Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Recipients

First Book Award
The First Book Award is given for a first book by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory or political philosophy.

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2017	Joseph J. Fischel Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
2016	Neil Roberts, Williams College Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press
2016	Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. Cambridge University Press
2015	Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2014.
2014	Christopher Lebron, Yale University The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time (Oxford University Press)
2013	Jeffrey Church Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
2012	Stephen Marshall, University of Texas, Austin The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics (Temple University Press, 2011)
2010	Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania The Eyes of the People: Democracy in a Age of Spectatorship
2009	Samantha Frost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lessons from a Materialist Thinker (Stanford University Press)
2007	Bryan Garsten, Yale Univesrity Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment, Harvard University Press, 2006
2006	Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M University Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (Yale University Press, 2005)
2006	Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University A Turn to Empire: Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2005	Corey Robin, CUNY Brooklyn Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004).
2004	Alan Keenan, Bryn Mawr College Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003)
2004	Patchen Markell, University of Chicago Bound by Recognition (Princeton University Press, 2003)
2003	Laura Janara, University of British Columbia Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (SUNY Press)
2002	Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights
2002	Honorable Mention Dan Engster, University of Texas, San Antonio Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2001	Sara Monoson, Northwestern University Plato's Democratic Entanglements
2000	Alan Patten, McGill University Hegel's Idea of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1999)
1999	C. Thompson, Ashland University John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (University of Kansas Press, 1998)
1999	Melissa Williams, University of Toronto Voice, Trust, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1998)