| GKSL AWARDEE | YEAR | BOOK TITLE |
| Mónica A. Jiménez | 2025 | Making Never-Never Land: Race and Law in the Creation of Puerto Rico |
| Chelsea Schields | 2024 | Offshore Attachments: Oil and Intimacy in the Caribbean |
| Brinsley Samaroo | 2023 | The Blackest Thing in Slavery was not the Black Man: the last testament of Eric Williams |
| Marisel C. Moreno | 2023 | Crossing waters: Undocumented migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature & Art |
| Krystal Nandini Ghisawan | 2022 | Erotic Cartographies |
| Nicole Charles | 2022 | Suspicion: Vaccines, Hesitancy and the Affective Politics of Protection in Barbados |
| Dave Ramsaran and Linden F. Lewis | 2019 | Caribbean Masala: Indian Identity in Guyana and Trinidad |
| Lomarsh Roopnarine | 2018 | The Indian Caribbean |
| Katherine Zien | 2018 | Sovereign Acts: performing race, space and belonging in Panama and the Panama Canal Zone |
| Raphael Dalleo | 2017 | American Imperialism’s Undead: The Occupation of Haiti and the Rise of Caribbean Anticolonialism |
| Krista A. Thompson | 2016 | Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice |
| Neil Roberts | 2016 | Freedom as Marronage |
| Rosamond S. King | 2015 | Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination |
| Olive Senior | 2015 | Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and The Building of the Panama Canal |
| Kathleen Lopez | 2014 | Chinese Cubans: A Transitional History |
| Gaiutra Bahadur | 2014 | Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture |
| Erica Caple James | 2013 | Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti |
| Malik W. Ghachem | 2013 | The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution |
| Sherry Johnson | 2012 | Climate & Catastrophe in Cuba and the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolution |
| Anne-Marie Lee-Loy | 2011 | Searching for Mr. Chin: Constructions of Nation and the Chinese in West Indian Literature |
| Matthew J. Smith | 2010 | Red & Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict and Political Change, 1934-1957 |
| Lauren Derby | 2010 | The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo |
| Peter A Roberts | 2009 | The Roots of Caribbean Identity. Language, race and ecology |
| Richard Price | 2009 | Travels with Tooy: History, memory and the African American Imagination |
| Maureen Warner-Lewis | 2008 | Archibald Monteath: Igbo, Jamaican, Moravian |
| Steven Gregory | 2007 | Devil Behind the Mirror: Globalization and Politics in the Dominican Republic |
| Sybille Fischer | 2007 | Modernity Disavowed: Haiti and the Cultures of Slavery in the Age of Revolution |