| Name | PhD Date | Dissertation Title | |
| Parasher | Tejas | 2019 | Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, 1880-1950 (APSA Leo Strauss Best Dissertation Award 2020) |
| Pinheiro | Lucas | 2019 | Factories of Modernity: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Historical Capitalism (APSA Organized Section: New Political Science Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation Award 2020) |
| Lee | Yeonju | 2018 | Democracy Without Redistribution: The Sense of Injustice, Perceived Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution in East Asia (HCEO Dissertation Prize 2019) |
| Blair | Amanda | 2017 | Going Beyond Accountability and Untangling the Politics of Conflict-Related Rape (APSA Organized Section: Women and Politics Research Best Dissertation Award 2018) |
| Levinson | Chad | 2017 | Moral Subsidy: The Origins of Influential Extra-Governmental Organizations in US National Security Politics (APSA Leonard D. White Award 2019) |
| Mackinnon | Emma Stone | 2017 | Imperial Promises: The Contested Politics of Human Rights in the Twentieth Century (SSD Saller Dissertation Prize 2018) |
| Park | Nara | 2017 | The Nature of Japanese Governance: Seikai-Tensin (政界転身)’s Political Success in Postwar Japan, 1947-2014 (APSA Organized Section: Legislative Studies: Carl Albert Dissertation Award 2019) |
| Harris | Allison | 2016 | Who’s on the Bench?: Political Implications of Judicial Characteristics and Judicial Selection Methods in the U.S. (APSA Edward S. Corwin Award 2017) |
| Johnson | Sarah | 2015 | Ages We Live By: Historical Periodization in Social and Political Thought, The (APSA Organized Section: Politics and History Burnham Award 2016) |
| Obert | Jonathan | 2014 | Six Guns and State-Formation: The Co-Evolution of Public and Private Violence in American Political Development (APSA Organized Section: Politics and History Burnham Award 2015; SSD Richard Saller Dissertation Prize 2015) |
| Rogowski | Jon | 2012 | Representation and the Electoral Connection (APSA E.E. Schattschneider Award 2013) |
| Callen | Zachary | 2009 | Seams of the State: Infrastructure and Intergovernmental Relations in American State Building, The (APSA William Anderson Award 2010) |
| Gundlupet | Vaidya | 2008 | Big Sticks and Contested Carrots: A Power-Centric Theory of International Security Institutions (APSA Organized Section: International Security: Kenneth N. Waltz Award 2009) |
| Jenco | Leigh | 2007 | Individuals, Institutions, and Political Change: The Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao (APSA Leo Strauss Award 2008) |
| Boucoyannis | Deborah | 2005 | Land, Courts, and Parliaments: The Hidden Sinews of Power in the Emergence of Constitutionalism (APSA Organized Section: European Politics: Ernst B. Haas Award 2006 and Seymour Martin Lipset Award 2006) |
| Kim | Joon Suk | 2005 | Making States Federatively: Alternative Routes of State Formation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (APSA William Anderson Award 2006) |
| Rolfe | Meredith | 2005 | Social Theory of Voter Turnout, A (APSA Organized Section:Political Economy: Mancur Olson Award 2007) |
| Downes | Alexander | 2004 | Targeting Civilians in War (APSA Helen Dwight Reid Award 2006) |
| Trejo Osorio | Guillermo | 2004 | Indigenous Insurgency: Protest, Rebellion and the Politicization of Ethnicity in 20th Century Mexico (APSA Organized Section: Political Economy: Mancur Olson Award 2006) |
| Kocher | Matthew | 2004 | Human Ecology and Civil War (APSA Gabriel A. Almond Award 2006) |
| Berry | Christopher | 2002 | Imperfect Union: Fiscal Externalities in Multi-Level Governments (APSA William Anderson Award 2004) |
| Tarnopolsky | Christina | 2002 | Plato and the Politics of Shame (APSA Leo Strauss Award 2004) |
| Scherer | Nancy | 2001 | Making a Point: The Politicization of the Lower Federal Court Appointments in the Modern Political Era (APSA Edward S. Corwin Award 2002) |
| Gould | Deborah | 2000 | Sex, Death, and the Politics of Anger: Emotions and Reason in ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS (APSA E.E. Schattschneider Award 2002) |
| van Houten | Pieter | 2000 | Regional Assertiveness in Western Europe: Political Constraints and the Role of Party Competition (APSA William Anderson Award 2001) |
| Kim | Sung Ho | 1997 | Of "Sect Man": The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber's Political Thought (APSA Leo Strauss Award 1998) |
| Carpenter | Daniel P. | 1996 | Corporate Identity and Administrative Capacity in Executive Departments, 1862-1932 (APSA Harold D. Lasswell Award 1998) |
| Mattli | Walter | 1994 | Logic of Regional Integration: Europe and Beyond, The (APSA Helen Dwight Reid Award 1995) |
| Conley | Patricia | 1994 | Presidential Mandates: How Elections Shape the National Agenda (APSA E.E. Schattschneider Award 1996) |
| Pizza | David Anthony | 1994 | Structure and Cooperation in Party Politics: The Development of Urban Party Organizations in the United States, 1896-1930 (APSA William Anderson Award 1995) |
| Stuart | Guy Donald | 1994 | Social Construction of Risk in Mortgage Lending, The (APSA Organized Section: Urban Politics 1995) |
| Kalyvas | Stathis | 1993 | Religious Mobilization and Party Formation: Confessional Parties and the Christian Democratic Phenomenon (SSD Marc Perry Galler Best Dissertation Prize 1994) |
| John | DeWitt | 1992 | States at the Center of Environmental Politics (APSA William Anderson Award 1994) |
| Romm | Stuart | 1992 | Death and Taxes: The Origins of the Coercive Extractive State (SSD Marc Perry Galler Best Dissertation Prize 1993) |
| Sparrow | Bartholomew | 1991 | From the Outside In: The Effects of World War II on the American State (APSA Leonard D. White Award 1992) |
| Tang | Wen Fang | 1990 | Will Workers Rule? Workplace Democracy in Chinese Local Industries (SSD Marc Perry Galler Best Dissertation Prize 1991) |
| Downing | Brian | 1989 | Military Revolution and Political Change in Early Modern Europe, The (APSA Gabriel A. Almond Award 1990) |
| Rabe | Barry George | 1985 | Functional Federalism and the Management of Federal Programs in Health Care and Education (APSA William Anderson Award 1987) |
| Grant | Ruth Weissbourd | 1984 | John Locke's Liberalism (APSA Leo Strauss Award 1985) |
| Dunham | Andrew B. | 1981 | Health and Politics: The Impact of Certificate of Need Regulation (APSA William Anderson Award 1982) |
| Gillespie | Michael Allen | 1981 | Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ontological Ground of History (APSA Leo Strauss Award 1982) |
| Andersen | Kristi Jean | 1976 | How Realignments Happen: Mobilization and the Creation of a Democratic Majority, 1928-1936 (APSA E.E. Schattschneider Award 1977) |
| Pollingue | Mary Louise | 1975 | Commentary on Plato's Phaedrus, A (APSA Leo Strauss Award 1977) |
| Rich | Robert | 1975 | Investigation of Information Gathering and Handling in Seven Federal Bureaucracies: A Case Study of the Continuous National Survey, An (APSA Leonard D. White Award 1976) |
| Henry | Laurin Luther | 1960 | Presidential Transitions (APSA Leonard D. White Award 1961) |
| Elazar | Daniel J. | 1959 | Intergovernmental Relations in Nineteenth Century American Federalism (APSA Leonard D. White Award 1960) |