Prizes and awards


Dr. Marco Valbruzzi wins Linz/Rokkan Thesis Prize

Congratulations to EUI alumnus in Social and Political Sciences Dr. Marco Valbruzzi, who has been awarded the Linz/Rokkan Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of political sociology for his EUI doctoral dissertation, Government alternation in Western Europe : a comparative exploration.  Dr. Valbruzzi  will accept his Ph.D. degree with other EUI graduates […]

Dr. Afroditi-Ioanna Marketou wins Mauro Cappelletti Thesis Prize

Congratulations to EUI alumna in Law Dr. Afroditi-Ioanna Marketou, who has been awarded the Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of comparative Law for her EUI doctoral dissertation,  Local meanings of proportionality : judicial review in France, England and Greece.   Dr. Marketou, along with other EUI graduates, will receive […]

Dr. Francesca Iurlaro wins Antonio Cassese Thesis Prize

Congratulations to EUI alumna in Law Dr. Francesca Iurlaro, who has been awarded the Antonio Cassese Prize for the best doctoral thesis in the field of international Law for her EUI doctoral dissertation, Unpuzzling Customary International Law: The Invention of Customary Law of Nations from Francisco de Vitoria to Emer de Vattal. Dr. Iurlaro is […]

Richard Rose appointed to Royal Society of Edinburgh

Professor Richard Rose, Visiting Fellow at the Schuman Centre and recipient of a doctorate honoris causa from the EUI in 2010, has been appointed Fellow to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He joins a cohort of 62 new Fellows, who will be inducted in May 2019. The Fellows, amongst other duties, provide impartial policy advice […]

EUI alumnus Tomasz Pawel Wozniakowski awarded prize for Ph. D. thesis

  Congratulations are in order for EUI alumnus Tomasz Pawel Wozniakowski (Ph.D. 2018), who was awarded the Supranational Political Economy Prize 2017 for his Ph. D. thesis. Dr. Wozniakowski’s thesis, titled ‘Towards Fiscalization of the European Union? The European and American Fiscal Unions in a Comparative Historical Perspective’, was unanimously chosen by the judging panel as the […]

Vincent Réveillère wins two thesis prizes

Congratulations to 2017 Law alumnus Vincent Réveillère, who has been awarded two thesis prizes in France. Vincent was recently named the recipient of the 2018  Prix Pierre-Henri Teitgen, awarded each year to a doctoral thesis in Law, written in French, that contributes to knowledge about European integration. In addition, he also received the 2018 Best Thesis […]

The Linz-Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology

Juan Masullo Jimenez has won the Linz Rokkan Prize in Political Sociology for his thesis on ‘A theory of civilian noncooperation with armed groups: Civilian agency and self-protection in the Colombian civil war’. The Department of Political and Social Sciences has conferred the prize, named in honour of political sociologists Stein Rokkan and Juan Linz, […]

The Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law 2018

Zane Rasnača has won The Mauro Cappelletti Prize for the Best Thesis in Comparative Law, for her thesis, entitled ‘First or one among equals?: The CJEU and the construction of EU social policy’. The Law Department has awarded the prize every year since 2005 when an alumnus established the award to honour former EUI Professor […]

The Vilfredo Pareto Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics 2018

The Vilfredo Pareto Prize for the Best Thesis in Economics for 2018 will be awarded to Andresa Lagerborg for her thesis on ‘Essays in Macroeconomics: Confidence, Business Cycles and Fertility’. The award pays tribute to Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian sociologist, economist, political scientist and philosopher who lived and worked in Florence and Fiesole between 1882 […]

The James Kaye Memorial Prize for the Best Thesis in History and Visuality 2018

In 2018, the James Kaye Memorial Prize in History and Visuality will be awarded to Cloe Cavero de Carondelet for her thesis on ‘Art, piety and conflict in early modern Spain: the religious and artistic patronage of Cardinal Bernardo de Sandoval between Toledo and Rome (1599-1618)’. The prize is awarded every two years, to the […]