The Association makes awards for the best scholarship in subfields throughout the discipline and for career achievement in the profession. Distinguished Professor Charles W. Mills, recipient of the 2021 Benjamin E. Lippincott Award, died on September 20, 2021, at age 70 after battling cancer. He was an esteemed scholar and treasured colleague and mentor whose loss is deeply felt. APSA would like to extend our deepest condolences to his family and loved ones. Please also note that the APSA Best Book Award was formerly known as the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.
Dissertation Awards
GABRIEL A. ALMOND AWARD
for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics
CO-RECIPIENT: David Peyton, Northwestern University
TITLE: "Property Security in the Midst of Insecurity: Wealth, Violence, and Institutional Stasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo"
CO-RECIPIENT: Chantal Berman, Princeton University
TITLE: "Protest, Social Policy, and Political Regimes"
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: David Rueda, University of Oxford
Jaimie Bleck, University of Notre Dame
David T. Buckley, University of Louisville
WILLIAM ANDERSON AWARD
for best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state, and local politics
RECIPIENT: Scott LaCombe, University of Iowa
TITLE: “Institutional Design and the Politics of US States”
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Jeffrey J. Harden, University of Notre Dame
Shelly R. Arsneault, California State University
Brian Roberts, University of Texas at Austin
EDWARD S. CORWIN AWARD
for the best dissertation in the field of public law
RECIPIENT: Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University
TITLE: "Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs"
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Lori J. Hausegger, Boise State University
Paul M. Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Matthew P. Hitt, Colorado State University
HAROLD D. LASSWELL AWARD
for best dissertation in the field of public policy
RECIPIENT: Guillermo Toral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: “The Political Logics of Patronage: Uses and Abuses of Government Jobs in Brazil”
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Colleen M. Grogan, University of Chicago
Ursula Hackett, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jeffrey R. Henig, Columbia University
E. E. SCHATTSNEIDER AWARD
for best dissertation in the field of American government
RECIPIENT: Christina Kinane, University of Michigan
TITLE: "Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments"
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Chris Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh
Kenneth W. Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University
KENNETH SHERRILL PRIZE
for best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science
RECIPIENT: Joseph Saraceno, University of Southern California
TITLE: “Three Essays on the Representation of LGBT Americans”
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Gary Mucciaroni, Temple University
Douglas Page, Gettysburg College
Kelly Kollman, University of Glasgow
LEO STRAUSS AWARD
for best dissertation in the field of political philosophy
RECIPIENT: David Lowry Pressly, Harvard University
TITLE: “Being Accountable: Privacy, Self, and Society”
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Julie L. Rose, Dartmouth College
Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University, Chicago
Philip A. Michelbach, West Virginia University
MERZE TATE AWARD
for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics
RECIPIENT: Danielle Gilbert, George Washington University
TITLE: "The Logic of Coercive Kidnapping"
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London
Clifford Bob, Duquesne University
Quan Li, Texas A&M University
LEONARD D. WHITE AWARD
for the best dissertation in the field of public administration
RECIPIENT: Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University
TITLE: "Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs"
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: George A. Krause, University of Georgia
Randall Scott Davis, Southern Illinois University
Alisa Moldavanova, Wayne State University
Paper, Article, and Poster Awards
APSA BEST POSTER AWARD
for best poster presented by a graduate student and/or early career scholar at the previous year’s annual meeting
RECIPIENTS: Stephanie Chan, Tanika Raychaudhuri, and Ali Valenzuela
TITLE: “Group Threat or Contact? The Effects of Local Immigration Primes on Policy Views”
AWARD COMMITTEE:
CHAIR: Paul MacDonald, Wellesley College,
Tobin Grant, Southern Illinois University
Erica Owen Palmer, University of Pittsburgh
FRANKLIN L. BURDETTE/PI SIGMA ALPHA AWARD
For best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting
RECIPIENT: Aditya Dasgupta, University of California, Riverside
TITLE: “Explaining Rural Conservatism: Technological and Political Change in the Great Plains"
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Elizabeth Suhay, American University
Joanne Miller, University of Delaware
Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego
HEINZ I. EULAU AWARD
RECIPIENTS (APSR): Beatriz Magaloni, Edgar Franco-Vivanco, and Vanessa Melo
Title: “Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro”
RECIPIENT (POP): Natalie Wenzell Letsa
TITLE: “Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon”
AWARD COMMITTEES
CHAIR: Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University
R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Aarie Glas, Northern Illinois University
Ms. Hannah Smidt, University of Zurich
Dr. Marianne C. Stewart, University of Texas at Dallas
Book Awards
APSA BEST BOOK AWARD
for best book on government, politics, or international affairs
RECIPIENTS: Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, Princeton University Press
TITLE: Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Anjali Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology
Heath Brown, City University of New York, Graduate Center and John Jay College
Han Dorussen, University of Essex
Liza Mugge, University of Amsterdam
Anand Edward Sokhey, University of Colorado, Boulder
RALPH J. BUNCHE AWARD
for best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism
RECIPIENT: LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, University of Chicago Press
TITLE: Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Saskia Bonjour, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Darren Davis, University of Notre Dame
Bradford S. Jones, University of California, Davis
ROBERT A. DAHL AWARD
for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on democracy
RECIPIENT: Mai Hassan, University of Michigan
TITLE: Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Rachel Riedl, Institute of Advanced Studies
Agustina Giraudy, American University
Imke Harbers, University of Amsterdam
Eva Sørensen, Roskilde Universitet
GLADYS M. KAMMERER AWARD
for best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of US national policy
RECIPIENT: James Curry and Francis Lee, University of Chicago Press
TITLE: The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: James C. Garand, Louisiana State University
Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University
Allyson Shortle, University of Oklahoma
BENJAMIN E. LIPPINCOTT AWARD
for exceptional work by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication
RECIPIENT: Charles Mills, Cornell University Press
TITLE: The Racial Contract
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia
David Runciman, University of Cambridge
Steven B. Smith, Yale University
APSA-IPSA THEODORE J. LOWI FIRST BOOK AWARD
for best first book in any field of political science, showing promise of having substantive impact on the overall discipline
RECIPIENT: Simukai Chigudu, Cambridge University Press
TITLE: The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia
David Runciman, University of Cambridge
Steven B. Smith, Yale University
VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD
for best book published on women and politics
RECIPIENTS: Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, Cambridge University Press
TITLE: A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Melissa Deckman, Washington College
Lisa A. Bryant, California State University, Fresno
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami
Career Awards
APSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY AWARD
for excellence in teaching, mentoring, community engagement, governance, and/or research by a community college faculty member in the profession
RECIPIENT: Cammy Shay, Houston Community College
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Veronica Reyna, Houston Community College
Erich G. Frankland, Casper College
Sierra Powell, Mount San Antonio College
APSA DISTINGUISHED AWARD OF CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
for significant civic or community engagement activity by a political scientist which merges knowledge and practice and has an impact outside of the profession or the academy
RECIPIENT: Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Nancy Burns, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Cassandra Giana Khatri, Lone Star College- University Park
Kyle Casimir Kopko, Center for Rural Pennsylvania
Gisela Sin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Matthew Woessner, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg
APSA DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD
for outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching political science at two- or four-year institutions
RECIPIENT: Charity Butcher, Kennesaw State University
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Marijke Breuning, University of North Texas
David Monda, CUNY York College
Paula O’Loughlin, University of Minnesota, Morris
JOHN GAUS AWARD
for a career of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration
RECIPIENT: Christopher Hood, University of Oxford
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Donald P. Moynihan, Georgetown University
Arjen Boin, Louisiana State University
Ines A. Mergel, University of Konstanz
FRANK J. GOODNOW AWARD
for service to the community of political science by teachers, researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of politics
RECIPIENT: Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Louise K. Comfort
Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa
Lorenzo Morris, Howard University
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY AWARD
for notable public service by a political scientist
RECIPIENT: Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Keren Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University
Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia
Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Herbert B. Asher
Laura M. Luehrmann, Wright State University
CAREY MCWILLIAMS AWARD
for a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics
RECIPIENT: Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern University
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Jennifer Nicoll Victor, George Mason University
Steven E. Schier, Carleton College
Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
CHARLES E. MERRIAM AWARD
for an individual whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research
RECIPIENT: Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Simon Hix, London School of Economics
Sarah A. Fulton, Texas A&M University
Seth E. Masket, University of Denver
BARBARA SINCLAIR LECTURE
for achievement in promoting the understanding of the US Congress and legislative politics
RECIPIENT: Wendy Schiller, Brown University
AWARD COMMITTEE
CO-CHAIR: David C. Barker, American University
CO-CHAIR: Megan McConaughey
Alison Craig, University of Texas, Austin
Nancy Martorano Miller, University of Dayton
Jean Reith Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University
HANES WALTON, JR. CAREER AWARD
for political scientist whose distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics
RECIPIENT: Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Chris Zepeda-Millan, UCLA
Maya Sen, Harvard University
K. Tate, Brown University
Teaching and Learning Awards
CQ PRESS AWARD FOR TEACHING INNOVATION
for developing a new approach to teaching
RECIPIENT: Megan Becker, University of Southern California
AWARD COMMITTEE
CHAIR: Vanessa Bouche, Texas Christian University
Mary A. McHugh, Merrimack College
Nathaniel Swigger, Ohio State University
MICHAEL BRINTNALL TEACHING AND LEARNING AWARD
to support attendance at the conference
RECIPIENT: No Award Given ■
