LSA Dissertation Prize Winners
Year |
Author |
Title and University |
| 2012 | John W. Compton | A Moral Revolution: Evangelical Reform and the Transformation of American Constitutionalism, 1830‐1937, University of California at Los Angeles |
| 2011 | Chaitanya Lakkimsetti | Governing Sexualities: Globalization, Biopower, And Citizenship in Postcolonial India, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| 2010 | Heather Schoenfeld | The Politics of Prison Growth: From Chain Gangs to Work Release Centers and Supermax Prisons, Florida, 1955-2000, Northwestern University |
| 2009 | Ceren Belge (co-winner) Mark Fathi Massoud (co-winner) |
Whose
Law?: Clans, Honor Killings, and State-Minority Relations in Turkey and
Israel,
University of
Washington Who Rules the Law? How Government, Civil Society, and Aid Agencies Manipulate Law in Sudan, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2008 | Manuel A. Gómez | All in the Family: The Influence of Social Networks on Dispute Processing, Stanford University |
| 2007 | Sandra R. Levitsky | Private Dilemmas of Public Provision: The Formation of Political Demand for State Entitlements to Long-Term Care, University of Wisconsin |
| 2006 | Naomi Murakawa | Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State, Yale University |
| 2005 | Margot Canaday | The Straight State: Sexuality and American Citizenship, 1900 1969, University of Minnesota |
| 2004 | Risa L. Goluboff | The Work of Civil Rights in the 1940s: The Department of Justice, the NAACP, and African American Agricultural Labor, Princeton University |
| 2003 |
Katharina Heyer (co-winner) Barbara Oomen (co-winner) |
Rights on the Road: Disability Politics in Japan and Germany,
University of Hawaii Chiefs! Law, Power and Culture in Contemporary South Africa, University of Leiden |
| 2002 | Catherine Ruth Albiston | The Institutional Context of Civil Rights: Mobilizing the Family and Medical Leave Act in the Courts and in the Workplace, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2001 | Sara Manaugh | Without Reason: Drug War Politics in the United States, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2000 | Laura Beth Nielson | License to Harass: Offensive Speech, Legal Consciousness, and Hierarchies of Race, Gender, and Class, University of California, Berkeley |
| 1999 | Beth Kiyoko Jamieson | Toward a Feminist Theory of Liberty, Rutgers University |