| 2023 | Summar Saad | A Cognitive Ethnography of the Brain Death Debates. | Stephen Chrisomalis |
| 2023 | Michael Thomas | Human-centered design in medias res: Automotive design, cosmotechnics, and transcendence in the United States and China. | Stephen Chrisomalis |
| 2022 | Andres Romero | La Olla y Los Patios: An Ethnography of Place, Selfhood, Violence, and Rehabilitation in Bogot. | Andrew Newman |
| 2021 | Kelsey Jorgensen | A Multispecies Perspective into Dietary Genetic Adaptations and Ancient Migration in the Peruvian Andes | Julie Lesnik |
| 2021 | Michael Henson | Exploring the Unintended Consequences of Training Programs for Child Welfare Specialists | Mark Luborsky |
| 2021 | Kathleen Hanlon-Lundberg | Changing Social Constructs of Pregnancy and Childbirth: Maternal Perspectives on Contemporary Practice in Southeast Michigan | Mark Luborsky |
| 2021 | Eduardo Piqueiras | An Emergent Legionnaires' Disease Syndemic: Water Supply Systems, Infrastructural Violence, and Afflicted Lives in the South Bronx, NY | Mark Luborsky |
| 2021 | Tracy Wunderlich | Pathways to Learning About Death and Dying: Challenges for Medical Education | Andrea Sankar |
| 2020 | Daniel Harrison | Transformation Of The St. Clair Maritime Cultural Landscape From The Seventeenth To The Twentieth Centuries | Thomas Killion |
| 2019 | Dawn Batts | In Pursuit of The Three Highs: Urban Professional Chinese Women's Experiences and Perceptions of Gender In/Equality in Contemporary China | Yuson Jung |
| 2019 | Monica Rodriguez | Learning to be Deaf in Guatemala: The Role of Gender, Learning, and Families in Communities of Practice | Andrea Sankar |
| 2018 | Maya Stovall | Liquor Store Theatre: Ethnography & Contemporary Art | Andrew Newman |
| 2017 | Angela Guy-Lee | Rituals Reproducing Race: African American Women's Hygiene Practices, Shared Experiences, And Power | Andrea Sankar |
| 2017 | Tareq Ramadan | Inscribed Administrative Material Culture And The Development Of The Umayyad State In Syria-Palestine 661-750 CE | Stephen Chrisomalis |
| 2016 | Jennifer van Nuil | Abanyasida: Emergent Subjectivities And Socialities In Rwandan Associations For People Living With HIV | Andrea Sankar |
| 2016 | Cindy Golusin | Healing The Social Body After Assisted Reproduction | Andrea Sankar |
| 2016 | Ed Rohn | Learning About Healing In Family Medicine: Making Doctors In An American Medical Residency Program | Sherylyn Briller |
| 2016 | Wendy Bartlo | "I Can See My Values In Places": Relationships, Place, And Growing Old In Detroit Neighborhoods | Andrea Sankar |
| 2015 | Felicia George | Numbers And Neighborhoods: Seeking And Selling The American Dream In Detroit One Bet At A Time | Todd Meyers |
| 2014 | Diana Gellci | Networks Of Users And Powers: Blackboard Software Roadmap As Cultural Practice | Mark Luborsky |
| 2014 | Maria Roti | Spheres Of Semi-Legality: Discourse, Media And Informal Economic Practices In St. Petersburg, Russia (2000-Present) | Barry Lyons |
| 2014 | Jayne Yatczak | An Exploration Of The Use Of Objects In The Creation, Maintenance, And Social Performance Of Self Among People With Alzheimer's Disease And Related Disorders | Sherylyn Briller |
| 2013 | Corey Zolondek | Socioeconomic Differences In Body Mass Index, Neighborhood Satisfaction, Stress, And Perceived Racism Among African Americans In Metropolitan Detroit | Stephen Chrisomalis |
| 2013 | William Banks | Queering Ghana: Sexuality, Community, And The Struggle For Cultural Belonging In An African Nation | Guerin Montilus |
| 2013 | Anne Katz | Emotion meaning-making: Identity, discourse and social interaction among Arab immigrant health care providers | Sherylyn Briller |
| 2013 | James Meza | The diagnosis narratives & the healing ritual | Andrea Sankar |
| 2012 | Mary Mitsch | A ritual investigation of sudden death events in an urban United States emergency department | Sherylyn Briller |
| 2012 | Lindsey Martin | Treating the Whole Person: An Ethnographic Study of an Integrative Medicine Pain Clinic | Sherylyn Briller |
| 2012 | Gwendolyn Norman | Preterm Birth And The Perception Of Risk Among African Americans | Sherylyn Briller |
| 2012 | Mary Durocher | Exploring Sacred Objects And Their Meanings In Catholic Mexicano Households: Domestic Religious Practices In San Antonio | Guerin Montilus |
| 2012 | Andrea Nevedal | Still Here, Trying To Find My Way: Understanding The Experiences Of HIV Disruption And Reorganization Among Older African Americans In Detroit | Andrea Sankar |
| 2012 | Marlo Rencher | Crossing The Valley Of Death: A Multi-Sited, Multi-Level Ethnographic Study Of Growth Startups And Entrepreneurial Communities In Post-Industrial Detroit | Allen Batteau |
| 2011 | Susan Kirwan | Zanko, chef tribal: ethnography of a text | Barry Lyons |
| 2011 | Tara Eaton | A cultural analysis of information technology offshore outsourcing: an exercise in multi-sited ethnography of virtual work | Allen Batteau |
| 2010 | Margaret Karadjoff | Patient Safety As An Interactional Achievement: Conversational Analysis In The Trauma Center Of An Inner City Hospital | Allen Batteau |
| 2010 | Amy Goldmacher | Something You Love And Something More Practical: Undergraduate Anthropology Education In The Neoliberal Era | Allen Batteau |
| 2009 | Renady Hightower | Ethnography of the habitus of the emergency physician | Andrea Sankar |
| 2009 | Alison Muhammad | A bioarchaeological study of a late woodland population from Michigan: Frazer-Tyra site (20SA9) | Tamara Bray |