Year | Recipient | Title | Award |
| 2021 | Tess Wilson | Examining the use of EDTA for humic extraction of ancient bone. | $500 |
| Amanda Seyler | Linking comtemporary health and evoluationary history: materal subjective social status and mental and physical health among maternal-child dyads in urban Tanzania. | Honourable mention | |
2017 | Victoria van der Haas University of Alberta | Micro-sampling dentine to reconstruct life histories of Holocene hunter-gatherers in Siberia | $500 |
Rachel Simpson MacEwan University | Ancestry-specific variation in the accuracy of the Rogers Method | Honourable Mention | |
2016 | Devin Ward University of Toronto, University of Cambridge | Expression of developmental stress through regional fluctuating asymmetry in the cranium | $500 |
Joana Dowhos & M.W. Tocheri Lakehead University | Three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis of the trapezium in modern humans, African apes, orangutans, and fossil humans | Honourable Mention | |
2015 | Creighton Avery McMaster University | The challenges of determining social status and impact of misidentification | $500 |
2014 | Karen Giffin Lakehead University | Comparison of biogenic lead levels in human skeletal remains from the Cemetery of the British Royal Navy Hospital (AD 1793-1822) at English Harbour, Antigua, West Indies: An investigation into the relationship between age and ancestry on led exposure level | $500 |
2013 | Sarah Louise Decrausaz University of Victoria | The role of morphometrics in the presence of parturition scarring on the human pelvic bone | $500 |
2012 | Laura Bolt University of Toronto | Squealing rate indicates dominance rank in male ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) at Beza Mahafaly Special Reserve, Madagascar | $500 |
2011 | Kandace Bogaert McMaster University | The underreporting of Indigenous mortality due to flu in 1918 | $500 |
2010 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
2009 | Sarah Angus McMaster University | Breastfeeding and vitamin D supplementation practices among New Canadian & Canadian-born mothers – Evidence from Statistics Canada | $500 |
2008 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
2007 | Masako Fujita University of Washington | An evolutionary perspective on mother-offspring vitamin A transfer: Preliminary analyses | $300 |
2006 | Matt Tocheri & Mary Marzke Arizona State University | 3D riddles of the radial wrist: Derived carpal morphologies in the genus Homo and the implications for understanding the evolution of stone tool behaviors in hominins | $200 |
2005 | Amanda Melin et al. University of Calgary | Relative success of trichromatic and dichromatic capuchins (Cebus capuchins) in foraging on camouflaged insects in a tropical dry forest | $200 |
2004 | Janet Gardner University of Western Ontario | A re-analysis of trauma patterns among Neandertals | $200 |
Katie Whitaker University of Western Ontario | Unknown | Honourable Mention | |
2003 | Deborah Merrett University of Manitoba | From the mouths of babes: Age estimation in perinates | $200 |
2002 | Andrea Waters University of Calgary | Unknown | $200 |
2001 | Chris Green University of Manitoba | Genes vs. geography: Competing explanations for the diabetes epidemic | $200 |
2000 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
1999 | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown |
1998 | Ann O’Neill University of Alberta | Insights into ovarian function in Japanese macaques through analysis of fecal steroids | $200 |
1997 | Jacquie Millar University of Toronto | Craniomandibular variation in the Platyrrhine genus Aloutta: Possible influences of hyoid specialization | $200 |
Alison Locker University of Guelph | Body size and proportionality of Late Stone Age Khoisan in southern Africa | Honourable Mention | |
Cathy Walper University of Western Ontario | A preliminary paleodemographic analysis of Marco Gonzalez and San Pedro, Belize | Honourable Mention | |
1996 | Lisa Hansen University of Calgary | Clinical models for paleopathological interpretation: Parathyroid hormone and bone | $100 |
Tracey Rogers Simon Fraser University | Skeletal sex determination and the distal humerus | $100 | |
1995 | Lynda Wood & Deb Komar Queen’s University | The effects of age and sex on the occurrence of infracranial discrete trails | $100 |
1994 | Sylvia Abonyi University of Calgary | A comparison of δ13C values in the human bone collagen and historically reconstructed diet of 19th century Belleville, Ontario: Implications for paleodietary reconstruction | $100 |
1993 | Tamara Varney University of Guelph | Middle ear disease in an Ontario prehistoric ossuary | $100 |