2009 Samuel H. Beer Prize for the Best Dissertation on British Politics

The Samuel H. Beer Dissertation Prize was developed by the British Politics Group to encourage the study of British politics by graduate students and to reward exceptional work in that area of study. The principle criterion for awarding the Prize is the dissertation's contribution to the understanding of British politics, regardless of whether the study is exclusively British or comparative research.

We invite nominations for the 2009 award of $300 for the best doctoral dissertation on British politics completed during the calendar years 2006, 2007, or 2008.  All nominees must have received their Ph. D. from a department in the U.S. or Canada. Either a supervising professor or a department's director of graduate studies may nominate a dissertation. Either the supervising professor or the dissertation author must be a member of the BPG (can join upon submission). No one person may nominate more than one dissertation.

An electronic copy (preferred) or three (3) loose copies of the nominated dissertation, along with a brief letter of nomination, should be submitted to the contact information below no later than March 1, 2009.