2008: Emma Anderson, The Betrayal of Faith: The Tragic Journey of a Colonial Native Convert (Harvard University Press)
2007: J.P. Daughton, An Empire Divided: Religion, Republicanism, and the Making of French Colonialism, 1880-1914 (New York: Oxford, 2006)
2006: Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-century Mauritius (Duke University Press)
2005: Londa Schiebinger, Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (Harvard University Press)
2004: Christelle Taraud’s La prostitution coloniale (Payot)
2003: Ken Banks, Chasing Empire across the Sea (McGill/Queens University Press)
2002: Eric Jennings, Vichy in the Tropics (Stanford University Press)
2001: Peter Moogk, La Nouvelle France (Michigan State University Press)
2000: Joe Lunn, Memoirs of the Maelstrom (Greenwood)
1998: Leslie Choquette, Frenchmen into Peasants (Harvard University Press).
1997: Tanis C. Thorne, The Many Hands of my Relations (University of Missouri Press)
1996: Phyllis Martin, Leisure and Society in Colonial Brazzaville (Cambridge University Press)
1995: Julia Clancy-Smith, Rebel and Saint: Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1914) (University of California Press)
1994: R. David Edmunds and Joe Peyser, The Fox Wars: The Mesquakie Challenge to New France (University of Oklahoma Press)
1993: Philip Boucher, Cannibal Encounters (Johns Hopkins University Press)
1992: Doug Porch, The French Foreign Legion (Harper Collins)
1991: Serge Courville. Entre ville et campagne. L’essor du village dans les seigneuries du Bas-Canada (Presses de l’Université Laval)
1990: Christopher Harrison, France and Islam in West Africa (Cambridge).
1989: Bill Shorrock, From Ally to Enemy (Kent State University Press).
1988: Carl Brasseaux, The Founding of New Acadia (Louisiana State University Press)
1987: Carl Ekberg, Colonial Sainte-Genevieve (Patrice Press)
1986: John Hargreaves, West Africa Partitioned. Vol. 2, The Elephants and the Grass (University of Wisconsin Press).
1985: Bill Hoisington, The Casablanca Connection (U. North Carolina Press)
1981: Bill Cohen, The French Encounter with Africans (Indiana U. Press)
1977: Cornelius Jaenen, Friend and Foe (Columbia University Press)