2023 Award
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Martin Eiermann, “American Privacy: Diffusion and Institutionalization of an Emerging Political Logic, 1870-1930.” (Ph.D. Dissertation, UC- Berkeley) |
2022 Award
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Wan-Zi Lu, “Body Politics: Morals, Markets, and Mobilization of Organ Donation.” (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Chicago), |
2021 Award
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Benjamin H. Bradlow, “Urban Origins of Democracy and Inequality: Governing Sao Paolo and Johannesburg, 1985-2016.” (Ph. D. Dissertation, Brown University). |
2020 Award
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Johnnie Lotesta, “Rightward in the Rustbelt: How Conservatives Remade the GOP, 1947-2012,” (Ph.D. diss., Brown University) |
2019 Award
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Sefika Kumral “Democracy and Violence: Social Origins of Anti-Kurdish Riots in Turkey,” (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, Advisor: Beverly Silver) |
Honorable Mention:
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Isabel Perera, “States of Mind: A Comparative and Historical Study on the Political Economy of Mental Health.” (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, Advisor: Julia Lynch) |
2018 Award
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Charles Seguin (Univ. of Arizona): “Making a National Crime: The Transformation of U.S. Lynching Politics, 1883-1930” (PhD. University of North Carolina). |
2017 Award
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Robert Braun “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust” (Ph.D., Cornell University) |
Honorable Mention:
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Shai Dromi. “The Religious Origins of Transnational Relief: Calvinism, Humanitarianism, and the Genesis of Social Fields” (Ph.D. Yale University) |
2016 Award
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Hillary Angelo. “How Green Became Good: Urban Greening as Social Improvement in Germany’s Ruhr Valley”. (Ph.D. New York University) |
2015 Award
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Alena K. Alamgir. “Socialist Internationalism at Work: Changes in the Czechoslovak-Vietnamese Labor Exchange Program, 1967-1989.” (Ph.D. Rutgers University, Dissertation chair: Jozsef Borocz). |
2014 Award
Winner:
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Şahan Savaş Karataşlı. “Financial Expansions, Hegemonic Transitions, and Nationalism: A Longue Durée Analysis of State-Seeking Nationalist Movements.” (Ph.D. John Hopkins University; Advisors: Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver). |
2013 Award
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Jaeeun Kim, “Colonial Migration and Transborder Membership Politics in Twentieth-Century Korea” (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles) |
Honorable Mention:
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Kevan Harris, “The Martyrs Welfare State: Politics of Social Policy in the Islamic Republic of Iran”, (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University) |
2012 Award
Winner:
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Stephan Bargheer, “Moral Entanglements: the Emergence and Transformation of Bird Conservation in Great Britain and Germany, 1790-2010.” (Ph.D. University of Chicago, Dissertation Chair: Andrew Abbott.) |
Honorable Mention:
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Damon Mayrl, “Secular Conversions: Politics, Institutions, and Religious Education in the United States and Australia, 1800-2000.” (Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Dissertation Chair: Margaret Weir.) |
2011 Award
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Robert S. Jansen, “Populist Mobilization: Peru in Historical and Comparative Perspective.” (Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles, Dissertation Chair: Rogers Brubaker.) |
Honorable Mention:
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Besnik Pula “State, Law and Revolution: Agrarian Power and the National State in Albania, 1850-1945.” (Ph.D., University of Michigan, Dissertation Chair: George P. Steinmetz.) |
2010 Award
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Dan Lainer-Vos, “Nationalism in Action: The Construction of Irish and Zionist Transatlantic National Networks.” (Ph.D. Columbia University, Dissertation Chair: Gil Eyal.) |
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