Student Guide
Resources for every step of your graduate education
Resources for every step of your graduate education
The Bancroft Awards recognize excellence in doctoral dissertations in the areas of American history (including biography), diplomacy, or international relations.
2019
David Allen, “Every citizen a statesman: Building a democracy for foreign policy in the American century"
2018
Michael Kideckel, "Fresh from the Factory: Breakfast Cereal, Natural Food, and the Marketing of Reform, 1890-1920"
2017
George Charles Halvorson, “Valuing the Air: The Politics of Environmental Governance from the Clean Air Act to Carbon Trading”
Allison Powers, “Settlement Colonialism: Compensatory Justice in United States Expansion, 1903-1941”
2016
Cristina Camille Pérez Jiménez, "Here to Stay: New York Puerto Ricans and the Consolidation of Latino New York, 1931-1951"
2015
Keith Orejel, "Factories in the Fallows: The Political Economy of America's Rural Heartland, 1945-1980"
2014
Nicholas Osborne, "Little Capitalists: The Social Economy of Saving in the United States, 1816-1914.
2013
Jessica Adler, “Paying the Price of War: United States Soldiers, Veterans, and Health Policy, 1917-1924”
John Hay, “The Post-Apocalyptic American Frontier: Uncanny Historicism in the Nineteenth Century”
2012
Mason Williams, “City of Ambition: Franklin Roosevelt, Fiorello La Guardia, and the Making of New Deal New York”
Michael Woodsworth, “The Forgotten Fight: Waging War on Poverty in New York City, 1945-1980”
2011
Rachel Tamar Van, "Free Trade and Family Values: Free Trade and the Development of American Capitalism in the 19th Century"
2010
Ansley T. Erickson, "Schooling the Metropolis: Economic Growth and Educational Inequality, Nashville, TN, 1945-1985"
Benjamin Soskis, "The Problem of Charity in Industrial America, 1873-1915"
2009
Russell J. Rickford, "A Struggle in the Arena of Ideas: Black Independent Schools and the Quest for Nationhood, 1966-1979"
Theresa Marie Ventura, "American Empire, Agrarian Reform and the Problem of Tropical Nature in the Philippines, 1898-1916"
2008
Hannah Gurman, "The Dissent Papers: The Voice of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond"
Joshua D. Wolff, "'The Great Monopoly': Western Union and the American Telegraph, 1845-1893"
2007
Lisa M. Ford, "Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in Georgia and New South Wales, 1788-1836"
2006
Shannan Clark, "White Collar Workers Organize! Class Consciousness and the Transformation of the American Culture Industry, 1925-1955"
2005
Kim Phillips-Fein, "Top-Down Revolution: Businessmen, Intellectuals and Politicians against the New Deal"
2004
Beverly Gage, “The Wall Street Explosion: Capitalism, Terrorism, and the 1920 Bombing in New York”
2004
Roosevelt Montas, “Rethinking America: Abolitionism and the Antebellum Transformation of the Discourse of National Identity”
2003
Ashli White, ‘“A Flood of Impure Lava:’ Saint Dominguan Refugees in the United States, 1791-1820.”
2002
David Suisman, "The Sound of Money: Music, Machines, and Markets, 1890-1925"
2001
David Greenberg, "Nixon's Shadow: Democracy and Authenticity in Postwar American Political Culture"
2000
Adam Rothman, "The Expansion of Slavery in the Deep South, 1790- 1820" (HUP) (Joyce Seltzer of Harvard University Press, 2002)
1999
Rebecca McLennan, “Citizens and Criminals: The Rise of the American Carceral, 1890-1935”
1998
Michael Zakim, " Ready-Made Democracy: Dressing the Republic for Commercial Success, 1760-1860" (Robert Devens of University of Chicago Press)
1997
Cyrus Veeser, "Remapping the Caribbean: European Capital and U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic" (Anne Routon of Columbia University Press)
1996
Jeffrey P. Sklansky, “The Fall of Political Economy and the Rise of Social Psychology in the U.S., 1865-1920” (Sian Hunter of University of North Carolina Press, 2001)
1994
Kevin Kenny, "Making Sense of the Molly Maguires"
1993
Joshua Brown, "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper: The Pictorial Press and the Representations of America: 1855-1899" (Monica McCormick of The Associates of the University of California Press, 2000)
1992
Michael W. Kaufmann, "The Work of John Cotton: The Rhetoric of Conversion and the Politics of Reform"
1991
Eric William Lott, "The Seeming Counterfeit: Blackface Minstrelsy and Working Class Culture in America"
1990
Deborah V. McCauley, "Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History" (Judith McCulloh of University of Illinois Press, 1995)
1987
Randolf Emil Bergstrom, "Courting Danger: The Evolution of Tort Liability in New York, 1870-1910"
1986
Peter Alan Antelyes, "Tales of Adventurous Enterprise: Western Economic Expansion as Narrative in the Age of Irving"
1985
Eugenia Georges, "The Causes and Consequences of International Labor Migration from a Rural Dominican Sending Community"
1983
James D. Wallace, "Early Cooper and His Audience"
1981
Thomas Brown, "Politics and Statesmanship: A Study of the American Whig Party"
1980
Catherine Ann Barnes, "Journey from Jim Crow: The Desegregation of Southern Transit, 1937-65"
1979
Jonathan Haas, "The Evaluation of the Prehistoric State Toward an Archaeological Analysis of Political Organization"
1978
Daniel M. Hausman, "A Philosophical Inquiry into Capital Theory"
1977
Viviana A. Zelizer, "The Development of Life Insurance in the U.S.: A Sociological Analysis"
1976
Elizabeth P. McCaughy, "Wm. Samuel Johnson: Loyalist & Founding Father"
1975
Thomas Dublin, "Women at Work: The Transformation of Work & Community, Lowell, Mass 1826-60"
1974
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, "Revolt Against Chivalry: Jessie Ames & the Women's Campaign vs. Lynching"
1973
Paul Edmund Beard, "Bureaucratic Politics and Weapons Innovation: A Study of Development of the ICBM"
1972
Carol Berkin, "Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an Anglo-American Conservative"
Note: No Bancroft Awards were given in 1982, 1984, 1988-89, and 1995.
The Salo and Jeanette Baron Prize in Jewish Studies honors excellence in a dissertation in Jewish studies successfully defended during the preceding four years.
2015
Jeremy Eichler, "The Emancipation of Memory: Arnold Schoenberg and the Creation of A Survivor from Warsaw"
2011
Aline Voldoire, "The Transnational Politics of French and American Jews, 1860-1920"
2007
Barry S. Wimpfheimer, "Legal Narrative in the Babylonian Talmud"
2002
Magdalena Teter, "Jews in the Legislation and the Teachings of the Catholic Church in Poland (1648-1772)"
1996
Edward Fram, "Jewish Law and Social and Economic Realities in 16th- and 17th-Century Poland"
1989
Elisheva Carlebach, "Rabbi Moses Hagiz: The Rabbinate and the Pursuit of Heresy in the Late 17th-Early 18th Centuries"
GSAS International Travel Fellowships (including the Lurcy, Mellon, Thompson, and Wollemborg Fellowships) are awarded to select PhD students in the Arts and Sciences who will have completed all of the requirements for the PhD degree except the dissertation; the fellowship provides funding for international travel necessary for completion of the dissertation.
Due to the COVID-19 global health crisis and subsequent travel restrictions, GSAS has not yet been permitted to award International Travel Fellowships for the 2020-21 academic year. We hope to be able to award these fellowships once travel restrictions are lifted.
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
2009-2010
The Lindt Fellowship is open to GSAS students in Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, and Sociology. The purpose of the Lindt Fellowship is to enable exceptionally well-qualified candidates for the PhD to complete the writing of their dissertations during the period of tenure.
2020-2021
Jeffrey Benjamin, Anthropology
2019-2020
Syantani Chatterjee, Anthropology
2018-2019
Alicia Cooperman, Political Science
Marina Kaganova, Anthropology
2017-2018
Moran Levy, Sociology
2016-2017
Abigail Coplin, Sociology
Sumayya Kassamali, Anthropology
2015-2016
Fatima Mojaddedi, Anthropology
Michael Schwam-Baird, Political Science
2014-2015
Kate Cronin-Furman, Political Science
2013-2014
Elif Alp, Sociology, "Screen Cleaning"
Benjamin Schupmann, Political Science, "Leviathan Run Aground"
2012-2013
Jennifer Hudson, Political Science, "The Bureaucratization of Democratic Theory"
2011-2012
Larissa Buchholz, Sociology, "Diversity and Careers in the Global Art Market"
Daniel Navon, Sociology, "The Genomic Designation of New Kinds of People"
2010-2011
Boilang Zhu, Political Science, "Political Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment Regulation"
2009-2010
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio, Economics, "Essays on Monotonicity and Convexity in Economics"
Pablo Kalmanovitz, Political Science, "Justice in Post-War Reconstruction: Theories from Vitoria to Vattel"
Established in 1996, the Presidential Teaching Awards honor the best of Columbia's teachers, both faculty and graduate students, for the influence they have on the development of their students and their part in maintaining the university's longstanding reputation for educational excellence. Graduate student recipients are listed below.
2018
Nicole Marie Gervasio, English and Comparative Literature
Jihui Lee, Biostatistics
Mariana Beatriz Noé, Classical Studies
2017
Sahar Ishtiaque Ullah, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies
Jason Chun Yu Wong, International and Public Affairs
Xingye Wu, Economics
2016
Melissa L. Ball, Chemistry
Margot Bernstein, Art History & Archaeology
Charles McNamera, Classics
2015
Spencer Brucks, Chemistry
Elham Seyedsayamdost, Political Science
Christine Webb, Psychology
2014
Royden Jay Kadyschuk, English and Comparative Literature
Roberto Pesenti, Art History and Archaeology
Aya Wallwater, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
2013
Christopher Crew, Psychology
Simran Singh, Religion
Neelanjan Sircar, Political Science
2012
Anjuli Kolb, English and Comparative Literature
Carlos Montes-Galdon, Economics
Joseph Woo, Chemical Engineering
2011
Katherine Ann Allen, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Tyler Bickford, Music
Jae Woo Lee, Computer Science
2010
Karen R. Emmerich, English and Comparative Literature
Alvan A. Ikoku, English and Comparative Literature
Lindsay C. Piechnik, Mathematics
2009
Raicho B. Bojilov, Economics
David K. Elson, Computer Science
Sonja A. Mapes, Mathematics
2008
Ivy Chen, Biostatistics
Annie E. Falk, Germanic Languages
Abigail Anne Scholer, Psychology
2007
Corbett D. Bazler, Music
Denise Milstein, Sociology
Christian Murphy, Computer Science
2006
Marijeta Bozovic, Slavic Languages
Rebecca Grossman, Physics and Astronomy, Barnard College
Dafna Hochman, Political Science
2005
Bonita E. London, Psychology
Peter Park, Chemistry
Robert S. Weston, Germanic Languages
2004
Timothy M. Casey, School of Law
Gabriel E. Perez-Giz, Physics
Nader K.Uthman, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
2003
Jacob Noel-Storr, Astronomy
Erin Soros, English and Comparative Literature
Priya Wadhera, French and Romance Philology
2002
Tara E. Brendle, Mathematics
Joseph C. McAlhany, Classics
Sophia Yinchee Wong, Philosophy
2001
Chad B. Finley, Physics
Jacqueline M. Elliott, Classics
Barbara A. Szlanic, French and Romance Philology
2000
David de la Nuez, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Jai Kasturi, Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures
Roosevelt Montas, English and Comparative Literature
1999
Ritu Birla, History
Manuele Gragnolati, Italian
Donald McVinney, School of Social Work
1998
Paul Christesen, Classics
Michael Larkin, Physics
Adam Rothman, History
1997
Elizabeth Brannon, Psychology
Polly Duke, French and Romance Philology
Richard Kernaghan, Anthropology
1996
Adrianne D. Slyz, Astronomy
Moustafa M. Bayoumi, English and Comparative Literature
Elizabeth Chamberlain, Spanish and Portuguese
The Summer Language Fellowship for International Students supports international PhD students in the humanities and social sciences who need to study a foreign language abroad during the summer.
Due to the COVID-19 global health crisis and subsequent travel restrictions, GSAS has not been permitted to award the Summer Language Fellowship for Summer 2020.
2019-2020
2018-2019
2017-2018
2016-2017
2015-2016
The Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowships were final-year dissertation writing fellowships awarded to select GSAS students in the Humanities, including History, and to PhD students in Architecture with a humanities-focused dissertation. The Whiting Fellowships were discontinued after the 2014-15 academic year.
2014-2015
2013-2014
2012-2013
2011-2012
2010-2011
2009-2010
The Zuckerman Dissertation Fellowship is open to GSAS students who are pursuing the PhD in History, Philosophy, or Sociology and completing dissertations that address core concerns in the history, philosophy, and/or sociology of science.
2020-2021
Joss Greene, Sociology
2019-2020
Simon Brown, Philosophy
2018-2019
Luciana Souza Leao, Sociology
2017-2018
Abram Daniel Kaplan, History
2016-2017
Pierre-Etienne Stockland, History
2015-2016
Debra Glasberg Gail, History
2014-2015
Hayang Sook Kim, History
2013-2014
Jonathan Lawhead, Philosophy
2012-2013
Timothy Yang, History, “Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years”
2011-2012
Marco Nathan, Philosophy, “Causation and Explanation in Molecular Developmental Biology”