Award for Best Dissertation in Mental Health
| Year | Name | Affiliation (at time of Award) | Dissertation Title |
| 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
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| 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"
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| 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" |