The NASSH Award for Sport History and Social Justice is awarded to an individual or organization for leadership and sustained engagement at the intersection of sport history and social justice.

2024:
Shireen Ahmed, CBC Sports
Mac Ross, Western University

2023:

Kevin Blackistone, Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland

Christine Brennan, USA Today

Damion Thomas, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture

Dave Zirin, The Nation

2022:

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Smithsonian Institution

Bruce Kidd, University of Toronto

Billie Jean King, Women’s Sport Foundation

Richard E. Lapchick, University of Central Florida

Grand Chief J. Wilton Littlechild, Commission on First Nations and Métis Peoples and Justice Reform

Gertrud Pfister, University of Copenhagen

Eli A. Wolff, Power of Sport Lab, University of Connecticut