Organized Section 15: Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

Science, Technology & Environmental Section Award Recipients

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award
The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award is named in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away last year, is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology and environmental politics.

2017	Yue (Iza) Ding, University of Pittsburgh “Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China.”
2016	Matto Mildenberger, University of California, Santa Barbara “Fiddling While the World Burns: The Double Representation of Carbon Polluters in Comparative Climate Policymaking.” Yale University, 2015
2015	Stefan Renckens, University of Toronto “Regulating Transnational Private Governance: Domestic Interests, Market Fragmentation, and Institutional Fit in the European Union.” Yale University, 2014
2014	Alexander Ovodenko, Princeton University “Pathways of Cooperation: Integrated and Unintegrated International Environmental Governance.” 2013
2013	Steven Samford, University of Notre Dame “High Road Development in a Low-Tech Industry: Policymakers, Producer Networks, and the Co-Production of Innovation in the Mexican Ceramics Sector.”
2012	Jennifer Hadden, University of Maryland Contesting Climate Change: Civil Society Networks and Collective Action in the European Union (Completed at Cornell University; advised by Sidney Tarrow)
2012	Kemi Fuentes-George, Middlebury College Scientific Knowledge, Epistemic Communities and Environmental Policy in the Developing World (Completed at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; advised by Peter Haas)
2011	Jessica Green, Case Western Reserve University Private Actors, Public Goods: Private Authority in Global Environmental Politics
2010	Jennifer Bussell, University of Louisville Resisting Reform: Technological Backwardness in Political Perspective
2009	Ngeta Kabiri, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Global Environmental Governance and Community Based Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania”
2008	Mark Zachary Taylor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “The Political Economy of Technological Innovation: A Change in the Debate”
2006	Sangbum Shin, University of Oregon “From Red to Green: Economic Globalization and Environmental Protection in China”
2005	Daniel Sherman, University of Puget Sound Not Here, Not There: The Federal, State, and Local Politics of Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal in the United States (Cornell, August 2004).