{"id":1411,"date":"2024-01-31T12:43:22","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T19:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?page_id=1411"},"modified":"2025-07-04T07:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:56:51","slug":"aaron-wildavsky-best-dissertation-award-past-recipients","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/aaron-wildavsky-best-dissertation-award-past-recipients\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation Award Past Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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2025<\/span><\/p>\n

Rajeshwari Majumdar (NYU) for\u00a0Essays on Religious Nationalism and Partisan Cues in India<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention: Mohammad Isaqzadeh (Princeton\/Chapman University) for\u00a0<\/span>Coping with War through God: Reassessing the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Violence<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2024<\/span><\/p>\n

Anirvan Chowdhury (Harvard University) for\u00a0Religiously Conservative Parties and Women\u2019s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar (Yale University) for\u00a0Religion and the Politics of Gender<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

2023<\/span><\/p>\n

Amy Lakeman, Harvard University. \u201cWhen Theology Responds: How Politics Shapes Religious Belief.\u201d Harvard University, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

2022<\/span><\/p>\n

Jessica Soedirgo, University of Amsterdam. \u201cThe Threat of Small Things: Patterns of Repression and Mobilization Against Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia.\u201d University of Toronto, 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n

2021<\/span><\/p>\n

Alexandra Blackman, Cornell University. \u201cThe Politicization of Faith: Settler Colonialism, Education, and Political Identity in Tunisia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(Honorable Mention) Alon Burstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. \u201cTerrorizing God\u2019s Enemies: The Influence of Religion on Terror Group Activity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Guadalupe Tunon, University of California, Berkeley. \u201cThen the Church Votes Left: The Electoral Consequences of Progressive Religion.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

(Honorable Mention) Alexandre Paquin-Pelletier, University of Toronto. \u201cRadical Leaders: Status, Competition, and Violent Islamic Mobilization in Indonesia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2019<\/span><\/p>\n

Jason Klocek, University of California, Berkeley. \u201cThe Cult of Coercion: Religion and Strategic Culture in British Counterinsurgency.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2018<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael Hoffman, University of Notre Dame. \u201cCommunal Religion, Sectarian Interests, and Democracy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2017<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert Braun, Northwestern University. \u201cReligious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2016<\/span><\/p>\n

Shoaib A. Ghias, University of California, Berkeley. \u201cDefining Shari\u2019a: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention: Alicia D. Forster, University of Florida. \u201cAmerican Political Behavior and the Role of Religious Context.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention: Jonathan S. Blake, Columbia University. \u201cRitual Contention in Divided Societies: Participation in Loyalist Parades in Northern Ireland.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael D.H. Robbins, University of Michigan. \u201cBound by Brand: Opposition Party Support under Electoral Authoritarianism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention: Jeremy M. Menchik, Boston University. \u201cTolerance without Liberalism: Islamic Institutions and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Indonesia.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2012<\/span><\/p>\n

Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge. \u201cThe Shia of Saudi Arabia: Identity Politics, Sectarianism, and the Saudi State.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2010<\/span><\/p>\n

Karrie J. Koesel, University of Oregon. \u201cBelief in Authoritarianism, Religious Revivals, and the Local State in Russia and China.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2009<\/span><\/p>\n

Tarek Masoud, Harvard University. \u201cWhy Islam Wins: Electoral Ecologies and Economies of Political Islam in Contemporary Egypt.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2007<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University. \u201cDynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

2006<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-Recipient: Andrew F. March, University of Oxford. \u201cIslamic Doctrines of Citizenship in Liberal Democracies: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Co-Recipient: Gregory Allen Smith, University of Virginia. \u201cPolitical Parishes: The Influence of Priests on the Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes of American Catholics.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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