Past Winners
2018
Tina Seelig
Professor of the practice in management science and engineering and faculty director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program
2017
Abbas Milani
Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies, a co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution
2016
James A. Fox
Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, Associate Professor of Anthropological Sciences and, by courtesy, of Spanish and Portuguese
2015
Jeffrey R. Koseff
The Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment at Stanford University, The Michael Forman University Fellow in Undergraduate Education and The William Alden Campbell and Martha Campbell Professor of Civic and Environmental Engineering
2014
Margot Gerritsen
Associate Professor of Energy Resources Engineering, Director of the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering and Senior Associate Dean in the School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
2013
Larry Diamond
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor, by courtesy, of Sociology and of Political Science and the Peter E. Haas Faculty Co-director of the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford
2012
Hank Greely
Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law
2011
Lyman P. Van Slyke
Professor of History, Emeritus
2010
Al Camarillo
Professor of History, Miriam and Peter Haas Centennial Professor in Public Service and Special Assistant to the Provost for Faculty Diversity
2009
Rob Dunbar
W.M. Keck Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Victoria P. and Roger W. Sant Director of the Earth Systems Program and senior fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
2008
Barton H. "Buzz" Thompson
Paradise Professor of Natural Resources Law and McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment
2007
Philip Zimbardo
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
2006
Marsh McCall
Professor of Classics
2005
Pamela Matson
Dean of the School of Earth Sciences, and Professor Geological and Environmental Sciences
2004
David Brady
Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science; Morris M. Doyle Centennial Professor in Public Policy, Senior Fellow at the Institute for International Studies
2003
Harry Elam
Christiansen Professor for the Humanities - THE ROBERT AND RUTH HALPERIN UNIVERSITY FELLOW IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
2002
John W. Rick
Associate Professor
2001
David B. Abernethy
Professor Emeritus of Political Science, - Director, Center for African Studies
2000
Nancy H. Packer
Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities
1999
William H. Durham
Bing Professor of Human Biology - THE AKIKO YAMAZAKI AND JERRY YANG UNIVERSITY FELLOW IN UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
1998
Wanda M. Corn
Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences
1997
Albert H. Hastorf
Benjamin Scott Crocker Professor of Human Biology, Professor of Psychology, and, by courtesy, in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus
1996
Robert C. Gregg
Teresa Hihn Moore Professor in Religious Studies, Emeritus
1995
Norman M. Naimark
Professor; Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Institute for International Studies
1995
James T.S. Porterfield
(honorary) Member of Academic Council;
James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance in the Graduate School of Business, Emeritus
1994
Ernle W. D. Young
Teaching Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care)
1993
Ronald A. Rebholz
Professor of English, Emeritus
1992
Barry M. Katz
Consulting Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1991
Channing R. Robertson
Ruth G. and William K. Bowes Professor of Chemical Engineering
1990
J. Martin Evans
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor
1989
Diane Wood Middlebrook
Professor Emerita, English
1988
David M. Kennedy
Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History
1987
Albert E. Elsen
Walter A. Haas Professor of Art History
1986
William M. Chace
Professor of English, Emeritus; Former Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Development
1985
Ezra Solomon
Dean Witter Professor of Finance, emeritus
1984
Herant Katchadourian
Professor of Human Biology, Emeritus
1983
James L. Adams
Professor, Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
