The Samuel H. Beer Dissertation Prize was developed by the British Politics Group to encourage the study of British politics by graduate students and to reward exceptional work in that area of study. The principle criterion for awarding the Prize is the dissertation’s contribution to the understanding of British politics, regardless of whether the study is exclusively British or comparative research. Past winners are listed below.

We invite nominations for the 2010 award of $300 for the best doctoral dissertation on British politics completed during the calendar years 2007, 2008, or 2009.  All nominees must have received their Ph. D. from a department in the U.S. or Canada. Either a supervising professor or a department’s director of graduate studies may nominate a dissertation.  Either the supervising professor or the dissertation author must be a member of the BPG (can join upon submission). No one person may nominate more than one dissertation. The dissertation should be forwarded as a single PDF file along with a brief letter of nomination.

All material should be submitted by March 1, 2010 to 

Terrence Casey, Executive Director of the BPG
Email: casey1@rose-hulman.edu
Phone: (812) 877-8281

           
The winner of the award will be announced at the BPG’s annual business meeting at the 2010 APSA convention in Washington, DC.

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