2022 Organized Section Awards

Section 1: Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations

Martha Derthick 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.

Award Committee: Allyson Benton (Chair), University of Essex; David Konisky, Indiana University; Scott Greer, University of Michigan

Recipient: Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University

Title: Structuring the State: The Formation of Italy and Germany and the Puzzle of Federalism. 2006, Princeton University Press.

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 annual meeting of the APSA.

Award Committee: Katrina Kosec (Chair), International Food Policy Research Institute; Srinivas Parinandi, University of Colorado; Johanna Schnabel, Free University of Berlin

Recipient: Philip Rocco, Marquette University

Title: “Counting Like a State: The Politics of Intergovernmental Partnerships in the 2020 Census”

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Recognizes distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Award Committee: Jefferey Sellers (Chair), University of Southern California; Davia Downey, University of Memphis; Pablo Beramendi, Duke University

Recipient: Margaret Weir, Brown University

John Kincaid Best Article Award

Conferred on the author(s) of the best article published in Publius: The Journal of Federalism in the previous year.

Award Committee: Sari Niedzwiecki (Chair), University of California, Santa Cruz; Vladimir Kogan, Ohio State University; Scott Allard, University of Washington

Recipient: Louise Tillin, Kings College London

Title: “Building a National Economy: Origin of Centralized Federalism in India.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 51, Issue 2 (Spring 2021): 161-185.

Section 2: Law and Courts

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.

Award Committee: Maya Sen (Chair), Harvard University; Sonu Bedi, Dartmouth University; Tom Keck, Syracuse University; Banks Miller, University of Texas at Dallas; Alicia Uribe-McGuire, University of Illinois

Recipient: Rachel Schoner, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Confronting a Repressive Regime: Individual Petitions in the Human Rights Committee.”

Teaching and Mentoring Award

Given annually to recognize innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts.

Award Committee: Scott Boddery, Gettysburg College; Carol Nackenoff (Chair), Swarthmore College; Jamie Rowen, University of Massachusetts; Chris Tecklenburg, Georgia Southern University; Kirsten Widner, University of Tennessee

Recipient: Mark Fathi Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz

Law and Courts Service Award

Given annually to recognize service to the Law and Courts 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.

Award Committee: Christine Harrington (Chair), New York University; Todd Curry, University of Texas at El Paso; Virginia Hettinger, University of Connecticut; David Klein, Eastern Michigan University; Eric Lomazoff, Villanova University

Recipient: Sivaram Cheruvu, University of Texas at Dallas

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.

Award Committee: Rachael Hinkle (Chair), University at Buffalo; Gwendoline Alphonso, Fairfield University; Amanda Driscoll, Florida State University; Jessica Schoenherr, University of South Carolina; Allyson Yankle, Radford University

Recipients: Christine Bailey, University of Massachusetts; Paul M Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts; Jesse H. Rhodes, University of Massachusetts; Douglas Rice, University of Massachusetts

Title: “The Effect of Judicial Decisions on Issue Salience and Legal Consciousness n the LGBTQ+ Community”

Best Journal Article Award

Given annually to the best journal article in the field of law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year (2021).

Award Committee: Pamela Corley (Chair), Southern Methodist University; Myles Armaly, University of Mississippi; Christina Boyd, University of Georgia; Maureen Stobb, Georgia Southern University; Whitney Taylor, San Francisco State University

Co-recipients: Alex Badas, University of Houston and Elizabeth Simas, University of Houston

Title: “The Supreme Court as an electoral issue: evidence from three studies.” Political Science Research and Methods 2021.

Co-recipient: Anne Boustead, University of Arizona

Title: “Privacy protections and law enforcement use of prescription drug monitoring databases.” Law & Policy 2021.

C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book

Given annually to the best book on law and courts published in the previous year (2021).

Award Committee: Kathleen Tipler (Chair), Oklahoma University; Michael Dichio, University of Utah; Beth Henschen, Eastern Michigan University; Abigail Matthews, University at Buffalo; Michael Salomone, Washington State University; Stephan Stohler, University at Albany

Co-recipients: Maria C. Escobar-Lemmon, Texas A&M University; Valerie J. Hoekstra, Arizona State University; Alice J. Kang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University

Title: Reimagining the Judiciary: Women’s Representation on High Courts Worldwide. Oxford University Press 2021.

Co-recipient: James Gibson, Washington University and Michael Nelson, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis. Russell Sage Foundation, 2021,

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.

Award Committee: Brett Curry (Chair), Georgia Southern University; Justin Crowe, Williams College; Charles Epp, University of Kansas; Ellen Key, Appalachian State University; Alyx Mark, Wesleyan University

Co-recipient: Thomas Ginsburg, University of Chicago

Title: Judicial Review in New Democracies. Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Co-recipients: Christina Boyd, University of Georgia; Lee Epstein, Washington University; Andrew Martin, Washington University

Title: “Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging.” American Journal of Political Science, 2010.

Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award

Given for a lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching and service to the Law and Courts field.

Award Committee: Isaac Unuh (Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lawrence Baum, Ohio State University; Kimberley Fletcher, San Diego State University; Melinda Gann Hall, Michigan State University; Marie Provine, Arizona State University

Recipient: Malcolm Feeley, University of California Berkley

Section 3: Legislative Studies

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 potential application to strengthening the practice of representative democracy. The prize is funded by the Trust for Representative Democracy of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation.

Award Committee: Jason Casellas (Chair), University of Houston; Jon Rogowski, University of Chicago; Carlos Algara, Claremont Graduate University

Recipients: Alexander Bolton, Emory University and Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University

Title: Checks in the Balance: Legislative Capacity and the Dynamics of Executive Power. Princeton University Press, 2021.

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.

Award Committee: Erinn Lauterbach (Chair), University of Virginia; Geoff Lorenz, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Darrian Stacy, United States Naval Academy

Recipient: Michael Kistner, University of Houston

Title: “Fundraising for the Caucus: Money, Party Politics, and Policymaking in American Legislatures.” Princeton University, 2021.

CQ Press Award

The CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies presented at the previous year’s (2021) APSA Annual Meeting

Award Committee: Jessica Preece (Chair), Brigham Young University; Eric Juenke, Michigan State University; Matthew Hayes, Rice University

Recipients: Pamela Ban, University of California, San Diego; Ju Yeon Park, University of Essex; Hye Young You, New York University

Title: “How Are Politicians Informed? Witnesses and Information Provision in Congress.” Presented at APSA Annual Meeting, 2021.

Jewell-Loewenberg Prize

Jewell-Loewenberg Prize for the best article in the Legislative Studies Quarterly in the previous year. All articles published in LSQ the previous year (2021) are under consideration.

Award Committee: Michael Peress (Co-Chair), State University of New York, Stony Brook; Joshua Ryan (Co-Chair), Utah State University; Brian Hamel (Co-Chair), Louisiana State University

American Politics

Recipients: Andrew O. Ballard, American University; Hans J.G. Hassell, Florida State University; Michael Heseltine, American University

Title: “Be Careful What You Wish For: The Impacts of President Trump’s Midterm Endorsements.” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2021.

Comparative Politics

Recipients: Mariana Llanos, University of Erfurt and Anibal Perez-Linan, University of Notre Dame

Title: “Oversight or Representation? Public Opinion and Impeachment Resolutions in Argentina and Brazil.” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2021.

Subnational Politics

Recipient: Sebastian Thieme, University of Toulouse Capitole

Title: “A Direct Test of Legislative Gatekeeping.” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2021.

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.

Award Committee: Beth Reingold (Chair), Emory University; Christopher Stout, Oregon State University; Kirsten Widner, University of Tennessee

Recipient: Christian Dyogi Phillips, University of Southern California

Title: Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award

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.

Award Committee: David Canon, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Stella Rouse, University of Maryland, College Park; Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice University

Recipient: Lynda Powell, University of Rochester

Emerging Scholar Award

The Emerging Scholar award is designed to recognize a scholar who is no more than 6 years from the year of their PhD who has informed the study of legislative politics through innovative and rigorous scholarship.

Award Committee: Ken Opalo (Chair), Georgetown University; Sophia Wallace, University of Washington, Seattle; Claire Abernathy, Stockton University

Recipient: Jaclyn Kaslovsky, Rice University

Section 4: Public Policy

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 twenty (20) to thirty (30) years. This award carries a $500 prize.

Award Committee: Terry M. Moe, Stanford University; Andrea L. Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Craig Volden, University of Virginia

Recipient: Jacob Hacker, Yale University

Title: The Divided Welfare State: The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States. Cambridge University Press, 2002.

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.

Award Committee: Vladimir Kogan (Chair), Ohio State University; Natalia Bueno, Emory University; Simon F. Haeder, Pennsylvania State University

Recipient: Leslie Finger, University of North Texas and Michael Hartney, Boston College

Title: “Politics, Markets, and Pandemics: Public Education’s Response to COVID-19.”

Best Comparative Policy Paper Award

The Best Comparative Policy Paper Award recognizes a paper presented at the APSA Annual Conference 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. This award carries a prize of $500.

Award Committee: Isabel Perera (Chair), Cornell University; Ana Catalano Weeks, University of Bath; Scott Greer, University of Michigan

Recipients: Ling Chen, Johns Hopkins University SAIS and Florian Hollenbach, Texas A&M University

Title: “Capital Mobility and Taxation in Non-OECD Countries: Evidence from China”

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.

Award Committee: Sarah Reckhow (Chair), Michigan State University; Michael Henderson, Louisiana State University; Sara Hughes, University of Michigan

Recipient: Ursula Hackett, Royal Holloway, University of London

Title: “Attenuated Governance: How Policymakers Insulate Private School Choice from Legal Challenge”

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.

Award Committee: Melissa Sands (Chair), London School of Economics; Tanu Kumar, Claremont Graduate University; Paasha Mahdavi, University of California, Santa Barbara

Recipient: Loleen Berdahl, University of Saskatchewan

Section 5: Political Organizations and Parties

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award

The Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field

Award Committee: Paul Herrnson (Chair), University of Connecticut; Richard Hall, University of Michigan; Ollie A. Johnson, Wayne State University

Recipient: John C. Green, University of Akron & The Bliss Institute of Applied Politics (Emeritus)

Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award

The 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.

Award Committee: Rob Boatright (Chair), Clark University; Nathan Kalmoe, Louisiana State University; Maraam Dwidar, Syracuse University

Recipient: Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University

Title: The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

POP/Party Politics Best Paper Award

The POP/Party Politics Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper delivered on a Political Organizations and Parties-sponsored panel at the preceding APSA annual meeting.

Award Committee: Vineeta Yadav (Chair), Pennsylvania State University; Bonnie Meguid, University of Rochester; Eric Heberlig, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Recipient: Aytuğ Şaşmaz, Stanford University and Bryn Mawr College

Title: “Unequal Political Selection across Parties: Evidence from the Secular-Islamist Competition in Tunisia.” Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

Jack Walker Award

The 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.

Award Committee: Hye Young You (Chair), New York University; Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics; Brian Brox, Tulane University

Recipients: Alexandra E. Cirone, Cornell University; Gary W. Cox, Stanford University; Jon H. Fiva, Norwegian Business School

Title: “Seniority-Based Nominations and Political Careers.” 2021. American Political Science Review 115 (1): 234-251

Emerging Scholars Award

The Emerging Scholar Award recognizes a scholar who has received his or her PhD within the last five years and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Award Committee: Beth Leech (Chair), Rutgers University; Jake Grumbach, University of Washington; Zim Nwokora, Deakin University

Recipient: Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany-State University of New York

Section 6: Public Administration

Herbert Kaufman Award

The APSA Section on Public Administration Herbert Kaufman Best Paper award.

Award Committee: Daniel Berliner, London School of Economics; Carla Flink, American University; Miyeon Song, Rutgers University - Newark

Recipients: Daniel P. Carpenter, Harvard University; Angelo Dagonel, Harvard University; Devin Judge-Lord, Harvard University; Christopher T. Kenny, Harvard University; Brian Libgober, University of California, San Diego; Steven Rashin, University of Texas at Austin; Jacob Waggoner, Harvard University; Susan Webb Yackee, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Title: “Inequality in Administrative Democracy: Large-Sample Evidence from American Financial Regulation.” Presented at the 2021 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

Herbert A. Simon Book Award

The Herbert Simon Book Award is given for significant contributions to public administration scholarship.

Award Committee: Andrew Whitford, University of Georgia; Jessica Terman, George Mason University; Cullen Merritt, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Recipients: Pamela Herd, Georgetown University and Donald Moynihan, Georgetown University

Title: Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means. Russell Sage Foundation, 2018.

Paul Volker 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.

Award Committee: Daniel Chand, Kent State University; Nick Petrovosky, City University of Hong Kong; James E Wright II, Florida State University

$3,000 Award

Recipient: Tracee Saunders, Georgetown University

Title: “Inaccessible by design? Administrative burden and the politics of Medicaid take-up between and within United States.”

$2,800 Award

Recipient: Mauricio Astudillo-Rodas, Rutgers University - Newark

Title: “Public servants: Let’s talk about transparency in the workplace.”

Haldane Prize for Best Paper in Public Administration

This award is for the best paper published in the journal Public Administration in 2021.

Award Committee: Ricardo Gomes; Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University; Mogens Jin Pedersen, University of Copenhagen

Recipients: Tara Grillos, Purdue University; Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago; Krister Andersson, University of Colorado Boulder

Title: “Governance reform, decentralization, and teamwork in public service delivery: Evidence from the Honduran health sector.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/padm.12722.

Section 7: Conflict Processes

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.

Award Committee: Jonathan Renshon (Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael Rubin, University of Connecticut; Tricia Bacon, American University

Recipient: Jessie Bullock, Harvard University

Title: “Machine Gun Politics: Why Politicians Cooperate with Criminal Groups"

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given 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.

Award Committee: Danielle Jung (Chair), Emory University; Ana Arjona, Northwestern University; David Cunningham, University of Maryland

Recipient: Jason Lyall, Dartmouth College

Title: Inequality & Battlefield Performance in Modern War

Section 8: Representation and Electoral Systems

George H. Hallett Award

The George H. Hallett Award is given to the best book, which is at least ten years old, that has made a lasting contribution to the literature on representation and electoral systems.

Award Committee: Tiffany Barnes (Chair), University of Kentucky; Ruth Dassonville, University of Montreal; Tiffiany Howard, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Recipient: Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice University

Title: Political Power and Women’s Representation in Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2010.

Lawrence Longley Award

The Lawrence Longley Award is given to the best article on representation and electoral systems published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Nicholas Kerr (Chair), University of Florida; Soren Jordan, Auburn University; Bridgett King, Auburn University

Recipients: Timm Betz, Technical University of Munich; David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego; Diana O’Brien, Rice University

Title: ‘Women’s Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination.” American Political Science Review 115 (1) 2021, 307-315.

Honorable Mentions: Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University and Garreth Nellis, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Overcoming the Political Exclusion of Migrants: Theory and Experimental Evidence from India.” American Political Science Review 115 (4) 2021, 1129-1146.

Leon Weaver Award

The Leon Weaver Award is given to the best paper presented at the previous APSA on a conference panel sponsored by the Representation and Electoral Systems Section.

Award Committee: Irfan Nooruddin (Chair), Georgetown University; Carew Boulding, University of Colorado, Boulder; K. Juree Capers, Georgia State University

Recipient: Mackenzie Lockhart, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Declining Local News Benefits Incumbents and Extremists in Primary Elections.” Paper Presented at the APSA 2021 Annual Meeting.

Section 9: Presidents and Executive Politics

The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

The Richard E. Neustadt Award will be given for the best book on executive politics published during 2021.

Award Committee: Dan Ponder (Chair), Drury University; Rebecca Thorpe, University of Washington; Matt Miles, Brigham Young University -Idaho; Anne Pluta, Rowan University, Colleen Shogan, White House Historical Association; Amnon Cavari, IDC Herzliya/University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recipient: John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University

Title: By Executive Order: Bureaucratic Management and the Limits of Presidential Power. Princeton University Press, 2021.

Recipient: Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College

Title: Power Shifts: Congress and Presidential Representation. University of Chicago Press, 2021.

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

The George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on executive politics completed and accepted during the previous two calendar years (January 1, 2020 – December 31, 2021). The recipient will receive a $250 award.

Award Committee: Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha (Chair), University of North Texas; John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University; Jose D. Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso; Nancy Kassop, SUNY-New Paltz

Recipient: Nathan Gibson, Princeton University

Title: “Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization”

Founders Best Paper Award Honoring Bert Rockman by PhD-holding Scholar

The Founders Award honoring Bert Rockman will be given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD-holding scholar at the previous year’s (2021) APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Kevin Baron (Chair), Austin Peay State University; Meena Bose, Hofstra University; Yu Ouyang, Purdue University Northwest; Jon Rogowski, University of Chicago

Recipients: Kyuwon Lee, New York University and Hye Young You, New York University

Title: “Bureaucratic Revolving Doors and Interest Group Participation in Policymaking.” Presented at the 2021 APSA meeting in Seattle, Washington, September, 2021.

Founders Award Honoring David Naveh for Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Founders Award honoring David Naveh 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 2020 or 2021.

Award Committee: Andrew Rudalevige (Chair), Bowdoin College; Alison Howard, Dominican University of California; Brandon Doherty, United States Naval Academy; Mary Stuckey, Pennsylvania State University

Recipients: Christopher W. Blair, University of Pennsylvania and Joshua A. Schwartz, University of Pennsylvania and Belfer Center, Harvard Kennedy School

Title: “The Gendered Peace Premium.” Presented at 2021 APSA in Seattle, WA.

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.

Award Committee: Julia Azari (Chair), Marquette University; William Adler, Northeastern Illinois University; Mary McHugh, Merrimack University; Zim Nwokora, Deakin University, Melbourne Campus

Recipient: Mary E. Stuckey, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity. University Press of Kansas, 2004.

Recipient: George Edwards III, Texas A&M University (Emeritus)

Title: On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit. Yale University Press, 2006

Section 11: Religion and Politics

Hubert Morken Book Award

The Hubert Morken Award is given for the best book dealing with religion and politics published within the previous year.

Award Committee: Michael Driessen, John Cabot University; Alexander Thurston, University of Cincinnati; Michele Margolis, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Jonathan Laurence, Boston College

Title: Coping with Defeat: Sunni Islam, Roman Catholicism and the Modern State. Princeton University Press.

Honorable Mentions: David E. Campbell, University of Notre Dame; Geoffrey C. Layman, University of Notre Dame; John C. Green, University of Akron

Title: Secular Surge: A New Faultline in American Politics. Cambridge University Press.

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award

Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation in the field of religion and politics.

Award Committee: Kikue Hamayotsu, Northern Illinois University; Alexandra Blackman, Cornell University; Ani Sarkissian, Michigan State University

Recipient: Jessica Soedirgo, University of Amsterdam

Title: “The Threat of Small Things: Patterns of Repression and Mobilization Against Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia.” PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2020.

Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award

This award is presented for the best article published in Politics and Religion in the 2021 calendar year.

Award Committee: Jonathan Agensky, Ohio University; Amanda Friesen, University of Western Ontario; Ajay Verghese, Middlebury College

Recipient: Joel Day, University of Denver

Title: “Everyday practices of toleration: The Interfaith foundations of peace accords in Sierra Leone.” Politics & Religion (vol 14:01).

Honorable Mentions: Anwar Mhajne, Stonehill College and Rasmus Brandt

Title: “Rights, Democracy, and Islamist Women’s Activism in Tunisia and Egypt.” Politics & Religion (vol14:04).

Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award

Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting (2021).

Award Committee: David Buckley, University of Louisville; Tugba Bozcaga, King’s College London; Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University

Recipient: Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Stanford University

Title: “Religious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Distribute in Ramadan.” Presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award is given annually to a conference paper studying any aspect of religion and politics presented by a PhD student in political science.

Award Committee: Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University; Jim Guth, Furman University; David Barker, American University

Recipient: Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Columbia University

Title: “Religious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Distribute in Ramadan.” Presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award

The Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award recognizes a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the field of religion and politics.

Award Committee: Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham; Paul Djupe, Denison University; Jonathan Fox, Bar Ilan University

Recipient: Laura Olson, Clemson University

Section 13: Urban and Local Politics

Dennis Judd Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University; Joel Rast, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Sharon Austin, University of Florida

Recipient: Charley Willison, Cornell University

Title: Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States. Oxford University Press, 2021

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.

Award Committee: Amy Widestrom, Arcadia University; Chloe Thurston, Northwestern University; Ashley Nickels, Kent State University

Recipient: Jae Yeon Kim, KDI

Title: Kim: “Essays on the Politics of Solidarity in Multiracial America”

Recipient: Emily Rains, Louisiana State University

Title: “Negotiating Informality: Essays on Policy Needs and Political Problem-Solving in Indian Slums”

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.

Award Committee: Patricia Posey, University of Chicago; Davia Downey, University of Memphis; Paru Shah, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recipients: Andrene Wright, Northwestern University and Ana Oaxaca, University of California, Los Angeles

Best Paper Award

Urban Affairs Review is sponsoring a $250 award for the Best Paper in Urban or Regional Politics presented at the 2021 American Political Science Association conference.

Award Committee: Patricia Posey, University of Chicago; Davia Downey, University of Memphis; Paru Shah, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recipient: Andrene Wright, Northwestern University

Title: “Black Women’s Politics in US Urban Cities: A 3-Part Paper Centering the Role of Black women Mayors in African American Politics”

Recipient: Ana Oaxaca, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “All Politics is Local? The Impact of Nationalization on Local Elite Decision Making on Immigration”

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.

Award Committee: David Imbroscio, University of Louisville; Cedric Johnson, University of Illinois Chicago; Theresa Enright, University of Toronto

Recipient: Adolph Reed, University of Pennsylvania

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 2021 APSA meeting to the 2021 Division Chairs.

Award Committee: Jamila Michener, Cornell University; Myra Holman, Tulane University; Christina Greer, Fordham University

Recipients: Patricia Posey, University of Chicago; Bryant Moy, Washington University of St. Louis; Matthew Nelsen, University of Chicago

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 given to up to two post-PhD scholars who are in their career (pre-tenure, or recently advanced within the last 3 years).

Award Committee: Lester Spence, Johns Hopkins University; Yue Zhang, University of Illinois Chicago; Michael Leo Owens, Emory University

Recipients: Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Harvard University and Yanilda González, Harvard University

Section 15: Science, Technology & Environmental Politics

Don K. Price Award

The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.

Award Committee: Rachel Krause (Chair), University of Kansas; Tomás Oliver, Florida Atlantic University; David Switzer, University of Missouri

Recipient: Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University

Title: Collaborative Advantage: Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy. Oxford University Press, 2021.

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.

Award Committee: Edella Schlager (Chair), University of Arizona; Elizabeth Koebele, University of Nevada, Reno; Kimberly. K Smith, Colgate University

Recipient: Janina Grabs, ESADE Business School

Title: Selling Sustainability Short?: The Private Governance of Labor and the Environment in the Coffee Sector. Cambridge University Press, 2020

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award is named in honor of a young scholar who tragically passed away, is given for the best dissertations in the field of science, technology and environmental politics.

Award Committee: Hongtao Yi (Chair), Ohio State University; Alexander Gard-Murray, Brown University; Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin

Recipient: Michael Lerner, London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: “Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership”

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.

Award Committee: Rob DeLeo (Chair), Bentley University; Saad Gulzar, Stanford University; Annemieke van den Dool, Duke Kunshan University

Recipient: Alice Xu, Harvard University

Title: “The Political Origins of Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon, 2000-2012.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of APSA, 2021.

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

Award Committee: Liz Shanahan (Chair), Montana State University; Peter May, University of Washington; Tanya Heikkila, University of Colorado Denver

Recipient: Edella Schlager, University of Arizona

The Emerging Young Scholars Award

The Emerging 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.

Award Committee: Kristin Taylor (Chair), Wayne State University; Gwen Arnold, University of California, Davis; Deserai Crow, University of Colorado Denver

Recipient: Hongtao Yi, Ohio State University

Section 16: Women, Gender, and Politics Research

Best Dissertation Prize

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year. Award amount $500.

Award Committee: Miki Kittilson (Chair), Arizona State University; Kaitlin Kelly-Thompson, Tufts University; Evelyn Simien, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Elizabeth Corredor, Rutgers University

Title: “Gender Justice, Resistance, and the Politics of Peace in Colombia: A Gender Analysis of Colombia’s 2010-2016 Peace Negotiations and Final Agreement.” PhD Thesis, Rutgers University.

Honorable Mention: Tutku Ayhan Ergin, University of Central Florida

Title: “Trauma, Resilience, and Empowerment: Post-Genocide Experiences of Yezidi Women.” PhD Thesis, University of Central Florida.

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on women, gender, and politics at the previous year’s APSA conference. Award amount $500.

Award Committee: Kanisha Bond (Chair), SUNY Binghamton; Rebecca Sanders, University of Cincinnati; Laura Jenkins, University of Cincinnati

Recipients: Rebekka Friedman, King’s College London and Hanna Ketola, King’s College London

Title: “Violations of the Heart: Parental Harm in Contexts of Mass Violence.” Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.

The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory is jointly given by the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science. The award 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 theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year. Award amount: $750.

Award Committee: Lorna Bracewell, Flagler College; Susan Bickford, University of North Carolina; Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan

Recipients: Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London and Patricia Owens, University of Oxford

Title: “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution.” American Political Science Review, Volume 115, Issue 2 May 2021, pp. 347 – 359. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000969

Best Paper on Intersectionality Award

Best Paper on Intersectionality, to be co-sponsored with the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section. This award is for the best paper addressing intersectionality presented at the previous year’s annual meeting. The scope of the award recognizes the roots of intersectional analysis in a critical analysis of the lived experiences of women of color, while also allowing for a more expansive reading of identity politics that takes into account multiple subjectivities and experiences, both within and outside the United States. Award amount $500.

Award Committee: Pearl Dowe (Chair) Emory University; Jamil Scott, Georgetown University; Sally Nuamah, Northwestern University

Recipient: Margaret Brower, Harvard University

Title: “Intersectional Advocacy: Reconfiguring the Violence Against Women Act.” Paper presented at APSA 2021.

Public Engagement Award

Public engagement award: An annual award to recognize the exemplary public-facing work of political scientists in the field of Women, Gender, and Politics. This award seeks to recognize significant efforts to serve a local community/do outreach on women, gender and politics, or efforts to diffuse knowledge beyond the classroom, and to make a social/political difference. Award amount $500.

Award Committee: Amanda Clayton (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Bhumi Purohit, University of California, Berkeley; Karen Owen, University of West Georgia

Recipient: Julieta Suárez-Cao, Instituto de Ciencia Política at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Politics & Gender Best Article Award

Best article published in Politics & Gender: An annual award to recognize the best article published in our section journal, Politics & Gender, during the previous year. Award amount $500.

Politics & Gender Editorial Board Award Committee: Kara Ellerby, University of Delaware; Pär Zetterberg, Uppsala University; Donald Haider-Markel, University of Kansas

Co-Recipients: Melissa Deckman, Washington College, Chestertown and Erin Cassese, University of Delaware, Newark

Title: “Gendered Nationalism and the 2016 US Presidential Election: How Party, Class, and Beliefs about Masculinity Shaped Voting Behavior.” Politics & Gender, 17(2), 277-300.

Co-Recipients: Marie E. Berry, University of Denver; Yolande Bouke, Queen’s University; Marilyn Muthoni Kamuru, Independent Consultant

Title: “Inclusion: Gender Quotas, Inequality, and Backlash in Kenya.” Politics & Gender, 17(4), 640-664.

Section 17: Foundations of Political Theory

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.

Award Committee: Andrew March, University of Chicago; Dave Gutterman, Willamette University; Rob Nichols, University of Minnesota

Recipient: Ellen Hunt Botting, University of Notre Dame

Title: Artificial Life After Frankenstein. University of Pennsylvania, 2021.

First Book Award

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.

Award Committee: Demetra Kasimis, University of Chicago; Ella Myers, University of Utah; Murad Idris, University of Michigan

Recipient: Erin Pineda, Smith College

Title: Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford, 2021.

Recipient: Zeynep Pamuk, University of San Diego

Title: Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society. Princeton, 2021.

Susan Okin Iris Marion Young Award

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, co-sponsored 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.

Award Committee: Lorna Bracewell, Flagler College; Susan Bickford, University of North Carolina; Arlene Saxonhouse, University of Michigan

Recipients: Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London and Patricia Owens, University of Oxford

Title: “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution.” American Political Science Review, Volume 115, Issue 2 May 2021, pp. 347 – 359. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000969

Section 18: Information Technology and Politics

Best Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Best paper presented in information technology and politics at the previous year’s APSA

Award Committee: Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky; Yini Zhang, SUNY Buffalo; Lindsey Cormack, Stevens Institute of Technology

Recipients: Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University; Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University; Johannes Kaiser, Loughborough University

Title: “The Campaign Disinformation Divide: Believing and Sharing News in the 2019 UK General Election”

Best Book in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

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.

Award Committee: Saif Shahin, Tilburg University; Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago; Vincent Raynauld, Emerson College

Recipients: Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University and Augusto Valeriani, University of Bologna

Title: Outside the Bubble: Social Media and Political Participation in Western Democracies. Oxford University Press.

Best Public Facing Scholarship in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Best public-facing scholarship published in the previous calendar year. This includes blog posts and popular press publications intended for a broad public audience.

Award Committee: Dave Karpf, George Washington University and Patricia Rossini, University of Liverpool

Recipient: Shannon McGregor, University of North Carolina

Section 19: International Security

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award

The Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award is a yearly award given by the International Security section to the best defended dissertation on the study of international security and arms control.

Award Committee: Steven Grenier (Chair), Johns Hopkins University; Richard Stoll, Rice University; Madison Schramm, Army War College; Max Margulies, United States Military Academy; Kevin DeJesus, Johnson and Wales University

Recipient: Sanne Cornelia J. Verschuren, Brown University

Title: “Imagining the Unimaginable: War, Weapons, and Procurement Politics.” 2021.

The Joseph Kruzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Public Service

The Joseph Kruzel Memorial Award 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 policy official who was killed while on a diplomatic mission to Bosnia.

Award Committee: John Riley (Chair), United States Air Force Academy; Lori Helene Gronich, George Washington University; John Garofano, Naval War College; Sonja Amadae, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Todd C. Robinson, Air War College

Recipient: Robert Jervis, Columbia University

Catherine Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article

The Catherine Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article recognizes the best peer-reviewed articles in the field of international security and security studies each year.

Award Committee: Indu Saxena (Chair), Rutgers University; Jerome Sibayan, Army War College; Richard Maas, Old Dominion University; Resat Bayer, Koç University; Allan Stam, University of Virginia

Recipient: Elizabeth Grasmeder, Duke University

Title: “Leaning on Legionnaires: Why Modern States Recruit Foreign Soldiers.” International Security, Summer 2021.

Robert Jervis Best International Security Book by Non-Tenured Faculty

Presented to outstanding international security themed book by a faculty member who has not yet earned tenure or teaches at an institution that does not grant tenure in 2021.

Award Committee: Sumit Ganguly (Chair), Indiana University; Chris Demchak, Naval War College; Erik Gartzke, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: Omar Shahabuddin McDoom, London School of Economics

Title: The Path to Genocide in Rwanda. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Section 20: Comparative Politics

Luebbert Book Prize

Awarded annually for the best book published in the field of comparative politics.

Award Committee: Dan Posner, University of California, Los Angeles; Amy Erica Smith, Iowa State University; Simeon Nichter, University of California, San Diego

Short Listing Committee: James Mahoney, Northwestern University; Rachel Brulé, Boston University; Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University

Recipient: Yanilda Maria Gonzalez, Harvard University

Title: Authoritarian Police in Democracy. Cambridge University Press.

Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Nugent, Yale University

Title: After Repression. Princeton University Press.

Sage Paper Prize

Awarded to the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2021 meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Award Committee: Marc Helbling, University of Mannheim; Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University; Jose Cheibub, Texas A&M University

Recipient: Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics

Title: “Building the Party on the Ground: The Role of Access to Public Office for Party Growth.”

Honorable Mention: Michael Albertus, University of Chicago and Noah Schouela, University of Chicago

Title: “When Redistribution Backfires: Theory and Evidence from Land Reform in Portugal.”

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award

Awarded annually to a publicly-available dataset in the field of comparative politics.

Award Committee: Dan Slater (Chair), University of Michigan; Jacob Nyrup, University of Oslo; Nirvikar Jassal, Stanford University

Co-recipients: Amanda Clayton, Vanderbilt University; Melanie M. Hughes, University of Pittsburgh; Pamela Paxton, University of Texas at Austin; Par Zetterberg, Uppsala University

Title: “Quota Adoption and Reform Over Time (QAROT)”

Co-recipients: Richard Gunther, Ohio State University and Paul A. Beck, Ohio State University

Title: “Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP)”

Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars

Awarded to a scholar up to ten years post-PhD whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.

Award Committee: Daniel Willard Gingerich, University of Virginia; Tulia Faletti, University of Pennsylvania; Noah Nathan, University of Michigan

Recipient: Alisha Holland, Harvard University

Honorable Mention: Evgeny Finkel, Johns Hopkins University SIAS

Luebbert Article Prize

Awarded annually for the best article published in the field of comparative politics during the previous two years

Award Committee: Daniel Gingrich (Chair), University of Virginia; Noah Nathan, University of Michigan; Tulia Falletti. University of Pennsylvania

Recipients: Donghyun Danny Choi, Brown University; Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics; Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “The Hijab Penalty: Feminist Backlash to Muslim Immigrants.” American Journal of Political Science, 2021.

Bingham Powell Mentoring Award

This prize, introduced in 2012, will be awarded on a bi-annual basis to a political scientist who throughout his or her career has demonstrated a particularly outstanding commitment to the mentoring of graduate students in comparative politics. The prize was named in honor of G. Bingham Powell and was initiated by his students.

Award Committee: David Laitin (Chair), Stanford University; Suzanne Berger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alexandra Scacco, WZB, Berlin

Recipient: Ellen Lust, University of Gotthenburg

Section 21: European Politics and Society

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given for the best book on European politics and society published in 2021.

Award Committee: Ari Ray, University of Geneva; Nils Redeker, European University Institute; Lauren Young, University of California, Davis

Recipient: David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego

Title: The Cycle of Coalition: How Parties and Voters Interact under Coalition Governance. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention: Deborah Boucoyannis, George Washington University

Title: Kings as Judges: Power, Justice and the Origins of Parliaments. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on European politics and society filed in 2021.

Award Committee: Carles Boix, Princeton University; Elliot Posner, Case Western Reserve University; Nicholas Ziegler, Brown University

Recipient: Sivaram Cheruvu, University of Texas at Dallas

Title: “Courts, Constraints, and Public Opinion in Europe.” Emory University, 202.

Best Article Award

The Best Article Award is given for the best article dealing with European politics and society published in 2021.

Award Committee: Francesc Amat, University of Barcelona; Jordi Muñoz, University of Barcelona; Nan Zhang, University of Mannheim

Recipients: Florian Foos, London School of Economics and Daniel Bischof, Aarhus University

Title: “Tabloid media campaigns and public opinion: Quasi-experimental evidence on Euroscepticism in England.” American Political Science Review, 2022.

Honorable Mention: Lukas Haffert, University of Zurich

Title: “The Long-Term Effects of Oppression: Prussia, Political Catholicism, and the Alternative für Deutschland.” American Political Science Review, 2022.

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on European politics and society at the 2021 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Award Committee: Danny Choi, University of Pittsburgh; Gemma Dipoppa, Stanford University; Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania

Co-recipient: Anil Menon, University of Michigan

Title: “The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany.” Presented at the APSA Annual Meeting, 2021

Co-recipients Alexander Wuttke, University of Mannheim and Florian Foos, London School of Economics

Title: “Making the Case for Democracy.” Presented at the APSA Annual Meeting, 2021.

Section 22: State Politics and Policy

Career Achievement Award

This annual award is given to a political scientist who has made a significant lifetime contribution to the study of politics and policy in the American states.

Award Committee: Nathaniel Birkhead (Chair), Kansas State University; Julia Payson, New York University; Zoe Nemerever, Texas Tech University

Recipient: Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University

Virginia Gray Book Award

This annual award is given to the author(s) of the best political science book published on the subject of United States state politics or policy in the preceding three calendar years.

Award Committee: Damon Cann (Chair), Utah State University; Laine P. Shay, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Hye Young You, New York University

Recipients: James L. Gibson, Washington University and Michael J. Nelson, Pennsylvania State University

Title: Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis. Russell Sage Foundation, 2021.

Recipient: Christopher J. Clark, University of North Carolina

Title: Gaining Voice: The Causes and Consequences of Black Representation in the American States. Oxford University Press, 2019.

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 from the annual return of the endowed Mooney Fund.

Award Committee: Adam Newmark (Chair), Appalachian State University; Scott LaCombe, Smith College; JoyAnna Hopper, University of Scranton

Recipient: Michael R. Kistner, University of Houston

Title: “Fundraising for the Caucus: Money, Party Politics, and Policymaking in American Legislatures”

State Politics and Policy Quarterly Best Paper Award

This annual award is given to the author(s) of the best paper on state politics and policy presented (or scheduled to have been presented) at any professional meeting in the previous calendar year. Graduate student winners will receive a plaque and $100 and faculty winners will receive a plaque.

Award Committee: Christopher Cooper (Chair), Western Carolina University; Jordan Butcher, Arkansas State University; Tessa Provins, University of Pittsburgh

Recipients: Derek E. Holliday, University of California, Los Angeles and Aaron Rudkin, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “DC On My Mind: National Considerations in State Political Decisions.” Presented at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Best Journal Article Award

This annual award is given to the author(s) of the best journal article on United States 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).

Award Committee: Rene R. Rocha (Chair), University of Iowa; Laura Bucci, Saint Joseph’s University; Timothy H. Callaghan, Texas A&M University

Recipients: Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester and Thad Kousser, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Life, Literacy, and the Pursuit of Prosperity: Party Competition and Policy Outcomes in 50 States.” American Political Science Review, 2021.

Emerging Scholar Award

This annual award is given to the top scholar in the field of state politics and policy who is within 10 years of earning a PhD.

Award Committee: Eric Gonzalez Juenke (Chair), Michigan State University; Jeff Yates, Binghamton University; Adam Chamberlain, Coastal Carolina University

Recipient: Jeffrey J. Harden, University of Notre Dame

Section 23: Political Communication

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.

Award Committee: Eunji Kim (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Bethany Albertson, The University of Texas at Austin; Babak Bahador, George Washington University

Recipients: Kevin (“Vin”) Arceneaux, Sciences Po, Center for Political Research and Martin Johnson, Louisiana State University (Posthumous)

Title: Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice. University of Chicago: 2013.

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. Preference will be given to papers presented in the Political Communication Section.

Award Committee: Anthony Gierzynski (Chair), University of Vermont; Sumitra Badrinathan, University of Oxford; Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky

Recipients: Andrew Chadwick, Loughborough University; Johannes Kaiser, Loughborough University; Cristian Vaccari, Loughborough University

(Other authors listed: Daniel Freeman, Sinéad Lambe, Bao S. Loe, Samantha Vanderslott, Stephan Lewandowsky, Meghan Conroy, Andrew R. N. Ross, Stefania Innocenti, Andrew J. Pollard, Felicity Waite, Michael Larkin, Laina Rosebrock, Lucy Jenner, Helen McShane, Alberto Giubilini, Ariane Petit & Ly-Mee Yu)

Title: “Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom.” Social Media + Society, 2021.

Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Timothy E. Cook Award 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.

Award Committee: Katherine Haenschen (Chair), Northeastern University; Fernando Feitosa, McGill University; Aysenur Dal, Bilkent University

Recipient: Nina Obermeier, Cornell University

Title: “Right-Wing Populism and the Rise of Internationalism in Europe.” APSA Annual Meeting 2021.

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.

Award Committee: Emily Sydnor (Chair), Southwestern University; Yini Zhang, University at Buffalo; Dan Myers, University of Minnesota

Recipient: Ina Goovaerts, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Title: “Destructive or Deliberative? An Investigation of the Evolution, Determinants, and Effects of the Quality of Political Debate.” KU Leuven.

Honorable Mention: Erin Rossiter, Washington University St. Louis

Title: “Measuring Agenda-Setting in Interpersonal Communication”

Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award

The Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award recognizes the best article published in the field of political communication in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Fabian Neuner (Chair), Arizona State University; Jason Coronel, Ohio State University; Jennifer Oser, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Recipients: Constantine Boussalis, Trinity College Dublin; Travis Coan, University of Exeter; Mirya Holman, Tulane University; Stefan Müller, University College Dublin

Title: “Gender, candidate emotional expression, and voter reactions during televised debates.” American Political Science Review, 2021.

David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship

The David Swanson Award for Service to Political Communication Scholarship recognizes distinguished and sustained contributions to the field as planners, editors, and leaders and in roles that require time and energy, innovation, and personal dedication. The award honors David Swanson, one of the founders of political communication who gave exemplary service to the ICA Political Communication Division and the APSA Political Communication Section.

Award Committee: Claes de Vreese (Chair) University of Amsterdam; Gianpietro Mazzoleni, University of Milan; Patricia Moy, University of Washington

Recipient: Yariv Tsfati, University of Haifa

Section 24: Politics and History

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.

Award Committee: Hendrik Spruyt (Chair), Northwestern University; Zeynep Bulutgil, University College London; Boris Heersink, Fordham University

Recipient: Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University

Title: Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation 1790-1870. Harvard University Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention: Peter Swenson, Yale University

Title: A History of Reform, Reaction and Money in American Medicine. Yale University Press, 2021

Mary Parker Follett Prize

The Mary Parker Follett Prize recognizes the best article on Politics and History published in the previous year.

Award Committee: Monica Prasad, Northwestern University; Dann Naseemullah, King’s College London; Didac Queralt, Yale University

Recipient: Matthew Denney, Yale University

Title: “’To Wage a War’”: Crime, Race, and State Making in the Age of FDR.” Studies in American Political Development, 35, no. 1 (2021): 16-56.

Recipient: Edgar Franco-Vivanco, University of Michigan

Title: “Justice as Checks and Balances: Indigenous Claims in the Courts of Colonial Mexico.” World Politics 73, no. 4 (2021): 712-773.

Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award

An award for the best dissertation in politics and history completed in the last two calendar years.

Award Committee: Steve Amberg, University of Texas at San Antonio; Jonathan Chausovsky, SUNY, Fredonia; Ursula Hackett, Royal Holloway University of London

Recipient: Paul Jeffrey Baumgardner, Augustana College

Title: “Retrenchment Rivals: Critical Legal Studies, Law-and-Economics, and the Legal Academy of the Long 1980s.” Department of Politics, Princeton University. Paul Frymer, Adviser.

David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award

An award for the best paper in politics and history presented at the previous annual meeting.

Award Committee: Tomila Lankina, London School of Economics; Keneshia Grant, Howard University; Luke Perez, Arizona State University

Recipients: Heather McCambly, University of Pittsburgh and Quinn Mulroy, Northwestern University

Title: “The Rise of (E)quality Politics: The Political Development of Higher Education Policy at FIPSE, 1969-1999.” Presented at the 2021 Annual Meetings of APSA.

Section 25: Political Economy

McGillivray Best Paper Award

Best paper in political economy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Orit Kedar (Chair), Hebrew University; Miguel Rueda, Emory University; Charlotte Cavaille, University of Michigan

Recipient: Tara Slough, New York University

Title: “Bureaucratic Quality and the Observability of Electoral Accountability.”

Honorable Mention: Tugba Bozcaga, King’s College London

Title: “Members of the Same Club? Subnational Variations in Electoral Returns to Public Goods.”

Michael Wallerstein Award

Best published article in political economy in a peer-reviewed journal.

Award Committee: Pablo Beramendi (Chair), Duke University; Alex Fouirnaies, University of Chicago; Erica Owen, University of Pittsburgh

Co-recipient: Maria Carreri, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Can Good Politicians Compensate for Bad Institutions? Evidence from an Original Survey of Italian Mayors.” Journal of Politics, 83.4(October 2021): 1229-1245.

Co-recipients: Leonardo Baccini, McGill University and Stephen Weymouth, Georgetown University

Title: “Gone for Good: Deindustrialization, White Voter Backlash and US Presidential Voting.” American Political Science Review, 115.2(2021): 550-567.

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award

Best Dissertation Award, named for Mancur Olson, is given for the best dissertation in political economy.

Award Committee: Brandice Canes-Wrone (Chair), Princeton University; Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University; Jorge Mangonnet, Oxford University

Co-recipient: Tanushree Goyal, Nuffield College, Oxford University

Title: “Representation from Below: How Women Mobilize Inside Parties.” Oxford University, 2021.

Co-recipient: Erik Wang, Princeton University

Title: “Leviathan’s Paradox? Bureaucrats and the Fight Against Corruption in China.” Princeton University, 2020.

William H. Riker Book Award

Best book award, named for William H. Riker, is given for the best book in political economy.

Award Committee: Monika Nalepa (Chair), University of Chicago; Alexandre Debs, Yale University; Anne Meng, University of Virginia

Recipient: Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University

Title: Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention: Bryn Rosenfeld, Cornell University

Title: The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Section 27: Critical Political Science (Formerly New Political Science)

Christian Bay Award

The Christian Bay Award recognizes the best paper presented on a critical political science panel at the previous year’s annual meeting.

Award Committee: Joanna Wuest (Chair), Princeton University; Isaac Kamola, Trinity College; Edwin Daniel Jacob, Arizona State University

Recipient: Nancy Sue Love, Appalachian State University

Title: “Land and Song: Indigenous Reflections on Sovereign Community”

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 Critical Political Science Section, “to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world,” into practice.

Award Committee: Joseph Peschek (Chair), Hamline University; Kevin Funk, Columbia University; Robert Velez, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Frances Fox Piven (Honorary), Graduate Center, CUNY

Recipient: Hoodstock

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.

Award Committee: Laura Katz Olson (Chair), Lehigh University; William Sokoloff, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Mary Witlacil, Colorado State University; Cornel West (Honorary), Union Theological Seminary

Co-recipients: Clyde Barrow, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley and Judith Grant, Ohio 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.

Award Committee: Albena Azmanova (Chair), University of Kent; Andrew Scerri, Virginia Tech; Kenton Worcester, Marymount Manhattan College; James Simmons, University of Wisconsin- Oshkosh

Recipients: Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University; Elizabeth McKenna, Johns Hopkins University; Michelle Oyakawa, Muskingum University

Title: Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award

For an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the APSA Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world.

Award Committee: Matt York (Chair), University College, Cork, Ireland; Rachel Brown, Washington University in St. Louis; Biko Koenig, Franklin & Marshall University; Stephen E. Bronner (Honorary), Rutgers University

Recipient: Lahoma Thomas, Toronto Metropolitan University

Title: “Seeing from Da Yaad: Black Women and the Politics of Respect.” PhD, University of Toronto.

Section 28: Political Psychology

Robert E. Lane Book Award

The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.

Award Committee: Nichole Bauer, Louisiana State University; Ismail White, Princeton University; Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University

Recipient: Cigdem V. Sirin, University of Texas at El Paso; Nicholas A. Valentino, University of Michigan; Jose D. Villalobos, University of Texas, El Paso

Title: Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.

Award Committee: Matt Nelsen, University of Chicago; Elizabeth Connors, University of South Carolina; Matthew Hayes, Washington University in Saint Louis

Recipient: Angie Ocampo, University of Pittsburgh

Title: “Becoming American: The Social and Political Incorporations of Latinos”

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. E

Award Committee: Christine Slaughter, Princeton University; Vivien Leung, Bucknell University; Marcel Roman, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Hui Bai, Stanford University

Title: “When Racism and Sexism Benefit Black and Female Politicians”

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

Award Committee: Chyrl Laird, University of Maryland; Nic Dias, University of Pennsylvania; Mara Ostfeld, University of Michigan

Recipients: Rachel Bernhard, University of California, Davis; Angela Ocampo, University of Maryland; Leor Zmigrod, University of Cambridge; Joe Vitriol, Stony Brook University; Crystal Robertson, University of California, Los Angeles; Yalidy Matos, Rutgers University; Julian Wamble, George Washington University

Section 29: Political Science Education

The Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentorship

Established in 2014 in memory of Dr. Craig L. Brians, this award is given annually to a faculty member who demonstrates 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.

Award Committee: Megan Becker, University of Southern California

Recipient: Kelebogile Zvobgo, College of William & Mary

The Best APSA Conference Paper Award

This award is given annually at the section meeting held in conjunction with the APSA annual meeting to the author(s) who present at the previous year’s annual APSA annual meeting, either in an oral session or poster session.

Award Committee: Rachel Bzostek Walker, Collin College and Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University

Recipient: Kathleen Cole, Metropolitan State University

Title: “That’s Our House! Let’s Take It Over! Antiracist Pedagogy in Direct Advocacy Courses”

The Lifetime Achievement Award

The awardee has 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.

Award Committee: Terry Gilmour, Midland College; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Rachel Bzostsek Walker, Collin College; Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego; Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University; J. Cherie Strahan, Virginia Commonwealth University; Patrick McKinlay, Morningside College

Recipient: Sherri Wallace, University of Louisville

The Distinguished Service Award

The awardee has 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.

Award Committee: Terry Gilmour, Midland College; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Rachel Bzostsek Walker, Collin College; Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego; Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University; J. Cherie Strahan, Virginia Commonwealth University, Patrick McKinlay, Morningside College

Recipient: Renee Van Vechten, University of Redlands

Section 30: Politics, Literature, and Film

Wilson Carey McWilliams Award

Best Paper Award at APSA

Award Committee: Katie Robiadek, Hood College; Davide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles; Michelle Kundmueller, Old Dominion University; Elizabeth Barringer, Bard College

Recipient: Adriana Alfaro Altamirano, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City

Title: Narrative and the “Art of Listening”: Ricoeur, Arendt, and the Political Dangers of Storytelling

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Recipient: Erica Kunimoto, University of Toronto

Title: Wollstonecraft’s Radicalism: Social Relations in Vindication and Maria

Section 31: Foreign Policy

The Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant

Award Committee: Dov H. Levin, University of Hong Kong and Danielle Lupton, Colgate University

Recipients: Gechun Lin, Washington University in St. Louis; Hoshik Nam, University of Iowa; Charmaine Willis, University at Albany, State University of New York; Rex Weiye Deng, Washington University in St. Louis

Section 32: Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior

Philip E. Converse Book Award

For an outstanding book in the field published at least 5 years before.

Award Committee: Samara Klar, University of Arizona; Yamil Ricardo Velez, Columbia University; Andy Baker, University of Colorado Boulder

Recipient: Ted Brader, University of Michigan

Title: Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Emerging Scholars Award

Recognizing a top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of the PhD.

Award Committee: Daniel Smith, University of Florida; Sharon Wright Austin, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Yoshikuni Ono, Waseda University

Recipients: Ashley Jardina, Duke University and John Holbein, University of Virginia

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is awarded annually to the author(s) the best paper delivered at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Spencer Piston, Boston University; Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, College of William & Mary; Ashley Jardina, Duke University

Recipient: Charles T. McClean, University of Michigan

Title: “The Element of Surprise: Election Timing and Opposition Preparedness.”

Best Article in Political Behavior

The Best Article in Political Behavior Award is awarded annually to the author(s) of the best article published in the journal during the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Alex Theodoridis, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Philip Jones, University of Delaware; Liran Harsgor, University of Haifa

Recipients: Jin Woo Kim, University of Pennsylvania and Eunji Kim, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Temporal Selective Exposure: How Partisans Choose When to Follow Politics.” Political Behavior 43, 1663–1683 (2021).

John Sullivan Award

The John Sullivan Award is awarded annually to the author(s) of the best paper by a graduate student on a panel sponsored by the APSA section on Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Amber Wichowsky, Marquette University; Joshua Robison, Aarhus University; Mollie Cohen, University of Georgia

Recipient: Sierra Davis Thomander, Stanford University

Title: “The Masculine/Feminine Double Bind: A Survey Experiment of Gendered Elections.” Paper delivered at 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.

Warren E. Miller Award

The Warren E. Miller Prize is awarded every 2-3 years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the EPOVB field.

Award Committee: Kay Schlozman, Boston College; Katherine Cramer, University of Wisconsin- Madison; Michael Delli Carpini; University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Pippa Norris, Harvard University

Section 33: Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation award is based on the following criteria—the dissertation: (1) makes an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary processes of racial and ethnic information; (2) addresses critical substantive issues through which racial and ethnic politics are played out; (3) generates discourse for innovative frameworks (and analyses) for the study of race, ethnicity, and politics; (4) is well-written; and is analytically rigorous (primary source data, case material, extant analyses, new or underutilized methodology).

Award Committee: Eric Gonzalez Juenke, Michigan State University; Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, George Mason University; Brian Calfano, University of Cincinnati

Recipient: Ada Johnson-Kanu, University of Kentucky

Title: “Colonial Legacies in State Building: Bureaucratic Embeddedness, Public Goods Provision, and Public Opinion in Nigeria.” University of California, Merced.

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.

Award Committee: Maneesh Arora, Wellesley College; Nura Sediqe, Princeton University; LaGina Gause, University of California, San Diego

Recipients: Allison Anoll, Vanderbilt University; Lauren Davenport, Stanford University; Rachel Lienesch, Stanford University

Title: “Perfect Proxies or Crosscutting Cleavages? Racial Context(s) in the United States”

Section 34: International History and Politics

Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award

This award is granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award is given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented.

Award Committee: Steven Lobell (Chair), University of Utah; Lora Viola, Freie Universtät Berlin; Julia Costa-Lopez, University of Gronigen

Recipient: Jeff D. Colgan, Brown University

Title: Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention: Sinja Graf, London School of Economics

Title: The Humanity of Universal Crime: Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Honorable Mention: Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark, Georgia Institute of Technology

Title: All Options on the Table: Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021).

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 of the American Political Science Association, 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.

Award Committee: Orfeo Fioretes, Temple University; Lindsey O’Rourke, Boston College; Yasu Izumikawa, Chuo University

Recipients: Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Suffolk University and Jennifer M. Dixon, Villanova University

Title: “Conceptualizing and Assessing Norm Strength in International Relations.” European Journal of International Relations 27 (2) 2021: 521-547.

Section 35: Democracy and Autocracy

Best Article Award

Single-authored or co-authored articles focusing on democratization and/or the development and dynamics of democracy and authoritarianism.

Award Committee: Sharan Grewal (Chair), College of William & Mary; Matthew Graham, George Washington University; Vilde Djuve, University of Oslo

Recipient: Agustina S. Paglayan, University of California, San Diego

Title: “The Non-Democratic Roots of Mass Education: Evidence from 200 Years.” American Political Science Review 115:1 (2021).

Best Book Award

Given for the best book focusing on democratization and/or the development and dynamics of democracy and authoritarianism, published in print in 2021.

Award Committee: Daniel Mattingly (Chair), Yale University; Guillermo Trejo, University of Notre Dame; Sandra Ley, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

Recipient: Bryn Rosenfeld, Cornell University

Title: The Autocratic Middle Class: How State Dependency Reduces the Demand for Democracy. Princeton University Press, 2021.

Best Fieldwork Award

This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct innovative and difficult fieldwork on the topics of democratization and/or the development and dynamics of democracy and authoritarianism.

Award Committee: Mashail Malik (Chair), Harvard University; Michelle Weitzel, Graduate Institute of Geneva; Alexis Lerner, United States Naval Academy

Recipient: Kaustav Chakrabarti, Ashoka University

Title: “Underground Governance: Rules-Based Order by Armed Groups in Northeast India.” Brown University, 2021.

Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper on democratization and/or the development and dynamics of democracy and authoritarianism presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Erin Lin (Chair), Ohio State University; Nikhar Gaikwad, Columbia University; Noah Zucker, Columbia University

Recipient: Roya Talibova, University of Michigan

Title: “Repression, Military Service, and Insurrection.” APSA Annual Meeting, 2021.

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award

Given for the best dissertation on democratization and/or the development and dynamics of democracy and authoritarianism completed and accepted in the two calendar years immediately prior to the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting (i.e., 2020 or 2021).

Award Committee: Jane Esberg (Chair), International Crisis Group; Irfan Nooruddin, Georgetown University; David Art, Tufts University

Recipient: Sasha de Vogel, New York University

Title: “Protest, Mobilization, Concessions, and Policy Change in Autocracies.” University of Michigan, 2021.

Section 36: Human Rights

Distinguished Scholar Award

Periodically, the Section may honor a distinguished scholar who has made a major contribution to the advancement of human rights scholarship and to our community through their research, teaching, mentoring of others, creation of opportunities for exchange and collaboration among scholars, or other means.

Award Committee: Brooke Ackerly (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California, Irvine; Zehra Arat, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Richard P. Hiskes, Grand Valley State University and Professor Emeritus from the University of Connecticut

Best Dissertation Award

Dissertation making the greatest contribution to the field of human rights in the previous calendar year. Please send a copy to each member of the committee.

Award Committee: Lucas Swaine (Chair), Dartmouth College; Michael Struett, North Carolina State University; Carrie Walling, Albion College

Recipient: Kelebogile Zvobgo, College of William and Mary

Title: “Governing Truth: NGOs and the Politics of Transitional Justice.” Dissertation at USC

Section 37: Qualitative and Multi-Method Research

Alexander L. George Article Award

This 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.

Award Committee: Elizabeth Nugent, Yale University; Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College; Diana Kim, Georgetown University

Recipient: Nicholas Barnes, University of St. Andrews

Title: “The Logic of Criminal Territorial Control: Military Intervention in Rio de Janeiro.” Comparative Political Studies 2021.

Honorable Mention: Sarah J. Lockwood, Columbia University

Title: “Protest Brokers and the Technology of Mobilization: Evidence from South Africa.” Comparative Political Studies, 2021

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

This 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.

Award Committee: Jennifer Bussell, University of California, Berkeley; Rachel Riedl, Cornell University; Laura Blume, University of Nevada

Recipient: Paul Staniland, University of Chicago

Title: Ordering Violence: Explaining Armed Group-State Relations from Conflict to Cooperation. Cornell University Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention: Eduardo Moncada, Barnard College

Title: Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Honorable Mention: Martha Wilfahrt, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Precolonial Legacies in Postcolonial Politics: Representation and Redistribution in Decentralized West Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2021

Kendra Koivu Paper Award

This award honors the scholarly legacy and contributions of Kendra Koivu, who published important works on process tracing, case selection, and other qualitative fields, and who provided valuable service to the section. This award is given to a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Award Committee: Ajay Verghese, Middlebury College; Rachel Schwartz, Otterbein University; Megan Becker, University of Southern California

Recipients: Jasmine English, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bernardo Zacka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “The Politics of Sight: Revisiting Timothy Pachirat’s Every Twelve Seconds.” Presented at the APSA Annual Meeting.

Honorable Mention: Yuan Wang, Duke Kunshan University

Title: “Executive Agency and State Capacity in Development: Comparing Sino-African Railways in Kenya and Ethiopia.” Presented at the APSA Annual Meeting.

Section 38: Sexuality and Politics

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

Award Committee: Edward Kammerer (Chair), Idaho State University; Gabriele Magni, Loyola Marymount University; Shih-chan Dai, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Recipient: Zein Murib, Fordham University

Title: “The Not-So Silent B: Bisexuality, from a Cultural Movement to Political Identity and Praxis.”

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.

Award Committee: Scott Siegel (Chair), San Francisco State University; Brian Harrison, Macalester College; Andrew Proctor, Wake Forest University

Recipient: Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago

Title: “Rights Projects in a Globalized World”

Section 39: Health Politics and Policy

Leonard S. Robins Award for the Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy

The section’s Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy Award is named in honor of Leonard S. Robins, who through his presence and gentle questioning at virtually every health politics panel graciously nurtured the scholarship of both junior and senior scholars. The award recognizes the best paper on any subject that fits under the rubric of Health Politics and Policy presented at the previous annual APSA meeting.

Award Committee: Steven Sylvester, Utah Valley University; Ling Zhu, University of Houston; Herschel S. Nachlis, Dartmouth College

Recipient: Guillermo Toral, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Turnover: How Electoral Accountability Disrupts the Bureaucracy and Service Delivery”

Honorable Mention: Abigail Fisher Williamson, Trinity College; Sarah S. Willen, University of Connecticut; Kristin K. Lunz Trujillo, University of Minnesota; Colleen C. Walsh, Cleveland State University

Title: “Whose Health Deserves Investment? A Crowdfunding Conjoint Experiment.”

Honorable Mention: Cesar Vargas Nunez, Stanford University

Title: “Feeling Ill: The Infectious Effect of Perspective-taking On Attitudes Toward Healthcare Access for Undocumented Immigrants.”

Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy Award

The Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy Award is offered to an individual who has contributed to health and health care system improvement through sustained engagement in the political and policy making process.

Award Committee: Eduardo Gomez, Lehigh University; Isabel Perera, Cornell University; Harold Pollack, University of Chicago; Susan Moffitt, Brown University

Recipient: Pamela Herd, Georgetown University

Section 41: Political Networks

The Political Ties Award

Awarded to the best article published on political networks in the past year.

Award Committee: Justin H. Kirkland, University of Virginia; Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania; Lindsey Cormack, Stevens Institute of Technology

Recipients: Nicholas Eubank, Duke University; Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania; Melina R. Platas, New York University Abu Dhabi; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University

Title: “Viral Voting: Social Networks and Political Participation.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science Vol. 16: No. 3, pp 265-284. http://doi.org/10.1561/100.00019092

Best Conference Paper Award

This award is given annually to the best paper on political networks presented by a faculty person delivered at a political science conference in the previous year.

Award Committee: Melina R. Platas, New York University Abu Dhabi; Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, University of Helsinki & Aalto University; Omer Yalcin, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Recipients: Naoki Egami, Columbia University and Eric J. Tchetgen, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Identification and Estimation of Causal Peer Effects Using Double Negative Controls for Unmeasured Network Confounding.”

John Sprague Award

Awarded to the best paper on political networks presented by a graduate student at a conference in the past year.

Award Committee: Sarah Shugars, New York University; Howard Liu, University of Essex; Tae Gyoon Kim, Pennsylvania State University

Recipient: Bomi K. Lee, University of Kentucky

Title: “Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration”

Section 42: Experimental Research

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation completed in the previous calendar year that utilizes experimental methods on substantive questions about politics or makes a fundamental contribution to experimental methods.

Award Committee: Graeme Blair (Chair), University of California Los Angeles, Josh Kalla, Yale University, Tara Slough, New York University

Co-recipient: Natalia Garbiras Díaz, European University Institute

Title: “Paving the way for the rise of outsiders: Candidate and voter behavior in an era of political disillusionment”

Co-recipient: Erin Rossiter, University of Notre Dame

Title: “Three Papers on Interpersonal Communication.”

Co-recipient: Anna Wilke, University of California, Berkeley

Title: “Essays on the Politics of Maintaining Order.”

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award recognizes a paper that was scheduled to be presented at APSA in the previous year and features experimental research.

Award Committee: Robert Blair (Chair), Brown University, Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics, Kris-Stella Trump, University of Memphis

Recipients: Nicholas Haas, Aarhus University and Emmy Lindstam, University of Mannheim

Title: My History or Our History? Historical Revisionism and Enticement to Lead.”

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book published in 2021 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics.

Award Committee: Ana Bracic, Michigan State University and Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania

Co-recipients: James Druckman, Northwestern University and Donald P. Green, University of California, Berkeley

Title: Advances in Experimental Political Science.

Co-recipients: Cigdem Sirin, University of Texas at El Paso; Nicholas Valentino, University of Michigan; Jose Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso

Title: Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article

This award is for the best research article published in the previous year in the Journal of Experimental Political Science.

Award Committee: Kevin Arceneaux (Chair), Sciences Po-Paris; Sarah Bush, Yale University, and Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary

Recipients: Donghyun Danny Choi, Brown University; Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics; Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Linguistic Assimilation Does Not Reduce Discrimination Against Immigrants: Evidence from Germany” Journal of Experimental Political Science volume 8.3.

Best Article with a Preregistration in JEPS Award

This award is the best article published in the previous year in the Journal of Experimental Political Science that conducts analysis that was registered in a pre-analysis plan.

Award Committee: Kevin Arceneaux (Chair), Sciences Po-Paris; Sarah Bush, Yale University, and Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary

Recipients: James N Druckman, Northwestern University; Samara Klar, University of Arizona; Yanna Krupnikov, Stony Brook University; Matthew Levendusky, University of Pennsylvania; John Barry Ryan, Stony Brook University

Title: “How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Experimental Political Science volume 8.3.

Best Replication in JEPS Award

This award is for the best article published in the previous year in the Journal of Experimental Political Science that conducts a replication of previously published work.

Award Committee: Kevin Arceneaux (Chair), Sciences Po-Paris; Sarah Bush, Yale University, and Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary

Recipients: Jared McDonald, Stanford University and James Igoe Walsh, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Title: “The Costs of Conflict and Support for the Use of Force: Accounting for Information Equivalence in Survey Experiments.” Journal of Experimental Political Science volume 8.3.

Section 43: Migration and Citizenship

Best Book Award

Award for best book on migration and/or citizenship published in the previous year (i.e., copyright and printed in 2021).

Award Committee: Lahra Smith, Georgetown University; Anna Boucher, University of Sydney; Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton University

Recipient: Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty, Syracuse University

Title: Discrimination and Delegation. Oxford University Press, 2021.

Best Article Award

Award for best article on migration and/or citizenship published (i.e., printed) in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Els de Graauw, Baruch College; Deborah Schildkraut, Tufts University; Fiona Adamson, SOAS University of London

Recipients: Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia and Andrew Shaver, University of California, Merced

Title: “Reexamining the Effect of Refugees on Civil Conflict: A Global Subnational Analysis.” American Political Science Review (2021) 115(4): 1175-1196.

Best Dissertation Award

Award for best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in the previous calendar year.

Award Committee: Hélène Thiollet, Sciences Po Paris; Michael Sharpe, York College and CUNY; Sener Aktürk, Koç University

Recipient: Victoria Finn, European University Institute

Title: “Migrant Rights, Voting, and Resocialization: Suffrage in Chile and Ecuador, 1925–2020.” PhD, 2021, Leiden University and Universidad Diego Portales.

Best Graduate Student Paper

Award for best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session).

Award Committee: Jeannette Money (Chair), University of California, Davis; Lauren Duquette-Rury, Wayne State University; Rachel Navarre, Bridgewater State University

Recipient: Samuel D. Schmidt, University of Lucerne

Title: “Open Borders versus Inclusive Citizenship? Distinct and Common Logics in Immigration and Membership Politics.” Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Meeting.

Section 44: African Politics Conference Group

Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation in political science based in African empirics.

Award Committee: Mesharch Walto Katusiimeh, Kabale University; Luqman Saka, University of Ilorin, Nigeria; Rob Blair, Brown University; Vibeke Wang, Chr. Michelsen Institute

Recipient: Delanyo Kpo, Princeton University

Title: “Returns on Repatriation: The Effects of Return Migration on Democratic Politics.” Princeton University, Politics Department, 2021.

Best Article

Best article published in political science based in African empirics.

Award Committee: Marijke Breuning, University of North Texas; Hakeem Onapajo, Nile University, Abuja; Mike Omilusi; Ekiti State University, Nigeria

Recipient: Elizabeth Wellman, Williams College and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Title: “Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa.”

American Political Science Review, Volume 115, Issue 1, February 2021, pp. 82–96. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055420000866

Section 45: Class and Inequality

Best Paper Award

The paper will be chosen from among those presented on APSA panels sponsored or cosponsored by the Class and Inequality section.

Award Committee: Frederick Solt, University of Iowa; Patricia Kirkland, Princeton University; Lucia Motolinia, Washington University in St Louis

Recipient: Chenoa Yorgason, Stanford University

Title: “Campaign finance vouchers do not reduce donor inequality.” Paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting 2021

Best Paper on Entrepreneurship and Inclusion

For the best paper on the topic of entrepreneurship and inclusion presented at any APSA panel—including those not hosted by the Class and Inequality section—at the previous APSA annual meeting. Sponsored by The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.

Award Committee: Anita Manion, University of Missouri-St Louis; James Conran, University of Oregon; Abhit Bhandari, Temple University

Faculty Award

Recipients: Allison Spencer Hartnett, University of Southern California and Mohamed Saleh, University of Toulouse Capitole

Title: “Intra-Elite Conflict and Demands for Power-Sharing: Evidence from Khedival Egypt.” Paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting 2021.

Graduate Student Award

Recipient: Adaugo Pamela Nwakanma, Harvard University

Title: “The Gendered Economics of Political Empowerment: Lessons from Nigeria, Africa’s Largest Economy.” Paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting 2021.

Best Paper on Economic and Social Inequality

The paper will be chosen from among those presented on any APSA panel in the prior year (regardless of which Section sponsored the panel) that discuss the intersection of economic inequality and other social inequalities (e.g., racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation).

Award Committee: Kris-Stella Trump, University of Memphis; Alice Xu, Yale University; Joshua Robison, Leiden University

Recipient: Nirvikar Jassal, Stanford University

Title: “Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Evidence from Women’s Complaints in India.” Paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting 2021.

Best Dissertation on Class and Inequality

The dissertation will be chosen from among those completed by graduate student Section members in the preceding calendar year.

Award Committee: Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz; Asli Cansunar, University of Washington; Christina Farhart, Carleton College

Recipient: Michael E. Shepherd Jr., University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Unhealthy Democracy: How Partisan Politics is Killing Rural America.” Vanderbilt University, 2021.

Best Book on Class and Inequality

The book will be chosen from among those published by Section members in the prior two calendar years.

Award Committee: Marko Klasnja, Georgetown University; Emma Saunders-Hastings, Ohio State University; Rune Stubager, Aarhus University

Recipient: Andreas Wiedemann, Princeton University

Title: Indebted Societies. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Section 46: Ideas, Knowledge and Politics

Best Book Award

This award recognizes the best recent book on empirical or normative aspects of the causal role of ideas or knowledge claims in politics or government.

Award Committee: Paul M. D. Gunn (Chair), Goldsmith’s, University of London; Kevin Elliott, Murray State University; Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Jeffrey Friedman, Harvard University

Title: Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy. Oxford University Press, 2019.

Section 47: American Political Thought

Best Book in American Political Thought

Winner of The Best Book in American Political Thought Award will be chosen every year by the section council.

Award Committee: Jennette Kirkpatrick, Arizona State University; Alison McQueen, Stanford University; Russell Muirhead, Dartmouth College

Recipient: Emily Pears, Claremont McKenna College

Title: Chords of Affection: Constructing Constitutional Union in Early American History. University Press of Kansas, 2021.

Best Article in American Political Thought

The winner of The Best Article in American Political Thought Award will be chosen every year by the Section Council from among the articles published in the journal American Political Thought the preceding year.

Award Committee: Susan McWilliams Barndt, Pomona College and Jeremy Bailey, University of Houston

Recipient: Cara J. Rogers, Ashland University

Title: “The French Experiment: Thomas Jefferson and William Short Debate Slavery, 1785-1826.” American Political Thought, v10 #3 (Summer 2021).

Section 48: International Collaboration

Best Article Award

The Best Article Award is given for the best article on international collaboration published in 2021.

Award Committee: Erin Graham (Chair), University of Notre Dame; Stephen Chaudoin, Harvard University; Jack Zhang, University of Kansas

Recipient: Sam S Rowan, Concordia University, Canada

Title: “Does Institutional Proliferation Undermine Cooperation? Theory and Evidence from Climate Change.” International Studies Quarterly, Volume 65, Issue 2, June 2021, Pages 461–475, https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqaa092

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given for the best book on international collaboration published in 2021.

Award Committee: Allison Carnegie (Chair), Columbia University; Giovanni Mantilla, University of Cambridge; Austin Carson, University of Chicago

Co-recipient: Jeff Colgan, Brown University

Title: Partial Hegemony. Oxford University Press (2021).

Co-recipient: Simone Dietrich, University of Geneva Switzerland

Title: States, Markets, and Foreign Aid. Cambridge University Press (2021)

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on international collaboration for a PhD awarded in 2021.

Award Committee: Alexandra Guisinger (Chair), Temple University; Renanah Miles Joyce, Brandeis University; Karolina Milewicz, University of Oxford

Recipient: Richard T. Clark, Columbia University

Title: “Better Together? How International Organizations Combat Complexity Through Cooperation.” Columbia University, 2021

Honorable Mention: Alexandra Cecylia Chinchilla, University of Chicago

Title: “Advising War: Limited Intervention in Conflict.” University of Chicago, 2021

Distinguished Mentor Award

The Distinguished Mentor Award is given for excellence in mentoring graduate students and junior faculty in the study of international collaboration.

Award Committee: Cristina Bodea (Chair), Michigan State University; Jeff Colgan, Brown University; Ayşe Zarakol, University of Cambridge

Recipient: Brett Ashley Leeds, Rice University

Section 49: Middle East and North Africa Politics

Best Book on MENA Politics

Awarded for the best book published.

Award Committee: Lisa Blaydes (Chair), Stanford University; Francesco Cavatorta, Universite Laval; Noora Lori, Boston University

Senior

Co-recipient: Mona El-Ghobashy, New York University

Title: Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation. Stanford University Press, 2021

Co-recipient: Khalid Mustafa Medani, McGill University

Title: Black Markets and Militants: Informal Networks in the Middle East and Africa. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Junior (PhD in last 10 years)

Co-recipient: Avital Livny, University of Illinois

Title: Trust and the Islamic Advantage: Religious-Based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World. Cambridge University Press, 2020

Co-recipient: Raphaël Lefèvre, University of Oxford

Title: Jihad in the City: Militant Islam and Contentious Politics in Tripoli. Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Best Article

Best Article on MENA Politics.

Award Committee: Richard Nielsen (Chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zahra Babar, Georgetown University-Qatar; Bassel Salloukh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Recipient: Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University

Title: “(Dis)courtesy Bias: ‘Methodological Cognates,’ Data Validity, and Ethics in Violence-Adjacent Research.” Comparative Political Studies 55, no. 3 (2021): 420-450.

Honorable Mention: Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins-SAIS

Title: “The Empire’s Opposition Strikes Back: Popular Culture as Creative Resistance Tool under Turkey’s AKP.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 48, no. 1 (2021): 24-43.

Best Dissertation on MENA Politics

Awarded for the best doctoral thesis.

Award Committee: Adria Lawrence (Chair), Johns Hopkins University; Chantal Berman, Georgetown University; Steve L. Monroe, Yale-NUS College

Recipient: Jannis Grimm, Freie Universität Berlin

Title: “Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt,” Freie Universität Berlin, 2019

Honorable Mention: Steven Schaaf, University of Mississippi:

Title: “Litigating the Authoritarian State: Lawful Resistance and Judicial Politics in the Middle East.” George Washington University, 2021,

Best Fieldwork

Best Fieldwork in MENA Politics.

Award Committee: Richard Nielsen (Chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zahra Babar, Georgetown University-Qatar; Bassel Salloukh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Recipient: Dina Bishara, Cornell University

Title: “The Generative Power of Protest: Time and Space in Contentious Politics.” Comparative Political Studies 54, no. 10 (2021): 1722-1756.

Best Original Dataset

Best Original Dataset in MENA Politics.

Award Committee: Richard Nielsen (Chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Zahra Babar, Georgetown University-Qatar; Bassel Salloukh, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies

Recipient: Neil Ketchley, University of Oslo and Thoraya El-Rayyes, London School of Economics

Title: “Unpopular protest: Mass mobilization and attitudes to democracy in post-Mubarak Egypt.” Journal of Politics 83, no. 1 (2022): 291-305.

Section 50: Civic Engagement

Established Leader Award

The APSA Civic Engagement Section Established Leader Award recognizes the outstanding and sustained achievements of an individual whose career commitment to civic engagement is marked by a consistent record of leadership in teaching, scholarship, and/or service to relevant communities.

Award Committee: Richard Davis, Brigham Young University; Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner College; Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, University of South Florida

Recipient: Peter Levine, Tufts University

Outstanding Civic Engagement Project

This award recognizes a project led by an individual or team of individuals that serves to enhance and cultivate enduring student commitment to democratic engagement.

Award Committee: Austin Trantham, Jacksonville University; Karen Kedrowski, Iowa State University; Nina Kasniunas, Goucher College; Chapman Rackaway, Radford University; Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner College

Recipient: YMCA Citizen Scholar Partnership from the University of South Florida-St. Petersburg

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award recognizes the Best Paper presented at a Civic Engagement panel at the APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Austin Trantham, Jacksonville University; Chapman Rackaway, Radford University; Nina Kasniunas, Goucher College

Recipient: Andrew Smith, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Title: “Service Learning at an HIS: A Preliminary Analysis”

Section 51: Education Politics and Policy

Best Education Politics and Policy Dissertation

Recognizes the best dissertation on education politics and/or education policy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Award Committee: Akshay Mangla, University of Oxford; Thomas Gift, University College London; Matt Nelsen, University of Chicago

Recipient: Susanne Garritzmann, University of Konstanz

Title: “Education Systems and Political Inequality: How Educational Institutions Shape Turnout Gaps.” 2021

Best Book on Education Politics and Policy

Recognizes the best book on education politics and/or education policy published in the previous two years.

Award Committee: Terry Moe, Stanford University and Ursula Hackett, Royal Holloway, University of London

Recipients: Marius Busemeyer, University of Konstanz; Julian Garritzmann, Goethe University Frankfurt; Erik Neimanns, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Title: A Loud But Noisy Signal? Public Opinion and Education Reform in Western Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Best Paper on Education Politics and Policy

Recognizes the best paper on education politics and/or education policy.

Award Committee: Lesley Lavery, Macalester College and David Houston, George Mason University

Recipients: James Druckman, Northwestern University and Elizabeth Sharrow, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Title: “Legacies of Title IX: The Impact of Segregation on Policy Coalitions.”