EUSA Prize Winners
Ernst Haas Fellowship Recipients
2024
Lucia Frigo (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Eunyhea Oh (University of Essex)
2023
Marc Dorpema (New York University)
2022
Tomass Pildegovičs (Cambridge University)
2021
Helene R.R. Frederiksen (University of Copenhagen)
Lucia Kovacikova (Tulane University)
2020
Roslyn Dubler (Columbia University)
Julia Leschke (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Kai Stern (University of North Carolina)
2019
Nina Obermeier, Cornell University
Deanna Soloninka, University of Edinburgh
2018
Sidita Kushi, Northeastern University
Jenny Poon, University of Western Ontario
2017
Alexandra Liebich, Queen’s University
Julia López Fuentes, Emory University
Bilyana Petrova, Emory University
2016
Alice Ciciora (University of California, Berkeley)
Martijn Mos (Cornell University)
2015
Elise Dufief (Northwestern University)
Christopher Wratil (London School of Economics and Politics)
2014
Andrea Aldrich (University of Pittsburgh)
Matthew Spears (University of Illinois)
2013
Jon Polk ( University of Gothenburg)
Tristan Vellinga (University of Florida)
2012
Juan Antonio Mayoral Diez-Asencio (European University Institute)
Chris Kroh (University of Kansas)
Florian Stoeckel (University of North Carolina)
2011
Leif Hoffman (University of Oregon)
Altan Naz Masraff (London School of Economics and Political Science)
2010
Put Jan Rovny (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Magda Giurcanu (University of Florida)
2009
Jennifer Hadden (Cornell University)
Jennie Schulze (George Washington University)
2008
J. Timo Weishaupt (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Olivia Hall (Cornell University)
2007
Erica Edwards (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Susanne B. Unger (University of Michigan)
2006
Umut Aydin (University of Washington)
Kate Nicholls (University of Notre Dame)
2005
Kristine Mitchell (Princeton University)
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2023 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
Brigid Laffan
EUSA Best Book Award 2021-2022
Sarah Wolff - Secular Power Europe and Islam: Identity and Foreign Policy
Honorable Mention
Frédéric Mérand - The Political Commissioner: A European Ethnography
Peo Hansen - A Modern Migration Theory: An Alternative Economic Approach to Failed EU Policy
Best Paper Presented at the 2019 EUSA Conference
Nina Obermeier - Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of Internationalism in Europe
Giorgio Malet and Stefanie Walter - Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too? Public Opinion, Exit Precedents, and the Perceived Costs of Non-cooperation
Honorable Mention
Anatole Cheysson and Nicolo Fraccaroli - Changing Voting Dimensions in the European Parliament, 2004-2021
Best EU Studies Dissertation Defended in 2021-2022
Nina Obermeier (Cornell University) - The New Internationalists: How the Populist Radical Right Drives Support for International Economic Integration
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2021 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
Helen Wallace
EUSA Best Book Award 2019-2020
Christina Schneider - The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance
Honorable Mention
Vivien Schmidt - Europe’s Crisis of Legitimacy
Best Paper Presented at the 2019 EUSA Conference
Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks - Grand Theories of European Integration in the 21st Century
Best EU Studies Dissertation Defended in 2019-2020
Tommaso Pavone (University of Oslo) The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics Behind the Judicial Construction of Europe
Honorable Mention
Julia Schulte-Cloos (European University Institute) European Integration and the Surge of the Populist Radical Right
2019 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
Vivien Schmidt
EUSA Best Book Award 2017-2018
Catherine De Vries - Euroscepticism and the Future of European Integration
Honorable Mention
Jonathon Moses - Eurobondage: The Political Clash of Monetary Union in Europe
Best Paper Presented at the 2017 EUSA Conference
Zsófia Barta and Alison Johnston - "Rating Politics? Partisan Discrimination in Credit Ratings in Developed Economies"
Honorable Mention
Niels Gheyle and Ferdi De Ville - "How Much Is Enough? Transparency Demands in Trade Negotiations: the case of TTIP"
Best EU Studies Dissertation Defended in 2017-2018
Roman Senninger (Aarhus University) - Political Parties & Parliamentary EU Oversight
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2017 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
George Ross
EUSA Best Book Award 2015-2016
Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen - An Ever More Powerful Court
Honorable Mention
Alison Johnston - From Convergence to Crisis: Labor Markets and the Instability of the Euro WilliamPhelan - In Place of Inter-State Retaliation
Best Paper Presented at the 2015 EUSA Conference
Anke Hassel, Jette Steen Knudsen and Bettina Wagner - "Winning the Battle or Losing the War: The Impact of European Integration on Labour Market Institutions in Germany and Denmark"
Best EU Studies Dissertation Defended in 2015-2016
Sanja Badanjak (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Coping with Europe - The Impact of the European Union on Party Systems in European Democracies
2015 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
James Caporaso
EUSA Best Book Award 2013-2014
Clifford Carruba and Matthew Gabel - International Courts and the Performance of International Agreements: A General Theory with Evidence from the European Union
Best Paper Presented at the 2013 EUSA Conference
Dan Keleman and Terence Teo - "Law and the Eurozone Crisis: Law, Focal Points and Fiscal Discipline"
Honorable Mention: Mert Kartal "Accounting for Bad Apples: The EU's Impact on National Corruption Before and After Accession"
Best EU Studies Dissertation Defended in 2013-2014
Phillip Mansour Ayoub (Cornell University)
When States 'Come Out': Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe
2013 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
Alberta Sbragia
EUSA Best Book Award 2011-2012
Dan Kelemen - Eurolegalism: The Transformation of Law and Regulation in the European Union
Honorable Mention-Robert Thomson - Resolving Controversy in the European Union
Best Paper Presented at the 2011 EUSA Conference
Heike Kluver - "Lobbying as a collective enterprise: Interest groups and policy-making in the European Union"
Best EU Studies Dissertation Defended in 2011-2012
Naz Masraff (London School of Economics)
Why Keep Complying? Compliance with EU Conditionality under Diminished Credibility in Turkey
2011 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
Jeremy Richardson
EUSA Award for Best Book Publishedin 2009 or 2010
Sara Hobolt Europe in Question
Honorable Mention
Paul Craig The Lisbon Treaty: Law, Politics and Treaty Reform
Marc Howard The Politics of Citizenship in Europe
EUSA Award for Best Dissertation Defended in 2009 or 2010
Nikoleta Yordanova Legislative Organisation of the European Parliament: The Role of Committees
EUSA Award for Best Paper Presented at the 2009 EUSA Conference
Tina Freyburg "Planting the Seeds of Change"
2009 EUSA Prize Winners
EUSA Award for Lifetime Achievement in European Studies
Philippe C. Schmitter
EUSA Public Service Award in European Studies
Ruth Mitchell-Pitts, Executive Director of the European Union Center of Excellence, University of North Carolina
EUSA Award for the best book published in 2007 or 2008
Fabio Franchino. 2007. The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Honorable Mention
Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland. 2007. Democratic Politics in the European Parliament. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
EUSA Award for the Best Dissertation defended in 2007 or 2008
Alexandra Hennessy. Economic Interests, Domestic Constraints, and the Creation of a European Single Pension Market. Ph.D. Dissertation Boston University.
Honorable Mention
Umut Aydin, From Competition to Cooperation: Subsidies in the United States, Canada and the European Union. Ph.D. Dissertation University of Washington.
EUSA Award for the Best Paper presented at the 2007 EUSA conference
Tom Delreux (University of Leuven). "The EU as a Negotiator in Multilateral Chemicals Negotiations: Multiple Principals, Different Agents."
Honorable Mention
Alexandra Hennessy (Clarkson University). "Cheap Talk or Credible Signals? Economic Interests and the Construction of a Single Pension Market in Europe."
2007 EUSA Prize Winners
2007 Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of EU Studies
Fritz Scharpf
From his early work through his most recent articles (e.g., "The European Social Model: Coping with the Challenges of Diversity" (JCMS, 2002), Scharpf has arguably done more than any other scholar of his generation to illuminate the implications of European integration for both democracy and social welfare. And given that he has produced one book and eleven articles since his "retirement" in 2003, scholars in our field can no doubt look forward to continued groundbreaking work from Professor Scharpf.
Best Dissertation in EU Studies
Seth Kincaid Jolly (Duke University) "A Europe of the Regions? Regional integration, sub-national mobilization and the optimal size of states" (dissertation advisor: Professor Herbert Kitschelt)
Honorable Mention
Nils Ringe (University of Pittsburgh) "Policy preference formation in legislative politics: Structures, actors, and focal point"(dissertation advisor: Professor Alberta Sbragia)
Honorable Mention
Adam Luedtke (University of Washington) "One Market, 25 States, 20 Million Outsiders: Supranational Integration and the Politics of Immigration"(dissertation advisor: Professor James Caporaso)
Best Book in EU Studies
Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib, Miriam Hartlapp, and Simone Leiber. Complying with Europe. EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States, Cambridge University Press 2005
Honorable Mention
Stefano Bartolini. Restructuring Europe. Centre Formation, System Building, and Political Structuring between the Nation State and the European Union, Oxford University Press 2005
Best 2005 EUSA Conference Paper
Gabriel Swank (Stanford University) and Tim Buthe (Duke University) "The politics of antitrust and merger review in the European Union: Institutional change and decisions from Messina to 2004"
2005 EUSA Prize Winners
At the EUSA's 2005 Ninth Biennial International Conference, EUSA awarded the following prizes:
Best 2003 EUSA Conference Paper
Henrik Enderlein (Freie Universitat Berlin) Adjusting to the EMU: The Impact of Monetary Union on Domestic Fiscal and Wage-Setting Institutions"
Best Dissertation in EU Studies
Christine Arnold, Co-Winner (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) "How Two-Level Entrepreneurship Works: A Case Study of Ratcheting Up a Europe-Wide Employment Strategy" [Directed by Professor Eric S. Einhorn]
Berthold Rittberger, Co-Winner (University of Oxford) "The Parliamentarisation of the European Community" [Directed by Jeremy Professor Richardson]
Best Book in EU Studies-Honorable Mention
Mark Hallerberg, "Domestic Budgets in a United Europe: Fiscal Governance from the End of Bretton Woods to EMU", Cornell University Press, 2004
Best Book in EU Studies
Frank Schimmelfennig, "The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric", Cambridge University Press, 2003
2005 Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field of EU Studies
Eric Stein, Hessell E. Yntema Professor of Law Emeritus, University of Michigan
Eric Stein was one of the pioneers in the field of EU law, establishing one of the first European law courses taught in a U.S. Law School and building up a major and renowned centre of EU law study at the University of Michigan. He has been described as a "master comparativist" who established European law as a subject worthy of study in North America, and his work on comparative federalism and comparative law has been important and influential.
2003 EUSA Prize Winners
At EUSA's 2003 Eighth Biennial International Conference, the European Union Studies Association awarded the following prizes:
Best 2001 ECSA Conference Paper
Virginie Guiraudon (Universiti de Lille II) "The EU 'Garbage Can': Accounting for Policy Developments in the Immigration Domain"
Best Dissertation in EU Studies
Georg Menz (University of Pittsburgh) "National Response Strategies to Transnational Challenges: The Austrian, French, and German Re-regulation of the Liberalization of Service Provision in the European Union Wage" [Alberta Sbragia, Dissertation Chair]
Lifetime Contribution Award in EU Studies
Stanley Hoffmann (Harvard University) was unamimously selected by EUSA's 2001-2003 Executive Committee as the third recipient of this award.
"Hoffmann's scholarship and commentary on Europe and European integration have for decades been our intellectual benchmark. He has analyzed and explained the deeper logic of the building of Europe with unequaled grasp of the intersections of domestic, EU and international politics ... Without Hoffmann's wisdom and science, Europeans and Americans would not know and understand each other nearly as well as they now do." --Martin A. Schain, 2001-2003 Chair, European Union Studies Association.
2001 ECSA Prize Winners
At EUSA's 2001 Seventh Biennial International Conference, the EUSA (then known as European Community Studies Association) awarded the following prizes:
Best 1999 ECSA Conference Paper
David Green (University of Wisconsin Madison) "Who Are 'The Europeans'? European Political Identity in the Context of the Post-War Integration Project".
Best Dissertation in EU Studies
Joseph Jupille (University of Washington Seattle) "Procedural Politics: Issues, Interests, and Institutional Choice in the European Union" [James A. Caporaso, Dissertation Chair]
Lifetime Contribution Award in EU Studies
Leon Lindberg (University of Wisconsin Madison), was unanimously selected by ECSA's 1999-2001 Executive Committee as the second recipient of this award.
"Lindberg's work on European integration set the standard for subsequent work on theories of integration. The concepts, arguments, and lines of analyses he developed still serve as the intellectual foundation for theoretical work on the European Union ... the study of European integration will occupy many scholars for at least several generations, and all of them will be permanently in Lindberg's intellectual debt." --Vivien A. Schmidt, 1999-2001 Chair, European Community Studies Association.
1999 ECSA Prize Winners
At ECSA's 1999 Sixth Biennial International Conference, the ECSA awarded the following prizes:
Best 1997 ECSA Conference Paper
Karen Alter (Smith College), "Who Are the 'Masters of the Treaty'? European Governments and the European Court of Justice"
Best Dissertation in EU Studies
Marc Smyrl (Harvard University), "European Policies, Regional Programs, Local Politics: Implementing European Community Regional Policy, 1985-1994" [Peter A. Hall, Dissertation Advisor]
Lifetime Contribution Award in EU Studies
Ernst B. Haas (University of California at Berkeley) was unanimously selected by ECSA's 1997-99 Executive Committee as the first recipient of this award.
"Haas' ideas and books have defined the field of European integration studies, and they remain a potent source of theory testing and elaboration today. The theory with which his name is indelibly associated--neofunctionalism--was not only the first comprehensive theory of European integration but has been by far the most influential."--Gary Marks, 1997-1999 Chair, European Community Studies Association.