2019

• Maddi Ross, History Department
  Rebuilding Voronezh: Ideal and Reality in Postwar Soviet Reconstruction

2018

• Gabriel Arcaro, History Department (Co-Winner)
  Shifting Stars: The Relationship between the Development of Persian Library Literary Identity and Nationalism in Tajikistan
• Brittany Henderson, Politics Department (Co-Winner)
  What Happens When You Poke the Bear: The Evolution of Internally-Revisionist International Strategy in the Russian-Federation

2017

• Joana Li, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  Performance of Power: Examining the Parade of a Resurgent Russia

2016

• Olivia Bowins, History Department
  Ukrainian Nation-building and Regional Identities: An Ideational Dilemma in Crimea and Transcarpathia

2015

• Jake Robertson, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  Captive Audiences: The Untold Stories of Professional Theater in the Gulag Camps of the Komi Republic

2010

• Andrew T. Davis, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
  Syntax in Aleksandr Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin: A Statistical and Interpretive Approach

2009

• Ilya Alex Blanter, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol:  Democratic Transition and the Politics of Irredentism

2008

• Kayvon Michael Tehranian, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs|
  The Political Economy of Natural Gas Cartelization.  Will the GECF evolve into a natural gas version of OPEC?

2007

• Andriy Mykhaylovskyy, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
  Land and Corruption:  A Case Study of Crimean Tatar Squatting

2006

• Andrew E. Fornarola, Politics
  Walking Alone:  The Curious Absence of a Liberal Youth Movement in Russia