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Past Awards


2023

Michael J. Fortner, Ph.D., Claremont McKenna College

“Crack Cocaine and Congressional Leadership in the War on Drugs"

2020 - 2021

Remko van Hoek, Ph.D., Walton School of Business, University of Arkansas

“Supply Chain Lessons from CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Famer Senator Elizabeth Dole’s Policy Accomplishments as Transportation Secretary"

2019 - 2021

Grace Goudiss, University of California, Berkeley

“California Converts: The Cult Phenomenon and American Politics, 1965-1989”

2018

Tracy Roof, Ph.D., University of Richmond

“Nutrition, Welfare, or Work Support? A Political History of the Food Stamp Program”

Fellow for Armenian Advocacy – Michael Bobelian, Baruch College, City University of New York

“Armenian-American Advocacy from Earthquake Relief to Genocide Recognition”

2017

Douglas B. Harris, Ph.D., Loyola University Maryland

“Selecting the Senate Leader:  Bob Dole’s 1984 Race for Senate Floor Leader and its Consequences for Senate Leadership”

Curatorial Fellow –​ Heath Hardage Lee, independent historian and biographer

“The League of Wives: Vietnam's POW/MIA Allies & Advocates”

2016

Caitlin Rathe, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public/Private Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988”

Curatorial Research Fellow – John Robert Greene, Ph.D., Cazenovia College

“The Doles and the '76 Presidential Election”

2015

GE Curatorial Research Fellow – Ray Mizumura-Pence, Ph.D., University of Kansas

“Bodies, Hearts, and Minds: A Social and Cultural History of Veterans with Disabilities from Vietnam to the Wars on Terror”

GE Archival Research Fellow – Christian Généreux, Université du Québec à Montréal

“Climbing Capitol Hill: The Interaction between the Community of People with Disabilities and the United States Congress”

Rebecca Stoil, Johns Hopkins University

“Tied to Their Country: Agrarian Mobilization, Conservative Politics and the Farm Crisis, 1977-1987"

2014

Amanda Demmer, University of New Hampshire

"'The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War': Normalization, Non-governmental Actors and the Politics of Human Rights"

2013

Patrick Sandman, Trinity College

"Bringing Congress Back In: Watergate and the Politics of Institutional Change"

2012

Prakash Kumar, Ph.D., Colorado State University

“GM Crops and Globalization: US Regulatory and International Trade Policy, 1980-2010”

Samuel Zebulon Baker, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University

“Forward Progress: Desegregating College Football, 1945-1975”

2011

Gary Aguiar, Ph.D., South Dakota State University

“Congressional Responses to Constituent Casework Regarding Federal Bureaucracies”

Ben Merriman, University of Chicago

“Agricultural Subsidy and Rural Development in Kansas in the Post-war Period”

2010

Jennifer Donnally, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

“The Politics of Abortion and the Rise of the New Right, 1967-1992”

2023

Raina Hackett, George Washington University

“Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and the Expansion of Food Assistance – An Intersectional Analysis of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)"

2020

Brent Campney, Ph.D., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

“The Black Freedom Struggle in Kansas, 1967-1971"

2019

Olatunde Taiwo, Olabisi Onanbanjo University

“Dole in the Congressional War against Global Child-Hunger, 1961- 2018”

Robert Zebulun Larson, The Ohio State University

“The Transnational Dimension of the U.S. Anti-Apartheid Movement”

John Dearborn, Yale University

“The Representative Presidency: Development and Durability”

Lindsay Drane, University of Houston

“'Too Poor to Eat': A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996”

Matthew J. Lacombe, Northwestern University

“Beyond Money: The National Rifle Association and Interest Group Power"

2018

Dean J. Kotlowski, Ph.D., Salisbury University

“Indigenous Self-Determination Across the Pacific: The United States Congress and Australian Parliament Compared, 1960-1993”

William D. Adler, Ph.D., Northeastern Illinois University

“Party Differences in Vice Presidential Selection”

Julien Zarifian, Ph.D., University of Cergy-Pontoise

“Senator Robert J. Dole and Armenians: A Forty-Year Proximity and Engagement

2016

Richard Johnson, University of Oxford

“The Role of the ‘Dole Compromise’ in Explaining the Extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982”

Emilie Raymond, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

“Bring Paul Home: A Wife, a POW, and the Vietnam War”

2015

Heath Hardage Lee, independent historian and biographer

“Vietnam War Wives”

2014

Sasha Issenberg, journalist and fellow, Center for Civil Society in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA

“The Engagement: A Quarter-Century of Defending, Defining and Expanding Marriage in America”

Ryan Whalen, Northwestern University

"The History of the Bayh-Dole Act’s March-In Rights and the Future of Their Use”

2013

OJO Patrick Oluwole, Obafemi Awolowo University

"Comparative Study of United States' Support for Democracy in Nigeria and South Africa"

James Cooper, Ph.D., Oxford Brookes University and Westminster College

“The Politics of Washington, D.C.: Ronald Reagan and ‘Tip’ O’Neill, 1981-1987”

Neal Allen, Ph.D., Wichita State University

“Successfully Navigating the Politics of Race in the 1950s and 1960s: Future Congressional Leaders and Civil and Voting Rights Legislation”

2012

Lucas Richert, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan

“A Prescription for Scandal: Conservatism, Consumer Choice and the FDA during the Reagan Era”

“The Politics of Drug Abuse during the Ford Administration”

Josh Ryan, Ph.D., Bradley University

Post-Passage Bargaining and Resolution in Congress

Michael Ensley, Ph.D., Kent State University

“Agent-Based Modeling and the Role of Party Leaders in Congress”

2011

Alix Meyer, Lumière University Lyon 2

Republican Leadership

DeeAnn Grove, University of Iowa

Education as an issue in Presidential campaigns

Christopher Baylor, University of California, Los Angeles

Contribution of party leaders to changes in the Republican party 1970-2000

David Hamilton Golland, Ph.D. Governors State University

Biography of Kansan Arthur Fletcher

Nicholas O. Howard, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

“Institutional Settings and Obstruction: Holds in the Senate under the Leadership of Robert Dole”

2010

Sarah Snyder, Ph,D., Yale University

“The Helsinki Network: Transnational Human Rights Activism in the late Cold War”

Adam Connell , University of Oklahoma

“Senate Leadership during the Panama Canal Debates”

Timothy Stanley, Ph.D., Royal Holloway, University of London

Research towards a political biography of Pat Buchanan

Gary Aguiar, Ph.D., South Dakota State University

“Who Writes to Congressional Leaders? Constituent-Initiated Contacts via Letters and Email”

Hannah Gobel, Ph.D., Texas Christian University

“Changing the Narrative: Political Elites’ Strategic Decisions and Politicization of Issues”

2023

Michael J. Fortner, Ph.D., Claremont McKenna College

“Crack Cocaine and Congressional Leadership in the War on Drugs"

2020 - 2021

Remko van Hoek, Ph.D., Walton School of Business, University of Arkansas

“Supply Chain Lessons from CSCMP Supply Chain Hall of Famer Senator Elizabeth Dole’s Policy Accomplishments as Transportation Secretary"

2019 - 2021

Grace Goudiss, University of California, Berkeley

“California Converts: The Cult Phenomenon and American Politics, 1965-1989”

2018

Tracy Roof, Ph.D., University of Richmond

“Nutrition, Welfare, or Work Support? A Political History of the Food Stamp Program”

Fellow for Armenian Advocacy – Michael Bobelian, Baruch College, City University of New York

“Armenian-American Advocacy from Earthquake Relief to Genocide Recognition”

2017

Douglas B. Harris, Ph.D., Loyola University Maryland

“Selecting the Senate Leader:  Bob Dole’s 1984 Race for Senate Floor Leader and its Consequences for Senate Leadership”

Curatorial Fellow –​ Heath Hardage Lee, independent historian and biographer

“The League of Wives: Vietnam's POW/MIA Allies & Advocates”

2016

Caitlin Rathe, University of California, Santa Barbara

“Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public/Private Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988”

Curatorial Research Fellow – John Robert Greene, Ph.D., Cazenovia College

“The Doles and the '76 Presidential Election”

2015

GE Curatorial Research Fellow – Ray Mizumura-Pence, Ph.D., University of Kansas

“Bodies, Hearts, and Minds: A Social and Cultural History of Veterans with Disabilities from Vietnam to the Wars on Terror”

GE Archival Research Fellow – Christian Généreux, Université du Québec à Montréal

“Climbing Capitol Hill: The Interaction between the Community of People with Disabilities and the United States Congress”

Rebecca Stoil, Johns Hopkins University

“Tied to Their Country: Agrarian Mobilization, Conservative Politics and the Farm Crisis, 1977-1987"

2014

Amanda Demmer, University of New Hampshire

"'The Last Chapter of the Vietnam War': Normalization, Non-governmental Actors and the Politics of Human Rights"

2013

Patrick Sandman, Trinity College

"Bringing Congress Back In: Watergate and the Politics of Institutional Change"

2012

Prakash Kumar, Ph.D., Colorado State University

“GM Crops and Globalization: US Regulatory and International Trade Policy, 1980-2010”

Samuel Zebulon Baker, Ph.D., Georgia Southern University

“Forward Progress: Desegregating College Football, 1945-1975”

2011

Gary Aguiar, Ph.D., South Dakota State University

“Congressional Responses to Constituent Casework Regarding Federal Bureaucracies”

Ben Merriman, University of Chicago

“Agricultural Subsidy and Rural Development in Kansas in the Post-war Period”

2010

Jennifer Donnally, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

“The Politics of Abortion and the Rise of the New Right, 1967-1992”

2023

Raina Hackett, George Washington University

“Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm and the Expansion of Food Assistance – An Intersectional Analysis of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)"

2020

Brent Campney, Ph.D., University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

“The Black Freedom Struggle in Kansas, 1967-1971"

2019

Olatunde Taiwo, Olabisi Onanbanjo University

“Dole in the Congressional War against Global Child-Hunger, 1961- 2018”

Robert Zebulun Larson, The Ohio State University

“The Transnational Dimension of the U.S. Anti-Apartheid Movement”

John Dearborn, Yale University

“The Representative Presidency: Development and Durability”

Lindsay Drane, University of Houston

“'Too Poor to Eat': A Socio-Political History of Food Stamps in the United States, 1964-1996”

Matthew J. Lacombe, Northwestern University

“Beyond Money: The National Rifle Association and Interest Group Power"

2018

Dean J. Kotlowski, Ph.D., Salisbury University

“Indigenous Self-Determination Across the Pacific: The United States Congress and Australian Parliament Compared, 1960-1993”

William D. Adler, Ph.D., Northeastern Illinois University

“Party Differences in Vice Presidential Selection”

Julien Zarifian, Ph.D., University of Cergy-Pontoise

“Senator Robert J. Dole and Armenians: A Forty-Year Proximity and Engagement

2016

Richard Johnson, University of Oxford

“The Role of the ‘Dole Compromise’ in Explaining the Extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1982”

Emilie Raymond, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University

“Bring Paul Home: A Wife, a POW, and the Vietnam War”

2015

Heath Hardage Lee, independent historian and biographer

“Vietnam War Wives”

2014

Sasha Issenberg, journalist and fellow, Center for Civil Society in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA

“The Engagement: A Quarter-Century of Defending, Defining and Expanding Marriage in America”

Ryan Whalen, Northwestern University

"The History of the Bayh-Dole Act’s March-In Rights and the Future of Their Use”

2013

OJO Patrick Oluwole, Obafemi Awolowo University

"Comparative Study of United States' Support for Democracy in Nigeria and South Africa"

James Cooper, Ph.D., Oxford Brookes University and Westminster College

“The Politics of Washington, D.C.: Ronald Reagan and ‘Tip’ O’Neill, 1981-1987”

Neal Allen, Ph.D., Wichita State University

“Successfully Navigating the Politics of Race in the 1950s and 1960s: Future Congressional Leaders and Civil and Voting Rights Legislation”

2012

Lucas Richert, Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan

“A Prescription for Scandal: Conservatism, Consumer Choice and the FDA during the Reagan Era”

“The Politics of Drug Abuse during the Ford Administration”

Josh Ryan, Ph.D., Bradley University

Post-Passage Bargaining and Resolution in Congress

Michael Ensley, Ph.D., Kent State University

“Agent-Based Modeling and the Role of Party Leaders in Congress”

2011

Alix Meyer, Lumière University Lyon 2

Republican Leadership

DeeAnn Grove, University of Iowa

Education as an issue in Presidential campaigns

Christopher Baylor, University of California, Los Angeles

Contribution of party leaders to changes in the Republican party 1970-2000

David Hamilton Golland, Ph.D. Governors State University

Biography of Kansan Arthur Fletcher

Nicholas O. Howard, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

“Institutional Settings and Obstruction: Holds in the Senate under the Leadership of Robert Dole”

2010

Sarah Snyder, Ph,D., Yale University

“The Helsinki Network: Transnational Human Rights Activism in the late Cold War”

Adam Connell , University of Oklahoma

“Senate Leadership during the Panama Canal Debates”

Timothy Stanley, Ph.D., Royal Holloway, University of London

Research towards a political biography of Pat Buchanan

Gary Aguiar, Ph.D., South Dakota State University

“Who Writes to Congressional Leaders? Constituent-Initiated Contacts via Letters and Email”

Hannah Gobel, Ph.D., Texas Christian University

“Changing the Narrative: Political Elites’ Strategic Decisions and Politicization of Issues”