2012
Orly Clergé, Brown University

2011
Ryan Alaniz, University of Minnesota
Sarah Ann Mayorga, Duke University

2010
Yung-Yi Diana Pan, University of California, Irvine

2009
Sabrina Alimahomed, University of California, Riverside

2008
Isabel Martinez, Columbia University

2007
Angie Beeman, University of Connecticut

2006
Rashawn Jabar Ray, Indiana University, Bloomington

2005
Robert John Durán, University of Colorado

2004
Salvador Vidal-Ortiz, CUNY, Graduate Center

2003
Luis Fernandez, Arizona State University

2002
Marta Maria Maldonado, Western State University

2001
Adriana L. Bohm, Temple University
Michael Gonzalez-Cruz, Binghamton University, SUNY

2000
Andrea Smith, University of California, Santa Cruz

1999
Lorna Rivera, Northeastern University

1998
Heidi Lasley Barajas Howarth, University of Minnesota

1997
Amalia Lucia Cabezas, University of California, Berkeley

1996
Jacqueline Johnson, North Carolina State University

1995
Richard Barba-Reyes, SUNY at Stony Brook