Leo Strauss Award Winners

For the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted during that year or the previous year in the field of political philosophy.

Year	Author	Dissertation	Submitted by
1975	Delba Winthrop	Aristotle: Democracy in Political Science	Harvard University
1976	Dennis Bremman	Hobbes' Original Political Science: Observed or Postulated?	University of Notre Dame
1977	Mary L. Pollingue	A Community on Plato's Phaedrus	University of Chicago
1978	Richard Johnson	Strategy and Enlightenment: A Critical Study of the "Marxisms" of Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser	Yale University
1979	Arthur M. Melzer	The Happiness of the Ordinary Man: Rousseau on Virtue and Goodness	Harvard University
1980	Joel Benjamin Schwartz	The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau	Harvard University
	Joseph V. Brogan	The New Rationalists: An Inquiry into the Philosophy of Positive Political Theory	University of Notre Dame
1981	James Leake	Tacitus' Teaching and the Decline of Liberty at Rome	Boston College
1982	Michael A. Gillespie	Hegel, Heidegger, and the Ontological Ground of History	University of Chicago
1983	Wayne Ambler	Aristotle on the Naturalness of the City	Boston College
1984	Asher Horowitz	Nature and History in the Social and Political Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau	University of Toronto
1985	Ruth Grant	John Locke's Liberalism	University of Chicago
	Ian Shapiro	Individual Rights in Modern Liberal Thought: A Realist Account	Yale University
1986	Steven Forde	Thucydides' Alcibiades: A Case Study of the Place of Alcibiades in Thucydides' History	University of Toronto
1987	Richard C. Sinopoli	Liberalism, Republicanism and the Constitution: American Citizenship Viewed from the Founding	New York University
1988	Peter Berkowitz	The Foundations of Nietzsche's Political Philosophy	Yale University
1989	Tai-Shuenn Yang	Property Rights and Constitutional Order in Imperial China	Indiana University
1990	Alan Houston	Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage in England and America	Harvard University
1991	Mark Lilla	A Preface to Vico: Skepticism, Politics, and Theodicy	Harvard University
1992	Peter C. Myers	John Locke on the Naturalness of Rights	Loyola University of Chicago
1993	Meta Mendel-Reyes	Participatory Democracy: The Sixties as Metaphor	University of California, Berkeley
1994	Melissa Williams	Voice, Trust, and Memory: Marginalized Groups and the Failings of Liberal Representation	Harvard University
1995	Patrick Deneen	The Odyssey of Political Theory: Homer's Odyssey as Political Theory and as Read and Interpreted in the History of Political Thought	Rutgers University
1996	Eyal Chowers	The Modern Self in the Labyrinth: A Study of Entrapment in the Works of Weber, Freud, and Foucault	McGill University
1997	Andrew Sabl	Political Offices and American Constitutional Democracy	Harvard University
1998	Sung Ho Kim	Of 'Sect Man': The Modern Self and Civil Society in Max Weber's Political Thought	University of Chicago
1999	Christopher Rickey	The Politics of Revelation: The Philosophical Bases of Heidegger's Religious Politics	Duke University
2000	Aurelian Craiutu	The Difficult Apprenticeship of Liberty: Reflections on the Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires	Princeton University
2001	Christopher Nathan Dugan	Reason's Wake: Political Education in Plato's Laws	University of California, San Diego
2002	Andreas Kalyvas	The Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt	Columbia University
2003	Arash Abizadeh	Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy	Harvard University
2004	Christina Tarnopolsky	Plato and the Politics of Shame	Harvard University
2005	Douglas Casson	Liberating Judgment: John Locke and the Politics of Probability	Duke University
2006	Xavier Marquez	The Stranger's Knowledge: Political Knowledge in Plato’s Statesman	University of Notre Dame