The two Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace” are awarded to
1. Tyler Jost for his dissertation, “Decision by Design: National Security Institutions and Interstate Crisis”
2. Mayya Komisarchik for her dissertation, “Essays on Race and Representation in American Politics”