Lukas Althoff is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Stanford University and will join the Yale School of Management as an Assistant Professor of Economics in 2024. He completed his PhD at Princeton University in 2023. His research draws on tools from applied microeconomics and economic history to analyze the causes and consequences of economic inequality. 2023 Winner: …
Diego Ayala is a PhD candidate in sociology and political economy at UC Berkeley. His research interests span comparative-historical sociology, the political economy of development, and political sociology and social movements. He is the author of Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle: State, Labor and Capital, 1931–1973 (Routledge, 2024) and various articles on inequality and development in …
Evan Behrle is a PhD candidate in philosophy at New York University. His work focuses on egalitarianism, economic desert, and exploitation. Before NYU, he was special adviser for opioid policy / acting director of opioid overdose prevention at the Baltimore City Health Department. 2024 Winner: Desert and Economic Interdependence
Hugo Reichardt is a PhD candidate in economics at the London School of Economics. His research centres on macroeconomics and inequality with a particular focus on the drivers of inequality. Examples of his work in this area study the role of technology discrimination and (the lack of) intergenerational mobility in shaping inequality. 2023 Winner: Jim Crow …
Eric Shoemaker is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto. His primary research interests are in democratic theory and the philosophy of law. Eric completed his JD at the University of Toronto in 2020. 2022 Submission: A Justification for Political Random Selection Based on Democratic Equality
Di Zhou is a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University. Her research focuses on Marxist class theory, class-based inequality, and computational methods. Her dissertation proposes a task-based class identification model that measures class based on production relations. Personal website: https://di-zhou.github.io/ 2025 Winner: Redesigning the Measure of Class: The American Class Structure Revisited