Past Winners of the Fredric M. Jablin Doctoral Dissertation Award
2018 Nicole Capriel Ferry, City University of Seattle There's a Leader in You! A Critical Mapping of Leadership Discourse in the American University |
2017 Uzay Dural, Medipol University Exposure-Induced Malleability of Implicit Prejudice toward Female Leadership: A Quasi-Experiment Following Municipality Elections |
 2016 G. James Lemoine, University at Buffalo; Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership Closing the Leadership Circle: Building and Testing a Contingent Theory of Servant Leadership |
 2015 Danielle L. Lupton, Colgate University Leaders, Perceptions, and Reputations for Resolve |
2014 Suze Wilson, Massey University Thinking Differently About Leadership: A Critical History of the Form and Formation of Leadership Studies |
2013 Ethan Bernstein, Harvard Business School Does Privacy Make Groups Productive? |
2012 Jack Barentsen, Institute for Leadership & Ethics, The Evangelical Theological Faculty, Leuven, Belgium Emerging Leadership in the Pauline Mission: A Social Identity Perspective on Local Leadership Development in Corinth and Ephesus |
2011 Mark A. Menaldo, Michigan State University Putting Statesmanship Back Into Statecraft: The Role of Transformative Ambition in International Relations |
2010 YoungHee (Sylvia) Hur, University of Twente Optimizing Managerial Effectiveness Through Emotional Intelligence |
| 2009 | Kathie Pelletier, Claremont Graduate University The Effects of Favored Status and Identification with Victim on Perceptions of and Reactions to Leader Toxicity |
| 2008 | Rita Palrecha, State University of New York at Binghamton The Transformational Leader Model, the Nurturant-Task Leader Model, and the Unique Local Leadership Model: A Quantitative and Qualitative Competitive Test of Three Leadership Models in India |
| 2008 Runner Up | Manuel (Manny) Teodoro, University of Michigan Bureaucratic Ambition: Professional Careers, Personal Motives and Policy Innovation |
| 2007 | Steve Olson, Emory University The Ethics of Leadership: Construction of an Analytical Framework, with Application to Ken Blanchard's Theories of Situational and Servant Leadership |
| 2007 Honorable Mention | Richard D. Berry, George Washington University Discovering the Missing Link of Emotion in Leadership: A Case Study of Affect Valence and Emerging Leadership |
| 2007 Honorable Mention | Frederic J.A. Damen, Erasmus University Rotterdam Taking the Lead: The Role of Affect in Leadership Effectiveness |
| 2006 | D. Michael Lindsay, Princeton University Faith in the Corridors of Power |
| 2005 | Ross J. Corbett, Brown University Locke and the Problem of Crisis Leadership |
| 2005 Honorable Mention | Marie Dasborough, University of Queensland Follower Emotional Responses to Attributions of Leadership |
| 2005 Honorable Mention | Suzanne Stigler Martin, Regent University Toward a Theory of Invisible Leadership |
| 2004 | Benjamin Kleinerman, Michigan State University The Place of Executive Power in the American Constitutional Republic |
| 2004 | Christelle LaPolice, George Washington University Leader Behaviors, Employee Attitudes, and Organizational Characteristics as Moderators |
| 2004 | Felicia Mainella, University of Maryland The Role of Moral Reasoning in Transformation Leadership: The Relationship Between College Student Leaders' Self-Perceived Leadership Behaviors and Level of Moral Reasoning |
| 2003 | Joseph Crespino, Stanford University Strategic Accommodation: Civil Rights Opponents in Mississippi and Their Impact on America Racial Politics, 1953-1972 |
| 2003 | Toby Vitek, Wayne State University Leadership Behavior and Managerial Success: A Test of Three Theories |
| 2002 | Albert H. Fein, Gonzaga University There and Back Again: A Phenomenological Inquiry of School Shootings as Experienced by School Leaders |
| 2002 | Rebecca Todd Peters, Union Theological Seminary In Search of the Good Life: A Feminist Critical Theo-ethical Reading of the Globalization Debates |
| 2002 | Andrea Grove, University of Vermont Leadership and Nationalist Mobilization: Investigating the Linkage Between Strategies and Context |
| 2002 | Rita Tekippe, University of Central Arkansas Procession, Piety, and Politics: Three Medieval Rheno-Mosan Reliquary Shrines and the Cult Communities for Bishop-Saints Servatius of Maastricht, Eleutherius of Tournai, and Remaclus of Stavelot |
| 2002 | Matthew Trachman, City University of New York Rethinking Leadership: Presidential Leadership and the 'Spirit of the Game' of Democracy |
| 2001 | Olga Epitropaki, Cardiff University From ideal leaders to actual managers: A longitudinal investigation of implicit leadership theories, leader-member exchanges, transformational leadership and employee outcomes |
| 2001 | Andrew Lewis, University of Virginia Wandering in Two Worlds: Race, Citizenship, and Education in Virginia Since 1945 |
| 2001 | Brian Palmer, Harvard University Wolves at the Door: Existential Solidarity in a Globalizing Sweden |
