Organized Section 24: Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation

Politics and History Secition Award Recipients

Walter Dean Burnham Disseration Award
The Walter Dean Burnham Award is given for the best dissertation in the field of Politics and History.

2016	Sarah Johnson, University of Chicago “The Ages We Live By: Historical Periodization in Social and Political Thought.”
2015	Jonathan Obert, University of Chicago “Six Guns and State Formation: The Co-Evolution of Public and Private Violence in American Political Development.” University of Chicago, 2014.
2015	Honorable Mention Jeffrey D. Broxmeyer, City University of New York “Politics as a Sphere of Wealth Accumulation: Cases of Gilded Age New York, 1855-1888.” City University of New York, 2014
2014	Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Congress, Public Opinion, and Representation in the One Party South, 1930s-1960s” (UC Berkeley)
2014	Sheena Greitens, Harvard University “Coercive Institutions and State Violence under Authoritarianism” (Harvard University)
2013	Deondra Rose, Cornell University/University of Notre Dame “The Development of U.S. Higher Education Policy and Its Impact on the Gender Dynamics of American Citizenship” (Cornell University 2012)
2013	Honorable Mention Jennifer Dixon, Villanova University
2012	Gwendoline Alphonso, Fairfield University “Hearth and Soul: Political Parties, Family Ideologies, and the Development of Social Policy in the 20th Century” (Cornell University 2011)
2011	Emily Zackin, CUNY Hunter College “Positive Constitutional Rights in the United States” (Princeton University 2010)
2010	Colin Moore, Harvard University “Institutions of Empire: Information, Delegation, and the Political Control of American Imperialism, 1890-1913” (Harvard University, 2009)
2009	Iza Hussin, University of Washington “The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of Islamic Law” (University of Washington, 2008)
2008	Tomas Larsson, Cornell University “Capitalizing Thailand: Colonialism, Communism, and the Political Economy of Rural Land Rights” (Cornell University, 2007)