2025
Anirvan Chowdhury (University of Louisville) for “Domesticating Politics: How Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women in India”
2024
Berfin Baydar (Duke University) and Asli Cansunar (University of Washington) for “Homogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination”
Honorable Mention: 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.”
(Honorable Mention) Rajestwari Majumdar (New York University), Richard Bonneau (New York University), Jonathan Nagler (New York University), and Joshua A. Tucker (New York University), “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.”
2022
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Stanford University), “Religious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Distribute in Ramadan.”
2021
Tugba Bozcaga (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Fotini Christia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), “Imams and Businessmen: Islamist Service Provision in Turkey.”
(Honorable Mention): Kikue Hamayotsu (Northern Illinois University), “The Political Origins of Religious Regime Formation in Southeast Asia.”
2020
Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin), David Buckley (University of Louisville), Clarissa David (Ateneo School of Government) and Ronald Mendoza (Ateneo School of Government), “Populist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.”
2019
Jonathan Chu (University of Pennsylvania) and Carrie Lee (United States Air War College), “Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention.”
2018
Paul Djupe (Denison University), Jacob Neiheisel (University at Buffalo), and Kimberly Conger (University of Cincinnati), “Are the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to States of the Non-Religious?”
2016
Sultan Tepe (University of Illinois, Chicago), “The Elusive Structure of State Secularism and its Disguised Critics.”
2012
Ramazan Kilinc (University of Nebraska-Omaha), “Opportunity Junctures as Catalysts: Islam, Secularism, and Democratic Consolidation in Turkey.”
2009
Kerem Ozan Kalkan (University of Maryland), Geoffrey C. Layman (University of Notre Dame), and John C. Green (University of Akron), “Will Americans Vote for Muslims? The Impact of Religious and Ethnic Identifiers on Support for Political Candidates.”
2007
Elizabeth A. Oldmixon (University of North Texas) and William Hudson (Providence College), “When Church Teachings and Republican Ideology Collide: The Perspectives of Catholic Republicans in the House of Representatives.”
2006
David E. Campbell (University of Notre Dame) and Joseph Quin Monson (Brigham Young University), “The Religion Card: Evangelicals, Catholics, and Gay Marriage in the 2004 Presidential Election.”