2025 Award Recipient
Steven Zhou – Assistant Professor, Psychological Sciences (Quantitative & Organizational) – Claremont McKenna College
Steven Zhou completed his Ph.D. at George Mason University. He studies questions that sit at the intersection of leadership, personality, and vocational psychology with a particular focus on methods. His dissertation focused on the dark side of shared leadership. His work has been published in outlets including the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology and Organizational Research Methods.
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The Center for Leadership at Florida International University is pleased to sponsor the FIU Alvah H. Chapman Jr. Dissertation Award in partnership with the Network of Leadership Scholars.
This award honors an individual whose dissertation makes an outstanding contribution to the understanding of leadership or leadership phenomena.
The recipient of the award will receive a $3000 cash prize and be honored at the Network of Leadership Scholars meeting at the Academy of Management Annual Conference.
Please note that only abridged versions of the dissertation are accepted.
For further information and full application details, please visit the award page or contact the FIU Center for Leadership at lead@fiu.edu or (305) 348-5323.
Previous Award Winners
| 2012 | Stephen Courtright |
| 2013 | Amy Ou |
| 2014 | Emily Grijalva |
| 2015 | Joo Hun Han |
| 2016 | Wongun Goo |
| 2017 | Dorothy Carter |
| 2018 | Jasmine Vergauwe |
| 2019 | Jackson Lu |
| 2020 | Anyi Ma |
| 2021 | Hemant Kakkar |
| 2021 | Cynthia Maupin |
| 2022 | Michelle K. Lee |
| 2023 | Catherine Lee |
| 2024 | Morritz Appels |
| 2024 | McKenzie Preston |