2002: Benjamin Lawrance, "Le Revolte des Femmes: Economic Upheaval and the Gender of Political Authority in Lome, Togo, 1931-33"

2003: Staffan I. Lindberg, "The ‘Democraticness’ of Multiparty Elections: Participation, Competition, and Legitimacy in Africa"

2004: Kristen E. Cheney, "'Village Life is Better Than Town Life:’ Identity, Migration, and Development in the Lives of Ugandan Child Citizens"

2005: Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, "Dangerous Properties: Poisoned Arrows and the Case of Strophanthus hispidus in Colonial Gold Coast, 1885-1922"

2006: Severine Autesserre, "Local Violence, National Peace? Local Dynamics of Violence During the Transition in the Eastern D.R. Congo"

2007: Habtamu Mengistie Tegegne, "Revisiting Land Tenure in Eighteenth Century Gondarine Ethiopia: Zega and the Land Charter of Dabra-Sehay Qwesqwam Church"

2008: Kristin D. Phillips, "Consuming the State: Hunger, Healing, and Citizenship in Rural Tanzania"