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Bancroft Dissertation Award Recipients 1972 – present


Bancroft Dissertation Awards are given for outstanding dissertations in American History (including biography), diplomacy, or international affairs, and carries with it a publication subsidy of $7500 each transferable to a press of the winner’s choice. If no dissertation nominated is deemed suitable, no Award is given.


Name Dissertation Title
2006
Shannan Clark
"White Collar Workers Organize! Class Consciousness and the Transformation of the American Culture Industry, 1925-1955"
2005
Kim Phillips-Fein
"Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals and Politicians against the New Deal"
2004
Beverly Gage
“The Wall Street Explosion: Capitalism, Terrorism, and the 1920 Bombing in New York”
2004
Roosevelt Montas
“Rethinking America: Abolitionism and the Antebellum Transformation of the Discourse of National Identity”
2003
Ashli White
‘“A Flood of Impure Lava:’ Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791-1820.”
2002
David Suisman
"The Sound of Money: Music, Machines, and Markets, 1890-1925"
2001
David Greenberg
"Nixon's Shadow: Democracy and Authenticity in Postwar American Political Culture"
2000
Adam Rothman
"The Expansion of Slavery in the Deep South, 1790- 1820" (HUP) (Joyce Seltzer of Harvard University Press, 2002)
1999
Rebecca McLennan
“Citizens and Criminals: The Rise of the American Carceral, 1890-1935”
1998
Michael Zakim
Ready-Made Democracy: Dressing the Republic for Commercial Success, 1760-1860 (Robert Devens of University of Chicago Press)
1997
Cyrus Veeser
Remapping the Caribbean: European Capital and U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic (Anne Routon of Columbia University Press)
1996
Jeffrey P. Sklansky
“The Fall of Political Economy and the Rise of Social Psychology in the U.S., 1865-1920” (Sian Hunter of University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
1995
3 nominees NO AWARD GIVEN
 
1994
Kevin Kenny
"Making Sense of the Molly Maguires"
1993
Joshua Brown
"Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper: The Pictorial Press and the Representations of America: 1855-1899" (Monica McCormick of The Associates of the University of California Press, 2000)
1992
Michael W. Kaufmann
The Work of John Cotton: The Rhetoric of Conversion and the Politics of Reform
1991
Eric William Lott
The Seeming Counterfeit: Blackface Minstrelsy and Working Class Culture in America
1990
Deborah V. McCauley
"Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History" (Judith McCulloh of University of Illinois Press, 1995)
1989
No Diss. Nominated was deposited by deadline
 
1988
NO AWARD GIVEN
 
1987
Randolf Emil Bergstrom
Courting Danger: The Evolution of Tort Liability in New York, 1870-1910
1986
Peter Alan Antelyes
Tales of Adventurous Enterprise: Western Economic Expansion as Narrative in the Age of Irving
1985
Eugenia Georges
The Causes and Consequences of International Labor Migration from a Rural Dominican Sending Community
1984
NO AWARD GIVEN
 
1983
James D. Wallace
Early Cooper and His Audience
1982
NO AWARD GIVEN
 
1981
Thomas Brown
Politics and Statesmanship: A Study of the American Whig Party
1980
Catherine Ann Barnes
Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit, 1937-65
1979
Jonathan Haas
The Evaluation of the Prehistoric State Toward an Archaeological Analysis of Political Organization
1978
Daniel M. Hausman
A Philosophical Inquiry into Capital Theory
1977
Viviana A. Zelizer
The Development of Life Insurance in the U.S.: A Sociological Analysis
1976
Elizabeth P. McCaughy
Wm. Samuel Johnson: Loyalist & Founding Father
1975
Thomas Dublin
Women at Work: The Transformation of Work & Community, Lowell, Mass 1826-60
1974
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall
Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Ames & the Women's Campaign vs. Lynching
1973
Paul Edmund Beard
Bureaucratic Politics and Weapons Innovation: A study of Development of the ICBM
1972
Carol Berkin
Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an Anglo-American Conservative



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