2023 |
Stefan Eich, Georgetown University
The Currency of Politics. Princeton University Press. |
2023 |
Honorable Mention
Irit Katz, University of Cambridge
The Common Camp. University of Minnesota Press. |
2022 |
Erin Pineda, Smith College
Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford, 2021. |
2022 |
Zeynep Pamuk, University of San Diego
Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society. Princeton, 2021. |
2021 |
Kyong-Min Son, University of Delaware
The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism. University Press of Kansas, 2020. |
2021 |
Honorable Mention
Sara Rushing, Montana State University
The Virtues of Vulnerability. Oxford University Press, 2020. |
2020 |
Adom Getachew, University of Chicago
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Chicago 2019.
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2020 |
Honorable Mention
Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii
Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. Duke 2019.
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2019 |
Yves Winter, McGill University
Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
2018 |
Sina Jo Kramer, Loyola Marymount University
Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors. Oxford University Press. 2017. |
2018 |
Siavash Saffari, Seoul National University
Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought. Cambridge University Press. 2017. |
2018 |
Honorable Mention
Angelica Bernal, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst
Beyond Origins: Rethinking Founding in a Time of Constitutional Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2017. |
2017 |
Joseph J. Fischel
Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent |
2016 |
Neil Roberts, Williams College
Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press |
2016 |
Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis
Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. Cambridge University Press |
2015 |
Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research
Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2014. |
2014 |
Christopher Lebron, Yale University
The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time (Oxford University Press) |
2013 |
Jeffrey Church
Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
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2012 |
Stephen Marshall, University of Texas, Austin
The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics (Temple University Press, 2011) |
2010 |
Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania
The Eyes of the People: Democracy in a Age of Spectatorship
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2010 |
Honorable Mention
Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney
The Sins of the Nation an dthe Ritual of Apologies (Cambridge University Press, 2009) |
2010 |
Honorable Mention
Mark B. Brown, California State University, Sacramento
Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (MIT Press, 2009) |
2009 |
Samantha Frost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Lessons from a Materialist Thinker (Stanford University Press) |
2007 |
Bryan Garsten, Yale Univesrity
Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006) |
2006 |
Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M University
Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (Yale University Press, 2005) |
2006 |
Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University
A Turn to Empire: Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton University Press, 2005) |
2005 |
Corey Robin, CUNY Brooklyn
Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004). |
2004 |
Alan Keenan, Bryn Mawr College
Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003) |
2004 |
Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
Bound by Recognition (Princeton University Press, 2003) |
2003 |
Laura Janara, University of British Columbia
Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (SUNY Press) |
2002 |
Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto
Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights |
2002 |
Honorable Mention
Dan Engster, University of Texas, San Antonio
Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001) |
2001 |
Sara Monoson, Northwestern University
Plato's Democratic Entanglements |
2000 |
Alan Patten, McGill University
Hegel's Idea of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1999) |
1999 |
C. Thompson, Ashland University
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (University of Kansas Press, 1998) |
1999 |
Melissa Williams, University of Toronto
Voice, Trust, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1998) |
1998 |
James Bailey, Princeton University
Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 1997) |
1997 |
Simone Chambers, University of Toronto
Reasonable Democracy (Cornell University Press, 1996) |
1994 |
Bonnie Honig, Harvard University
Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell University Press, 1993) |
1993 |
Richard Sinopoli, University of California, Davis
The Foundations of American Citizenship and Civic Virtue (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992) |
1992 |
Alan Houston, University of California, San Diego
Algernon Sydney and the Republican Heritage in England and America (Princeton University Press, 1991) |
1991 |
Stephen Leonard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Political Theory in Political Practice (Princeton University Press, 1990) |
1990 |
William Corlett, Bates College
Community Without Unity: A Politics of Deridian Extravagance (Duke University Press) |