Winner: Heather A. Haveman. 2015. Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860. Princeton University Press.
Winner: Tianna S. Paschel. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press.
Honorable Mention:Rebecca Jean Emigh, Dylan Riley & Patricia Ahmed. 2016. How Societies and States Count (2-volume work: Antecedents of Censuses from Medieval to Nation States and Changes in Censuses from Imperialist to Welfare States) . Palgrave MacMillan.
Winner: Prerna Singh. 2016. How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India. Cambridge University Press.
Winner: Fatma Müge Göçek. 2014. Denial of Violence: Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians 1789-2009. Oxford University Press.
Winner: Kathleen Thelen. 2014. Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Co-Winner: Wenkai He. 2013. Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Co-Winner: Cybelle Fox. 2012. Three Worlds of Welfare Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Co-Winner: Michael Mann. 2012. The Sources of Social Power, volume 3: Global Empires and Revolution 1890-1945. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Co-Winner: Monica Prasad. 2012. The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Honorable Mention: Andreas Wimmer. 2012. Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Winner: Yang Su, 2011. Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Honorable Mention: Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, 2011. Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Honorable Mention: James Mahoney, 2010. Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Winner: David Garland, 2010. Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Honorable Mention: Dan Slater, 2010. Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Winner: Andrew G. Walder, 2009. Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Honorable Mention: Marion Fourcade, 2009. Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Honorable Mention: Chad Alan Goldberg, 2008. Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen's Bureau to Workfare. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Co-Winner: Karen Barkey, 2008. Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Co-Winner: Ivan Ermakoff, 2008. Ruling Oneself Out: A Theory of Collective Abdications. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
George Steinmetz, 2007. The Devil's Handwriting: Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Monica Prasad, 2006. The Politics of Free Markets: The Rise of Neoliberal Economic Policies in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Winner: Michael Mann, 2005. The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Honorable Mention: Eiko Ikegami, 2005. Bonds of Civility: Aesthetic Networks and the Political Origins of Japanese Culture Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Winner: Vivek Chibber, 2003. Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Honorable Mention: Wood, Elisabeth Jean. 2003. Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Winner: Gorski, Philip S. 2003. The Disciplinary Revolution: Calvinism and the Rise of the State in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Honorable Mention: Drori, Gili S., John W. Meyer, Francisco O. Ramirez, and Evan Schofer, 2003. Science in the Modern World Polity: Institutionalization and Globalization. Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press.
Winner: Mahoney, James. 2001. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Honorable Mention: Lachmann, Richard. 2000. Capitalists in Spite of Themselves: Elite Conflict and European Transitions in Early Modern Europe. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press.