| 2024-25 | LVII | Marcia Stefanick (Medicine) |
| 2023-24 | LVI | Mary Beth Mudgett (Biology) |
| 2022-23 | LV | Ken Schultz (Political Science) |
| 2021-22 | LIV | Ruth O'Hara (Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences) |
| 2020-21 | LIII | Judith L. Goldstein (Political Science) |
| 2019-20 | LII | Tim Stearns (Biology) |
| 2018-19 | LI | Stephen Stedman (Freeman Spogli Institute) |
| 2017-18 | L | Elizabeth Hadly (Biology) |
| 2016-17 | XLIX | Debra Satz (Philosophy) |
| 2015-16 | XLVIII | Kathryn Ann Moler (Physics and Applied Physics) |
| 2014-15 | XLVII | Russell Berman (German Studies) |
| 2013-14 | XLVI | David Palumbo-Liu (Comparative Literature) |
| 2012-13 | XLV | Ray Levitt (Civil and Environmental Engineering) |
| 2011-12 | XLIV | Rosemary Knight (Geophysics) |
| 2010-11 | XLIII | David Spiegel (Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) |
| 2009-10 | XLII | Andrea Goldsmith (Electrical Engineering) |
| 2008-09 | XLI | Karen Cook (Sociology) |
| 2007-08 | XL | Eamonn Callan (Education) |
| 2006-07 | XXXIX | Sheri Sheppard (Mechanical Engineering) |
| 2005-06 | XXXVIII | Eric Roberts (Computer Science) |
| 2004-05 | XXXVII | Rob Polhemus (English) |
| 2003-04 | XXXVI | Thomas Wasow (Linguistics/Philosophy) |
| 2002-03 | XXXV | Henry Greely (Law School) |
| 2001-02 | XXXIV | John Rickford (Linguistics) |
| 2000-01 | XXXIII | Brad Osgood (Electrical Engineering) |
| 1999-00 | XXXII | Mark Zoback (Geophysics) |
| 1998-99 | XXXI | Bradley Efron (Statistics) |
| 1997-98 | XXX | Frances Conley (Neurosurgery) |
| 1996-97 | XXIX | Michael Bratman (Philosophy) |
| 1995-96 | XXVIII | Gail A, Mahood (Geological & Env. Sci.) |
| 1994-95 | XXVII | Robert D. Simoni (Biological Sciences) |
| 1993-94 | XXVI | Patricia P. Jones (Biological Sciences) |
| 1992-93 | XXV | William H. Northway (Radiology/Ped) |
| 1991-92 | XXIV | James J. Sheehan (History) |
| 1990-91 | XXIII | Charles H. Kruger (Mechanical Engr) |
| 1989-90 | XXII | Carolyn C. Lougee (History) |
| 1988-89 | XXI | John Kaplan (Law) |
| 1987-88 | XX | Gerald J. Lieberman (Oper Res/Stat) |
| 1986-87 | XIX | Kenneth J. Arrow (Econ/Oper Res) |
| 1985-86 | XVIII | Elie Abel (Communication) |
| 1984-85 | XVII | John Henry Merryman (Law) |
| 1983-84 | XVI | H. Craig Heller (Biological Sciences) |
| 1982-83 | XV | Alexander L. Fetter (Physics) |
| 1981-82 | XIV | David Abernethy (Political Science) |
| 1980-81 | XIII | Nannerl O. Keohane (Political Science) |
| 1979-80 | XII | Albert H. Hastorf (Psychology) |
| 1978-79 | XI | William M. Chace (English) |
| 1977-78 | X | Peter D. L. Stansky (History |
| 1976-77 | IX | Byron D. Sher (Law) |
| 1975-76 | VIII | Eugene J. Webb (GSB) |
| 1974-75 | VII | Gordon A. Craig (History) |
| 1973-74 | VI | J. Dirk Walecka (Physics) |
| 1972-73 | V | Halsey L. Royden (Mathematics) |
| 1971-72 | IV | Daniel Bershader (Engineering) |
| 1970-71 | III | Sanford M. Dornbusch (Sociology) |
| 1969-70 | II | William A. Clebsch (Religious Studies) |
| 1968-69 | I | Leonard Schiff (Physics) |