Best Dissertation Winners
2024
winner:
Paula Anne Sanderson, University of Bath
Transnational Education: Risking ‘Recolonisation’. (view here)
2023
winner:
John P. Haupt, University of Arizona
Global Hierarchies in Science: An Examination of USAid’s Partnerships for Enhanced Engagement in Research Program. (view here)
2022
Winner:
Santiago Castiello-Gutiérrez
Conscientious Academic Capitalism: Mexican Counternarratives to Anglo-American University Internationalization Practices. (view here)
Honorable Mention:
Nian Ruan
Conceptualization and Development of Intellectual Leadership: Perspectives of Women Scholars in Hong Kong (view here)
2021
Co-Winner:
Bernardo Sfredo Miorando, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Universities Going Global? Comparative Perspectives on the Internationalization of Postgraduate Education in Brazil and Finland
Co-Winner:
Joy Renee Hannibal, Michigan State University
Finding, Creating, and Following Footprints: The Integration of Indigenous Knowledge in Palau
Honorable Mention:
Yovanna Soobrayen Veerasamy, University of Toledo
U.S. National Higher Education Internationalization Policy: An Historical Analysis of Policy Development between 2000 and 2019
2020
Winner:
Aliandra Raquel Lazzari Bartlete, University of Cambridge
A Cultural Political Economy Account of Higher Education in Mercosur
Honorable Mention:
Abdul Kayum Ahmed, Columbia University
The Rise of Fallism: #RhodesMustFall and the Movement to Decolonize the University
Lauren Collins, University of Denver
Letting the Village be the Teacher: A Critical Ethnographic Case Study of Community-Based Learning in Northern Thailand
Winner:
Meseret Hailu, University of Denver
Understanding Why Women Stay: Examining Persistence Factors of Women Majoring in Science and Technology Programs in Public Ethiopian Universities Using a Mixed Methods Design
Honorable Mention:
Sharon Stein, University of British Columbia
Contested imaginaries of global justice in the internalization of higher education
2019
2018
Winners:
Yeukai Angela Mlambo, Michigan State University
Why Not Academia? - The Streamlined Career Choice Process of Black African Women Engineers: A Grounded Theory Study
Jonathan Z. Friedman, New York University
Global Distinction: Social Status, Organizational Change and the Internationalization of American and British Universities
honorable mention:
Lisette Montoto, University of Georgia
The Public Good, the Market, and Academic Capitalism: U.S. Cross-Border Higher Education in Panama
2017
WINNERS:
Michelle Ellen Szabo Suderman, University of British Columbia
Engagement for All? A Study of International Undergraduates at the University of British Columbia
Otgonjjargal Okhidoi, University of Pittsburgh
Equity in Higher Education: Socioeconomic Status and its Effect on Access to Higher Education in Post-Socialist Mongolia
HONORABLE MENTION:
Lucia Brajkovic, University of Georgia
Higher Education in Post-Transition Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Rent-Seeking States and Academic Marginalism.
2016
WINNER:
Cynthia Toms, Azusa Pacific University
Global Development Through International Volunteerism and Service Learning: Who’s Saving Whom?
2015
WINNERS:
1st Place Recipient: Jack Lee, University of Toronto
Education Hubs in the Making: Policy Rationales and International Relations
2nd Place Recipient: Rebecca Schendel, University College London
A Critical Missing Element: Critical Thinking at Rwanda’s Public Universities and the Implications for Higher Education Reform
HONORABLE MENTION:
Stephanie K. Kim, University of California, Los Angeles
An International College in South Korea as a Third Space between Korean and US Models of Higher Education
2014
winner:
Lukas Graf, Freie Universität Berlin and Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
The Hybridization of Vocational Training and Higher Education in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
honorable mentions:
Gerardo Blanco Ramírez, University of Massachusettes at Amherst
Quality by Association Across North-South Divides: United States Accreditation of Mexican Institutions of Higher Education
Eun Kyung Lee, University of Pittsburgh
Higher Education Expansion and Economic Growth in Japan and South Korea
Julian Weinrib, University of Toronto
South-South-North Research Partnerships: A Transformative Development Modality?
2013
winner:
Maia Chankseliani, Oxford University
Mixed-Method Study of Higher Education Access in Georgia: Does Location Matter?
honorable mentions:
Yuhao Cen, Indiana University
Growth as Product and as Process: Student Learning Outcomes Attained through College Experiences in China
Mark Meehan, University of South Carolina
Islam, Modernity, and the Liminal Space Between: A Vertical Case Study of The Institute for Traditional Islamic Art and Architecture, Amman, Jordan
2012
Winners:
Enkhjargal Adiya, University of Pittsburgh
Gender Equity in Access to Higher Education in Mongolia
Jian Liu, University of Toronto
Expansion and Equality of Opportunity in Access to Chinese Higher Education: A Cultural Perspective
2011
winners:
Cynthia K. Epperson, University of Missouri - St. Louis
An Analysis of the Community College Concept in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam
Jae-Eun Jon, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
The New Landscape of Korean Higher Education: Institutional and Personal Factors Influencing Intercultural Competence
Ran Zhang, Indiana University
Confrontation or Cooperation: Spaces of Action for Student Grievance in Chinese Universities
2010
winners:
Christopher Collins, University of California, Los Angeles
Higher Education and Knowledge for Nation-State Development: The Role of the World Bank and U.S. Universities in Poverty Reduction in the Developing World
Sheila Hsu-Ling Huang, University of Washington
Professional Socialization of International Doctoral Students in Differing Disciplinary Contexts in the U.S.: A Mixed-Methods Study
Anne Katling Wong, University of Toronto
Anesthesia in Thailand and Canada: A Comparative Case Study of Two Residency Training Programs