Allen Nevins Prize
Best Dissertation in U.S. or Canadian Economic History
1997
Mark Siegler
University of California at Davis
Real Output and Business Cycle Volatility, 1869-1993
1996
Steven Herscovici
University of Chicago
Progress amid Poverty: Economic Opportunity in Antebellum Newburyport
1995
John Majewski
University of California at Los Angeles
Commerce and Community: Internal Improvements in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1780-1860
1994
Dora Costa
University of Chicago
Health, Income and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America
1993
Mary Eschelbach Gregson
University of Illinois
Strategies for Commercialization: Missouri Agriculture, 1860-1880
1992
Joseph Ferrie
University of Chicago
We Are Yankees Now’: The Economic Mobility of Two Thousand Antebellum Immigrants to the USA
1991
Shawn Kantor
California Institute of Technology
Property Rights and the Dynamics of Institutional Change: The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900
1990
Robert Whaples
Pennsylvania
The Shortening of the American Work Week
1989
Lee Craig
Indiana University
Farm Output, Productivity and Fertility Decline in the Antebellum Northern United States
1989
Adrienne Hood
University of California at San Diego
Organization and the Extent of Textile Manufacture in Eighteenth Century Rural Pennsylvania: A Case Study of Chester County
1988
David Wheelock
University of Illinois
The Strategy and Consistency of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1919-1933
1987
Kenneth Lipartito
Johns Hopkins University
The Telephone in the South: A Comparative Analysis, 1877-1920
1986
Carolyn Cooper
Yale University
The Roles of Thomas Blanchard’s Woodworking Inventions in Nineteenth Century Technology
1985
Donald Hoke
University of Wisconsin
Ingenuous Yankees: The Rise of the American System of Manufactures in the Private Sector
1984
Mary Schweitzer
Johns Hopkins
Contracts and Custom: Economic Policy in Colonial Pennsylvania, 1717-1755
1983
Warren Whatley
Stanford University
Institutional Change and Mechanization in the Cotton south: The Tractorization of Cotton Farming
1982
Sanford Jacoby
University of California at Berkeley
The Origins of Internal labor Markets in American Manufacturing Firms, 1910-1940
1981
Cathy McHugh
Stanford University
The Family Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1912
1980
Stuart Leslie
University of Delaware
Charles Kettering, 1876-1958
1979
David St. Clair
University of Utah
Entrepreneurship and the American Automobile Industry
1978
Elyce Rotella
University of Pennsylvania
Women’s Labor Force Participation and Growth of Clerical Employment in the United States, 1870-1930
1978
Joan Hannon
University of Wisconsin
The Immigrant Worker in the Promised Land: Human Capital and Ethnic Discrimination in the Michigan Labor Market, 1888-1891
1977
Pamela Nickless
Purdue University
Changing Labor Productivity and Utilization of Native Women Workers in the American Cotton Textile Industry: 1825-1860
1976
Townsend Walker
Stanford University
Gold Mountain States: Chinese Migration to the United States, 1848-1882
1975
Alex Field
University of California at Berkeley
Educational Reform and Manufacturing Development in Mid-Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
1974
Diane Lindstrom
University of Delaware
Demand, Markets and Eastern Economic Development: Philadelphia, 1815-1840
1973
Jonathan Pincus
Stanford University
A Positive Theory of Tariff Formation as Applied to Nineteenth Century United States
1972
Information is not available.
1971
William Whitney
Pennsylvania
The Structure of the American Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Earlier information is not available. If anyone has information about this award in 1972 or in earlier years, we would love to hear from you