1988: Greg Kinney (University of Michigan), "The
Records of Land District Offices of the U.S. General Land Office for
the States of the Northwest Territory"
1989: Maureen A. Jung (California State University, Sacramento), "Documenting
19th-Century Quartz Mining in Northern California"
1990: Luke J. Gilliland-Swetland (University of Michigan), "The
Provenance of a Profession: The Permanence of the Public Archives and
Historical Manuscripts Traditions in American Archival History"
1991: Not awarded
1992: Roy Schaeffer (University of British Columbia), "Transcendent
Concepts: Power, Appraisal, and the Archivist as >Social Context'"
1993: Not awarded
1994: Anke Voss-Hubbard (State University of New York
at Albany), "No Documents--No History: Mary Ritter Beard and the
Early History of Women's Archives"
1995: Judith Panitch (State University of New York at
Albany), "Liberty, Equality, Posterity?: Some Archival Lessons
from the Case of the French Revolution"
1996: Shauna McRanor (University of British Columbia), "A
Critical Analysis of Intrinsic Value"
1997: Karen Collins (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill), "Providing Subject Access to Images: A Study of User Queries"
1998: Not awarded
1999: Kathleen Feeney (University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill), "Retrieval of Archival Finding Aids Using World
Wide Web Search Engines"
2000: Kristin
E. Martin (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Analysis
of Remote Reference Correspondence at a Large Academic Manuscripts
Collection"
2001: James
M. Roth (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Serving
Up EAD: An Exploratory Study on the Deployment and Utilization of
Encoded Archival Description Finding Aids"
2002: Reto
Tschan (University of British Columbia), "A Comparison of
Jenkinson and Schellenberg on Appraisal"
2003: Glenn
Dingwall (University of British Columbia), "Trusting Archivists:
The Role of Archival Ethics Codes in Establishing Public Faith"
2004: Catherine
O'Sullivan (New York University), "Diaries, Online Diaries,
and the Future Loss to Archives; or Blogs and the Blogging Bloggers
Who Blog Them"
2005: Ian
Craig Breaden (University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill), “Sound Practices: Online Audio Exhibits and the
Culture Heritage Archive”
2006: Ben Blake (University of Pittsburgh), “A Call for a New American Labor Archives: History, Theory, Methodology and Practice”
2007: Elizabeth Snowden (Middle Tennessee University), “Our Archives, Our Selves: Documentation Strategy and the Re-Appraisal of Professional
Identity”
2008: Mary Samouelian (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), “Embracing Web 2.0: Archives and the Newest Generation of Web Applications”
2009: Kathleen Fear (University of Michigan School of Information), “User Understanding of Metadata in Digital Image Collections”