| 1985 |
Jessie Bernard, The Pennysylvania State University
The Female World |
| 1986 |
Not awarded |
| 1987 |
Alan MacFarlane, University of Cambridge
Marriage and Love in England 1300-1840 |
| 1988 |
1) Frank Furstenberg, J. Brooks-Gunn, and S. Philip Morgan, University of Pennsylvania
Adolescent Mothers in Later Life
2) Lenore Weitzman, Harvard University
The Divorce Revolution |
| 1989 |
Steven Ruggles
Prolonged Connections: The Rise of the Extended Family in Nineteenth Century England and America |
| 1990 |
Judith Blake,
Family Size & Achievement |
| 1991 |
Not awarded |
| 1992 |
A.F. Robertson
Beyond the Family: The Social Organization of Reproduction |
| 1993 |
Not awarded |
| 1994 |
Gay C. Kitson, University of Akron
Portrait of Divorce: Adjustment to Marital Breakdown |
| 1995 |
1) Arland Thornton, University of Michigan and Hui-Sheng Lin, Taiwan Provincial Institute of Family Planning
Social Change and the Family in Taiwan
2) Sara McLanahan, Princetown and Gary Sandefur, University of Wisconsin
Growing Up with a Single Parent: What Hurts What Helps |
| 1996 |
Toby L. Parcel and Elizabeth G. Menaghan, The Ohio State University
Parents' Jobs and Children's Lives |
| 1997 |
John R. Logan and Glenna Spitze, State University of New York-Albany
Family Ties: Enduring Relationships Between Parents and Their Children |
| 1998 |
Donna L. Franklin, Lorna Linda University
Ensuring Inequality: The Structural Transformation of the African-American Community |
| 1999 |
Steven L. Nock, University of Virginia
Marriage in Men's Lives |
| 2000 |
Anita I. Garey, University of New Hampshire
Weaving Work and Motherhood |
| 2001 |
Cecilia Menjiver
Fragmented Ties: Salvadoran Immigrant Networks in America |
| 2002 |
Glen Elder (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Rand D. Conger (University of California-Davis)
Children of the Land |
| 2003 |
Not awarded |
| 2004 |
Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods, CA: University of California Press |
| 2009 |
Pamela Stone, Opting Out? Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home, CA: University of California Press (2007) |
