2025 Arturo Cortez - University of California, Davis
2024 Cassie J. Brownell - University of Toronto-Ontario
Runner Up: Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens - Clemson University
Honorable Mentions: Arturo Cortez - University of Colorado, Boulder , David DeLiema - University of Minnesota
2023 Ricarose Roque - University of Colorado Boulder
Runner Up: Cassie J. Brownell - University of Toronto-Ontario
Honorable Mentions: Gabriela T. Richard - Pennsylvania State University, Allison Master - University of Houston, Shayan Doroudi - University of California, Irvine
2022 Sepehr Vakil - Northwestern University
Runner up: Ricarose Roque - University of Colorado Boulder
Honorable Mentions: Breanne Litts - Utah State University, Mike Tissenbaum - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Jon Wargo - Boston College
2021 Jean Ryoo - University of California, Los Angeles
2020 Michelle Hoda Wilkerson - University of California, Berkeley
2019 Justin Reich - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Shirin Vossoughi - Northwestern University
2018 Antero Garcia - Stanford University
2017 Robb Lindgren - University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
2016 Paulo Blikstein - Stanford University
2015 Joshua Danish - Indiana University
2014 Thomas Philip - University of California, Los Angeles
2013 Angela Booker - University of California, Davis, Victor R. Lee - Utah State University
2012 Tobin White - University of California, Davis
2011 Melissa Sommerfeld Gresalfi - Indiana University
2010 Erica Rosenfeld Halverson - University of Wisconsin-Madison
2009 Susan Yoon - University of Pennsylvania
2008 Mimi Ito - University of California, Irvine
2007 Cynthia Carter Ching - University of California, Davis, X. Christine Wang - State University of New York at Buffalo
2006 Noel Enyedy - University of California, Los Angeles, Iris Tabak - Ben Gurion University of the Negev,
2005 Elizabeth Davis - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Brian K. Smith - Rhode Island School of Design
2004 Nichole Pinkard - University of Chicago, Reed Stevens - University of Washington, Seattle
2003 Marina Umaschi Bers - Tufts University, David Cavallo - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2002 Amy Bruckman - Georgia Institute of Technology
2001 Barry Fishman - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2000 Ann Bishop - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Xiaodong Lin - Teacher’s College,
Past recipients are listed with the affiliation they held at time of award. In years where runners-up or honorable mentions were named, those are listed. Awardees in years where there were multiple recipients of the Jan Hawkins Award are listed alphabetically by last name. Where possible, links to awardee's current institutional webpages (as of 2025) are provided.