010 Ann Taves
2009 Mark Juergensmeyer
2008 Emilie M. Townes
2007 Jeffrey L. Stout
2006 Diana L. Eck
2005 Hans J. Hillerbrand
2004 Jane Dammen McAuliffe
2003 Robert A. Orsi
2002 Vasudha Narayanan
2001 Rebecca Chopp
2000 Ninian Smart
1999 Margaret Miles
1998 Judith Plaskow
1997 Robert Detweiler
1996 Lawrence Sullivan
1995 Peter Paris
1994 Catherine Albanese
1993 Edith Wyschogrod
1992 Robert Neville
1991 Judith Berling
1990 Elizabeth Clark
1989 Robert Wilken
1988 Martin Marty
1987 John Dillenberger
1986 Nathan Scott
1985 Wendy Doniger (O'Flaherty)
1984 Ray Hart
1983 Wilfred Cantwell Smith
1982 Gordon Kaufman
1981 Jill Raitt
1980 William Clebsch
1979 Langdon Gilkey
1978 John Meagher
1977 Schubert Ogden
1976 Preston Williams
1975 William May
1974 Christine Downing
1973 Charles Long
1972 Robert Michaelson
1971 James Burtchaell
1970 Claude Welch
1969 Jacob Neusner
1968 J. Wesley Robb
1967 John Priest
1966 William Hordern
1965 James Price
1964 Ira Martin
1963 Clyde A. Holbrook
1962 Fred D. Gealy
1961 Robert V. Smith
1960 Lionel Whiston, Jr.
1959 Lauren Brubaker, Jr.
1958 H. Neil Richardson
1957 Robert M. Montgomery
1956 A. Roy Eckardt
1955 Arthur C. Wickenden
1954 W. Gordon Ross
1953 Carl E. Purinton
1952 Charles S. Braden
1951 Mary Francis Thelen
1950 Virginia Corwin
1949 Selby V. McCasland
1948 Dwight M. Beck
1947 Rolland E. Wolfe
1946 J. Paul Williams
1945 Mary Ely Lyman
1944 Floyd V. Filson
1942-43 Edgar S. Brightman
1941 Katherine H. Paton
1940 B. Harvie Branscomb
1939 William Scott
1938 Mary E. Andrews
1937 Frank G. Lankard
1936 S. Ralph Harlow
1935 Florence M. Fitch
1934 Elmer W. K. Mould
1933 James Muilenberg
1932 Chester Warren Quimby
1931 Laura H. Wild
1930 Irwin R. Beiler
1929 Ralph K. Hickok
1928 Walter W. Haviland
1927 Eliza H. Kendrick
1926 Irving F. Wood
1910-25 Charles Foster Kent