The organized sections unite APSA members who share common interests, providing networks to organize meetings and coordinate communications under association auspices. Also, sections offer outlets for research and opportunities for scholarship. They have become a vital part of the association by sponsoring panels at the Annual Meeting, producing informative newsletters, and recognizing the scholarly achievements of their members. Listed in the following pages is the update for the Organized Sections 2018–19. For recent changes or corrections to this update and for contact information, visit www.apsanet.org.
SECTION 1: FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS
Formed: 1983 / Dues: $0 for students and $25 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to plan, develop, and implement professional activities for association members with interests in federalism, intergovernmental relations, and state and local government.
Website: http://www.apsanet.org/section1
Chair: Andrew Karch, University of Minnesota
Secretary: Michael Hail, Morehead State University
Treasurer: Michael Hail, Morehead State University
Editor: Publius: The Journal of Federalism: John Dinan, Wake Forest University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Executive Council: Paul Manna, College of William and Mary; Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado; David Robertson, University of Missouri at St. Louis; Mona Vakilifathi, New York University; Paul Nolette, Marquette University; Srinivas Paronandi, University of Colorado; Carol Weissert, Florida State University; Maria Escobar-Lemmon; Texas A&M University; Philip Rocco, Marquette University
Martha Derthick Best Book Award
Conferred for the best book on federalism and intergovernmental relations published at least 10 years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Carol Weissert, Chair, Florida State University; Paul Manna, College of William and Mary; Adam Myers, Providence College
Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award
Conferred for the best paper in the field of federalism and intergovernmental relations presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: December 1, 2018
Award Committee: Srinivas Parinandi, Chair, University of Colorado; Claudia Avellaneda, Indiana University; Philip Rocco, Marquette University
LIST OF ORGANIZED SECTIONS (WITH NUMBER)
African Politics Conference Group (44)
American Political Thought (47)
Canadian Politics (40)
Class and Inequality (45)
Comparative Democratization (35)
Comparative Politics (20)
Conflict Processes (7)
Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (32)
European Politics and Society (21)
Experimental Research (42)
Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations (1)
Foreign Policy (31)
Foundations of Political Theory (17)
Health Politics and Policy (39)
Human Rights (36)
Ideas, Knowledge and Politics (46)
Information Technology and Politics (18)
International Collaboration (48)
International History and Politics (34)
International Security (19)
Law and Courts (2)
Legislative Studies (3)
Middle East and North Africa Politics (49)
Migration and Citizenship (43)
New Political Science (27)
Political Communication (23)
Political Economy (25)
Political Methodology (10)
Political Networks (41)
Political Organizations and Parties (5)
Political Psychology (28)
Political Science Education (29)
Politics and History (24)
Politics, Literature, and Film (30)
Presidents and Executive Politics (9)
Public Administration (6)
Public Policy (4)
Qualitative and Multi-Method Research (37)
Race, Ethnicity and Politics (33)
Religion and Politics (11)
Representation and Electoral Systems (8)
Science, Technology & Environmental Politics (15)
Sexuality and Politics (38)
State Politics and Policy (22)
Urban and Local Politics (13)
Women and Politics Research (16)
Daniel Elazar Distinguished Scholar Award
Recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Paul Nolette, Marquette University; Laura Evans, University of Washington; Henry Hale, George Washington University
John Kincaid Award
Conferred on the author(s) of the best article published in Publius: The Journal of Federalism in the previous year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Mona Vakilifathi, Chair, New York University; David Siroky, Arizona State University; Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado
SECTION 2: LAW AND COURTS
Formed: 1983 / Dues: $25 for student members and $30 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research in the areas of law and the judicial process.
Website: http://www.lawcourts.org
Chair: Julie Novkov, University at Albany, SUNY
Chair-Elect: Kirk Randazzo, University of South Carolina
Secretary: Christina Boyd, University of Georgia
Treasurer: Lee Walker, University of North Texas
Editor: Journal of Law and Courts: Kevin McGuire, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Editor: Law and Courts Newsletter: Todd Collins, Western Carolina University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Joe Ura, Texas A&M University; Pamela Corley, Southern Methodist University
Executive Council: Virginia Hettinger, University of Connecticut; Lydia Tiede, University of Houston; Nancy Scherer, Wellesley College; Bethany Blackstone, University of North Texas; Brandon Bartels, George Washington University
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
This award (formerly the CQ Press Award) is given annually for the best paper in the field of law and courts written by a graduate student. To be eligible, the nominated paper must have been written by a full-time graduate student. Single- and coauthored papers are eligible. In the case of coauthored papers, each author must have been a full-time graduate student at the time the paper was written. Submitted papers may have been written for any purpose (including papers written for seminar, scholarly meetings, and for potential publication in academic journals). This is not, however, a dissertation or thesis prize. Papers may be nominated by faculty members or by the students themselves. The papers must have been written during the 12 months previous to the nomination deadline.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Teaching and Mentoring Award
The Teaching and Mentoring Award recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. Examples of innovations that might be recognized by this award include (but are not limited to) outstanding textbooks, websites, classroom exercises, syllabi, or other devices designed to enhance the transmission of knowledge about law and courts to undergraduate or graduate students. Any member of the section may make a nomination for the Teaching and Mentoring Award by submitting a statement identifying the nominee and outlining the nature of the her or his innovation and the contribution it makes to achieving the purposes of the award (email attachments, in the form of .pdf files, are acceptable). The Teaching and Mentoring Award is supported by a generous contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Law and Courts Service Award
The Law and Courts Service Award recognizes service to the section in the literal sense, as in service on committees and in leadership positions, as well as service within the section, as in service to the profession within the field of law and courts in the form of archiving data, promoting infrastructure, representing the profession in the media, etc.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Conference Paper Award
The Law and Courts Best Conference Paper Award (formerly the American Judicature Society Award) is given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year’s annual meetings of the American, International, or regional political science associations. Single- and coauthored papers, written by political scientists, are eligible. Papers may be nominated by any member of the section.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA, Best Journal Article Award
This award recognizes the best journal article in the field of law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year. Articles published in all refereed journals and in law reviews are eligible, but book reviews, review essays, and chapters published in edited volumes are not eligible. Journal editors and members of the section may nominate articles.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book
The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year. Please note that case books and edited books are not eligible for consideration. Books may be nominated by publishers or by members of the section.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Law and Courts Lasting Contribution Award
Awarded annually to a book or journal article, 10 years old or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts. Only books and articles written by political scientists are eligible; single-authored works produced by winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award are not eligible. Any member of the section may submit a nomination. The nomination should include a statement outlining the nature of the contribution of the nominated work.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award
Given for a lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching, and service to the Law and Courts field. Nominees must be political scientists who are at least 65 years of age or who have been active in the field for at least 25 years. Nominations from previous competitions will be carried forward to the current year’s competition. The committee will retain nominations for three years, but you are invited to re-nominate an individual and renew the materials in the file during each cycle. Nominations may be made by any member of the section and should consist of a statement outlining the contributions of the nominee and, if possible, a copy of the nominee’s curriculum vitae. Nominations should be submitted to the chair of the selection committee.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 3: LEGISLATIVE STUDIES
Formed: 1983 / Dues: $33 for professional members for both hard copy and electronic access to LSQ; $23 for professional members with electronic-only access to LSQ; $3 for student members with electronic-only access to LSQ
The purpose of this section is to provide members with an interest in legislative processes, behavior, and representation opportunities to meet and exchange ideas.
Website: http://www.legislativestudies.org
Chair: Wendy J. Schiller, Brown University
Secretary: James Curry, University of Utah
Treasurer: James Curry, University of Utah
Editor: Legislative Studies Quarterly: Brian Crisp, Washington University in St. Louis
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Eleanor Powell, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Gisela Sin, University of Illinois
Executive Council: Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice University; Sebastian Saiegh, University of California at San Diego; Jonathan Slapin, University of Essex; Michael Rocca, University of New Mexico
Alan Rosenthal Prize
In the spirit of Alan Rosenthal’s work, this prize is dedicated to encouraging young scholars to study questions that are of importance to legislators and legislative staff and to conduct research that has the potential application to strengthening the practice of representative democracy. Topics may be national or subnational in focus and apply to any country. Preference will be given to comparative legislative research among legislatures in the same country or across countries. The prize is funded by the Trust for Representative Democracy of the National Conference of State Legislature and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. The book or article must be published in the previous calendar year and authored by scholars below the rank of associate professor or legislative practitioners at the equivalent career stage. In the case of books or articles by multiple authors, the work is eligible for the award if at least one author is below the rank of associate professor. Nominations for award may be done by anyone, including authors, publishers, departments, or practitioners. Please send a cover letter and a copy of the work to each member of prize committee.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Ruth Bloch Rubin, University of Chicago; Domingo Morel, University of Rutgers – Newark; Charles Shipan, University of Michigan
Carl Albert Dissertation Award
The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in legislative studies. Topics may be national or subnational in focus—on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies. The prize is funded by the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to the cash prize associated with the award, winners are typically invited to guest lecture on the OU campus with travel expenses paid by the Carl Albert Center. Dissertations must have a copyright date of one or two years previous to the year in which the award is presented. Terms for submitting dissertation: (1) one copy sent to each member of the committee; (2) no more than one submission per PhD-granting department; (3) letter form the department indicating the selection; and (4) a letter from the dissertation chair, or other appropriate committee member, describing the significance of the work.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Alison W. Craig, Chair, University of Texas at Austin; Melinda Ritchie, University of California at Riverside; Wendy Schiller, Brown University
CQ Press Award
For the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Olle Folke, Co-Chair, Uppsala University; Johanna Rickne, Co-Chair; Stockholm University; Emily Schilling, University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award
The Jewell-Loewenberg Paper Award for the best article in Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year. All articles published in LSQ in the previous year are under consideration.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Sarah Anzia, Co-Chair, University of California at Berkeley; Terry Moe, Co-Chair; Stanford University; Jennifer Garcia, Oberlin College
Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize
The Richard F. Fenno, Jr. Prize is awarded to the best book in legislative studies published in the previous year. In the tradition of Professor Fenno’s work, this prize is designed to honor work that is both theoretically and empirically strong. Moreover, this prize is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions about the nature of politics. Nominations must have a copyright date of the year prior to that in which the award is given, and a copy of the book must be sent to each member of the committee.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Sarah Binder, Chair, George Washington University; David Parker, University of Montana; Michael Minta, University of Minnesota
Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award
The Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award is designed to honor the work of a scholar or set of scholars who have contributed a lifetime of significant scholarship to the study of legislative politics. In the tradition of Professor Sinclair’s body of work, recipients of this award will have focused on individual legislative behavior, institutional rules, or the role of party in shaping legislative politics. This award is also intended to recognize scholars who employ a range of methods in their research. Nominations can be made by any member of the section.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Tracy Sulkin, Chair, University of Illinois; John Wilkerson, University of Washington; Nate Monroe, University of California at Merced
Emerging Scholar Award
The Emerging Scholar award is designed to recognize a scholar who is no more than six years from the year of their PhD who has informed the study of legislative politics through innovative and rigorous scholarship. The recipient of this award will be an individual who has a strong early career publication trajectory, and has presented their work actively at conferences and other public venues. Letters of nomination for this award should be sent to the committee along with the candidate’s most recent CV.
Nominations Due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Tiffany Barnes, Co-Chair, University of Kentucky; Justin Kirkland, Co-Chair, University of Virginia; Christian Grose, University of Southern California
SECTION 4: PUBLIC POLICY
Formed: 1983 / Dues: $15 for students and professional members
The Organized Section on Public Policy is committed to producing rigorous empirical and theoretical knowledge of the processes and products of governing and the application of that knowledge to critical policy issues.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s4/
Chair: Sarah Anzia, University of California, Berkeley
Chair Elect: Christopher Howard, The College of William & Mary
Secretary: Edward Miller, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Treasurer: Edward Miller, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Editor: Policy Studies Journal: Edella Schlager, University of Arizona
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Christopher Howard, The College of William & Mary
Executive Council: Daniel Gillion, University of Pennsylvania; Lina Newton, CUNY Hunter College; Tim LaPira, James Madison University; Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois, Chicago; Kristin Goss, Duke University; Joe Soss, University of Minnesota; Dara Strolovitch, Princeton University; Rick Valelly, Swarthmore College; Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University; Jamila Michener, Cornell University; Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford; Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University
Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award
The Aaron Wildavsky Enduring Contribution Award is given for the best book or article published in the general area of public policy during the past 20 plus years. The book or article should have had a major impact on the field. This award carries a prize of $500.
Nominations deadline: March 15, 2019
Award Committee: Jeff Milyo, Chair, University of Missouri; Leah Stokes, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jonathan Mummolo, Princeton University
Best Paper on Public Policy Award
The Best Paper on Public Policy Award recognizes the best paper on Public Policy given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. This award carries a $500 prize.
Nominations deadline: March 15, 2019
Award Committee: Chris Witko, Chair, Pennsylvania State University; Tabitha Bonilla, Northwestern University; Clare Brock, Texas Woman’s University
Best Poster on Public Policy
The Best Poster on Public Policy Award is given for the best paper or poster presented at the poster session at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. This award carries a prize of $500.
Nominations deadline: March 15, 2019
Award Committee: Brenda Bushouse, Chair, University of Massachusetts; Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan; Delphia Shanks-Booth, Hendrix College
Best Comparative Policy Paper Award
The Best Comparative Policy Paper Award recognizes a paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting which is of particular distinction in the area of comparative public policy. It is granted in collaboration with and sponsored by the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Following nomination or self-nomination the paper is reviewed by a joint APSA/JCPA adjudication committee. The winning author(s) are awarded the JCPA Best Comparative Paper Award. This award carries a prize of $500. The author is invited to submit the paper for publication consideration in the JCPA.
Nominations due: March 15, 2019
Award Committee: Jane Gingrich, Chair, University of Oxford; Ling Zhu, University of Houston; Tiffany Barnes, University of Kentucky
Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award
The Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award is given to recognize an article of particular distinction published at any time in Policy Studies Journal. This award carries a prize of $500.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Candis Watts Smith, Chair, University of North Carolina; Amy McKay, University of Exeter; Mallory SoRelle, Lafayette University
Excellence in Mentoring Award
The Excellence in Mentoring Award has been established to recognize sustained efforts by a senior scholar to encourage and facilitate the career of emerging political scientists in the field of public policy. This award carries a $500 prize.
Nominations Due: March 15, 2019
Award Committee: Jamila Michener, Chair, Cornell University; Rachel Augustine Potter, University of Virginia; Derek Epp, University of Texas, Austin
SECTION 5: POLITICAL ORGANIZATIONS AND PARTIES
Formed: 1983 / Dues: $5 for students and $15 for all other members
The Organized Section on Political Organizations and Parties works to further scholarship on American political parties, comparative political parties, and interest groups. We do this in a number of different ways. Through our meetings, workshops, newsletter, and website, we provide a means of interaction and communication for like-minded scholars. At our annual workshop at the Annual Meeting we work to train scholars in the use of various methods or databases, or to promote new research in a particular area. Our participation as a section allows us to be a voice for our members’ interests within APSA. We also organize the panels in our subfields for the Annual Meeting. Finally, we recognize excellence in scholarship with our awards for best book, best article, best APSA paper, career achievement, and emerging scholar. We are governed by the volunteer efforts of our officers and board. We are eager to reach out in new directions so let us hear your ideas!
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s5/
Chair: Beth L. Leech, Rutgers University
Secretary: Hans Noel, Georgetown University
Treasurer: Katie Marchetti, Dickinson College
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Tim LaPira, James Madison University and Kristin Wylie, James Madison University
Executive Council: Bruce Larson, Gettysburg College; Ann-Kristin Kolln, Aarhus University; Michael J. Malbin, SUNY, University at Albany; Robin Kolodny, Temple University
Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award
Recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.
Nominations due: TBA
Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award
Recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
Nominations due: TBA
POP Best APSA Paper Award
Recognizes the best paper delivered on a Political Organizations and Parties-sponsored panel at the preceding Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Jack Walker Award
Recognizes an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.
Nominations due: TBA
Emerging Scholars Award
Given to a scholar who has received his or her PhD within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.
Nominations due: TBA
SECTION 6: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Formed: 1983 / Dues: $8 for students & $15 for professional members
The purpose of this section is to provide an arena in which individuals interested in public administration may exchange ideas, enhance their professional development, and act to ensure that activities of the APSA encompass their interests.
Website: https://apsanet.org/section6
Chair: Kelly LeRoux, University of Illinois-Chicago
Chair-Elect: Scott Robinson, University of Oklahoma
Treasurer: Gene Brewer, University of Georgia
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Ling Zhu, University of Houston
Executive Council: Karen Mossberger, Arizona State University; Daniel Hawes, Kent State University; Julie Dolan, Macalester College; Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University; Jessica Terman, George Mason University; Angel Molina, Arizona State University; David Switzer, University of Missouri; Manny Teodoro, Texas A&M University
Herbert Kaufman Award
The Herbert Kaufman Committee will select the best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or cosponsored) by the Public Administration section at the APSA Annual Meeting each year. The section will follow APSA’s guidance on what constitutes a “presented paper”—papers that were uploaded to the APSA Annual Meeting website, or posted/presented in a virtual or alternative form are eligible for the Kaufman award.
Nominations due: March 1,2019
Award Committee: Amanda Girth, Chair, Ohio State University; Claudia Avellaneda, Indiana University; Nathan Favero, American University
Herbert A. Simon Book Award
The Herbert A. Simon Book Award is given for significant contributions to public administration scholarship. Books with publication dates of 2016, 2017, and 2018 are eligible for the 2019 award. The book’s orientation may be qualitative, quantitative, empirical, interpretive, ethnographic, historical, archival, normative, or theoretical. However, textbooks, revised editions of previously published books, and edited volumes are not eligible.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Karen Mossberger, Chair, Arizona State University; Aaron Deslatte, Northern Illinois University; Jiaqi Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago
Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant
The APSA Organized Section for Public Administration invites applications and research proposals from junior scholars researching public administration issues affecting governance in the United States and abroad. Proposals will be judged on their potential to shed new light on important public administration questions, their scholarly and methodological rigor, and their promise for advancing practice and theory development. Individual grants are not renewable.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Bill Resh, Chair, University of Southern California; Cullen Merritt, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis; Alisa Moldavanova, Wayne State University
Public Administration Best Article Award
The Best Article Award recognizes the best article published in Public Administration.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 7: CONFLICT PROCESSES
Formed: 1984 / Dues: $8 for students and $15 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to be a forum for the study of any forms of political conflict both within and between nation-states.
Website: https://apsanet.org/section7
Chair: Kyle Beardsley, Duke University
Treasurer: Katja Kleinberg, Binghamton University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Ursula Daxecker, University of Amsterdam; Yonatan Lupu, George Washington University
Executive Council: Govinda Clayton, ETH Zurich; Molly Melin, Loyola University Chicago; Matthew Fuhrmann, Texas A&M University; Emily Ritter, University of California, Merced
Best Paper Award
This award is given annually for the best paper written by one or more untenured scholars (graduate students, post-docs, or faculty) and presented as part of a conflict processes-sponsored panel or poster session at the previous annual meeting. Papers are eligible only if all authors are untenured at the time the paper is presented. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are encouraged.
Nominations due: October 15, 2018
Award Committee: Emily Ritter, Chair, Vanderbilt University; Matt Fuhrmann, Texas A&M University; Jessica Stanton, University of Minnesota
Best Book Award
Given every two years for the book making the most outstanding contributions to the study of any and all forms of political conflict, either within or between nation-states, published in the two calendar years prior to the year in which the award is given. Edited volumes and textbooks are not eligible for the award. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are encouraged. Nominations should be submitted to the committee chair, and a copy of the book should be sent to each member of the award committee.
Nominations due: March 15, 2018
Award Committee: Scott Straus, Chair, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Sarah Croco, University of Maryland, College Park; Scott Wolford, University of Texas at Austin
J. David Singer Data Innovation Award
The J. David Singer Data Innovation Award is given for the best data contribution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict, either within or between nation-states. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominatons are encouraged. This is a biennial award.
Nominations due: March 15, 2018
Award Committee: Molly Melin, Chair, Loyola University Chicago; Idean Salehyan, University of North Texas; Jun Koga Sudduth, University Strathclyde
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement award is given every other year in recognition of scholarly contributions that have fundamentally improved the study of conflict processes.
Nominations due: March 15, 2018
Award Committee: Govinda Clayton, Chair, ETH Zurich; Elizabeth Menninga, University of Iowa; Cullen Hendrix, Denver University
SECTION 8: REPRESENTATION AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
Formed: 1984 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote teaching and research in the areas of representation and electoral systems, and to encourage communication among persons interested in these fields within the association and with related disciplines.
Website: https://apsanet.org/section8
Chair: Melody E. Valdini, Portland State University
Treasurer: Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: David Lublin, American University
Executive Council: Ko Maeda, University of North Texas; Sarah Shair-Rosenfield; Kristin Wylie, James Madison University; Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced; Zeynep Somer-Topcu, University of Texas at Austin; Todd Donovan, Western Washington University
George H. Hallett Award
The George H. Hallett Award is for the best book, at least ten years old, that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.
Nominations due: April 19, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Lawrence Longley Award
The Lawrence Longley Award is for the best article on representation and electoral systems published in the previous year.
Nominations due: April 19, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Leon Weaver Award
The Leon Weaver Award is for the best paper presented at a conference panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Section.
Nominations due: April 19, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 9: PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS
Formed: 1985 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for all other members
Presidents & Executive Politics (PEP) of APSA is the premier association of scholars devoted to the study of the presidency and executives (formerly known as the Presidency Research Group). To that end, it welcomes diverse theoretical perspectives, analytical techniques, and data sources as they contribute to the advancement of scholarship and teaching. It also invites the contributions and perspectives of other disciplines. PEP values the establishment and enhancement of non-partisan links between scholarship, the real world of presidential and executive politics, and public policy.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s9/
Chair: Diane Heith, St. John’s University
Vice Chair: Daniel Ponder, Drury University
Secretary/Treasurer: Meena Bose, Hofstra University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Adam Warber, Clemson University
Executive Council: William Howell, University of Chicago; Matthew Beckman, University of California, Irvine; Julia Azari, Marquette University; Dan Gillion, University of Pennsylvania; Magna Inacio, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Scott Mainwaring, Harvard University; Rachel Potter, University of Virginia; Jon Rogowski, Harvard University; Lilly Goren, Caroll University; Shareece Thrower, Vanderbilt University; Christina Kinane, University of Michigan
The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award
The Richard E. Neustadt Award will be given for the best book on executive politics published in the previous calendar year. The Neustadt Committee will also consider nominations when submitted for a separate, typically less frequent, Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Reference Work on the Presidency and Executive Politics published in the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: February 1, 2019
Award Committee: Michelle Belco, Chair, University of Houston; Ignacia Arana, Carnegie-Mellon University; Austin Trantham, Jacksonville University; Craig Goodman, University of Houston, Victoria
The Founders Best Paper Award
The Founders Award honoring Lester Seligman will be given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD–holding scholar at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations should be emailed to the committee members.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Brian Newman, Chair, Pepperdine University; Alissandra T. Stoyan, Kansas State University; Charles Lamb, University of Buffalo; Alexander Bolton, Emory University
Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Founders Award honoring Stephen Wayne will be given for the best paper on executive politics presented by a graduate student at either the preceding year’s APSA Annual Meeting or at any of the regional meetings in 2017–2018. Nominations should be emailed to the committee members.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Randy Adkins, Chair, University of Nabraska-Omaha; Shannon Bow O’Brien, University of Texas; Alison Howard, Dominican University of California; John Dearborn, Yale University
The Legacy Award
The Legacy Award will be given to a living author for a book, essay, or article, published at least 10 years prior to the award year that has made a continuing contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and executive politics. Letters of nominations should provide a rationale for the work receiving the award.
Nominations due: February 1, 2019
Award Committee: Lilly Goren, Chair, Carroll University; Michael Genovese, Loyola-Marymount University; Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, University of North Texas
George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award
The George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the previous two calendar years (January 1, 2017–December 31, 2018). The recipient will receive a $250 award.
Nominations due: February 1, 2019
Award Committee: Donna Hoffman, Chair, University of Northern Iowa; Zak Taylor, Georgia Tech; Yu Ouyang, Perdue University Northwest; Andrew Reeves, Washington University in St. Louis
SECTION 10: POLITICAL METHODOLOGY
Formed: 1986 / Dues: $9 for students for online-only access to Political Analysis; $14 for students for print and online access to Political Analysis; $29 for all other members for online-only access to Political Analysis; $34 for all other members for print and online access to Political Analysis
The purpose of this section is to provide members having interests in methodology, including research design, measurement, and statistics, opportunities to meet and exchange ideas.
Website: http://polmeth.org
Chair: Kosuke Imai, Princeton University
Vice Chair: Suzanna Linn, Penn State University
Treasurer: Luke Keele, Georgetown University
Editor: Political Analysis: Jeff Gill, American University
Editor: The Political Methodologist: Justin Esarey, Wake Forest University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Molly Roberts, University of California, San Diego
Executive Council: Rocio Titiunik, University of Michigan
Career Achievement Award
Honors an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the field of political methodology.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Jonathan Katz, Chair, California Institute of Technology; Jeffrey Lewis, University of California, Los Angeles; John Londregan, Princeton University; Jonathan Nagler, New York University
Emerging Scholar Award
Honors a young researcher, within ten years of his or her degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of political methodology.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Luke Keele, Chair, Georgetown University; Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University; Arthur Spirling, New York University; Jake Bowers, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Harold F. Gosnell Prize
Recognizes the best work of political methodology presented at a political science conference in the previous year.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Matthew Blackwell, Chair, Harvard University; Marc Ratkovic, Princeton University; Fredrik Savje, Yale University
John T. Williams Dissertation Prize
Recognizes the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology. Proposals using quantitative or qualitative methods are welcomed. Proposals should follow National Science Foundation format guidelines.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Xun Pang, Chair, Tsinghua University; Dean Knox, Princeton University; Yiqing Xu, University of California, San Diego
Society for Political Methodology Poster Award (Student Methods Poster)
Recognizes the best political methodology poster given at any political science conference in the preceding year.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Justin Esarey, Chair, Wake Forest University; Ines Levin, University of California, Irvine; Chris Lucas, Washington University in St. Louis
Society for Political Methodology Poster Award (Student Applications Poster)
Recognizes the best political methodology poster given at any political science conference in the preceding year.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Alex Tahk, Chair, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Mark Pickup, Simon Fraser University; Michelle Torres, Washington University in St. Louis
Society for Political Methodology Poster Award (Faculty Poster)
Recognizes the best political methodology poster given at any political science conference in the preceding year.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Curt Signorino, Chair, University of Rochester; Dan Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania; Kim Twist, San Diego State University
Statistical Software Award
Recognizes statistical software that has made a significant contribution to the advancement of political analysis.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Adam Glynn, Chair, Emory University; Sarah Bouchat, Northwestern University; Dustin Tingley, Harvard University
Warren Miller Article Award
Given for the best article in Political Analysis.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Jens Hainmueller, Stanford University; Pablo Barbera, London School of Economics; Jennifer Pan, Stanford University; Jeff Gill, American University
Political Analysis Outstanding Reviewer Award
Recognizes individuals who have provided exemplary assistance to Political Analysis during the previous year. Outstanding reviewers are those who provide excellent, timely, and productive feedback for authors who have submitted manuscripts to Political Analysis. Outstanding reviewers are also those who frequently review for the journal, and who provide the editors with productive advice about the submissions they review.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Jeff Gill, American University
Excellence in Mentoring Award
Honors members of the Society for Political Methodology who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students—particularly those from underrepresented groups.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Jacob Montgomery, Chair, Washington University in St. Louis; Chad Hazlett, University of California, Los Angeles; Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan
The Box-Steffensmeier and Garcia ICPSR Summer Program Scholarship
The Janet Box-Steffensmeier Scholarship is a waiver of program scholar fees to attend one or both of the ICPSR Summer Program’s four-week sessions. The scholarship will be awarded to a maximum of three women graduate students in PhD programs.
The John A. Garcia Award is a waiver of program scholar fees to attend one or both of the ICPSR Summer Program’s four-week sessions. The scholarship will be awarded to a maximum of three underrepresented graduate students in PhD programs.
Nominations due: May 3, 2019
Award Committee: Saundra Schneider, Michigan State University; Adrienne Hosek, University of California, Davis; Lee Walker, University of North Texas
SECTION 11: RELIGION AND POLITICS
Formed: 1986 / Dues: $24 for regular members, print & online access to Politics and Religion; $14 for regular members, online-only access to Politics and Religion; $0 for student members
The purpose of this section is to encourage the study of the interrelations between religion and politics, including the politics of religious pluralism; law, religion, and governance; faith, practice, and political behavior; and the politics of secularism, in the United States as well as in comparative, historical, and global perspective.
Website: http://connect.apsanet.org/s11/home/
Chair: TBA
Chair-Elect: TBA
Treasurer: TBA
Editors: Politics and Religion: Elizabeth Oldmixon, University of North Texas
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Christopher Hale, University of Alabama
Executive Council: TBA
Hubert Morken Book Award
The Hubert Morken Award is given for the best publication dealing with religion and politics published during the last two years.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award
The Religion and Politics Section invites nominations for the Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award. The committee will look for and evaluate the following qualities in the submissions: clearly defined, timely/relevant topic; solid and original theoretical grounding; rigorous/innovative methodology; significance/potential impact of the dissertation project.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Ted Jelen Award
This prize is awarded to the best article published in the section’s journal Politics and Religion. The winner of the award is selected by the journal’s editors.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Weber Best Conference Paper Award
The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. The paper should address a timely and relevant topic, within the discipline and beyond, in a theoretically innovative and methodologically thorough manner. Please submit nominations to the chair of the committee.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award will be given annually to a conference paper studying any aspect of religion and politics presented by a PhD student in political science. The conference can be affiliated with any of the US-based political science associations or a conference affiliated with another association, such as the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the American Academy of Religion, the Middle East Studies Association, or the International Studies Association, as long as the paper was written by a student or students enrolled in a graduate program in political science. Papers written with faculty will not be considered. Papers presented at poster sessions are welcome. The award will be announced and presented at the annual APSA Annual Meeting during the business meeting. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if no submissions merit such recognition.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 13: URBAN AND LOCAL POLITICS
Formed: 1986 / Dues: $28 for professional members, print and online journal access; $18 for professional members, online-only journal access; $18 for student members, print and online journal access; $10 for student members, online-only journal access
The purpose of the section is to promote interest in teaching and research in urban and local politics and policy. The section seeks to encourage communication among individuals interested in urban and local politics and policy within the association and within related disciplines.
Website: http://connect.apsanet.org/groups/urban-and-local-politics-section-13/
Chair: Laura Reese, Michigan State University
Chair-Elect: Jill Simone Gross, Hunter College, CUNY
Secretary/Treasurer: Timothy Weaver, University at Albany, SUNY
Editors: Urban Affairs Review: Peter Burns, Loyola University, New Orleans; Jared Carr, University of Illinois, Chicago; Annette Steinacker, Loyola University, Chicago; Antonio Tavares, Universidade de Minho
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced; Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University
Executive Council: Christopher Hawkins, University of Central Florida; Alisha Holland, Princeton University; Adrienne LeBas, American University; Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College; Antonio Tavares, University of Minho; Daniel J. Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania; Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University; Jamila Michener, Cornell University; J. Celeste Lay, Tulane University; Mirya Holman, Tulane University; Domingo Morel, Rutgers University, Newark; Arturo Vega, St. Mary’s University at Albany
Dennis Judd Best Book Award
The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year. Hard copies of nominated books should be sent to each committee member.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation on urban politics accepted in the previous year. The award comes with a $250 prize. Electronic or hard copies of dissertations completed and approved in 2018 should be sent to each committee member.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award
The Byran Jackson Award recognizes the outstanding scholarship by a graduate student studying racial and ethnic politics in an urban setting. The award comes with a $500 prize. Electronic or hard copies of approved dissertation proposals should be sent to each committee member.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Paper Award
Urban Affairs Review is sponsoring a $250 award for the Best Paper in urban, local, or regional politics. The chairs of all Urban and Local Politics Section panels will be asked to nominate papers. Authors from any panel on the annual meeting program can also self-nominate their papers. The best paper will be selected by a panel of three scholars: one editor of Urban Affairs Review, one member of the UAR editorial board, and one member of the executive council of the Urban and Local Politics Section. Nominations and papers must be received by September 30 of each year. Papers as written at the time of the APSA Annual Meeting will be judged. The award will be announced on the APSA Urban and Local Politics Section website and the UAR website by December 15. Authors of the winning paper will also be invited to submit to the Urban Affairs Review for fast-track review and publication, noting it was the winner of the Best Paper Award. This will be an annual award. Awards may not be made every year, depending on the number and quality of submissions.
Nominations due: September 30, 2018
Award Committee: TBA
Norton Long Career Achievement Award
The Norton Long Career Achievement Award is presented annually to a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to the study of urban politics over the course of a career through scholarly publication, the mentoring of students, and public service. Nominations and two supporting letters should be submitted electronically to all committee members.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ Award
The Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ award recognizes scholars who completed their PhD within the last three years (or are ABDs) and submitted a paper proposal for the 2019 APSA Annual Meeting to the 2019 program chairs. Please send accepted proposals to the 2019 program chairs and indicate that you are eligible for the Susan Clarke Young Scholars’ Award.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Clarence Stone Scholar Award
The Clarence Stone Scholar Award recognizes up to two young scholars who are making a significant contribution to the study of urban politics. The award is to be given to up to two post-PhD scholars who are in their career (pre-tenure, or recently advanced within the last three years).
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 15: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS
Formed: 1986 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to stimulate fundamental inquiry on science, technology, and environmental issues as political phenomena.
Website: http://stepsection.wordpress.com
Chair: Deserai Crow, University of Colorado Denver
Secretary/ Treasurer: David Shafie, Chapman University
Editor: Review of Policy Research : Graeme Auld, Carleton University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Kristin O’Donovan, Wayne State University
Executive Council: Aseem Prakash, University of Washington-Seattle; Anne Clunan, Naval Postgraduate School; Graeme Auld, Carleton University; Chris Koski, Reed College; Kirsten Rodine Hardy, Northeastern University; Endre Tvinnereim, University of Bergen; Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University
Don K. Price Award
The Don K. Price Award is given for the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the past three years.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Mark Buntaine, Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eric Patashnik, Brown University; Anne Clunan, Naval Postgraduate School
Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize
The Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Leigh Raymond, Chair, Purdue University; Roger Karapin, Hunter College, CUNY; Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University
Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award
The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award is named in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away recently, is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Gregory Thaler, University of Georgia; David Shafie, Chair, Chapman University; Megan Ruxton, University of Northern Iowa
Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award
The Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award is given for the best paper on science, technology, and environmental politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Rob DeLeo, Chair, Bentley University; Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis; Matt Nowin, College of Charleston
The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award
The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award is given to an individual in recognition of their lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics. Nominees must be at least 15 years from completing their PhD degree to be eligible.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Chris Koski, Chair, Reed College; Tom Birkland, North Carolina State University; Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
The Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award
The Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award is given for the best paper published in a relevant journal in the last two years. Relevant journals include political science, public administration, public policy, interdisciplinary environmental science, and science and technology studies journals.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Jonas Meckling, University of California, Berkeley; Kirsten Rodine-Hardy, Chair, Northeastern University; Endre Tvinnereim, University of Bergen
The Emerging Young Scholars Award
The Emerging Young Scholar Award is given in recognition of a researcher, within ten years of their PhD degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of science, technology, and environmental politics.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Rachel Krause, University of Kansas; Tanya Heikkila, University of Colorado Denver; Aseem Prakash, Chair, University of Washington
The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award
The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award will be granted to graduate students from underrepresented groups in the discipline who are accepted to present a paper at the APSA Annual Meeting. They must be members of STEP (which is free for graduate students) and be presenting on a STEP or STEP cosponsored panel. A maximum of 10 awards in the amount of $500 will be granted each year.
Nominations due: April 15, 2019
Award Committee: Dorothy Daley, Chair, University of Kansas; Iza Ding, Pittsburg University; Erica Simmons, University of Wisconsin–Madison
SECTION 16: WOMEN AND POLITICS RESEARCH
Formed: 1986 / Dues: $16 for students and $30 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to foster the study of women and politics within the discipline of political science.
Website: http://connect.apsanet.org/groups/women-and-politics-research-section-16/
Chair: Shauna Shames, Rutgers University at Camden
Vice-Chair: Merike Blofield, University of Miami
Chair-Elect: Eileen Hunt Botting, Notre Dame University
Secretary: Amy Atchison, Valparaiso University
Treasurer: Caroline Beer, University of Vermont
Editor: Politics & Gender: Mary Caputi, California State University, Long Beach
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Nandini Deo, Lehigh University and Eileen McDonagh, Northeastern University
Executive Council: Shan-Jan Sarah Liu, Newcastle University; Nandini Deo, Lehigh University; Nadia Brown, Purdue University; Nancy Hirschman, University of Pennsylvania; Cathy Wineinger, Rutgers University
Best Dissertation Prize
The best dissertation prize for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and accepted in the previous year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Paper Award
The best paper award presented for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting in the field of women and politics.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory
The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, cosponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science, commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 17: FOUNDATIONS OF POLITICAL THEORY
Formed: 1987 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for all other members
The Foundations of Political Theory Section exists to advance the linkage of political theory and philosophy with political science as a discipline. Foundations recognizes and encourages research and teaching that crosses intellectual and disciplinary boundaries. It stands at and seeks to support the intersection where philosophical, psychological, normative, and empirical approaches and problems meet. Foundations, as the name suggests, aims to study the more permanent dimensions of political life ranging from the design of institutions and political practices to the terms and concepts used to interpret the former. At the Foundations website, you will find information about the section, including its officers, its newsletter, and a bookstore where you can browse past and new titles in political theory. One new feature is a listing of job opportunities for political theorists and recent placements. If you are not already a member of the section, we hope that you will join us.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section17
Chair: Robyn Marasco, Hunter College, CUNY
Treasurer: Tamara Metz, Reed College
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Sonali Chakravarti, Wesleyan College; Alexander Hirsch, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
Executive Council: Arash Abizadeh, McGill University; Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Haverford College; Juliet Hooker, Brown University; James Ingram, McMaster University; Shirin Deylami, Western Washington University; Ainsley LeSure, Occidental College
David Easton Award
The David Easton Award is given for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities.
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Kevin Olson, University of California, Irvine; Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia; Patchen Markell, Cornell University
First Book Prize
The First Book Award is given for a first book by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory or political philosophy.
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Margaret Kohn, University of Toronto; Lisa Ellis, University of Otago; Antonio Vazquez-Arroyo, Rutgers University
Best Paper Award
Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on a Foundations panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations are limited to presenters untenured.
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Sharon Stanley, University of Memphis; Andrew Dilts, Loyola Marymount University; Torrey Shanks, University of Toronto
The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory
The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, cosponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science, commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Ainsley LeSure, Occidental College
SECTION 18: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS
Formed: 1988 / Dues: $8 for student members and $8 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to provide a forum for members with an interest in the use of computers, the internet, and multimedia in teaching, research, and policy applications in political science and all related subfields and disciplines.
Website: http://apsaitp.org
Chair: Ben Epstein, DePaul University
Vice-Chair: Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University
Chair-Elect: Cristian Vaccari, Royal Holloway University
Secretary: George Robert Boynton, University of Iowa
Treasurer: Cecilia Manrique, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
Editor: Journal of Information Technology and Politics: Michael Jensen, University of Canberra
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University
Executive Council: Jordan Brown, University of Texas; Filippo Trevisan, American University; David Morar, George Mason University; Lauren Copeland, Baldwin Wallace University; Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University; Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University; Ben Epstein, DePaul University; George Robert Boynton, University of Iowa; Terri Towner, Oakland University; Cecilia G. Manrique, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse
Best Dissertation in Information Technology and Politics
The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation in the area of information technology and politics.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Conference Paper
The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best conference paper in the area of information technology and politics. The contest is limited to articles presented at conferences in the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: April 1, 2o19
Award Committee: Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University
Best Published Article
The Best Published Article Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about information technology and politics. The contest is limited to articles published in the calendar year. The winner will receive a certificate and a check for the cost of one year’s membership in the APSA and the ITP section.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Homero Gil de Zuniga, University of Vienna
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award recognizes the best book in the area of information technology and politics. The contest is limited to books published in the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Joel Penney, Montclair State University
Best Student Paper Award
The Best Student Paper Award is presented to the best student paper in information technology and politics at the previous year’s APSA.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Public Facing Scholarship Award
The Best Public Facing Scholarship Award is for the best public-facing scholarship published in the previous calendar year. This includes blog posts and popular press publications intended for a broad public audience.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Information Technology Award
The Best Information Technology Award is for the best information technology, including hardware, software, scripts, packages, etc. Any nomination should explain why the candidate is appropriate for this category. Timing on this award is more flexible but nominations should indicate general use in the most current year.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 19: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
Formed: 1988 / Dues: $10 for all members
The purpose of this section is to encourage research and scholarship in international security and arms control, providing an opportunity for presentation of papers and discussion of theoretical and empirical work at APSA section meetings.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s19
Chair: TBA
Treasurer: TBA
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Stephen Grenier, The Citadel
Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award
ISAC will consider doctoral dissertations on any aspect of security studies with a submission date in calendar year 2018. The committee welcomes nominations for theses on any aspect, and that deploy any approach (historical, quantitative, theoretical, policy analysis, etc.), in the field of security studies. Theses will be judged according to four criteria: originality in substance and approach, significance for scholarly and/or policy debates, rigor in approach and analysis, and power of expression.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Public Service
The Joseph J. Kruzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Public Service is awarded to a scholar with a distinguished career in national security affairs both as an academic and a public servant. It is given to memorialize Joseph Kruzel, a security studies scholar and Department of Defense policy official who was killed while on a diplomatic mission to Bosnia.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 20: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Formed: 1988 / Dues: $5 for student members and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote the comparative, especially cross-national, study of politics and to integrate work of comparativists, area studies specialists, and those interested in American politics.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s20/
Chair: TBA
Vice-Chair: TBA
Secretary / Treasurer: TBA
Editor: Comparative Politics Section Newsletter: TBA
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Karen Anderson, University College Dublin and Sam Handlin, Swarthmore College
Executive Council: Melani Cammett, Harvard University; Sara Binzer-Hobolt, London School of Economics; Kimuli Kasara, Columbia University; Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University; Jennifer Gandhi, Emory University; Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame
Luebbert Book Prize
Awarded annually for the best book published in the field of comparative politics during 2017 or 2018.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Luebbert Article Prize
Awarded annually for the best article in the field of comparative politics during 2017 or 2018.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Sage Paper Prize
Awarded to the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2018 annual meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award
Awarded annually to a publicly-available dataset in the field of comparative politics.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 21: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Formed: 1989 / Dues: $5 for students and $10 for all other members
The purpose of the section is to promote comparative discussion, research and debate about the changing sociology of politics, the state, and social structures in modern Western Europe.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s21/
Chair: Erik Jones, Johns Hopkins University
Chair-Elect: Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford
Treasurer: Johannes Lindvall, Lund University
Editor: European Politics and Society Newsletter: David Art, Tufts University; Alexander Jakubow, New Mexico State University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jane Gingrich, University of Oxford
Executive Council: Pepper Culpepper, University of Oxford; R. Daniel Kelemen, Rutgers University; Dorothee Bohle, European University Institute; Silja Häusermann, University of Zurich; Wade Jacoby, Brigham Young University; Kimberly Morgan, George Washington University; Mark Vail, Tulane University; Carol Mershon, University of Virginia; Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award is given for the best book on European politics and society published in the previous year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Christopher Bickerton, Chair, University of Cambridge; Tim Haughton, University of Birmingham; Aida Hozic, University of Florida
Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award
The Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on European politics and society filed during the previous year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Mark Vail, Tulane University; Filippo Tronconi, University of Bologna; Sara Watson, Oklahoma State University
Best Article Award
This award is given for the best article dealing with European politics and society published in the last year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Sabine Saurugger, Sciences Po, Grenoble; Paolo Graziano, University of Padova; Muiris MacCarthaigh, Queen’s University, Belfast
Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper given on European Politics and Society Section-sponsored panels at the previous APSA Annual Meetings.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Sophie Meunier, Princeton University; Liesbet Hooghe, University of North Carolina; Christina J. Schneider, University of California, San Diego
Peter Mair Memorial Travel Award
The Peter Mair Memorial Award will fund the travel of two young scholars to attend the APSA Annual Meeting. Named in memory of Professor Peter Mair, one of the foremost scholars of European politics, the award is meant explicitly to enable young scholars of European politics without adequate funding to present a paper in one of the panels organized by the EPS Section. First-time APSA-attendants who are graduate students or junior professors from underfunded European universities (notably in the East and South) are prioritized, but senior scholars from such institutions as well as junior scholars from underfunded non-European universities (including the US) are also considered. Applicants are expected to also apply to all other travel funds they are eligible for, including their department/university, national science foundations, and the APSA Travel Fund. The awards are set at a maximum of $1,000 each, but partial/matching funding is possible too.
Nominations due: May 1, 2019
Award Committee: Mark A. Pollack, Temple University; Carol A. Mershon, University of Virginia; Miguel Otero Iglesias, Elcano Royal Institute
SECTION 22: STATE POLITICS AND POLICY
Formed: 1989 / Dues: $27 for students and professional members
The purpose to this section is to further our understanding of the American states including their institutions, political actors, policies, and local, national, and international influence.
Website: http://politicalscience.olemiss.edu/state-politics-and-policy
Chair: Christopher Z. Mooney, University of Illinois at Springfield
Secretary: Craig Burnett, Hofstra University
Treasurer: Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz, University of Rhode Island
Editors: State Politics and Policy Quarterly: Chris Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh and Kris Kanthak, University of Pittsburgh
Editor: State Politics and Policy Newsletter: Craig Burnett, Hofstra University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: James C. Battista, SUNY University at Buffalo
Executive Council: Michael Nelson, Pennsylvania State University; Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson; Wayne State University; Jason Windett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Rebecca Kreitzer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Becki Scola, St. Joseph’s University
Career Achievement Award
The Career Achievement Award is given annually to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and public policies in the American states.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Peverill Squire, Chair, University of Missouri, Columbia; Martha E. Kropf, University of North Carolina, Charlotte; David L. Leal, University of Texas, Austin
Virginia Gray Book Award
To be awarded annually to the best political science book published on the subject of US state politics or policy in the preceding three calendar years. Thus, books would be eligible to be considered for the award for three years (e.g., for the 2019 award, books with a copyright of 2016, 2017, and 2018 would be eligible for nomination).
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Chris Witko, Chair, Penn State University; Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University; Robynn Kuhlmann, University of Central Missouri
Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize
This annual award is given to the author of the best PhD dissertation in American state politics and policy completed during the previous calendar year. The winner receives a plaque and $1000. Support for this prize comes form the annual return of the endowed Mooney Fund.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Tracy Osborn, Chair, University of Iowa; Robert Lowry, University of Texas, Dallas; Antoine Yoshinaka, SUNY University at Buffalo
SPPQ Award for Best Paper Award
This annual award is given to the author(s) of the best paper on state politics and policy presented at any professional meeting in the previous calendar year. The award committee may designate separate awards for papers presented by graduate students with no faculty authorships and for papers with solely faculty or faculty and graduate student participation. Graduate student winners will receive a plaque and $100 and faculty winners will receive a plaque.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Renee Van Vechten, Chair, University of Redlands; Adam Brown, Brigham Young University; Michael G. Miller, Barnard College
Best Published Paper Award
The award recognizes the best journal article on US state politics or policy published during the previous calendar year in any peer-reviewed journal (book reviews, review essays, and chapters published in edited volumes are not eligible).
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Christopher Warshaw, Chair, George Washington University; Rebecca Kreitzer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lynda Powell, Rochester University
SECTION 23: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION
Formed: 1989 / Dues: $0 for student members and $8 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to foster the study of political communications within the discipline of political science including research on mass media, telecommunications policy, new media technologies, and the process of communicating and understanding.
Website: http://politicalcommunication.org
Chair: Kate Kenski, University of Arizona
Vice Chair: Tim Groeling, University of California, Los Angeles
Secretary/Treasurer: Ashley Muddiman, University of Kansas
Editor: Political Communication: Claes de Vreese, University of Amsterdam
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Joshua Darr, Louisiana State University
Executive Council: Emily Sydnor, Southwestern University; Thomas Billard, University of Southern California
Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award
The Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award is given to the most outstanding book in the field of political communication that was published in the past decade. The nominated book and a nomination letter should be sent to all three members of the award committee. The nomination letter should clearly explicate how the book has made a significant theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical contribution to political communication scholarship in the last decade. Copies of book reviews may also be included with the nomination letter and book.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University; Jamie Settle, The College of William & Mary; Emily Syndor, Southwestern University
Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award
The Paul Lazarsfeld Award recognizes the best paper on political communication presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting or political communication preconference.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Jennifer Pan, Stanford University; Benjamin Toff, University of Minnesota; Jason Turcotte, California Polytechnic University, Pomona
Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Timothy E. Cook awards recognizes the best paper on political communication presented by a graduate student at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting or political communication pre-conference.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Danielle Vinson, Furman University; Brian Weeks, University of Michigan; Kathleen Searles, Louisiana State University
Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award
The Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation completed in the field of political communication in the previous year. Nominations for the award should be made by the adviser of the dissertation or by a faculty member from the department in which the dissertation was completed.Nomination letters should explain the central argument advanced by the dissertation and specify its original contribution to the field. Letters should be no more than one page in length. Eligible dissertations must have been defended successfully in the calendar year preceding the award (e.g., candidates whose degrees were awarded in 2018 will be eligible for the 2019 dissertation award). The nominating letter and digital copies of the dissertation, abstract of the dissertation (500 words or less), and the nominee’s curriculum vita (with current address) should be sent to the chair of the dissertation award committee.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Nick Anstead, London School of Economics; Jenifer Whitten-Woodring; Georgia Kernell, University of California, Los Angeles
Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award
Recognizes the best article published in the field of political communication in the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Shelley Boulianne, MacEwan University; John Ryan, Stony Brook University; Nathan Kalmoe, Louisiana State University; Mona Kleinberg, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Murray Edelman Lifetime Distinguished Career Award
The Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award recognizes a lifetime contribution to the study of political communication. The award is now given only in odd-numbered years.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Rasmus Kleis Nielson; Markus Prior, Princeton University; Holli Semetko, Emory University
SECTION 24: POLITICS AND HISTORY
Formed: 1989 / Dues: $0 for student members and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to bring together political scientists interested in historical issues and problems drawing from almost every traditional disciplinary subfield.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section24
Chair: Nancy Bermeo, Princeton University
Chair-Elect: Adam Sheingate. Johns Hopkins University
Secretary/Treasurer: Robert Mickey, University of Michigan
Editor: CLIO: Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Erik Martinez Kuhonta, McGill University and Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon
Executive Council: Mala Htun, University of New Mexico; Debra Thompson, University of Oregon; David E. Wilkins, University of Minnesota; Daniel Wirls, University of California, Santa Cruz; Julia Azari, Marquette University; Evgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; Jonathan Obert, Amherst College; Sarah Staszak, Princeton University
J. David Greenstone Book Prize
The J. David Greenstone Book Prize recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Paul Frymer, Chair, Princeton University; Eleonora Passotti, University of California, Santa Cruz; Jeffrey Selinger, Bowdoin College
Mary Parker Follett Prize
The Mary Parker Follett Prize recognizes the best article on politics and history published in the previous year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Jason Whittenberg, Chair, University of California, Berkeley; Jennifer Dixon, Villanova University; Nicole Mellow, Williams College
Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award
The Walter Dean Burnham Award is given for the best dissertation in the field of politics and history.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Margaret Weir, Chair, Brown University; Jason Brownlee, University of Texas at Austin; Hillel Soifer, Temple University
SECTION 25: POLITICAL ECONOMY
Formed: 1990 / Dues: $0 for student members and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote teaching and research in the areas of representation and electoral systems, and to encourage communication among persons interested in these fields within the association and with related disciplines.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section25
Chair: Kanchan Chandra, New York University
Secretary/Treasurer: George Krause, University of Georgia
Editors: The Political Economist Newsletter: John Alquist, University of California, San Diego; Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego; Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Scott Abramson, University of Rochester and Alisha Holland, Princeton University
Executive Council: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University; Layna Mosley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Elizabeth Maggie Penn, Emory University; Jan Pierskalla, Ohio State University; David Skarbek, Brown University; Hye Young You, New York University
McGillivray Best Paper Award
The McGillivray Best Paper Award is given for the best paper in political economy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Michael Wallerstein Award
The Michael Wallerstein Award is given for the best published article in political economy in the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award, named for Mancur Olson, is given for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
William H. Riker Book Award
The Best Book Award, named for William H. Riker, is given for the best book on political economy published during the past three calendar years.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 27: NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE
Formed: 1992 / Dues: $5 for students and $30 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to help make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section27
Chair: Nancy S. Love, Appalachian State University
Secretary: Sarah M. Surak, Salisbury University
Treasurer: Clyde W. Barrow, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley
Editor: New Political Science: A Journal of Politics & Culture: Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Fairfield University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Dean Snyder, Antioch College
Caucus Representatives: Daniel O’Connor, California State University, Long Beach; Claire Snyder-Hall, Independent Scholar
Membership Director: Robert Kirsch, Arizona State University
Web and Social Media Coordinator: Riley Barrett, Independent Scholar
Witnesses and Advocates Special Committee: Judith Grant, Ohio University
Christian Bay Award
The Christian Bay Award recognizes the best paper presented on a new political science panel at the previous year’s annual meeting.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Alison Gash, Co-Chair, University of Oregon; Priscilla Yamin, Co-Chair, University of Oregon; Matthew Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College; Lucrecia Garcia-Iommi, Fairfield University
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award
The Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award recognizes an activist group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, ‘to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world,’ into practice.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Margaret Groarke, Manhattan College; Sean Parson, Northern Arizona University; Edwin Dan Jacob, Arkansas State University; Frances Fox Piven, CUNY Graduate Center
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award recognizes a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Cynthia Enloe, Chair, Clark University; Bradley MacDonald, Colorado State University; Manal Jamal, James Madison University
Michael Harrington Book Award
The Michael Harrington Book Award recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Gordon Lafer, Chair, University of Oregon; Timothy W. Luke, Virginia Tech University; Pamela Stricker, California State University–San Marcos; Wendy Wright, Bridgewater State University
Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award
For an outstanding political science dissertation finished within the previous year which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Rafael Khachaturian, University of Pennsylvania; Laura Katz Olson, Lehigh University; Peter Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; Stephen E. Bronner, Rutgers University
SECTION 28: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY
Formed: 1993 / Dues: $5 for student members and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section to facilitate communication across subfields and disciplinary boundaries among individuals interested in the relationship between political and psychological processes.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s28/
Chair: Daniel Hopkins, University of Pennsylvania
Chair-Elect: Efren O. Perez, University of California, Los Angeles
Treasurer: Melissa Sands, University of California, Merced
Communications Officer: Michele Margolis, University of California, Merced
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Ashley Jardina, Duke University and Mara Ostfeld, University of Michigan
Executive Council: Tali Mendelberg, Princeton University
Robert E. Lane Award
Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Samara Klar, Chair, University of Arizona; Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University; Virginia Sapiro, Boston University
Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year. Send an electronic copy of the dissertation to each committee member. Self-nominations are accepted. All nominations should include a letter of support from the chair of the dissertation committee that addresses the contribution of the dissertation to the field of political psychology.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Rick Lau, Chair, Rutgers University; Kris-Stella Trump, Social Science Research Council; Adam Thal, Yale University
Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given to the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous year’s annual meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado, Boulder; Michael Sances, University of Memphis; Bert Bakker, Amsterdam School of Communication Research
Distinguished Junior Scholar Award
The APSA Political Psychology section gives Distinguished Junior Scholar Awards as grants to junior scholars (graduate students or those no more than seven years since receiving their PhD) to help fund their travel to the APSA meeting. Applicants should send their CV, a one-page single-spaced statement describing their work, and evidence that they have been accepted on the APSA program, either as paper giver or poster-presenter.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Jane Junn, University of Southern California; Alex Coppock, Yale University; Ali Valenzuela, Princeton University; Christopher Johnston, Duke University
Political Psychology Career Award
The Political Psychology Hazel Gaudet Erskine Career Achievement Award is awarded biennially to recognize a scholar whose lifetime scholarship and service to the profession has made an outstanding contribution to the field of political psychology.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Howard Lavine, University of Minnesota; Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University; Loren Collingwood, University of California, Riverside
SECTION 29: POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION
Formed: 1993 / Dues: $0 for student members and $12 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote exemplary undergraduate teaching within the political science discipline and to the scholarship of teaching. The section is especially dedicated to increasing the use of innovative teaching methods, particularly those rooted in experience (internships, service learning, simulations, and study abroad) and the evaluation of such methods.
Website: http://web.apsanet.org/teachingcivicengagement/political-science-educator/
Chair: Patrick McKinlay, Morningside College
Vice-Chair: Terry Gilmour, Midland College
Secretary: Terry Gilmour, Midland College
Treasurer: Joseph Roberts, Roger Williams University
Editor: The Political Science Educator Newsletter: Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Mary McHugh, Merrimack College and Elizabeth Matto, Rutgers University
Executive Council: Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University, South Bend; Boris Ricks, California State University, Northridge; Thomas Rigenberg, Rockhurst University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Donald Gooch, Stephen F. Austin University; Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville; Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College; Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville
The Craig T. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentorship
Established in 2014, this award will be awarded at the PSE Section reception at the APSA Annual Meeting. The award will be given to faculty members who demonstrate commitment to and excellence in encouraging and developing scholarship among undergraduate students, and in mentoring undergraduate students in preparation for graduate school or public affairs-related careers. Evidence for these commitments may include, but are not limited to, formal and informal supervision of undergraduate student original research, collaborating with undergraduate students on original research projects, assisting undergraduate students with public presentations and/or publication of work, and accompanying students to academic conferences. In honor of the person for whom the award is named, preference will also be given to faculty members who engage in developing undergraduate scholarship through enhancing information literacy.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University; Fletcher McClellan, Elizabethtown College; Allison McCartney, Towson University
The Best APSA Conference Paper Award
This award is given annually at the section meeting during the APSA Annual Meeting to the author(s) who present at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting, either at a panel or poster session.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College; Terry Gilmour, Midland College
The Lifetime Achievement Award
This award may be given at the annual section meeting held at the APSA Annual Meeting. The awardee must have a strong record of long-standing, exceptional, and extensive contributions to the goals of the section, including the promotion of the teaching and learning in the discipline and the scholarship of teaching. Any section member may submit a nomination letter to the Executive Committee. Nominations are due by April 1. The Executive Committee will determine if a nominee is eligible and will decide by June 1 if the award will be given. This award does not have to be given every year.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Sherri Wallace, Chair, University of Louisville; Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University, South Bend; Boris Ricks, California State University, Northridge; Thomas Rigenberg, Rockhurst University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Donald Gooch, Stephen F. Austin University; Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville; Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College
The Distinguished Service Award
This award may be given at the section meeting held at the APSA Annual Meeting. The awardee must have a strong record of exceptional and extensive contributions to the goals of the section, including the promotion of teaching and learning in the discipline and the scholarship of teaching. Any section member may submit a nomination letter to the Award Committee. The Award Committee will determine if a nominee is eligible and will decide by June 1 if the award will be given. This award does not have to be given every year.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Sherri Wallace, Chair, University of Louisville; Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University, South Bend; Boris Ricks, California State University, Northridge; Thomas Rigenberg, Rockhurst University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Donald Gooch, Stephen F. Austin University; Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville; Bobbi Gentry, Bridgewater College
SECTION 30: POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM
Formed: 1993 / Dues: $0 for students and $5 for professional members
The study of literature and film offers political scientists a particularly stimulating mode of inquiry into political institutions and principles, and into the ways of life that sustain them and are, in turn, shaped by them. Indeed, the creation of this division is itself a sign of the complex and changing landscape of the study of politics. The section explores the way in which literature—broadly understood to include film and other literary genres—provides unique insights into the nature of political life and the study of politics.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section30
Chair: Linda Beail, Point Loma Nazarene University
Chair-Elect: Robert Watkins, Columbia College, Chicago
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Linda Beail, Point Loma Nazarene University
Wilson Carey McWilliams Award
The Wilson Carey McWilliams Award is given for the best paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Davide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles; Lori Marso, Union College; Morton Schoolman, SUNY at Albany
SECTION 31: FOREIGN POLICY
Formed: 1993 / Dues: $10 for students and professional members
The Foreign Policy Section is the organization for those interested in multilevel approaches to the study of international relations. The section emphasizes individual, role, organizational, bureaucratic, societal, and/or state as well as situational and system level variables in foreign policy analyses. Members of the section employ a wide range of approaches, including historical, normative, rational, behavioral, liberal, institutional, psychological, and constructivist. Section members emphasize comparative as well as American studies of foreign policy. And the section recognizes the contributions of practitioners as well as academics in a broad range of professions and disciplines, for example: communications, economics, diplomacy, government, history, political science, public opinion polling, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section31
Chair: TBA
Chair-Elect: TBA
Secretary/ Treasurer: TBA
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Megan Stewart, American University
Executive Council: TBA
Distinguished Scholar Award
Recognizes a history of distinguished scholarship in the field of foreign policy. This award will be given biennially, alternating with the section’s best book award.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Paper Award
Presented to the best paper on foreign policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
For outstanding graduate student papers presented at the APSA Annual Meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy. Nominations should be sent to the chair of the section.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Book Award
Recognizes the best book in the field of foreign policy. This award is biennial and alternates with the Distinguished Scholar Award.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 32: ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR
Formed: 1994 / Dues: $12 for student members and $18 for all other members.
The purpose of this section is to promote interest in teaching and research on elections, electoral behavior, public opinion, voting turnout, and political participation, both within the United States and in comparative perspective.
Website: http://connect.apsanet.org/s32/
Chair: Elizabeth Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University
Vice-Chair: Andre Blais, Université de Montréal
Treasurer: Jennifer Wolak, University of Colorado, Boulder
Editor: Political Behavior: David Peterson, Iowa State University
Communications Director: Bethany Albertson, University of Texas
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Peter Loewen, University of Toronto and Natalie Masouka, University of California, Los Angeles
Executive Council: Patrick Fournier, Université de Montréal; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Quin Monson, Brigham Young University; Camille Burge, Villanova University; Jonathan Ladd, Georgetown University; David Nickerson, Temple University
Philip E. Converse Book Award
Awarded annually to the authors of an outstanding book published at least five years ago.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Caroline Tolbert, Chair, University of Iowa; Ed Fieldhouse, University of Manchester; Lynn Vavreck, University of California, Los Angeles
Emerging Scholars Award
Awarded to the top scholar in the field who is within ten years of her or his PhD.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Samara Klar, Chair, University of Arizona; Stephen Mockabee, University of Cincinnati; Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University
Best Paper Award
Awarded annually for the best paper delivered at one of the section’s panels at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: James Garand, Chair, Louisiana State University; Karen Jusko, Stanford University; Tyson King-Meadows, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Best Article in Political Behavior
Awarded for the best article published in Political Behavior in the previous calendar year.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: David Kimball, Chair, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Sunshine Hillygus, Duke University; Lilliana Mason, University of Maryland
John Sullivan Award
Awarded for the best paper presented by a graduate student at one of the section’s panels at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: March 1, 2019
Award Committee: Cindy Kim, Chair, Vanderbilt University; Christina Farhart, Carleton College; Israel Waismel-Manor, University of Haifa
Graduate Student Travel Awards
Awarded to graduate students who are authors or coauthors of papers presented on a section panel at this year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: March 31, 2019
Award Committee: Adam Brown, Chair, Brigham Young University; LaFleur Stephens, Princeton University; David Lublin, American University
SECTION 33: RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS
Formed: 1995 / Dues: $0 for student members and $20 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to foster communication among scholars, recognize leadership in the field, facilitate research and publication opportunities, encourage undergraduate and student interest, and create a permanent forum for developing and refining appropriate theoretical models in the study of race and ethnicity.
Website: http://www.apsarep.org
Chair: Kerry L. Haynie, Duke University
Co-Chair: Marisa Abrajano, University of California, San Diego
Secretary: Andrew Flores, University of California, Los Angeles
Treasurer: Christina Greer, Fordham University
Editors: Journal of Race and Ethnic Politics: Marisa Abrajano, University of California, San Diego and Jane Junn, University of Southern California
Editor: REP Newsletter: Hannah Walker, Rutgers University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Rene Rocha, University of Iowa; Pearl Ford Dowe, University of Arkansas
Executive Council: Christina Bejarano, University of Kansas; Karam Dana, University of Washington, Bothell; Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois Chicago; Chris Haynes, University of New Haven; Evelyn Simien, University of Connecticut; Pearl Ford Dowe, University of Arkansas; Lorrie-Frasure-Yokley, University of California, Los Angeles; Jessica Lavariega-Monforti, California Lutheran University; Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside
Graduate Student Representative: Sara Sadhwani, University of Southern California
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award recognizes the very best research exploring the multiple junctures between politics and issues of race, ethnicity, immigration, and indigeneity, as well as their intersections with other axes of identity and marginalization. We seek nominations for books that broadly focus on racial and ethnic politics, from scholars across all sub-fields of political science and allied disciplines. Single- and coauthored books, monographs, and textbooks will be considered. Books published/copyrighted in calendar year 2018 are eligible for the prize. Books that were nominated in previous years are not eligible and should not be renominated.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Efren Perez, University of California, Los Angeles; Shatema Threadcraft, Dartmouth College; Spencer Piston, Boston University
Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best American dissertation on race, ethnicity, and politics accepted in the previous year.
Nominations due: April 30, 2019
Award Committee: Ismael White, Duke University; LaFleur Stephens, Princeton University; Valeria Sinclair-Chapman, Purdue University
Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on race, ethnicity, and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara; Eric McDaniel, University of Texas at Austin; Christian Dyogi Phillips, Ohio State University
Mark Q. Sawyer Memorial Scholarship in Comparative Race Politics
Recognizes scholarship that is closely tied to the research of the late Mark Q. Sawyer.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Andra Gillspie, Emery University; Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, University of North Carolina, Los Angeles; Tyson King-Meadows, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
SECTION 34: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS
Formed: 1999 / Dues: $0 for student members and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote the study of international history and politics, to disseminate research results; to encourage interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and to advance the development, dissemination, integration, and application of qualitative and historiographical methodologies.
Website: http://connect.apsanet.org/s34/
Chair: Cecelia Lynch, University of California, Irvine
Vice Chair: Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College
Secretary/Treasurer: Harris Mylonas, George Washington University
Newsletter Editors: International History and Politics Newsletter: Peter Harris, Colorado State University and Tom Le, Pomona College
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Stephen Nelson, Northwestern University
Executive Council: Jeffry Colgan, Brown University; Fiona Adamson, SOAS University of London; Bridgett Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara; Narendra Subramanian, McGill University; Joseph M. Parent, Philip J. Howe, Adrian College
Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award
The Robert L. Jervis and Paul Schroeder Best Book Award for the best book on international history and politics. This award may be granted to a single- or coauthored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the annual meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year. Hence, books with a 2018 copyright date will be eligible for the award presented at the 2019 APSA meeting. Nominations for the Jervis-Schroeder Book award (including three copies of cover letters and books) should be sent directly to the award committee members.
Nominations due: February 28, 2019
Award Committee: Catherine Lu, McGill University; Mlada Bukovansky, Smith College; John Duffield, Georgia State University
Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics
The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics recognizes exceptional peer-reviewed journal articles representing the mission of the International History and Politics Section, including innovative work that brings new light to events and processes in international politics, encourages interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and advances historiographical methods. The award is given to a published article that appeared in print in the calendar year preceding the annual meeting at which the award is presented. It may be granted to an article that is single- or coauthored. The year of final journal publication establishes eligibility. Nominations including a brief description of the significance of the article and a digital copy of the article should be sent to all award committee members before the annual deadline.
Nominations due: January 31, 2019
Award Committee: Ido Oren, Chair, University of Florida; Brendan Green, University of Cincinnati; Cheryl Shanks, Williams College
SECTION 35: COMPARATIVE DEMOCRATIZATION
Formed: 2000 / Dues: $0 for student members and $8 for all other members
The Comparative Democratization Section exists to promote the analysis of the origins, processes, and outcomes of democratization among nations, spur communication among political scientists whose scholarship focuses on particular world regions, and stimulate greater involvement within APSA of political scientists working in various areas like Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, the Far East, Europe, and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Website: http://www.compdem.org
Chair: TBA
Vice Chair: TBA
Secretary: TBA
Treasurer: TBA
Newsletter Editor: APSA-CD: TBA
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Mike Miller, George Washington University
Best Article Award
Single- or coauthored articles focusing directly on the subject of democratization and published in 2018 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Copies of the article should be sent by email to each of the committee members.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Book Award
Given for the best book in the field of Comparative Democratization published in 2018 (authored, coauthored, or edited).
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Fieldwork Award
This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who complete their dissertations in 2018 are eligible. Candidates must submit two chapters of their dissertation and a letter of nomination from the chair of their dissertation committee describing the fieldwork. The material submitted must describe the fieldwork in detail and should provide one or two key insights from the evidence collected in the field. The chapters may be sent electronically or in hardcopy directly to each committee member.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Paper Award
Given to the best paper on comparative democratization presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Papers must be nominated by panel chairs or discussants.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award
Given for the best dissertation in the comparative study of democracy completed and accepted in the two calendar years immediately prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented (2017 or 2018 for the 2019 Annual Meeting). The prize can be awarded to analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective. A hardcopy of the dissertation, accompanied by a letter of support from a member of the dissertation committee should be sent to each member of the prize selection committee.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 36: HUMAN RIGHTS
Formed: 2000 / Dues: $0 for student members and $10 for all other members
The Human Rights Section was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, and impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.
Website: http://apsahumanrightssection.blogspot.com
Chair: Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University
Vice Chair: Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University
Chair-Elect: Brian Greenhill, University of Albany, SUNY
Secretary: Gio Altamirano Rayo, Carnegie Mellon University
Treasurer: Michael Struett, North Carolina State University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University
Social Media Coordinator: M. Joel Voss, University of Toledo
Executive Council: Miriam deLoffre, Arcadia University; Lucas Swaine, Dartmouth University; Karen Zivi, Grand Valley State University
Best Dissertation Award
Recognizes the best dissertation written about the field of human rights in the previous year. Copies of the dissertation and a letter of support (less than 1,000 words) from the dissertation chair outlining the contributions of the dissertation to the field of human rights should be sent to the committee.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Alison Brysk, Chair, University of California, Santa Barbara
Best Book Award
This competition is open to any book on human rights written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years. Please send one copy of the book to each member of the award committee.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Patrice McMahon, Chair, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University; George Andreopoulos, John Jay College, CUNY
Best Paper Award
This award recognizes the best paper presented on a Human Rights Section panel at the APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: Richard Hiskes, Chair, Grand Valley State University
SECTION 37: QUALITATIVE AND MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH
Formed: 2003 / Dues: $9 for all members
The goals of the section are to promote research and training focused on the several branches of methodology associated with the qualitative tradition; and to strive for an integrated understanding of these diverse methods and of their relationship to quantitative methods.
Website: http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/moynihan/cqrm/APSA_s_Qualitative_and_Multi-Method_Research_Section/
Chair: TBA
Vice-Chair: TBA
Secretary/ Treasurer: TBA
Editors: Qualitative & Multimethod Research: Tim Buthe, Duke University and Alan M. Jacobs, University of British Columbia
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Jennifer Larson, Vanderbilt University
Executive Council: TBA
Alexander L. George Article Award
Honors Alexander George’s contributions to the comparative case-study method, including his work linking that method to a systematic concern with research design, and his contribution of developing the idea and the practice of process-tracing. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article. The award will be given to an article or book chapter published in the calendar year prior to the year of the annual meeting at which the award is presented, with the date of publication being established by the journal issue for articles and the copyright date of the book for chapters. Articles or chapters published in 2018 will be eligible for the 2019 award.
Nominations Due: TBA
David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award
Honors David Collier’s contributions, through his research, graduate teaching, and institution-building, as a founder of the qualitative and multi-method research movement in contemporary political science. The award will be presented annually to a mid-career political scientist to recognize distinction in methodological publications, innovative application of qualitative and multi-method approaches in substantive research, and/or institutional contributions to this area of methodology.
Nominations Due: TBA
Giovanni Sartori Book Award
Honors Giovanni Sartori’s work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. The award is intended to encompass two types of contributions: new research on methodology per se, that is, studies that introduce specific methodological innovations or that synthesize and integrate methodological ideas in a way that is in itself a methodological contribution; and substantive work that is an exemplar for the application of qualitative methods. This award may be granted to a single- or coauthored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the annual meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year. Hence, books with a 2018 copyright date will be eligible for the award presented at the 2019 APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations Due: TBA
Sage Paper Award
Honors Sara and George McCune, who founded and sustained Sage Publications as a leading publisher of social science methodology—including, very centrally, qualitative methods. This award will be given to a paper presented at the previous annual meeting.
Nominations Due: TBA
SECTION 38: SEXUALITY AND POLITICS
Formed: 2007 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for all other members
The objective of the Sexuality and Politics Section is to bring together scholars working in a variety of areas within political science to facilitate the sharing of knowledge and to foster intellectual community and expertise within APSA.
Website: http://www.apsanet.org/section38
Chair: Patrick Egan, New York University
Secretary: Jo Wuest, University of Pennsylvania
Treasurer: Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College, CUNY
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Courtenay Daum, Colorado State University
Executive Council: R.G. Cravens, Bowling Green State University; Jennifer Raymond, Union Institute & University; Megan Osterbur, New England College; Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, University of California Irvine
Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award
The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: June 15, 2019
Award Committee: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, Chair, University of California, Irvine; Inaki Sagarzazu, Texas Tech University; Anna L. Weissman, University of Florida; Zein Murib, Fordham University
Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years. The award is open to all scholarship that falls under the broad rubric of sexuality and politics, including studies concerning the regulation of sexuality, political responses to the regulation of sexuality, the uses of sexuality as a political construct, the intersections of sexuality with gender, race, and class, or LGBT politics and mobilizations.
Nominations due: June 15, 2019
Award Committee: Megan Osterbur, Chair, New England College; Edward Kammerer, Skidmore College; Ravi K. Perry, Virginia Commonwealth University
SECTION 39: HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY
Formed: 2008 / Dues: $0 for student members and $8 for all other members
The Health Politics and Policy Section provides the ideal infrastructure in which members can more thoroughly, efficiently arm themselves with the additional expertise we need to explore health politics and policy questions. The section will define health politics and policy just as broadly as the phrase implies. Everything from the politics of Medicare Part D to the politics of women’s health; everything from comparative politics of AIDS in Africa, Eastern Europe, and South Asia to the comparative state politics of Medicaid and SCHIP, everything from the ethics of end-of-life decisions to the regulation of stem cell research, everything from public budgeting and regulation to public health disaster preparedness fall with the scope of the section.
Website: http://www.apsanet.org/section39
Chair: Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania
Secretary: Jacqueline Cattopadhyay, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Treasurer: John Hoornbeek, Kent State University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Miriam Laugesen, Columbia University
Executive Council: David Jones, Boston University; Scott Greer, University of Michigan; Jamila Michener, Cornell University; Philip Rocco, Marquette University
Leonard S. Robins Best Paper Award
The Leonard S. Robins Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award recognizes the best paper on any subject that fits under the rubric of health politics and policy presented at the previous annual meeting. All papers presented at panels sponsored or cosponsored by the Health Politics and Policy Section are eligible for consideration, and may be nominated by panel chairs, discussants, or others. All other substantively appropriate papers presented at panels organized by other sections, division, and related groups are also eligible, if the authors made an electronic version of their paper available to view online.
Nominations due: December 31, 2018
Award Committee: TBA
Outstanding Public Engagement
This award is offered to someone who has been working to improve health and the healthcare system by actively engaging in politics and policymaking.
Deadline: December 31, 2018
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 40: CANADIAN POLITICS
Formed: 2009 / Dues: $0 for students and $8 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to promote the interest in Canadian politics, to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and information related to Canadian politics, and to encourage the accumulation of knowledge about Canadian politics.
Website: www.canadianpoliticssection.org
Chair: TBA
Vice Chair: TBA
Secretary: TBA
Treasurer: TBA
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Antoine Yoshinaka, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Executive Council: TBA
Mildred Schwartz Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Canadian Politics
The Schwartz Lifetime achievement award goes to scholars who have made significant contributions through their career to the study of Canadian politics, either through development of political analysis of Canada or through incorporating Canada as a significant case in comparative political analyses.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Daniel Cohn, Chair, York University; Mildred Schwartz, University of Illinois-Chicago; Patrick Fournier, Universite de Montreal; Mireille Lalancette, Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres; Charles Doran
Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award
Books published by members of the PAS Canadian Politics Section dealing with Canadian politics, or incorporating Canada as a significant case in a comparative political analysis, that were published between 2012–2018 are eligible for consideration.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: Keith Douglas Brownsey, Mount Royal University; Joanna Everitt, University of New Brunswick, Saint John; Christopher Alcantara, Western University; Greg Lyle, Innovative Research; Ken Cosgrove, Suffolk University
SECTION 41: POLITICAL NETWORKS
Formed: 2009 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for other members
The purpose of the Political Networks Section is to promote intellectual exchange among scholars regarding the theoretical, methodological, and substantive aspects of political networks.
Website: .http://www.polinetworks.org
Chair: Bruce Desmarais, Pennsylvania State University
Vice-Chair: Jennifer Larson, Vanderbilt University
Communications Director: Elizabeth Menninga, University of Iowa
Treasurer: Dino Christenson, Boston University
Membership Chair: Matthew Howell, Eastern Kentucky University
Editor: Nodes & Edges: Elizabeth Menninga, University of Iowa
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Matthew Piertryka, Florida State University
Executive Council: Sharyar Minhas, Michigan State University; Rachel Blum, Miami University, Ohio; Jaime Settle, The College of William & Mary
The Political Ties Award
This award is given on an annual basis to the best article published on political networks over the past two years.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Book Award
Awarded on a biennial basis to the best book published on political networks in a two-year period (current cycle includes a book published April 1, 2017 to March 31, 2019).
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Conference Paper Award
This award is given annually to the best paper on political networks presented by a faculty member delivered at a political science conference in the previous year.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
John Sprague Award
This award is given annually to the best paper on political networks presented by a graduate student delivered at a political science conference in the previous year. The award includes a cash award that comes from a supporting fund. The award is given based the contribution of the research to the study of political networks, broadly construed. The awardees’ research can be substantive, theoretical, or methodological, so long as it meets the committee’s definition of “excellence.” Self-nominations are encouraged.
Nominations due: April 1, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
Best Poster Award
This award is given annually at the Political Networks Conference and is awarded to the best posters on political networks. Typically, two awards are given, but this is not a requirement. The award criteria are at the committee’s discretion. Possibilities include giving one faculty award and one graduate award, giving one award for substantive contribution and one for a methodological contribution, or giving only one award. The program chairs for the conference appoint a committee who conduct evaluations at the conference. A cash award accompanies this prize.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Career Achievement Award In Political Networks
The Career Achievement Award is given to a scholar who has made major contributions that have had a long-term impact on the study of political networks.
Nominations due: April 30, 2019
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 42: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Formed: 2010 / Dues: $0 for student and professional members for online-only journal access; $18 for student members for print and online journal access; $24 for professional members for print and online journal access
The Experimental Research Section advances pedagogy, research, and scholarly contributions based on randomized or natural experiments. Recent years have seen a dramatic increase in the number of published articles in political science that use experiments. Experimentalists are exploring topics that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. The rapid growth, development, and celebration of experimental methods in political science presents the opportunity to share a specific vocabulary and toolkit with researchers interested in experimental methods of all kinds. The section is devoted to helping scholars develop and hone these skills and to providing a forum where research based on these techniques can be shared and discussed.
Website: http://www.apsanet.org/section42
Chair: Rebecca Morton, New York University
Chair-Elect: Thad Dunning, University of California, Berkeley
Secretary: Anna Bassi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Treasurer: David Nickerson, Temple University
Editor: Journal of Experimental Political Science: Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Dan Butler, University of California, San Diego and Brigitte Seim, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Executive Council: Dustin Tingley, Harvard University; Claire Adida, University of California, San Diego; Adam Berinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
SECTION 43: MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP
Formed: 2012 / Dues: $5 for student members and $10 for all other members
The purpose of this section is to bring together political scientists working on issues of migration and citizenship, promote teaching and research in the field, and encourage communication among political scientists and scholars of migration and citizenship in related disciplines, including policy and other professionals, domestically and internationally.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s43/
Co-Chair: Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine
Co-Chair: Elizabeth Cohen, Syracuse University
Secretary: Abigail Williamson, Trinity College
Treasurer: Gerasimos Tsourapas, University of Birmingham
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Amy Liu, University of Texas, Austin and Rahsaan Maxwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Executive Council: Justin Gest, George Mason University; Beyza Buyuker, University of Illinois at Chicago; Beth Whitaker, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Osman Balkan, Swarthmore College; Loren Collingwood, University of California at Riverside; Rita Nassar, Indiana University
SECTION 44: AFRICAN POLITICS CONFERENCE GROUP
Formed: 2013 / Dues: $0 for students and $10 for all other members
The African Politics and Conference Group Section promotes recognition of the theoretical and methodological contributions to the discipline of political scientists whose research and professional interests center largely or in part upon sub-Saharan Africa.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s44/
Chair: Leonardo Arriola, University of California, Berkeley
Vice-Chair: Jessica Piombo, Naval Postgraduate School
Secretary: Jeffrey Paller, University of San Francisco
Treasurer: Claire Adida, University of California, San Diego
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Mai Hassan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Graeme Blair, University of California, Los Angeles
SECTION 45: CLASS AND INEQUALITY
Formed: 2014 / Dues $5 for students and $10 for all other members
The Class and Inequality Section supports scholars of politics who study the political causes and consequences of economic inequality, social class stratification, and mobility and opportunity.
Website: https://connect.apsanet.org/s45/
Chair: Nicholas Carnes, Duke University
Secretary: Karen-Long-Jusko; Stanford University
Treasurer: Christopher Faricy, Syracuse University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Nicholas Carnes, Duke University
Technology Officer: Cory Maks-Solomon, The George Washington University
SECTION 46: IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE, AND POLITICS
Formed: 2014 / Dues $0 for students and $10 for all other members
To understand political decisions and actions, it is necessary to study the sources and content of our political beliefs. To assess these decisions and actions, we need to study whether our political beliefs are accurate. Why do different people interpret the political world in different ways? How do they interpret either their own interests or the public interest; from what sources are these interpretations drawn; and how do these interpretations motivate political action? Given political actors’ imperfect knowledge, how do they try to approximate full knowledge of the likely consequences of their actions, and how successful are these attempts? Under what conditions do political beliefs tend to be true? These questions have tended to be neglected within political science, with the result that our understandings of political processes are often incomplete. By addressing itself to the sources and the accuracy of our political beliefs, political epistemology seeks to fill a significant lacuna in political science and political theory.
Website: https://apsanet.org/section46
Chair: Jeffrey Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
Communications Officer: Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Secretary: Paul Gunn, University of London
Treasurer: Nick Clark, Susquehanna University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Nick Clark, Susquehanna University and Jeffrey Friedman, University of California, Berkeley
Executive Council: Hélène Landemore, Yale University; Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University; Ben Miller, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Vivien Schmidt, Boston University; George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College
Best APSA Paper by a Graduate Student or Post-Doc
The Best Paper Award recognizes an annual meeting paper by a graduate student or post-doc, presented at an IKP panel, that best explored the role of ideas or knowledge in politics or government.
Nominations due: February 1, 2019
Award Committee: Paul Gunn, University of London; Hélène Landemore, Yale University
Graduate Student/Post-Doc Travel Award
The Travel Award is given to a graduate student or post-doc who submitted a proposal to present a paper at an Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics panel at the 2019 APSA Annual Meeting. Applications should include a description of the proposed paper in as much detail as possible.
Nominations due: January 15, 2019
Award Committee: Jeffrey Friedman, University of California, Berkeley; Paul Gunn, University of London; Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award is given for the best recent work on empirical or normative aspects of the role of ideas or knowledge in politics or government. The awards committee is authorized to go back several years, at its discretion, and to make its own nominations as well as accepting nominations from others, including book authors and publishers. Nominated books published in 2018 or previously should be sent to committee members with a note or email message specifying that the book is being nominated. If only one copy of the book is available, please communicate this to the committee member to whom the book is sent. Authors are urged to follow up with publishers to be sure that books have been submitted on time.
Nominations due: February 1, 2019
Award Committee: Hélène Landemore, Yale University; Benjamin Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Jacob Roundtree, Harvard University
SECTION 47: AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT
Formed: 2016 / Dues: $25 for students with print and electronic journal access; $20 for students for electronic-only journal access; $35 for professional members with print and electronic journal access; $25 for professional members with electronic-only journal access.
The purpose of this section is to facilitate and encourage a uniquely integrative approach to the study of politics that will put scholars of American politics, political theory, American political development, American history, philosophy, American literature, and other related fields in ongoing conversation with one another.
Website: http://apsanet.org/section47
Chair: TBA
Vice Chair: TBA
Secretary/Treasurer: TBA
Editor: American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture: TBA
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chair: Daniel Klinghard, College of the Holy Cross
Executive Council: TBA
Best Book in American Political Thought
The Best Book in American Political Thought Award is chosen each year after the APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Dissertation in American Political Thought
The Best Dissertation in American Political Thought Award is chosen every two years. The executive council will select award recipients from the nominations provided by department chairs (one per department).
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
Best Article in American Political Thought
The Best Article in American Political Thought Award is chosen each year from among the articles published in American Political Thought the preceding year.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
The Best Conference Paper in American Political Thought Award
The Best Conference Paper in American Political Thought Award is chosen each year from nominations provided by panel chairs at the APSA Annual Meeting.
Nominations due: TBA
Award Committee: TBA
SECTION 48: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION
Formed: 2018 / Dues: $10 for all members
The International Collaboration Section works to promote and disseminate research in and teaching of all facets of international collaboration and to encourage the interchange of ideas about international collaboration within the section, and with our disciplines, practitioners, and interested persons.
Chair: Leslie Johns, University of California, Los Angeles
Vice-Chair: Jana Von Stein, Australian National University
Secretary/Treasurer: Hyeran Jo, Texas A&M University
2019 Annual Meeting Program Chairs: Sarah Bush, Yale University and Erin Graham, Drexel University
Best Article Award
The Best Article Award is given for the best book on international collaboration published in 2018. Nominations, which must include a PDF of the article and publication information, should be emailed to the Section Chair at: [email protected].
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Sarah Bauerle Danzman, Indiana University, Bloomington; Marina E. Henke, Northwestern University; Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award is given for the best book on international collaboration published in 2018. Nominations, which must include a PDF of the full book manuscript, should be emailed to the Section Chair at: [email protected].
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Julia Gray, Chair, University of Pennsylvania; Michael Aklin, University of Pittsburgh; Elena McLean, SUNY University at Buffalo
Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on international collaboration completed in 2018. Students may self-nominate their dissertations. Nominations, which must include a PDF of the filed version of the dissertation, should be emailed to the Section Chair at: [email protected].
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Susan Allen, University of Mississippi; Geoffrey Wallace, University of Washington, Seattle; Jeffrey Kucik, University of Arizona
Distinguished Mentor Award
The Distinguished Mentor Award is given for excellence in mentoring graduate students and junior faculty in the study of international collaboration. We particularly welcome nominations from groups of scholars who can provide a holistic assessment of their nominee’s impact as a mentor. Nominations should be emailed to the Section Chair at: [email protected]
Nominations due: February 15, 2019
Award Committee: Leslie Johns, University of California, Los Angeles; Krzysztof Pelc, McGill University; Jana Von Stein, Australian National University
SECTION 49: MENA POLITICS
Formed: 2018 / Dues: $10 for all members
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Politics Section was established to support, develop, and publish research on the politics of the MENA region utilizing interdisciplinary methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools. It seeks to fully integrate the rigorous study of the politics of the Middle East with the broader discipline of political science, to serve as an institutional home for the community of political scientists dedicated to the Middle East, and to fully integrate scholars from the MENA region and diverse scholars from the US into the global study of Middle East politics.
Chair: Marc Lynch, George Washington University
Vice-Chair: Lindsay Benstead, Portland State University
Treasurer: Steven Brooke, University of Louisville
Executive Council: Bassel Salloukh, Lebanese American University; Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College
