Leo Strauss Award Recipients
| Year | Author | Dissertation | Submitted by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Adam Lebovitz | Colossus: Constitutional Theory in America and France, 1776-1799 | Harvard University |
| 2018 | Tae-Yeoun Keum | Plato and the Mythic Tradition of Political Thought | Harvard University |
| 2017 | Kevin Duong | Democratic Terror: Redemptive Violence and the Formation of Nineteenth Century France | Cornell University |
| 2016 | Matthew Longo | Sovereignty in the Age of Securitization: A Study on Borders and Bordering in the United States after 9/11 | Yale University |
| 2015 | Teresa Bejan | Mere Civility: Toleration and its Limits in Early Modern England and America | Yale University |
| 2014 | Adam Sandel | The Place of Prejudice | University of Oxford |
| 2013 | Alin Fumurescu | Compromise and Representation: A Split History of Early Modernity | Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 2012 | Alison McQueen | Political Realism in Apocalyptic Times | Cornell University |
| 2011 | Daniel Lee | Popular Sovereignty, Roman Law and the Civilian Foundations of the Constitutional State in Early Modern Political Thought | Princeton University |
| 2010 | Joseph Mazor | A Liberal Theory of Natural Resource Property Rights | Harvard University |
| 2009 | Robert Alan Sparling | Johann Georg Hamann and the Enlightenment Project | University of Toronto |
| 2008 | Leigh Jenco | Individuals, Institutions, and Political Change: The Political Theory of Zhang Shizhao | University of Chicago |
| 2007 | Lars Tønder | Experiences of tolerance: Immanence, Transcendence, Hilaritas | The Johns Hopkins University |
| 2006 | Xavier Marquez | The Stranger's Knowledge: Political Knowledge in Plato’s Statesman | University of Notre Dame |
| 2005 | Douglas Casson | Liberating Judgment: John Locke and the Politics of Probability | Duke University |
| 2004 | Christina Tarnopolsky | Plato and the Politics of Shame | Harvard University |
| 2003 | Arash Abizadeh | Rhetoric, the Passions, and Difference in Discursive Democracy | Harvard University |
| 2002 | Andreas Kalyvas | The Politics of the Extraordinary: Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, and Hannah Arendt | Columbia University |
| 2001 | Christopher Nathan Dugan | Reason's Wake: Political Education in Plato's Laws | University of California, San Diego |