| 2018
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Michael Hoffman, University of Notre Dame
"Communal Religion, Sectarian Interests, and Democracy."
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| 2017
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Robert Braun, Northwestern University
"Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust."
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| 2016
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Shoaib A. Ghias, University of California, Berkeley
“Defining Shari’a: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review.”
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| 2016
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Honorable Mention
Alicia D. Forster, University of Florida
"American Political Behavior and the Role of Religious Context."
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| 2016
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Honorable Mention
Jonathan S. Blake, Columbia University
“Ritual Contention in Divided Societies: Participation in Loyalist Parades in Northern Ireland.”
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| 2015
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Michele Margolis, University of Pennsylvania
"The Intersection of Religion and Politics: A Two-Way Street"
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| 2014
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Christopher Hale, Northern Arizona University
"Religion and Political Activism."
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| 2013
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Michael Robbins, University of Michigan
Bound by Brand: Opposition Party Support under Electoral Authoritarianism
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| 2013
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Honorable Mention
Jeremy Menchik, Boston University
Tolerance Without Liberalism: Islamic Institutions and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Indonesia
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| 2012
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Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge
The Shia of Saudi Arabia: Identity Politics, Sectarianism and the Saudi State (Completed at University of London, SOAS; advised by Professor Charles Tripp)
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| 2011
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Brandon Kendhammer, Ohio University
"Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam and Democracy in Northern Nigeria"
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| 2011
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Samuel Goldman, Harvard University
"The Shadow of God: Strauss, Jacobi, and the theology-Political Problem"
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| 2010
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Karrie Koesel, University of Oregon
Belief in Authoritarianism, Religious Revivials, and the Local State in Russia and China
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| 2009
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Tarek Masoud, Harvard University
Why Islam Wins: Electoral Ecologies and Economies of Political Islam in Contemporary Egypt
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| 2008
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Yuksel Sezgin, University of Washington
"The States Response to Legal Pluralism: The Case of Religious Law and Courts in Israel, Egypt and India"
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| 2007
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Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University
Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey
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| 2006
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Andrew March, University of Oxford
"Islamic Doctrines of Citizenship in Liberal Democracies: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus"
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| 2006
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Gregory Smith, University of Virginia
"Political Parishes: The Influence of Priests on the Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes of American Catholics"
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| 2004
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Carla Valle, Harvard University
"Roman Catholicism in Post-War Italy: How Social Organizations React to Political Change," Harvard University, 2003
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| 2003
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Timothy Shah, Harvard University
"A Horror of Discord: Radical Pluralism and the Invention of Liberalism in the Early Writings of Hugo Grotius"
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| 2002
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Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University
"Encounters with the State: Gender and Islam in Rural Bangladesh"
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| 2001
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Nandita Aras, Columbia University
"The Social Bases of Hindu Nationalism and Hindu Nationalist Parties"
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| 2001
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David Campbell, Harvard University
"Acts of Faith: Strict Churches and Political Mobilization"
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| 2000
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Peter VonDoepp, Pepperdine University
"Presbyterians, Catholics, and Grassroots Politics: Local Churches in Malawi's Post-Authoritarian Era"
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| 1999
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Nathalie Gagnere, University of Oklahoma
"The Catholic Church and the Rebirth of Civil Society: Elite Convergence, Mobilization, and Civil Society"
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| 1998
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Andrew Murphy, University of Wisconsin
"Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Dissent in Early Modern England and America"
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| 1997
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Carrie Wickham, Princeton University
"Political Mobilization under Authoritarian Rule: Explaining Islamic Activity in Mubarek's Egypt"
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| 1996
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Geoffrey Layman, Vanderbilt University
"Parties and Culture Wars: Conflict in the American Party System"
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| 1995
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Thomas Rourke, Texas Tech
"Yves R. Simon and Contemporary Catholic Neo-Conservatism"
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