- Alexandra Bass: Defining Invisible Problems: The Intersection of Politics and Science in American Public Opinion about Climate Change
- Marcus Board: Preparing A Defeat: Invisible Power Causing Non-Events By Inhibiting Decision-Making and Autonomy
- Ashleigh Campi: After Equality: Conservative Consciousness Formation in the Late Twentieth Century United States
- Jinbaek Choi: Embedded Authoritarianism: China's Labor Politics and its Market Transformation
- Jay Cost: One Great American System: James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and the Problem of Republican Nationalism
- Sofia Fenner: Life after Co-optation
- Joseph Ford: Funerary Practices and Political Succession: Three Regime Types
- Allison Harris: Who’s on the Bench?: Political Implications of Judicial Characteristics and Judicial Selection Methods in the U.S.
- Eric Hundman: Networks and Loyalties: The Social Roots of Military Disobedience in the Sino-French War
- Junyan Jiang: Fragmented Unity: Patronage Politics and Authoritarian Resilience in China
- Steven Klein: The Work of Politics: Radical Democracy, Political Economy, and the Twentieth-Century Welfare State
- Morgan Kaplan: Persuading Power: Insurgent Diplomacy and the International Politics of Rebellion
- Chad Levinson: Moral Subsidy: The Origins of Influential Extra-Governmental Organizations in US National Security Politics
- Ethan Porter: The Consumer Citizen
- Robert Valentine: Decisiveness: The Real Calculus of Nuclear Weapons-Use
You can find a select list of prize winning dissertations here.
