Award for Best Dissertation in Mental Health
| Year | Name | Affiliation (at time of Award) | Dissertation Title |
| 2024 | Philip J. Pettis | Vanderbilt University | Contextualizing Heterosexism: An Intersectional Approach to Sexual Minority Health Inequalities |
| 2023 | Mia Brantley | University of South Carolina | 'Before the World Gets Them’: The Impact of Racialized Parenting on Black Mothers |
| 2022 | Alena Kuhlemeier | University of New Mexico | Development of health disparities among sexual minority youth |
| 2020 | Atsushi Narisada | University of Toronto | The Social Antecedents and Consequences of the Sense of Distributive Injustice |
| 2019 | Bianca Manago | Indiana University | The Role of Mental Health Labels in Stigma and Status Processes |
| 2018 | Courtney Boen | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Death by a Thousand Cuts: Psychosocial Stress Exposure and Black-White Disparities in Psychophysiological Functioning in Late Life |
| 2017 | Jennifer Caputo | Indiana University | Parental Co-Residence Histories and Psychological Well-Being among Contemporary Young Adults |
| 2016 | Alexis Ann Merdjanoff | Rutgers University, New Brunswick | Weathering the storm: the long-term consequences of Hurricane Katrina on mental health, mobility and recovery |
| 2015 | Ning Hsieh | University of Pennsylvania | Social Networks, Social Support, and Mental Health in Cross-National Comparative Perspective |
| 2014 | Eric Grollman | Indiana University | The Continuing Significance of Discrimination: Multiple Forms of Discrimination and Health |
| 2013 | Shirin Montazeri | University of Toronto | Country of Origin, Time, and the Stress Process: The Mental Health Adjustment of Immigrants in the National Population Health Survey |
| 2012 | Not Given | - | - |
| 2011 | Catherine J. Taylor | Cornell University | Biological and Subjective Responses to Minority Status and Social Exclusion in the Workplace: A Gendered Perspective |
| 2010 | Kerry Dobransky | Northwestern University | Help Me to Help You: The Logic and Practice of Empowerment in Community Mental Health Services |
| 2009 | Brea L. Perry | Indiana University | The Ripple Effect: Changes in Social Structural Location and Social Network Dynamics in Mental Illness |
| 2008 | Sigrun Olafsdottir | Boston University | Beds or Meds: The Changing Societal Response to Mental Health Problems in Advanced, Industrialized Nations, 1960-2003 |
| 2007 | Lisa Strohschein | University of Alberta | |
| 2005 | Julie McLaughlin | University of North Carolina - Charlotte | The Timing of Family Transitions and Depression: Difference by Sex and Education Level |
| 2004 | Parisa Tehranifar | Columbia University | Perceived Racial Discrimination among Urban African American Adolescents: Exploring Links with Ethnic Identity, School Ethnic Composition and Psychological Symptoms |
| 2001 | Kristi Williams | University of Texas | Has the Future of Marriage Arrived? A Contemporary Examination of the Effects of Marital Status and Marital Quality on the Psychological Well-Being of Women and Men |
| 1999 | Alisa Lincoln | Columbia University | Psychiatric Emergency Room Decision Making: Social Control and the 'Undeserving Sick' |
| 1998 | Terrance J. Wade | University of Westen Ontario | Stress and Distress Among Husbands and Wives |
| 1994 | Pamela Braboy Jackson | Duke University | The Context of Transition Events Across the Life Course: The Effects of Prior Event Sequencing on Adult Mental Health |