Nelson Mandela Academic Excellence Award for Social Justice and Development
2020/21: Annie Oldenhof, Global Studies “From Powerless to Powerful: Analyzing Liberian Women’s Involvement in Achieving Peace.”
2019:Rebecca Cameron St-Pierre, “Donations and Disease: How UNHCR’s funding model impacts health conditions in long-term refugee camps in Africa”
2018: Emma Chappelle, "Rohingya genocide: Religious ethno-nationalism and post-colonialism in Myanmar"
2017: Heather Smith, "The two Sudans: Rethinking racialized narratives as a path to social justice"
2016: Selena Jones, "Global health emergencies and long term solutions for women: The Zika virus in Brazil"
2015/16: Hillary Kendrick
2015: Abdiasis Issa, "The Stabilization of Somalia: A Case for Optimism and Hope"
2014/15: Kelly Pflug-Back
The Harriet Tubman Academic Excellence Award for Human Rights and Leadership
2021: Marissa Birkett, English “Well…that's just the way of the World!”: How Cultural Hegemony recreates itself and an acceptance of the marginalized position in Nervous Conditions and Once Were Warriors
2020:Victoria Hudson, Cutting in Kenya: The Persistence of Female Genital Mutilation"
2018:Camille Dehghan, “Education’s Key Role in African Society’s Acceptance of its Progressive Constitutional LGBTQI Rights”
2018: Dakota Duram, "Victims of U.N. Peacebuilding and the Struggle for Accountability: A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by Peacekeepers on Security Sector Reform"