| 2020 | Robert U. Nagel and Austin C. Doctor | Sexual Violence and Rebel Group Fragmentation |
| 2019 | Jessica Edry | Mastering the Double-Edged Sword: How Shallow Commitments to Human Rights Treaties Deepen over Time |
| 2018 | Hannah Schmidt | Making Electoral Peace: How Peacekeeping Activities Influence Electoral Violence |
| 2016 | Adam Scharpf | Dirty Skills: Guerrilla Wars and Military Training at the School of the Americas |
| 2014 | Anita Gohdes | Information, Connectivity, and Strategic State Repression |
| 2014 | Yuri M. Zhukov | Peace Through Resettlement? Theory and Evidence from the NKVD Archives |
| 2013 | Daniel Milton | Friends in Low Places: Military Arms, Repression, and Transnational Terrorism |
| 2012 | Daina Chiba | International Institutions and the Durations of International Conflict and Post-conflict Peace |
| 2011 | Nils W. Metternich and Julian Wucherpfennig | Rebel Group Interdependence and Duration of Civil War |
| 2010 | Jesse C. Johnson | Do Alliances Matter? A Counterfactual Analysis of Alliance Formation and War Intervention |
| 2009 | Ursula Daxecker and Jacqueline DeMeritt | TBD |
| 2008 | Daniela Donno | TBD |
| 2006 | Shuhei Kurizaki | TBD |
| 2005 | Michaela Mattes | TBD |
| 2004 | Idean Salehyan | TBD |
| 2002 | Carmela Lutmar | TBD |
| 2001 | Belinda Bragg | TBD |
| 2000 | Michael Simon | TBD |