2025 Award
Günes Murat Tezcür (Arizona State University) for Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies
2024 Award
Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University) for Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State
2023 Award
Zeynip Bulutgil, The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization
2022 Award
Jonathan Laurence, Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism, and the Modern State
(Honorable Mention): David E. Campbell, Geoffrey C. Layman, and John C. Green, Secular Surge: A New Faultline in American Politics
2021 Award
Alexander Thurston, Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel
(Honorable Mention) John W. Compton, The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving their Neighbors
(Honorable Mention) Amanda Hollis-Brusky and Joshua Wilson, Separate but Faithful: The Christian Right’s Radical Struggle to Transform Law and Legal Culture
2020 Award
Laura Dudley Jenkins, Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India
(Honorable Mention): Carlo Invernizzi-Accitti, What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion, and Ideology
2019 Award
Marie-Eve Reny, University of Montreal, Authoritarian Containment: Public Security Bureaus and Protestant House Churches in Urban China, Oxford University Press
2018 Award
Andrew Lewis, The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars
2017 Award
Avi Spiegel (University of San Diego), The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World
2015 Award
Tarek Masoud, Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt
2013 Award
Jonathan Laurence, The Emancipation of Europe’s Muslims: The State’s Role in Minority Integration
2011 Award
(Co-winner) Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, The Politics of Secularism in International Relations
(Co-winner) Vincent Phillip Munoz, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
2009 Award
Jason Wittenberg, Crucibles of Political Loyalty: Church Institutions and Electoral Continuity in Hungary
2007 Award
Melissa M. Deckman, School Board Battles: The Christian Right in Local Politics
2005 Award
David C. Leege, The Politics of Cultural Differences: Social Change and Voter Mobilization Strategies in the Post-New Deal Period