| 2024-25 | Brendan McGeever (England) | History |
| 2023-24 | Amanda Keddie (Australia) | Educational Studies |
| 2022-23 | Koop Lammertsma (Netherlands) | Chemistry & Biochemistry |
| 2019-20 | Michał Zadara ’99 and Barbara Wysocka (Poland) | Theater |
| 2018-19 | Nafisa Essop Sheik (South Africa) | History |
| 2016-17 | Elizabeth (Beppie) van den Bogaerde (Netherlands) | Linguistics |
| 2015-16 | Hans Ludemann (Germany) | Music & Dance |
| 2014-15 | Jasmina Lukic (Hungary) | Modern languages & Literatures |
| 2013-14 | Lorraine Leeson (Ireland) | Linguistics |
| 2012-13 | Kumudini Lakhia (India) | Dance |
| 2011-12 | Rachel Sutton Spence (England) | Linguistics |
| 2010-11 | Sudarshan Seneveratne (Sri Lanka) | Religion |
| 2009-10 | Hans Ludemann (Germany) | Music, Modern Languages |
| 2008-09 | Tadashi Koyama (Japan) | Modern Languages, Dance |
| 2007-08 | Keren Rice (Canada) | Linguistics |
| 2006-07 | F. Nii-Yartey (Ghana) | Dance |
| 2005-06 | Jack Hoeksema (Holland) | Linguistics |
| 2004-05 | Aly Mbaye (Senegal) | Economics |
| 2003-04 | Edith Hall (England) | Classics |
| 2002-03 | Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana) | Black Studies |
| 2001-02 | Ernest Aryeetey (Ghana) | Economics |
| 2000-01 | Wlodzimierz Wojcik (Poland) | Engineering |
| 1999-00 | Anastasia Posadskaya (Russia) | History, Women's Studies |
| 1998-99 | Azouz Begag (fall) (France) | Modern Languages |
| 1998-99 | Fatema Mernissi (spring) (Morocco) | Sociology and Anthropology |
| 1997-98 | Li Zehou (China) | Modern Languages |
| 1996-97 | Hector Samour (El Salvador) | Philosophy, Sociology and Anthropology |
| 1995-96 | Asmarom Legesse (Eritrea) | Sociology and Anthropology |
| 1994-95 | Kwabena Nketia (Ghana) | Music |
| 1993-94 | Ming Chan (Hong Kong) | History |
| 1992-93 | Wojcech Dabrowski (Poland) | Engineering |
| 1991-92 | Rob Davies | Economics |
| 1990-91 | John Shotter (Netherlands) | Psychology |
| 1989-90 | Sam and Vidya Samarasinghe (Sri Lanka) | Sociology and Anthropology, |
| 1988-89 | David Faure-Spring | History |
