| 2017 |
Catherine Reyes-Householder, Cornell University
"Presidentas, Power, and Pro-Women Change." |
| 2016 |
Dawn Teele, Yale University (Ph.D); University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor)
“The Logic of Women’s Enfranchisement: A Comparative Study of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom." Yale University, 2015 |
| 2016 |
Honorable Mention
Hürcan Asli Aksoy, University of Tübingen
“Engendering Democracy in Turkey: Participation and Inclusion of Women’s Civil Society Organizations under AKP Rule.” University of Tübingen, 2015 |
| 2015 |
Mona Tajali, Concordia University
“Demanding a Seat at the Table: Iranian and Turkish Women’s Organizing for Political Representation” |
| 2015 |
Honorable Mention
Shauna Lani Shames, Harvard University
“The Rational Non-Candidate: A Theory of (Uneven) Candidate Deterrence” |
|
2014 |
Cheryl O'Brien, Purdue University
"Beyond the National: Transnational Influences on (Subnational) State Policy Responsiveness to an International Norm on Violence Against Women" |
|
2013 |
Diana O'Brien, University of Southern California
"When Women Matter: The Relationship Between Women's Numeric and Policy Representation in Western European States" |
|
2012 |
Jennifer Piscopo, Salem College
Do Women Represent Women? Gender and Policy in Argentina and Mexico (comnpleted at the University of California, San Diego; advised by Peter H. Smith) |
|
2012 |
Honorable Mention
Valerie Hennings, Carrie Chapman Catt Scholar-in-Residence at Iowa State
Civic Selves: Gender, Candidate Training Programs, and Envisioning Political Participation |
|
2011 |
Dara Cohen, University of Minnesota
"Explaining Sexual Violence During Civil War" |
|
2011 |
Rosanne Kennedy, Union Institute and University of Cincinnati Ohio
"Rousseau and the Perversion of Gender" |
|
2010 |
Samantha Majic, John Jay College
"Protect By Other Means? Sex Workers, Social Movement Evolution, and the Political Possibilities of Nonprofit Service Provision |
|
2009 |
Melanie Hughes, University of Pittsburgh
"Politics at the Intersection: A Cross-National Analysis of Minority Women's Legislative Representation" |
|
2006 |
Kate Bedford, Rutgers University
"The World Bank's Employment Programs in Ecudor and Beyond: Empowering Women, Domesticating Men, and Resolving the Social Reproduction Dilemma" |
|
2006 |
Honorable Mention
Mona Lena Krook, Columbia University
"Politicizing Representation: Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas Worldwide" |
|
2005 |
Carisa Showden, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
"Mythologies of Choice: The Politics of Domestic Violence and Alternative Reproduction" |
|
2004 |
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, University of Arizona
"Legislative Representation in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation of Women" (Supervisor: Brian F. Crisp) |
|
2004 |
Sarah Song, Yale University
"Culture, Gender, and Equality" (Supervisor: Rogers M. Smith) |
|
2003 |
Jennifer Disney, Winthrop University
The Theories and Practices of Women's Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua. |
|
2002 |
Wendy Smooth, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
"African American Women State Legislators: The Impact of Gender and Race on Legislative Influence." |
|
2001 |
Kimberly Morgan, Princeton University
"Whose Hand Rocks the Cradle? The Politics of Child Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States" |
|
2000 |
Mala Htun, Harvard University
"Private Lives, Public Policies: Divorce, Abortion, and Family Equality in Latin America." |
|
1999 |
Michele Berger, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
"Workable Sisterhood: A Study of the Political Participation of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS" |
|
1997 |
Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Whitman College
"Heroes, Martyrs, and Mothers: Maternity Identity Politics in Revolutionary Nicaragua" |
|
1996 |
Anna Harvey, Princeton University
"The Legacy of Disenfranchisement: Women in Electoral Politics, 1917 - 1932" |
|
1996 |
Cindy Rosenthal, University of Oklahoma
"Women's Ways of Political Leadership: A Cross-Jurisdictional Study of State Legislative Committee Chairs" |
|
1995 |
Robin LeBlanc, Oglethorpe University
"Homeless as Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife" |
|
1994 |
Joanna Goven, University of California, Berkeley
"The Gendered Foundations of Hungarian Socialism: State, Society and the Anti-Politics of Anti-Feminism, 1948-1990" (University of California, Berkeley) |
|
1993 |
Beth Reingold, Emory University
"Representing Women Gender Difference among Arizona and California State Legislators" (University of California, Berkeley) |