Listed below are the winners of the Barbara T. Christian Literary Award.
- 2022: Women and Resistance in the Early Rastafari Movement by Dr. Daive A. Dunkley
- 2019: Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present (New York University Press, 2018) by Dixa Ramirez
- 2017: Dispossessed Lives: Enslaved Women, Violence, and the Archive, by Marisa J. Fuentes, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press (2016) and Negotiating Respect: Pentecostalism, Masculinity, and the Politics of Spiritual Authority in the Dominican Republic, by Brendan Jamal Thornton published by the UP of Florida (2016)
- 2016: Resisting Paradise: Tourism, Diaspora and Sexuality in Caribbean Culture (UP of Mississippi, 2015) by Angelique V. Nixon