The Graduate Thesis/Dissertation Award nomination is open to any full-time graduate student (current or previous graduate student, member or non-member) who has completed outstanding research in the form of a thesis or dissertation. To be considered, the research should have been published or, if unpublished, the data should have been collected during the last calendar year. Nominations may be by self-nomination, by another International Listening Association (ILA) member, or with the recommendation of the ILA Research Committee. The award recipient, if a non-member, will receive a one-year complimentary ILA membership.

Winners include:

Katherine Mitchell (2025)

Annie Rappeport (2023)

Catherine Lampton (2021)

Leslie Anglesey (2020)

Yukari Kunisue (2012)

Judith Burnside Lawry (2011)

Kristin Froemming (2010)

Graham Bodie (2009)

Nanette Johnson-Curiskis (2004)

Patricia Book

Jennifer Glue

Todd Thomas

Joe Deluccia

Joanne Hopper

Shelly Stein

Victor Zhao

Richard Flug

Laura Janusik

Susan Timm

Donna Susan Zimmerman (1989)

Richard A. Austin (1990)