Award Amount
$1,000
Number of Awards
3
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The Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award is given in recognition of the development of professional excellence by persons writing doctoral dissertations in any field consistent with the AAEA vision statement. A maximum of three awards are given each year, and a $1000 cash prize accompanies each award.
$1,000
3
60+ min
Annually
The nominator must be a 2026 AAEA member
One nomination may be submitted for every 12 doctoral dissertations of a department that were presented to a graduate school faculty in the calendar year preceding the year of recognition
Selection will be made from documentation approved in final form by the student's advisory committee
Departments should limit nomination consideration to dissertations in fields consistent with the vision statement
A published dissertation may be entered for the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award as well as other AAEA Annual Awards but is only eligible to win one award that year
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