| YEAR | RECIPIENT (UNIT) | LECTURE TITLE |
| 2023-24 | Chris Burn (DGES) | |
| 2022-23 | Erik Anonby (SLaLS, French) | The Impossible Language Atlas: A Year in the Life of the Atlas of the Languages of Iran |
| 2021-22 | Sarah Phillips Casteel, (English, ICSLAC, IAS, BGInS) | Making History Visible: Black Lives Under Nazism in Literature and Art |
| 2020-21 | Mark Anderson (History) | Zombies and the Death of Certainty in the Land of Perennial Rebirth |
| 2019-20 | Carol Payne (Art History) | The Hunter, the Crown, and the Cameras: Tracing Inuit and Settler Connections Through Visual Culture and Visuality |
| 2018-19 | W. R. Laird (History) | The Renaissance of Mechanics |
| 2017-18 | Sarah Brouillette (English) | A Global History of Cultural Policy |
| 2016-17 | Daiva Stasiulis (Sociology & Anthropology) | The Emotional Cartography of Citizenship: The Lebanese Diaspora in the Shadow of War. |
| 2015-16 | Sonya Lipsett-Rivera (History) | The Origins of Macho: Men and Masculinity in Colonial Mexico |
| 2014-15 | Nahla Abdo (Sociology & Anthropology) | Women and the Anti-Colonial Struggle: Between the Local and the International. |
| 2013-14 | Jesse Stewart (School for Studies in Art & Culture: Music) | Remix: Musical elements: form, process, representation, & community in my recent creative practice |
| 2012-13 | Eros Corazza (Philosophy) | Saying the same and first person thoughts. |
| 2011-12 | Robert Coplan (Psychology) | What the meek shall inherit: The development of shyness in childhood. |
| 2010-11 | Donald Beecher (English) | Straparola's Pleasant Nights: Folk Tales and Fairy Tales in the First Age of Print. |
| 2009-10 | Fiona MacKenzie (Geography & Environmental Studies) | Crofting communities and land ownership in Scotland: towards sustainable future. |
| 2008-09 | Rod Phillips (History) | From Diet to Discretion: The Changing Meaning of Alcohol. |
| 2007-08 | Sukeshi Kamra (English) | The Infernal Propaganda Machine of 1907-1910 and the Making of the Nationalist Public Sphere. |