Award Recipients - *Awards and Grants*

ISA Awards

The following awards are administered by ISA Award Committees and funded by ISA General Funds. ISA Award Committees nominated by the President with the approval of the Governing Council.

Beck Award	Cox Award
Deutsch Award	Gerner Teaching Award
Hollist Service Award	ISA Annual Best Book Award
ISA Book of the Decade Award	Strange Award
Tickner Award

Regions, Sections and/or Caucus ISA Awards

The following awards are administered by ISA Regions, Sections and/or Caucuses.

ALGER PRIZE	BENNETT AWARD
BOULDING AWARD	ENMISA DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD
ENMISA DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD	Ferguson AWARD
FINKELSTEIN AWARD	FTGS GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
GEORGE AWARD	GERNER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT
HARTMANN AWARD	HEISLER AWARD
HR FACULTY/PROFESSIONAL PAPER AWARD	J. David Singer Book Award
ISS STUDENT PAPER AWARD	ICOMM AWARD
IETHICS BOOK AWARD	ILAW AWARD
ISSS BOOK AWARD	ISSS PAPER AWARD
ISSS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD
NORTHCUTT AWARD	POE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD
SPROUT AWARD	SWIPE MENTOR AWARD
WRIGHT AWARD	ZINNES AWARD
ESS PAPER AWARD	GSCIS Distinguished Scholar Award

ISA Awards

The following awards are administered by ISA Award Committees and funded by ISA General Funds. ISA Award Committees nominated by the President with the approval of the Governing Council.

CARL BECK AWARD

2011: Susan D. Hyde, Yale University & Randall W. Stone, University of Rochester
2010: Tina Freyburg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology; Vsevolod Gunitskiy, Columbia University (Honorable Mention)
2009: Michael Beckley, Columbia University, "Material Preponderance and Military Power"
2007: Shelley L. Hurt, The New School for Social Research, "Patent Law, Biodefense, and the National Security State, 1945-1972" (PDF).
2006: Idean Salehyan, University of California, San Diego, "Transnational Rebels: Neighboring States As Sanctuary for Rebel Groups" (PDF).
2005: Shuhei Kurizaki, UCLA, "Efficient Secrecy: Public Versus Private Threats in Crisis Diplomacy" (PDF)
2003: Kristopher W. Ramsay, University of Rochester, "Crisis Bargaining and Representative Democracy" (PDF)
2002: Carolyn Lloyd, University of Montreal, "Knowledge and the Emerging Global Small Arms Control Regime: Where There Is No Vision, the People Perish"
2000: Nita Rudra, University of Southern California.
1997: Renske Doorenspleet, University of Leiden, "Political Democracy: A Cross National Quantitative Analysis of Modernization and Dependency Theories"
1996: Bear Braumoeller, University of Michigan, "Deadly Doves? Liberalism, Nationalism, Domestic Structure, and the Democratic Peace in Soviet Successor States"
1995: Yukiko Koga, Syracuse University, "In Search of a People’s Space in IR/IPE Theory: Reintroducing Dialectic Ontology and Social Identity"
1994: Erik Gartzke, University of Iowa, "Congress and Back Seat Driving: Modeling the War Powers Resolution with an Information Theory of Delegation"
1993: Robert Latham, New School for Social Research, "Liberal Capitalism as an International System: Europe and the World"
1992: Lizbeth Barnard, Tufts University, "Beyond Mediation: Third Party Consultation in International Conflict Resolution"
1990: Patrick Regan, University of Michigan
1989: Jeffrey William Knopf, Stanford University, "Soviet Public Diplomacy and U.S. Policymaking on Arms Control: The Case of Gorbachev's Nuclear Testing Moratorium"
1987: Marie Henehen, Rutgers University, "A Quantitative Analysis of Disagreement on Foreign Policy in the U.S. Senate"
1986: Carolyn Rhodes-Jones, Utah State University, "Reciprocity and Cooperation in the GATT Regime"
1985: Lev Gonick, York University, "Constraints of the World Economy on National Political Development: 1948-1973"
1983: T. Clifton Morgan, University of Texas-Austin, "The Effects of War on the Economic Productivity of Nations in the Twentieth Century"
1982: Theodore Koontz, Princeton University, "A Public Policy Case for Permitting Selective Conscientious Objection"

ROBERT & JESSIE COX AWARD

2012: Elizabeth Cobbett, Carleton University
2011: Zoë Pflaeger, University of Birmingham, "Decaf Empowerment Post-Washington Consenses Development Policy and Kenya's Coffee Industry"
2010: Jeff Ballinger, Columbia University, "The Threat Posed by 'Corporate Social Responsibility' to Trade Union Rights"
2009: Renk Ozdemir, University of Sussex
2008: Sandy Hager, York University-Toronto; Arne Ruckert, Carleton University
2007: James Perry, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
2006: Martijn Konings, York University
2005: Daniel Preece, University of Alberta
2004: No Recipient Selected
2003: Latha Varadarajan, San Diego State University
2002: Hironori Onuki, York University, "The Myth of Homogeneity and the 'Others'"
2001: M. Patrick Ngcoya, American University
2000: Gary Burn, University of Connecticut

KARL DEUTSCH AWARD

2012: Emilie Hafner-Burton, University of California San Diego
2011: Michael Tomz, Stanford University
2010: Virginia Page Fortna, Columbia University
2009: Jon Pevehouse, University of Wisconsin
2008: Ashley Leeds, Rice University
2007: Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, University of Essex
2006: Christopher Gelpi, Duke University
2005: Alastair Smith, New York University
2004: Allan C. Stam, Dartmouth College
2003: Kenneth A. Schultz, Stanford University
2002: Dan Reiter, Emory University
2001: Beth A. Simmons, Harvard University
2000: Edward D. Mansfield, University of Pennsylvania
1999: James Fearon, Stanford University
1998: Paul Diehl, University of Illinois
1997: Paul Huth, University of Maryland
1996: Robert Powell , UC Berkeley
1995: T. Clifton Morgan, Rice University
1994: James D. Morrow, University of Michigan
1993: Alex Mintz, Texas A&M University
1992: Duncan Snidal, University of Chicago
1991: Jack Snyder, Columbia University
1990: Joshua Goldstein, Brown University
1989: Zeev Maoz, Tel-Aviv University
1988: Steve Chan, University of Colorado
1987: Michael Don Ward, University of Washington
1986: Michael Wallace, University of British Columbia
1985: Bruce Bueno de Mesquita/Richard Ashley, Stanford University

DEBORAH GERNER TEACHING AWARD

2012: Jonathan Wilkenfeld, University of Maryland
2011: Rex Brynen, McGill University
2010: Jeffrey Lantis, Kent Kille, and Matthew Krain, The College of Wooster
2009: Patrick James and Abigail Ruane, USC
2008: Pamela Martin, Coastal Carolina University; Scott D. Sagan, Stanford University

LADD HOLLIST SERVICE AWARD

2012: Robert Kudrle, University of Minnesota
2011: Jacquie Braveboy-Wagner, CUNY
2010: Mary K. Meyer McAleese, Eckerd College
2009: Roger Coate, University of South Carolina
2008: Mark Boyer, University of Connecticut
2007: Karen Rasler, Indiana University
2006: P. Terrence Hopmann, Johns Hopkins University

ISA ANNUAL BEST BOOK AWARD

2011: Kelly Greenhill, Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion and Foreign Policy, Cornell University Press, 2010.
Honorable Mention: Matthew Kroenig
2010: Beth Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2009
2009: Andrew Hurrell, On Global Order: Power, Values, and the Constitution of International Society, Oxford University Press, 2007
2008: Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney, Failing to Win: Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics, Harvard University Press, 2006
2007: Clifford Bob, Marketing of Rebellion: Insurgents, Media, and International Activism, Cambridge University Press, 2005.

ISA BOOK OF THE DECADE AWARD

2001-2010: Daniel H. Deudney, Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. Princeton University Press, 2007.

Joshua S. Goldstein, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Bruce Russett and John Oneal, Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organization. WW Norton, 2001.
1991-2000: Alexander Wendt, Social Theory of International Politics. Cambridge University Press, 1999.

SUSAN STRANGE AWARD

2012: Robert O. Keohane, Princeton University
2011: Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University
2010: Richard Falk, Princeton University
2009: John Mueller, Ohio State University
2008: Hayward Alker, University of Southern California
2007: Cynthia Enloe, Clark University
2006: George Modelski, University of Washington
2005: Frank C. Zagare, University at Buffalo, SUNY
2004: Ken Booth, University of Wales
2003: J. David Singer, University of Michigan
2002: Steve Brams, New York University
2001: Robert W. Cox, York University
2000: Steve Smith, University of Exeter
1999: Rudolph Rummel

J. ANN TICKNER AWARD

Regions, Sections and/or Caucus ISA Awards

The following awards are administered by ISA Regions, Sections and/or Caucuses.

CHADWICK ALGER PRIZE

2012: Susan D. Hyde, Yale University & Randall W. Stone, University of Rochester
2011: Severine Autesserre, The Trouble with the Congo - Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding
2010 Co-Winners: Valerie Sperling, Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
Alex Thompson, Channels of Power: The UN Security Council and U.S. Statecraft in Iraq (Cornell University Press. 2009)
2009: Co-Winners: Benjamin Schiff, Oberlin College, Building the International Criminal Court, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Catherine Weaver, University of Texas at Austin, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008)
2008: Ian Hurd, Northwestern University, After Anarchy:
Legitimacy and Power in the United Nations Security Council(Princeton University Press, 2007)
2007: Craig N. Murphy, Wellesley College, The United Nations
Development Programme: A Better Way? (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
2002: Craig Warkentin, St. John's University, Reshaping World
Politics: NGOs, the Internet and Global Civil Society (Romann and
Littlefield, 2007)

A. LEROY BENNETT AWARD

2012: Nicholas C. Wheeler, Brigham Young University
2011: Rose Shinko, Bucknell University, "Theorizing Embodied Resistance Practices in International Relations"
2010: Derick Becker, St. John’s University, "Citizen Consumer: Locating the Individual in the Good Governance"
2002: Michael Clancy
2001: Mary Caprioli / Peter F. Trumbore

KENNETH BOULDING AWARD

2012: Patrick E. Shea, “Financing Victor: Credit, Democracy, and War”
2011: Allan Dafoe and Devin Caughey, “Honor and War: Using Southern Presidents to Identify Reputational Effects in International Conflict”
2010: Abigail E. Ruane, "Pursuing inclusive interests, both deep and wide: Women's human rights and the United Nations"
2009: Everita Silina, "Genocide and Information;" and Shane Joshua Barter, "Peace by Piece: Voice and Village Authority in the Aceh Conflict"

ENMISA DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD

2012: Elise Gulian and Devesh Kapur
2011 Co-Winners: Kim Rygiel, Globalizing Citizenship; Natasha Iskander, Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico
2010 Co-Winners: Idean Salehyan, Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics, University of North Texas and Marc Morjé Howard, The Politics of Citizenship in Europe

ENMISA DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD

2012: Arend Lijphart, University of California at San Diego; Anthony Smith, University of California-Irvine
2011: Walker Connor, Middlebury College
2010: Patrick James, University of Southern California
2009: Donald L. Horowitz, Duke University

Yale H. Ferguson Book AWARD

2012: Michael Barnett, The Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism & Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, The Conduct of Inquiry: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science and its Implications for International Relations Research
2011: Luis Cabrera, The Practice of Global Citizenship, Cambridge University Press

LAWRENCE FINKELSTEIN AWARD

2011: Heidi Hardt, University of Montreal
2010: Not presented.
2009: Not presented.
2008: Daniela Donno, Yale University
2007: Vaidyanatha Gundlupet, University of Chicago

FTGS GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

2012: Megan Daigle, Aberystwyth University, "Writing ‘Prostitute’ Lives: Researching Dissident Sexualities in Contemporary Cuba"
2011: Genevive Renard Painter, University of California-Berkeley, “Thinking Past Rights: Feminist Theories of Reparations”
2010: Lauren Wilcox, University of Minnesota, "Explosive Bodies: Suicide Bombing as an Embodied Practice and the Politics of Abjection"
2009: Rahel Kunz, University of Lucerne, Ann-Kristin Sjoberg, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, "Emancipated or Oppressed? Female Combatants in the Colombian Guerrilla"
2008: Nikki Detraz, Colorado State University
2007: Catia Confortini, University of Southern California

ALEXANDER GEORGE AWARD

2013: Sibel Oktay, "Unpacking Coalitions: Extreme Foreign Policy by Coalition Governments in Europe Between 1994 and 2004"
2012: Rachelle C. Cloutier, “The Ties that Bind? Human Rights Violations and the Sanctioning of Misbehaving Friends”
Honorable Mention:
Oliver Schmitt, "Explaining the Recourse to the Use of Military Force in ESDP Operations"
2011: Jonathan Renshon, “Dissatisfied States: Status and Aggression in World Politics”
Honorable Mentions:
Matthew Moore for “Trading with the Embargoed: State Decisions to Violate Arms Embargoes;”
Jenifer Whitten-Woodring for "Does Promoting Media Freedom Promote Human Security for Women? Rethinking the Assumptions of USAID."
2008: Christopher J. Fariss, University of North Texas
2007: Sam Robinson
2006: Ebru S. Canan, Bahcesehir University
2004: Eric Strachan
2001: Amy Skonieczny, San Francisco State University

DEBORAH GERNER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT

2012: Linda Akua Opongmaa Darkwa, University of Ghana
2011: Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University
2010: Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw State University
2009: Sarah Salwen, University of Pennsylvania
2008: Dana Zartner Falstrom, Assistant Professor, Tulane University
2007: Carrie Booth Walling, University of Minnesota

FREDERICK HARTMANN AWARD

2012: Jessica Auchter, Arizona State University
2011: Suzanne Hindmarch, University of Toronto, "Rupture and Continuity in Security Discourse: The securitization of HIV in the UN system"
2010: Lauren Wilcox, University of Minnesota, "Dying is Not Permitted: Sovereignty, Biopower, and Force Feeding at Guantanamo Bay"
2009: NA
2008: Leonardo E. Helland-Figueroa, Arizona State University, "Epistemology/Ontology/Politics: A Critique of Metatheory in World Political Inquiry"

MARTIN HEISLER AWARD

2012: Eren Ozalay-Sanli & Elena Gadjanova, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (honorable mention)
2011: Cetta S. Mainwaring, "Transforming Interests on the EU's Southern Periphery: Malta and Migration Policy"
2010: Mike Lebson, "Ethno-Nationalism and Violent Projects of Return: The Effect of Homeland Attachment on Refugees' Engagement in Conflict," University of Maryland College Park
2009: Matthew Lieber, “National Institutions for a World Polity: Transnational Migrant Diasporas, Political Remittances and State Responses", Brown University
2008: NA
2007: Tristan James Mabry, "Laitin on Language ", University of Pennsylvania
2006: Jonathan Acuff, "Identity and Legitimacy," University of Washington
2005: Alana Erin Tiemessen

HR FACULTY/PROFESSIONAL BEST PAPER AWARD

2009: Kathleen Staudt (University of Texas at El Paso) won the Faculty/Professional Best Paper Award for her paper entitled “Explaining the Persistence of Femicide Amid Transnational Activist Networks: Where Did Human Rights Theory Go Wrong?”
2008: Thomas W. Smith (University of South Florida) - “Can Human Rights Win a Better War?”

J. David Singer Book Award

2012: Alexander Thompson, Ohio State University

ISS STUDENT PAPER AWARD

2012: Jenna Jordan, University of Chicago
2011: Rhian McCoy, George Mason University

ICOMM AWARD

2012: Rhonda Zahana
2010 Ronald Deibert, Rafal Rohozinski, and Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Cyclones in Cyberspace: information Shaping and Denial iin the 2008 South Ossetia War
2009: Philip Seib, University of Southern California

IETHICS BOOK AWARD

2012: Bronwyn Leebaw, Judging State Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011)
2011: Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Barlett, Global Democracy and Sustainable Jurisprudence: Deliberative Environmental Law (MIT Press, 2009)

2011 Notable Mentions:

2010: Tarik Kochi, The Other’s War: Recognition and the Violence of Ethics (Birbeck Law Press, 2009)

2010 Notable Mentions:
Elisabeth Dauphinee, The Ethics of Researching War: Looking for Bosnia(Manchester University Press, 2009)
Toni Erskine, Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Stranger and Enemies in a World of ‘Dislocated Communities’ (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Patrick Hayden, Political Evil in a Global Age: Hannah Arendt and International Theory (Routledge, 2009)
Chukwumerije Okereke, Global Justice and Neoliberal Environmental Governance: Ethics, Sustainable Development, and International Co-operation (Routledge, 2008)
Ayelet Shachar, The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2009)

ILAW AWARD

ISSS BOOK AWARD

2012: Joshua Rovner, Fixing the Facts: National Security and the Politics of Intelligence, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011.
2011 ISSS Best Book - Michael C. Horowitz, The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics (Princeton University Press, 2010). In addition, honorable mention was awarded to Charles L. Glaser, Rational Theory of International Politics. The Logic of Competition and Cooperation (Princeton University Press, 2010).
2010 ISSS Best Book - Daniel H. Nexon (Georgetown University), for The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton, 2009). In addition, honorable mention was awarded to Dan Reiter (Emory University), for How Wars End (Princeton, 2009).
2009 ISSS Best Book - C. William Waldorf, Just Politics: Human Rights and the Foreign Policy of Great Powers (Cornell University Press, 2008)
2008 ISSS Best Book - David A. Welch, Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005)

ISSS PAPER AWARD

2012: Austin Carson, "Secrecy, Denial, and Escalation Management in the Korean War"
2011: Andrew Boutton, Penn State University, "U.S. Military Aid & the Geese that Lay Golden Eggs: Terrorist Groups & Interstate Rivalry"
2010: Benoit Pelopidas, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, for “When Experts Back Policy Makers’ Historical Memory and Biases: The Shared ‘Nuclear Proliferation Paradigm’ in the US since the 1960s.”
2009: Dylan Craig, Ph.D. Student, School of International Service, American University, "Ultima Ratio Regum: Remix or Redux? State Security Policy and Proxy Wars in Self-governing Africa"

ISSS DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AWARD

2013: Scott Sagan, Stanford University
2012: Jack Snyder, Columbia University
2011: Thomas Schelling, University of Maryland
2010: Kenneth Waltz, Columbia University
2009: Samuel Huntington, Harvard University
2008: Richard Rosecrance, Harvard University
2007: Lawrence Freedman, King's College London
2006: Robert Art, Brandeis University
2005: Richard Betts, Columbia University
2004: John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago
1996: Robert Jervis, Columbia University

SUSAN NORTHCUTT AWARD

2012: Jindy Rosa (Jan) Pettman, Australian National University
2011: Patrick James, University of Southern California
2010: Meredith Reid Sarkees, American University
2009: Christine Sylvester, Lancaster University
2008: Cynthia H. Enloe, Clark University
2007: J. Ann Tickner, University of Southern California
2006: Karen Mingst, University of Kentucky
2005: Deborah Gerner, University of Kansas

STEVEN C. POE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD

2011: Genevieve R. Painter, University of California Berkeley
2010: Courtney Hillebrecht (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), "When Talk is Cheap: Understanding Compliance with International Human Rights Tribunals"
2009: Joel Pruce (University of Denver) “Outlaws, Rogues, and Robin Hoods in the Delivery of Human Rights Goods?"
2008: Mark Massoud (UC-Berkeley) “Legal Development and Human Rights in a Divided Society”
2007: Natalie Florea Hudson (University of Connecticut) “Securitizing Women and Gender Equality: Who and What is it Good For?”

HAROLD & MARGARET SPROUT AWARD

2012: Rob Nixon, Department of English, University of Wisconsin-Madison Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor (Harvard University Press);
Runner Up Matthew J. Hoffmann, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, Climate Governance at the Crossroads: Experimenting with a Global Response after Kyoto (Oxford University Press)
2011: Daniel Bodansky, The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law;
Runners Up: Henrik Selin, Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management; Peter Newell, Climate Capitalism: Global Warming and the Transformation of the Global Economy; Matthew Paterson
2010: D.G. Webster, Dartmouth College, Adaptive Governance: The Dynamics of Atlantic Fisheries Management (MIT Press, 2008)
2009: Steve Vanderheiden, University of Colorado, Atmospheric Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (Oxford University Press, 2008)
Runners-up:
Charlotte Epstein, University of Sydney: The Power of Words in International Relations: Birth of an Anti-Whaling Discourse. MIT Press
Matthew Paterson, University of Ottawa: Automobile Politics: Ecology and Cultural Political Economy. Cambridge University Press
2008: David Humphreys, The Open University, Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance, Earthscan
2007: Thomas Princen, University of Michigan
2006: Ken Conca, Governing Water: Contentious Transnational Politics and Global Institution Building, MIT Press
2005: Benjamin Cashore, Graeme Auld, and Deanna Newsom,Governing Through Markets - Forest Certification and the Emergence of Non-State Authority, Yale University Press
Runners-up:
Sanjeev Khagram, Dams and Development, Cornell University Press
Robyn Eckersley, The Green State, MIT Press
2004: Edward A. Parson, Protecting the Ozone Layer, Oxford University Press
Honorable Mention:
Miranda A. Schreurs, Environmental Politics in Japan, Germany and the United States, Cambridge University Press
2003: Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates and Ken Conca, eds.Confronting Consumption, The MIT Press
2002: Paul F. Steinberg, Environmental Leadership in Developing Countries: Transnational Relations and Biodiversity Policy in Costa Rica and Bolivia, The MIT Press
Runner Up: Steven Bernstein, The Compromise of Liberal Environmentalism., Columbia
2001: Roni Garcia-Johnson, Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico, The MIT Press
Runner Up: Kate O’Neill, Waste Trading Among Rich Nations, The MIT Press
2000: Yok-shiu F. Lee and Alvin Y. So, Asia’s Environmental Movements: Comparative Perspectives, M.E. Sharp

SWIPE MENTOR AWARD

2012: David A. Lake
2011: Ronnie Lipschutz
2010: Jan Jindy Pettmann
2009: Marsha Pripstein Posusney
2008: Peg Hermann
2007: Herman Schwartz
2006: Anne Sisson Runyan
2004: Nick Onuf
2003: Cecelia Lynch
2002: Roger Haydon
2000: Spike Peterson
1999: Audie Klotz
1998: Mary Katzenstein
1997: Robert Keohane

QUINCY WRIGHT AWARD

2011: James McCormick, Iowa State University
2010: John Vasquez, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
2009: John Ishiyama, University of North Texas
2008 Paul Diehl, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2007 Ted Gurr, University of Maryland
2006 Ralph Carter, Texas Christian University
2005 Patrick James, University of Missouri
2004 William Thompson, Indiana University
2003 David P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2002 Margaret G. Hermann, Syracuse University
2001 Dina Zinnes, University of Illinois
2000 Chadwick Alger, Ohio State University (inaugural recipient)

DINA ZINNES AWARD

2012: Daina Chiba, Rice University
2011: Nils W. Metternich and Julian Wucherpfennig, "Rebel Group Interdependence and Duration of Civil War"
2010: Jesse C. Johnson, Rice University, "Do Alliances Matter? A Counterfactual Analysis of Alliance Formation and War Intervention"
2009: Ursula Daxecker, Colorado State University, and Jacqueline DeMeritt, Florida State University
2008: Daniela Donno, University of Pittsburgh
2006: Shuhei Kurizaki, Texas A&M University
2005: Michaela Mattes, Vanderbilt University
2004: Idean Salehyan, University of North Texas

ESS Paper Award

2012: Teresa Kramarz, University of Toronto, "World Bank Alliances: Evaluating the Partnership Promise“
2011: Jason Thistlethwaite, “The ClimateWise Principles: An Emerging Climate Risk Regime”
2010: No award given
2009: Corina McKendry, “Competing for Green: Neoliberalism, Environmental Justice, and the Limits of Ecological Modernization”; runner-up: Elizabeth Havice and Liam Campling, “Shifting Tides: Balancing Access to Foreign and Domsetic Interest in the Western Central Pacific Ocaean’s Tuna Industry.”
2008: Graeme Auld, “The Origins and Growth of Social and Environmental Certification in the Coffee Sector”; Runner-up: Stefan Renckens, “A Network and Flows Perspective on E-waste Trade and its Governance Arrangements”
2007: Ken Cousins, “Principals, Agents, and Public Goods: Information and Structural Complexity in Policy Implementation Systems
2006: two graduate students received the section’s award: Rachel DeMotts (U. Wisconsin Madison) for "Participating in Conservation: Governing on the Ground in the Great Limpopo National Park" and Diana Post (UC Berkeley) for "Precaution vs Risk in the International Arena: The Case of Codex Alimentarius"
2005: Steffen Bauer, "Does bureaucracy really matter? The authority of intergovernmental treaty secretariats"
2004: Allison Morrill Chatrchyan, “Democratic Transition, Stagnation and its Environmental Consequences: Protection of Lake Sevan and Forestry Resources in Post-Communist Armenia”
2003: No Award Given
2002: No Award Given
2001: Patricia Cripe, “Strategic Scarcity: Environmental Degradation and Ethnic Conflict in Africa.”
2000: No Award Given
1999: Anita Krajnc, University of Toronto, "Learning in British Columbia's Clayoquot and Great Bear Forest Campaigns: From Public Pressure to Global Civic Politics"
1998: Steven Bernstein, "The Evolution of International Environmental Norms: The Role of Scientific and Economic Ideas."
1997: Colin Kahl, Harvard University, “Population Growth, Environmental Degra- dation, and State-Sponsored Violence: The Case of Kenya, 1991-1993"