Dissertation Awards
Dissertation Awards
Alexander Gerschenkron and Allan Nevins Prizes
The Nevins and Gerschenkron prizes are awarded annually for the best dissertations on North-American and non-North-American topics completed during the previous year. Six finalists, three for each award, are chosen to present dissertation summaries at the Association’s annual meetings each fall. Finalists will receive funds to defray travel expenses and award recipients receive a cash prize.
Scholars submitting a dissertation may not in the same year submit a proposal to the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation. On an exception basis, the Association will allow a two-year window following thesis completion for submission.
Alexander Gerschenkron Prize
The Alexander Gerschenkron Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the economic history of an area outside of the United States or Canada completed during the preceding year. The 2024 prize will be awarded at the Economic History Association’s annual meeting.
Scholars submitting a dissertation for the dissertation and prizes for the 2024 Economic History Association meeting may not submit a proposal for the general program that is part of or derived from the dissertation.
Eligibility
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- Those who received their Ph.D. between June 1, 2023 and May 31, 2024 are eligible and invited to submit their dissertation for consideration.
- All candidates for these prizes must be members of the Economic History Association.Â
- Dissertations submitted for consideration must be in English.
- Submission of a dissertation implies that candidates are prepared to attend the 2024 meeting.Â
- Presentation of a dissertation summary is required by all finalists.
Submissions
To be considered for this prize, completed dissertations must be submitted by email on or before May 31, 2024. Submissions of more than 5MB should prepare to send a download link rather than an attachment.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: MAY 31, 2024
Please send submitted dissertations to:
Patrick Wallis at P.H.Wallis@lse.ac.uk
All submissions will be acknowledged by return email.
Notices announcing the selection of finalists will be sent to all candidates by July 15, 2024.
Congratulations to the 2023 Alexander Gerschenkron Prize Winner
Lukas Rosenberger
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and the Knowledge Economy: Essays in (Macro-)Economic History
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Alexander Gerschenkron Prize Recipients
| YEAR | RECIPIENT | INSTITUTION | TITLE | COMPLETING INSTITUTION |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Lukas Rosenberger | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution, and the Knowledge Economy: Essays in (Macro-)Economic History | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| 2022 | Hanzhi Deng | Fudan University | A History of Decentralization: Fiscal Transitions in Late Imperial China, 1850-1911_ | London School of Economics |
| 2021 | Emiliano Travieso Barris | Carlos III University of Madrid | Resources, Environment, and the Rural Development in Uruguay, 1779-1993 | University of Cambridge |
| 2020 | Robin John Charles Adams | QueenÕs University Belfast | Shadow of a Taxman: How and by whom was the Republican Government financed in the Irish War of Independence (1919-1921) | Oxford University |
| 2019 | Yuzuru Kumon | University of Bocconi | Rich Europe, Poor Asia: How Wealth Inequality, Demography and Crop Risks Explain the Poverty of Pre-Industrial East Asia, 1300-1800 | University of CaliforniaÑDavis |
| 2018 | Eric Prawitz | On the Move: Essays on the Economic and Political Development of Sweden | Stockholm University | |
| 2017 | Michela Giorcelli | Economic Recovery and the Determinants of Production and Innovation: Evidence from Post-WWII Italy | Stanford University | |
| 2016 | Reka Juhasz | Temporary Protection, Technology Adoption and Economic Development | London School of Economics | |
| 2015 | Jose-Antonio Espin-Sanchez | The Illiquidity of Water Markets | Northwestern University | |
| 2014 | Tyler Beck Goodspeed | Essays in British Financial History | Harvard University | |
| 2013 | Eric Monnet | French Monetary Policy and Credit Control, 1945-1975 | Paris School of Economics and EHESS | |
| 2012 | Christian Dippel | Essays in International Political Economy | University of Toronto | |
| 2011 | Olivier Accominotti | Foreign Exchange Reserves, Financial Instability and Contagion: Three Essays on the Great Depression | Institut Politiques de Paris | |
| 2010 | James Fenske | Property Rights in Rural West Africa: Causes and Consequences | Yale University | |
| 2009 | Roman Studer | Market Integration and Economic Development: A Comparative Study of India and Europe, 1700-1800 | Oxford University | |
| 2008 | Amilcar Eduardo Challu | Grain Markets, Food Supply Policies, and Living Standards in late Colonial Mexico | Harvard University | |
| 2007 | Steven Nafziger | Communal Institutions, Resource Allocation, and Russian Economic Development: 1861-1905 | Yale University | |
| 2006 | Ran Abramitsky | The Limits of Equality: An Economics Analysis of the Israeli Kibbutz | Northwestern University | |
| 2005 | Drew Keeling | The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the USA, 1900-1914 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2004 | Tracy K. Dennison | Economy and Society in Rural Russia: The Serf Estate of Voshchazhnikovo | University of Cambridge | |
| 2003 | Petra Moser | Determinants of Innovation: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century World Fairs | University of California, Berkeley | |
| 2002 | Graciela MÌÁrquez | The Political Economy of Mexican Protectionism, 1868-1911 | Harvard University | |
| 2001 | Eona Karakacili | Peasants, Productivity and Profit in the Open Fields of England: A Study of Economic and Social Development | University of Torontounder | |
| 2000 | Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato Freer | The Impact of Revolution: Business and Labor in the Mexican Textile Industry, Orizaba, Veracruz, 1900-1930 | Harvard University | |
| 1999 | Chiaki Moriguchi | The Evolution of Employment Systems in the United States and Japan, 1900-1960: A Comparative Historical and Institutional Analysis | Stanford University | |
| 1998 | Hal Hansen | Caps and Gowns: Historical Reflections on the Institutions that Shaped Learning for Work in Germany and the United States, 1800-1945 | University of Wisconsin |