Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award Past Recipients

2024

Radha Sarkar (Yale University), Sofia Elverdin (Yale University), Sebastian Lucek (Stanford University) and Amar Sarkar (Harvard University) for “Religious Communication, ‘Benevolent Sexism,’ and Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Columbia”

2023

Feyaad Allie (Stanford University), “The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India.”

2022

Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Stanford University), “Religious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Distribute in Ramadan.”

2020

Elizabeth Dekeyser (MIT), “Islam, Exclusivity, and the State: Evidence from France.”

(Honorable Mentions) Yusuf Magiya (Columbia University) and M. Tahir Kilavuz (Marmara University), “Islamism, Policy Positions and Vote Choice: What Experimental Evidence Tells About Islamist Advantage in Turkey.”

2019

Consuelo Amat (Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society at Stanford University), “The Hydra Effect: When Repression Creates New Opposition against Authoritarianism.”

2017

Egor Lazarev (Columbia University), “Choosing Between Laws: Preferences for Alternative Legal Systems in Chechnya.”