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.

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.

Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

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

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.

Nominating Committee

The Nominating Committee solicits the members of the Section for nominations for Section offices. The committee shall nominate a slate of officers that (a) is taken from the names received particularly those persons receiving several mentions, and (b) represents the diverse interests of the Section. The slate will be distributed to the Section members so that the nominees are known prior to the Annual Section Meeting. This year the committee will be responsible for nominating a chair-elect and three executive committee members. Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Committee: Susan Sterett (Chair), University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Tao Dumas, The College of New Jersey; Alison Gash, University of Oregon; Susan Haire, University of Georgia; Terri Peretti, Santa Clara University; Rebecca Reid, University of Texas at El Paso

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

This award (formerly the CQ Press Award) is given annually for the best paper in the field of law and courts written by a graduate student. To be eligible, the nominated paper must have been written by a full-time graduate student. Single- and co-authored papers are eligible. In the case of co-authored papers, each author must have been a full-time graduate student at the time the paper was written. Submitted papers may have been written for any purpose (including papers written for seminar, scholarly meetings, and for potential publication in academic journals). This is NOT, however, a dissertation or thesis prize. Papers may be nominated by faculty members or by the students themselves. The papers must have been written during the twelve months previous to the nomination deadline.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Teena Wilhelm (Chair), University of Georgia; Mark Hurwitz, Western Michigan University; Andrew O’Geen, Davidson College; Natalie Rogol, Rhode Island College; Elisha Savchak-Trogdon, Elon University

Teaching and Mentoring Award

The Teaching and Mentoring Award recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts. Examples of innovations that might be recognized by this award include (but are not limited to) outstanding textbooks, websites, classroom exercises, syllabi, or other devices designed to enhance the transmission of knowledge about law and courts to undergraduate or graduate students. Any member of the section may make a nomination for the Teaching and Mentoring Award by submitting a statement identifying the nominee and outlining the nature of the her or his innovation and the contribution it makes to achieving the purposes of the award (e-mail attachments, in the form of .pdf files, are acceptable). The Teaching and Mentoring Award is supported by a generous contribution from the Division for Public Education of the American Bar Association.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Jennifer Bowie (Chair), University of Richmond; Ellen Key, Appalachian State University; John Maltese, University of Georgia; Salmon Shomade, Emory University; David Trowbridge, Middle Tennessee State University

Law and Courts Service Award

The Law and Courts Service Award recognizes service to the section in the literal sense, as in service on committees and in leadership positions, as well as service within the Section, as in service to the profession within the field of law and courts in the form of archiving data, promoting infrastructure, representing the profession in the media, etc.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Kirk Randazzo (Chair), University of South Carolina; Nancy Arrington, California Polytechnic State University; Alec Ewald, University of Vermont; Christopher Parker, University of Rhode Island; Maureen Stobb, Georgia Southern University

Best Conference Paper Award

The Law and Courts Best Conference Paper Award (formerly the American Judicature Society Award) is given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year’s annual meetings of the American, International, or regional political science associations. Single- and co-authored papers, written by political scientists, are eligible. Papers may be nominated by any member of the Section.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Lori Hausegger (Chair), Boise State University; Bethany Blackstone, James Madison University; Todd Collins, Western Carolina University; Matthew Montgomery, Texas Christian University; John Szmer, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Best Journal Article Award

This award recognizes the best journal article in the field of law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year. Articles published in all refereed journals and in law reviews are eligible, but book reviews, review essays, and chapters published in edited volumes are not eligible. Journal editors and members of the section may nominate articles. (This award was previously known as McGraw Hill Award and as the Houghton-Mifflin Award for the Best Journal Article in the Field of Law and Courts).

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Benjamin Kassow (Chair), University of North Dakota; Eileen Braman, Indiana University Bloomington; Anna Gunderson, Louisiana State University; David Hughes, Auburn University at Montgomery; Laura Moyer, University of Louisville

C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book

The C. Herman Pritchett award is given annually for the best book on law and courts written by a political scientist and published the previous year. Please note that case books and edited books are not eligible for consideration. Books may be nominated by publishers or by members of the Section.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Susan Burgess (Chair), Ohio University; Beau Breslin, Skidmore College; Paul Collins, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Ken Kersch, Boston College; Shannon Smithey, Westminster College

Law and Courts Lasting Contribution Award

Awarded annually to a book or journal article, 10 years old or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts. Only books and articles written by political scientists are eligible; single-authored works produced by winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award are not eligible. Any member of the Section may submit a nomination. The nomination should include a statement outlining the nature of the contribution of the nominated work.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Vanessa Baird (Chair), University of Colorado Boulder; Elizabeth Lane, Louisiana State University; Raul Sanchez-Urribarri, La Trobe University; Logan Strother, Purdue University; Richard Vining, University of Georgia

Lifetime Achievement Award

Given for a lifetime of significant scholarship, teaching and service to the Law and Courts field. Nominees must be political scientists who are at least 65 years of age or who have been active in the field for at least 25 years. Nominations from previous competitions will be carried forward to the current year’s competition. The committee will retain nominations for 3 years, but you are invited to re-nominate an individual and renew the materials in the file during each cycle. Nominations may be made by any member of the Section and should consist of a statement outlining the contributions of the nominee and, if possible, a copy of the nominee’s vitae.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Kevin McGuire (Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Ryan Black, Michigan State University; Ali Masood, Oberlin College; Mark Massoud, University of California, Santa Cruz; Christine Nemacheck, College of William and Mary

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. Topics may be national or subnational in focus and may apply to any country. Preference will be given to comparative legislative research among legislatures in the same country or across countries. The prize is funded by the Trust for Representative Democracy of the National Conference of State Legislatures and the State Legislative Leaders Foundation. The book or article must be published in the previous calendar year and authored by scholars below the rank of associate professor or legislative practitioners at equivalent career stage. In the case of books or articles by multiple authors, the work is eligible for the award if at least one author is below the rank of associate professor. Nominations for the prize may be made by anyone, including authors, publishers, departments, or practitioners.

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

The Carl Albert Dissertation Award is given annually for the best dissertation in legislative studies. Topics may be national or subnational in focus—on Congress, parliaments, state legislatures, or other representative bodies. The prize is funded by the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to the cash prize associated with the award, winners are typically invited to guest lecture on the OU campus with travel expenses paid by the Carl Albert Center. Dissertations must have a copyright date of one or two years previous to the year in which the award is presented.

CQ Press Award

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

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 (2022) are under consideration.

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.

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.

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. The recipient of this award will be an individual who has a strong early career publication trajectory and has presented their work actively at conferences and other public venues.

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 to thirty years. The book or article should have had a major impact on the field. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Frank Baumgartner, University of North Carolina; Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara; Jacob Hacker, Yale University

Best Paper on Public Policy Award

The Best Paper on Public Policy Award recognizes the best paper on Public Policy given at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Kenicia Wright, Arizona State University; Brooke Shannon, University of Pittsburgh; Norma Riccucci, Rutgers University

Best Comparative Policy Paper Award

The Best Comparative Policy Paper Award recognizes a paper presented at the APSA Annual Meeting which is of particular distinction in the area of comparative public policy. It is granted in collaboration with and sponsored by the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum and the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Following nomination or self-nomination the paper is reviewed by a joint APSA/JCPA adjudication committee. The winning author(s) are awarded the JCPA Best Comparative Paper Award. This award carries a prize of $500. The author is invited to submit the paper for publication consideration in the JCPA.

Nominations due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Annemieke Van Den Dool, Duke Kunshan University; Isabelle Engeli, University of Exeter; Christian Breunig, University of Konstanz; Xufeng Zhu, Tshingua University; Jacint Jordana Casajuana, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award

The Theodore J. Lowi Policy Studies Journal Best Article Award is given to recognize an article of particular distinction published at any time in Policy Studies Journal. This award carries a prize of $500.

Nominations due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Tom Birkland, North Carolina State University; Betsy Albright, Duke University; Paul Cairney, University of Stirling

Excellence in Mentoring Award

The Excellence in Mentoring Award has been established to recognize sustained efforts by a senior scholar to encourage and facilitate the career of emerging political scientists in the field of Public Policy. This award carries a $500 prize.

Nominations due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Paul Manna, College of William and Mary; Annelise Russell, University of Kentucky; Kristin Goss, Duke University

Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award

Recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Robert Boatright (Chair), Clark University; Jennifer Jensen, Lehigh University; John Green, University of Akron

Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award

Recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Nominations due: February 28, 2023

Award Committee: Geoffrey Lorenz (Chair), University of Nebraska–Lincoln; Herschel Thomas, West Virginia University; Caitlin Andrews-Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University

Best Paper Award

Recognizes the best paper delivered on a Political Organizations and Parties-sponsored panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Matthew Lacombe (Chair), Case Western Reserve University; Diana Dwyre, California State University, Chico; Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany, State University of New York

Jack Walker Outstanding Article Award

Recognizes an article published in the last two calendar years that makes an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Bonnie Meguid (Chair), University of Rochester; Ashley English, University of North Texas; Daniel Tavana, Pennsylvania State University

Emerging Scholars Award

Given to a scholar early in their career who has not yet received tenure and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Zeynep Somer-Topcu (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; David Kimball, University of Missouri- St. Louis; Paul Djupe, Denison University

Political Organizations and Parties Virginia Gray Graduate Student Research Grant

Awarded to graduate student POP members who are presenting their research on political organizations and/or parties on a POP or non-POP sponsored panel at the upcoming APSA Annual Meeting. Applicants who identify as a member of an underrepresented group in the profession are encouraged to apply.

Award Committee: Marie Hojnacki (Chair), Pennsylvania State University; Brian Brox, Tulane University; Devin Fernandes, California State University, Chico

Herbert Kaufman Award

The APSA Section on Public Administration is pleased to announce that nominations are being accepted for its annual Herbert Kaufman Best Paper award. The Herbert Kaufman Committee will select the best paper presented on a panel sponsored (or co-sponsored) by the Public Administration section at the APSA Annual Meeting each year. The section will follow APSA’s guidance on what constitutes a ‘presented paper’-papers that were uploaded to the APSA Annual Meeting paper site, hosted by SSRN, or posted/presented in a virtual or alternative form are eligible for the Kaufman award.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Jaclyn Piatak, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Susan Miller, Arizona State University; Ricardo Bello Gomez, Texas Tech University

Herbert A. Simon Book Award

The Herbert Simon Book Award is given for significant contributions to public administration scholarship. Books with publication dates of 2017, 2018, and 2019 are eligible for the 2023 award. The books orientation may be qualitative, quantitative, empirical, interpretive, ethnographic, historical, archival, normative, or theoretical. However, textbooks, revised editions of previously published books, and edited volumes are not eligible.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Claudia Avellaneda, Indiana University Bloomington; Elizabeth Bell, Florida State University; Sean Webeck, Naval Postgraduate School

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. Individual grants are not renewable.

Nomination Instructions: Send electronic submissions to Volcker@apsanet.org.

Application Materials: Proposals must address all items under the scope of the award and must be done in triplicate or sent electronically. Proposals are limited to five (5) single-spaced pages and must:

• • State the purpose of the project

• • State how the project contributes to scholarship within public administration and its applicability for practice and theory development

• • State how the project relates to previous research and theoretical developments

• • Specify research design

• • Provide an itemized budget and budget justification

• • Specify any additional financial support that the applicant is already receiving or anticipates receiving

In addition, each proposal also must include (in excess of the five-page written proposal):

• • A cover letter summarizing project title, qualifications for successfully completing the project, and professional status (doctoral student working on dissertation or untenured assistant professor)

• • An abstract of the proposal (maximum 150 words)

• • A letter attesting to the quality of the research project (typically from a doctoral student’s dissertation advisor or a junior faculty member’s department chair

• • A curriculum vitae (no more than three pages)

Eligibility: Eligibility is limited to doctoral students who have successfully defended their dissertation prospectus and tenure-track assistant professors. Applicants must be APSA members at the time of application. Membership in the Section for Public Administration is not required, but can be one of a variety of factors that the Volcker Awards Committee considers in making awards.

Funding Process and Purposes: The number, size of grants, and allocation of grants (to doctoral students and tenure-track assistant professors) awarded annually will be up to the Volcker Awards Committee. Individual grant awards are expected to average around $3,000. The number of grants and their size are determined by the Volcker Junior Scholar Research Grant Committee appointed each year. Funds may be used for such research activities as: travel to archives; travel to conduct interviews; administration and coding of survey instruments; research assistance; and purchase of datasets. This list is merely illustrative, but specifically excluded from funding are: travel to professional meetings; secretarial costs except for preparation of the final manuscripts for publication; and salary support.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Amanda Rutherford, Indiana University Bloomington; Gregory Porumbescu, Rutgers University- Newark; Kelsey Shoub, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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 APSA Annual Meeting. Papers are eligible only if all authors are untenured at the time the paper is presented. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are encouraged.

Nominations due: October 30, 2022

Award Committee: Ben Lessing (Chair), University of Chicago; Jesse Trudeau, Brown University; Susanna Campbell, American University

Lifetime Achievement Award

The Council of the APSA Conflict Processes Section invites nominations for the Conflict Processes Section Lifetime Achievement Award. The award recognizes individuals who have made substantial contributions to the study of conflict processes, in particular: demonstrating outstanding mentorship to junior scholars; providing noteworthy service to the APSA Conflict Process community; and through a significant body of exceptional research fundamentally improved knowledge of conflict processes.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Jakana Thomas (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Chris Farris. University of Michigan; Danielle Jung, Emory University

J. David Singer Data Innovation Award

The J. David Singer Data Innovation Award is given for the best data contribution to the study of any and all forms of political conflict. The award recognizes a specific contribution rather than a body of work across a career. Contributions can include the collection of a specific data set, a tool that aids the analysis of data, or other innovative work that has advanced empirical work using reproducible data. In addition to innovation, impact of the project on the research of scholars other than the nominees is a key element of the contribution of a nominated project. Nominations must be made by a member of the Conflict Processes section; self-nominations are welcomed. Nominations should identify the project and its contribution as well as the scholars being nominated. Scholars of all rank are eligible for the award.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Jonathan Renshon (Chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sabrina Karim, Cornell University; Magnus Lundgren, University of Gothenburg

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.

Lawrence Longley Award

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

Leon Weaver Award

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

The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

The Richard E. Neustadt Award will be given for the best book on executive politics published during 2022.

Nominations due: February 1, 2023

Award Committee: Diane Heith (Chair), St. John’s University; George Krause, University of Georgia; Austin Trantham, Saint Leo University; Kevin Baron, Austin Peay State University; Donna Hoffman, University of Northern Iowa

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

The George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in presidency research completed and accepted during the previous two calendar years (January 1, 2021 – December 31, 2022). The recipient will receive a $250 award.

Nominations due: February 1, 2023

Award Committee: Adam McMahon (Chair), Rider University and The College of New Jersey; Jonathan Klingler, University of Mississippi; Graham Dodds, Concordia University; Renee Van Vechten, University of Redlands; Sarah Burns, Rochester Institute of Technology

Founders Award for Best Graduate Student Paper

The Founders Award honoring Lester Seligman 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 2021 or 2022.

Nominations due: February 1, 2023

Award Committee: Alison Howard (Chair), Dominican University of California; Jennifer R. Hopper, Southern Connecticut State University; Kenneth Mayer, University of Wisconsin

Emerging Scholar Award

Emerging Scholar Award will be given to an early career scholar (10 years from date of award of PhD) that has made a contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and executive politics.

Nominations due: February 1, 2023

Award Committee: David Lewis (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Meena Bose, Hofstra University; Karen Hult, Virginia Tech

Founders Best Paper Award

The Founders Award honoring Francis Rourke will be given for the best paper on executive politics authored by a PhD – holding scholar at the previous year’s (2022) APSA annual meeting.

Nominations due: February 1, 2023

Award Committee: Jennifer Selin (Chair), Administrative Conference of the United States; Laine Shay, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; Shannon Bow O’Brien, University of Texas; George C. Edwards III, Texas A&M University; Chris Devine, University of Dayton

Career Achievement Award

The career achievement is the highest honor bestowed by the Society and recognizes the foundational, distinguished and sustained contributions to the field and the Society made by the recipients over their careers.

Award Committee: Luke Keele, University of Pennsylvania; Gary King, Harvard University; Teppei Yamamoto, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Douglas Rivers, Stanford University

Emerging Scholar Award

The Political Methodology Emerging Scholar Award honors a young researcher, within ten years of their degree, who is making notable contributions to the field of political methodology.

Award Committee: Justin Grimmer, Stanford University; Molly Roberts, University of California, San Diego; Xun Pang, Peking University; Suzanna Linn, Pennsylvania State University; John Londregan, Princeton University

Harold F. Gosnell Prize

The Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology is awarded for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year.

Nominations due: December 2, 2022

Award Committee: Anand Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder; Naoki Egami, Columbia University; Dorothy Kronick, University of California, Berkeley; Bryce Dietrich, University of Iowa

John T. Williams Dissertation Prize

In recognition of John T. Williams’ contribution to graduate training, the John T. Williams Award has been established for the best dissertation proposal in the area of political methodology.

Award Committee: John Freeman, University of Minnesota; Walter Mebane, University of Michigan; In Song Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Erin Hartman, University of California, Berkeley; Yamili R. Velez, Columbia University

Society for Political Methodology Poster Award

The Society for Political Methodology Poster Awards are given for the best poster presented by a graduate student and the best poster presented by a faculty member or other researcher at the annual summer Methodology Meeting of the previous year.

Award Committee: Lonna Atkeson Florida State University; Jake Bowers, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Naoki Egami, Columbia University; Ted Enamorado, Vanderbilt University; Jeff Gill, American University; Walter Mebane, University of Michigan; Brandon Stewart, Michelle Torres, Rice University; Ariel White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yiqing Xu, Stanford University; Luwei Ying, University of California, Los Angeles

Statistical Software Award

The Best Statistical Software Award recognizes individuals for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution.

Award Committee: Olga Chyzh, University of Toronto; Dean Knox, University of Pennsylvania; Sarah Dreier, University of New Mexico

Warren Miller Article Award

The Miller Prize for is awarded for the best work appearing in Political Analysis the preceding year.

Award Committee: Jeff Gill, American University; Libby Jenke, University of Houston; Cassy Dorff, Vanderbilt University; Devin Caughey, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Yiqing Xu, Stanford University

Political Analysis Outstanding Reviewer Award

The Political Analysis Outstanding Reviewer Award recognizes individuals who have provided exemplary assistance to Political Analysis during the previous year. Outstanding Reviewers are those who provide excellent, timely and productive feedback for authors who have submitted manuscripts to Political Analysis. Outstanding Reviewers are also those who frequently review for the journal, and who provide the Editors with productive advice about the submissions they review.

The Becky Morton & Tom Carsey Political Methodology Mentoring Award

The Society for Political Methodology Excellence in Mentoring Award honors members of the Society who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to mentoring and advising graduate and/or undergraduate students and, in particular, those from underrepresented groups.

Award Committee: Matthew Lebo, Western University; Michelle Torres, Rice University; Drew Dimmery, University of Vienna

The Latin American Best Poster Award

The Latin American PolMeth Best Poster Award is given for the best poster presented at the Latin American PolMeth meeting. The winner receives a trip to the PolMeth Annual Meeting the following year.

Award Committee: Loreto Cox, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Valentin Figueroa, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Nelson Ruiz, University of Essex

Hubert Morken Book Award

The Hubert Morken Award is given for the best book dealing with religion and politics published within the previous year. The criteria for the award include the originality of the argument presented, quality of the research, innovative methods, readability of the text and the policy or practical implications of the scholarship. To be eligible for the award, books must have been published in 2022.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University; Jonathan Laurence, Boston College; John Green, University of Akron

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award

The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation in the field of religion and politics. Eligible dissertations have been defended in the last two years (2021 or 2022) and should make a distinctive contribution to the study of religion and politics, broadly understood.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Nandini Deo, Lehigh University; Jessica Soedirgo, University of Amsterdam; John McTague, Towson University

Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award

This award is presented for the best article published in Politics and Religion in the 2022 calendar year.

Award Committee: Michael Driessen, John Cabot University; Joel Day, Princeton University; Rebecca Glaizer, University of Arkansas

Weber Best Paper Award

The 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 (2022). The paper should address a timely and relevant topic, within the discipline and beyond, in a theoretically innovative and methodologically thorough manner.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Kikue Hamayotsu, Northern Illinois University; Cammie Bolin, University at Albany, State University of New York; Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Stanford University

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award will be given annually to a conference paper studying any aspect of religion and politics presented by a PhD student in political science. The conference can be affiliated with any of the US-based political science associations or a conference affiliated with another association, such as the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the American Academy of Religion, the Middle East Studies Association, or the International Studies Association, as long as the paper was written by a student or students enrolled in a graduate program in political science and presented in 2021 or 2022.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: L. Felipe Mantilla, University of South Florida; Jeremy Menchik, Boston University; Ben Gaskins, Lewis & Clark College

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. These contributions should be through a combination of excellent and widely influential scholarship, policy input/impact, public engagement, service, teaching, and mentorship.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Paul Djupe, Denison University; Laura Olso, Clemson University; Sabri Ciftci, Kansas State University

Dennis Judd Best Book Award

The Best Book Award recognizes the best book on urban politics published in the previous year. Hard copies of nominated books should be sent to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

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.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award

The Byran Jackson Award recognizes the outstanding scholarship by a graduate student studying racial and ethnic politics in an urban setting. The award comes with a $500 prize. Electronic or hard copies of approved dissertation proposals should be sent to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Urban Affairs Review Best Paper in Urban or Regional Politics

Urban Affairs Review is sponsoring a $250 award given by the Urban and Local Politics Section for the Best Paper in Urban or Regional Politics presented at the 2022 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. We encourage chairs of all Urban and Local Politics Section panels to nominate papers. We also welcome self-nominations. Papers presented on any panel associated with the conference are eligible for this award.

Nominations due: October 30, 2022

Norton Long Career Achievement Award

The Norton Long Career Achievement Award is presented annually to a scholar who has made distinguished contributions to the study of urban politics over the course of a career through scholarly publication, the mentoring of students, and public service.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

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 2022 APSA Annual Meeting to the 2022 program chairs.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Clarence Stone Scholar Award

The Clarence Stone Scholar Award recognizes up to two young scholars who are making a significant contribution to the study of urban politics. The award is to be given to up to two post-PhD scholars who are in their career (pre-tenure, or recently advanced within the last 3 years).

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Don K. Price Award

The Don K. Price Award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year. Nominated authors should send copies of their books to each committee member for consideration.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: David Konisky (Chair), Indiana University; David Switzer, University of Missouri; Jonas Nahm, Johns Hopkins University

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. Nominated authors should send copies of their books to each committee member for consideration.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Aaron Deslatte, Indiana University; Annemieke van den Dool, Duke Kunshan University; Janina Grabs, Esade Barcelona Pedralbes Campus

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

The Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award, 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. Nominations should include full dissertation.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Betsy Albright, Duke University; Andrew Pattison, Colgate University; Michael Lerner, London School of Economics

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. Nomination process: Send nominations to committee chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Kristin Taylor (Chair), Wayne State University; Jonathan Lewallen, University of Tampa; Alice Xu, Yale University

The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award

The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award is given to an individual in recognition of their lifetime contribution to the study of science, technology, and environmental politics. Nominees must be at least 15 years from completing their PhD degree to be eligible. Nomination process: Send nominations to committee chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Edella Schlager (Chair); University of Arizona; Dorothy Daley, University of Kansas; Debra Javeline, University of Notre Dame

The Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper published in a relevant journal in the last two years. Relevant journals include political science, public administration, public policy, interdisciplinary environmental science, and science and technology studies journals. Nomination process: Send nominations to committee chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Manny Teodoro (Chair), University of Wisconsin–Madison; Clare Brock, Texas Woman’s University; Tomás Oliver, Florida Atlantic University

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. Nomination process: Send nominations to committee chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Deserai Crow (Chair), University of Colorado Denver; Tom Koontz, University of Washington Tacoma; Hongtao Yi, Ohio State University

The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award

The STEP APSA Inclusion Travel Award will be granted to graduate students from under-represented groups in the discipline who are accepted to present a paper at the APSA Annual Meeting. They must be members of STEP (which is free for graduate students) and be presenting on a STEP or STEP co-sponsored panel. A maximum of 10 awards in the amount of $500 will be granted each year.

Nomination process: Applications should be sent to the committee chair.

Nominations due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Erica Simmons (Chair), University of Wisconsin–Madison; Saba Siddiki, Syracuse University; Matt Nowlin, College of Charleston

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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Anna Mahoney (Chair), Tulane University; Elizabeth Corredor, Toronto Metropolitan University; Kostanca Dhima, Georgia State University

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on women, gender, and politics at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Any individual can nominate a paper for the award, including self-nominations. In addition, all papers presented in the Women and Politics Research Section and posted to the APSA conference paper website will be considered nominated.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Malligo Och (Chair), Idaho State University; Rebekka Friedman, Kings College London; Hanna Ketola, The University of Sheffiled

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. Papers are considered by self-nomination or nomination by other individuals

Award Committee: Brittany R. Leach, Southern Illinois University Carbondale and Elena Gambino, Rutgers University

Best Paper on Intersectionality Award

This award is for the best paper addressing intersectionality presented at the previous year’s APSA 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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Alexandra Filindra (Chair), University of Illinois Chicago; Margaret Brower, Harvard University; Guillermo Caballero, Salisbury University

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. While all faculty are eligible for this award, we especially welcome nominations of permanent and non-permanent faculty with teaching loads of 3-3 and above.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Thomas Worth (Chair), University of Wisconsin; Julieta Suarez Cao, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University

Politics & Gender Best Article Award

An annual award to recognize the best article published in our section journal, Politics & Gender, during the previous year. Nominations will not be sought for this award; the award will be by a committee chosen by the editors of the journal.

Award Committee: Elena Gambino (Chair), Rutgers University; Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University; Zainab Alam, Howard University; Rebekah Herrick, Oklahoma State University; Sabrina Karim, Cornell University

Microgrants

The Women, Gender, & Politics Research Section of the APSA is currently seeking applications for research grants of up to $1000 to assist with research expenses. Examples of expenses covered could include (but are not limited to): child or elder care, data acquisition, software, research assistance, copyediting, translation, transcription, etc. These grants are open to all Section members, but priority will be given to junior, non-tenure track, and/or unfunded scholars (i.e. scholars without institutional support or whose institutions have eliminated research funding during the pandemic).

Nomination due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Kanisha Bond (Chair), Binghamton University; Lahoma Thomas, Toronto Metropolitan University; Yalidy Matos, Rutgers University; Robin Turner, Butler University; Swati Parashar, University of Gothenburg; Guillermo Caballero, Salisbury University

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: Sonu Bedi, Dartmouth College, Thomas Dumm, Amherst College, Lori Marso, Union College

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: Jairus Grove, University of Hawai’I; Adam Dahl, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Barbara

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: Elena Gambino, Rutgers University and Brittany R. Leach, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Best Paper Award

Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on a Foundations panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations are limited to presenters untenured as of September, 2019.

Award Committee: Anna Terwiel, Trinity College; Giulia Oskian, Yale University; Alyssa Battistoni, Barnard College

Best Dissertation in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

The Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation in information technology and politics defended since the last APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Best Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

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

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Best Article in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Best article published in information technology and politics published in the previous calendar year (i.e., 2022 for 2023’s award call; must have appeared in an issue–articles that are published as online first should be considered for the year in which they are published in their final version).

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Best Student Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Best student paper presented in information technology and politics at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

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.

Joseph Kruzel Award for Lifetime Academic-Practitioner Service

The Joseph Kruzel Award for Lifetime Academic-Practitioner Service is awarded to a scholar with a distinguished career in national security affairs both as an academic and a public servant. It is given to memorialize Joseph Kruzel, a security studies scholar and policy official who was killed while on a diplomatic mission to Bosnia.

Catherine Kelleher Best International Security Article

The International Security organized section of Best Article Award seeks to recognize the best peer-reviewed articles in the field of international security and security studies each year.

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 2022.

Luebbert Book Prize

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

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Shortlisting Award Committee: Stathis Kalyvas (Chair), University of Oxford; Yanilda Gonzalez, Harvard University; Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania

Final Selection Award Committee: Daniel Ziblatt (Chair), Harvard University and Liz Nugent, Princeton University

Sage Paper Prize

Awarded to the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations should be submitted directly to the award committee members.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Macartan Humphreys (Chair), Columbia University and WZB Berlin Social Science Center and Donghyun Danny Choi, Brown University

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award

Awarded annually to a publicly-available dataset in the field of comparative politics. Nominations (including self-nominations) should be submitted directly to the committee. Please include a nomination letter, instructions on accessing the data set, and any publications or documents describing the data set.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Simon Hix, European University Institute and Mathias Poertner, London School of Economics

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. Nominations should include a CV of the nominee and a letter commenting on the nominee’s work and making the case why they should get the award.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Anna Gryzmala-Busse (Chair), Stanford University; Alisha Holland, Harvard University; Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University

Luebbert Best Article Prize

Awarded for the best article published in the field of comparative politics.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Nicholas Sambanis (Chair), University of Pennsylvania; Sebastian Mazzuca, Johns Hopkins University; Gerald Schneider, University of Konstanz

Best Book Award

Best book published on European Politics in 2022.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Deborah Boucoyannis, George Washington University; David Fortunato, University of California, San Diego; Matthias Matthijs, Johns Hopkins University

Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation on European Politics completed in 2022.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Kiran Auerbach, University of Zurich; Sivaram Cheruvu, University of Texas at Dallas; Mathilde Emeriau, London School of Economics

Best Article Award

Best article published on European Politics in 2022.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Daniel Bischof, Aarhus University; Ruth Dassonneville, University of Montreal; Lukas Haffert, University of Zurich

Best Paper Award

Best paper on European Politics presented at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Florian Foos, London School of Economics; Anil Menon, Cornell University and University of California, Merced; Alexander Wuttke, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Peter Mair Travel Award

Funding support for junior scholars to travel to the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: 3 weeks after APSA acceptances are released

Award Committee: Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia; Tine Paulsen, University of Southern California; Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego

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.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: Shannon Jenkins (Chair), University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Anna M. Mahoney, Tulane University; Josh McCrain, University of Utah

Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Book Award

To be awarded every three years to a political science book on the subject of US state politics or policy published at least 10 years prior to the award being bestowed that stands as an enduring contribution to the literature. Such books would be those classic works frequently assigned in graduate seminars, typically found on the bookshelves of state politics scholars, and that have been crucial in setting the direction of scholarship the field since their publication.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: Christopher Warshaw (Chair), George Washington University; Michelangelo Landgrave, University of Missouri; Emma Ricknell, Linnaeus 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 US state politics or policy in the preceding three calendar years. Thus, books would be eligible to be considered for the award for three years. E.g., for the 2023 award, books with a copyright of 2020, 2021, and 2022 would be eligible for nomination.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: Michael Nelson (Chair), Pennsylvania State University; Sarah James, Gonzaga University; Michael Binder, University of North Florida

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.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: Chris Witko (Chair), Pennsylvania State University; Tracey Bark, Auburn University at Montgomery; Michael Kistner, University of Houston

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 at any professional meeting in the previous calendar year. The selection committee may designate separate awards for papers presented by graduate students with no faculty authorships and for papers with solely faculty or faculty and graduate student participation. Graduate student winners will receive a plaque and $100 and faculty winners will receive a plaque.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: John Cluverius (Chair), University of Massachusetts Lowell; Daniel Bowen, The College of New Jersey; A. Lee Hannah, Wright State University

Best Journal Article Award

This annual award is given to the author(s) of the best journal article on US state politics or policy published during the previous calendar year in any peer-reviewed journal. Publication year is based on when the article appears in print at the journal, not the date it appears online. Book reviews, review essays, and chapters published in edited volumes are not eligible.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: Seth McKee (Chair), Oklahoma State University; Jesse Crosson, Purdue University; Meghan E. Leonard, Illinois State University

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.

Nominations due: February 17, 2023

Award Committee: Vladimir Kogan, (Chair), Ohio State University; Bruce A. Desmarais, Pennsylvania State University; Alexandra Filindra, University of Illinois Chicago

Carsey Awards

These awards are given to support graduate student participation in the 2023 State Politics and Policy Conference.

Award Committee: Hans Hassell (Chair), Florida State University; Craig Burnett, Hofstra University; Sara Chatfield, University of Denver

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

The Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award is given to the most outstanding book in the field of political communication that was published in the past decade. The nominated book and a nomination letter should be sent to all three members of the award committee. The nomination letter should clearly explicate how the book has made a significant theoretical, methodological, and/or empirical contribution to political communication scholarship in the last decade. Copies of book reviews may also be included with the nomination letter and book.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Vin Arceneaux (Chair), Sciences Po; Taina Bucher, University of Oslo; Jianing Li, University of South Florida

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Annelise Russell (Chair), University of Kentucky; Taewoo Kang, Siena College; C. Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota

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

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Fernando Feitosa (Chair), McGill University; Lisa Argyle, Brigham Young University; Dominik Stecula, Colorado State University

Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award

The Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation completed in the field of political communication in the previous year. Nominations for the award should be made by the adviser of the dissertation or by a faculty member from the department in which the dissertation was completed. Nomination letters should explain the central argument advanced by the dissertation and specify its original contribution to the field. Letters should be no more than one page in length. Eligible dissertations must have been defended successfully in the calendar year preceding the award (e.g., candidates whose degrees were awarded in 2021 will be eligible for the 2022 dissertation award). The nominating letter and digital copies of the dissertation, abstract of the dissertation (500 words or less), and the nominee’s curriculum vita (with current address) should be sent to the chair of the dissertation award committee.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Benjamin Toff (Chair), University of Minnesota; Katherine McCabe, Rutgers University; Jennifer Pan, Stanford University

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. Articles will be proposed by nomination or self-nomination.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Jessica Feezell (Chair), University of New Mexico; Constantine Boussalis, Trinity College Dublin; Newly Paul, University of North Texas

Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

The Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award recognizes a lifetime contribution to the study of Political Communication. The award is now given only in odd-numbered years.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Pippa Norris (Chair), Harvard University; Jaeho Cho, University of California, Davis; Georgia Kernell, University of California, Los Angeles

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.

Nomination Instructions: Send a hard copy of the book to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Daniel Carpenter (Chair), Harvard University; Alexandra Cirone, Cornell University; Quinn Mulroy, Northwestern University

Mary Parker Follett Prize

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

Nomination Instructions: To nominate an article for this award send an electronic copy to each of the scholars on the prize committee. Articles must appear in print in the preceding calendar year.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Edgar Franco-Vivanco (Chair), University of Michigan; Adria Lawrence, Johns Hopkins University; Stephen Stohler, University at Albany, State University of New York

Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award

The Walter Dean Burnham Award is given for the best dissertation in the field of Politics and History.

Nomination Instructions: To nominate a dissertation for this award, please send a letter of support from the student’s dissertation advisor or committee member plus an electronic .pdf of the dissertation itself to each member of the Award Committee.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Adam Chamberlain (Chair), Carolina Coastal University; Paul Baumgardner, Augustana College; Lynn Tesser, Marine Corps University

David Brian Robertson Best Paper Award

An award for the best paper in Politics and History presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting.

Nomination Instructions: To nominate a paper for this award, please send an electronic copy to each of the scholars on the prize committee.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Graham Dodd (Chair), Concordia College; Agustin Goenaga, Lund University; Shivaji Mukherjee, University of Toronto

McGillivray Best Paper Award

Best paper in political economy presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Nominations are welcome from any member (chair, discussant, paper presenters, attendees) of the political economy panels at the APSA Annual Meeting. Self-nominations are encouraged. Nominations should be directed to all members of the award committee.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Daniel Blake (Chair), IE Business School; Siddharth Swaminathan, Azim Premji University; Maria Carreri, University of California, San Diego; Andreas Kern, Georgetown University

Michael Wallerstein Award

Best published article in political economy in a peer-reviewed journal. All articles published in the previous two calendar years (as indicated by online publication date or print publication date) are eligible for consideration, with a preference given to articles that exemplify themes or methods for which Michael Wallerstein was known and respected. All members of the section are eligible to make nominations. Nominations should be directed to all members of the award committee.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Clint Peinhardt (Chair), University of Texas at Dallas; Desiree Desierto, George Mason University; Byungwon Woo, Yonsei University; Amy Pond, Technical University of Munich

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award

Best Dissertation Award, named for Mancur Olson, is given for the best dissertation in political economy. All dissertations completed within the previous two calendar years are eligible for consideration. Nominations should be directed to all members of the award committee. All members of the Section are eligible to make nominations.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Daniela Donno (Chair), University of Cyprus; Nisha Bellinger, Boise State University; Quintin Beazer, Florida State University; Ida Bastiaens, Fordham University

William H. Riker Book Award

Best book award, named for William H. Riker, is given for the best book in political economy. All books published within the previous two calendar years are eligible for consideration. Nominations should be directed to all members of the award committee. All members of the Section are eligible to make nominations.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Melissa Ziegler Rogers (Chair), Claremont Graduate University; Margaret Peters, University of California, Los Angeles; Jonas Bunte, Vienna University of Economics and Business; Tanushree Goyal, Princeton University

Christian Bay Award

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

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Katherine Young (Chair), University of Hawaii at Hilo; Joseph Peschek, Hamline University; Robert Kirsch, Arizona State University

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award

The Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award recognizes an activist group, in the region of the Annual Meeting, that puts the ideals of the Critical Political Science Section, “to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world,” into practice.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Wendy Sarvasy (Chair), California State University, East Bay; William Sokoloff, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Frances Fox Piven (Honorary), The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award recognizes a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Clyde Barrow (Chair), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Judith Grant, Ohio University; John Grummel, Upper Iowa University

Michael Harrington Book Award

The Michael Harrington Book Award recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Sarah Surak (Chair), Salisbury University; Elizabeth McKenna, Johns Hopkins University; James Simmons, University of Wisconsin–OshKosh

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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Lahoma Thomas (Chair), Toronto Metropolitan University; Peter Wagner, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater; Benjamin Abrams, University College London; Stephen Eric Bronner (Honorary), Rutgers University

Robert E. Lane Book Award

The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year. To nominate a book for the award, send a copy of the book to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Cigdem Sirin, University of Texas at El Paso and Jose Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year. To nominate a dissertation, send an electronic copy of the dissertation to the members of the committee. Self-nominations are accepted. All nominations should include a letter of support from the chair of the dissertation committee that addresses the contribution of the dissertation to the field of political psychology.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Angie Ocampo, University of Pittsburgh and Yamil Velez, Columbia University

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given to the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous year’s Annual Meeting. E-mail your nominations to the members of the committee.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Hui (Max) Bai, Stanford University; Angel Saavedra, Bowdoin College; Cheryl Boudreau, University of California, Davis

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 Ph.D) to help fund their travel to the APSA meeting. E-mail your nominations to the members of the committee.

Nominations due: March 17, 2023

Award Committee: Angela Ocampo, University of Texas at Austin; Tony Carey, University of North Texas; Jenn Merolla, University of California, Riverside

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. Any person may nominate a candidate, or self-nominations will be accepted. The winner(s) shall be selected by the CLB Award committee.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Megan Becker, University of Southern California and Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University

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. The winner(s) will be selected by the Best APSA Conference Paper Award committee.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University and Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University

The Lifetime Achievement Award

This award may be given at the annual section meeting held at the APSA Annual Meeting. The awardee must have a strong record of long-standing, exceptional, and extensive contributions to the goals of the section, including the promotion of the teaching and learning in the discipline and the scholarship of teaching. Any section member may submit a nomination letter to the Executive Committee. Nominations are due by April 1. The Executive Committee will determine if a nominee is eligible and will decide by June 1 if the award will be given. This award does not have to be given every year.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Joseph W. Roberts, Roger Williams University; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University; Terry Gilmour, Midland College; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Laura Roost, Newberry College; Colin Brown, Northeastern University; Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College

The Distinguished Service Award

This award may be given at the section meeting held at the APSA meeting. The awardee must have a strong record of exceptional and extensive contributions to the goals of the section, including the promotion of teaching and learning in the discipline and the scholarship of teaching. Any section member may submit a nomination letter to the Executive Committee. Nominations are due by April 1. The Executive Committee will determine if a nominee is eligible and will decide by June 1 if the award will be given. This award does not have to be given every year.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Joseph W. Roberts, Roger Williams University; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University; Terry Gilmour, Midland College; Tavishi Bhasin, Kennesaw State University; Michael Rogers, Arkansas Tech University; Laura Roost, Newberry College; Colin Brown, Northeastern University; Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College

Wilson Carey McWilliams Award

The Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Please submit nominations to the award committee below.

Nominations due: May 2023

Award Committee: Adriana Alfaro Altamirano, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, Mexico City; Erica Kunimoto, University of Toronto; Katherine M. Robiadek, Hood College

Best Paper Award

This award recognizes the best paper presented on a panel organized by the Foreign Policy Section at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: November 15, 2022

Award Committee: Emily Holland, (Chair); Naval War College; Tom Dolan, University of Central Florida; Jacqueline Hazelton

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

This award recognizes the best graduate student paper presented on a panel organized by the Foreign Policy Section at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting.

Nominations due: November 15, 2022

Award Committee: Chad Nelson (Chair), Brigham Young University; Danielle Lupton, Colgate University; Charmaine Willis, University at Albany, State University of New York; Kelsey Larson, University of Central Florida

Best Book Award

In recognition of outstanding scholarly monographs related to foreign policy, broadly conceptualized. All methodologies and approaches to the subject are welcome.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Anthony C. Lopez (Chair), Washington State University; Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong; Christine Sixta Rinehart, University of South Carolina; William Bendix, Dakota State University

Philip E. Converse Book Award

The Philip E. Converse Book Award is awarded annually to the author(s) of an outstanding book published at least 5 years ago.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Barry Burden (Chair), University of Wisconsin- Madison; Yanna Krupnikov, University of Michigan; Airo Hino, Waseda University

Emerging Scholars Award

The Emerging Scholar Award is given to the top scholar in the field who is within 10 years of her or his PhD

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: John Holbein (Chair), University of Virginia; Lauren Davenport, Stanford University; Gabriel Lenz, University of California, Berkeley

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Anand Sokhey (Chair), University of Colorado Boulder; Charles McClean, Yale University; Anika Gauja, The University of Sydney

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Michael Barber (Chair), Brigham Young University; Eunji Kim, Columbia University; Ethan Busby, Brigham Young University

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.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Cecilia Mo (Chair), University of California, Berkeley; Taylor Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis; Jacob Neiheisel, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

Best Book in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Best book on the subject of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics published in the prior two calendar years. For APSA 2023, books published in 2021 or 2022 will be considered.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Valarie Martinez-Ebers, University of North Texas; Corrinne McConnaughy, Princeton University; Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College; Deva Woodly, The New School for Social Research

Best Dissertation in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Best dissertation on the subject of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics completed in the academic year prior to the APSA Annual Meeting. (For the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting, Academic Year 2022-2023)

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Princess Williams, Amherst College; Maraam Dwidar, Syracuse University; Christopher Towler, California State University, Sacramento

Best Paper Award

Best paper presented in Section 33 (Race, Ethnicity, and Politics) during the previous APSA Annual Meeting (2022). Please submit the conference version of the paper.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Roberto Carlos, University of Texas at Austin; Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Indiana University; Margaret Teresa Brower, Harvard University

Best Paper on Intersectionality Award

This award is for the best paper addressing intersectionality presented at the previous year’s APSA 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.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Alexandra Filindra (Chair), University of Illinois Chicago; Margaret Brower, Harvard University; Guillermo Caballero, Salisbury University

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

This award is for the best book on International History and Politics. This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA Annual Meeting at which the award is presented. The copyright date of a book will establish the relevant year.

Nominations due: January 31, 2023

Award Committee: Jeff Colgan (Chair), Brown University; Sinja Graf, London School of Economics; Rachel Whitlark, Georgia Institute of Technology

Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics

This award recognizes exceptional peer-reviewed journal articles representing the mission of the section, including innovative work that brings new light to events and processes in international politics, encourages interdisciplinary conversations between political scientists and historians, and advances historiographical methods. The Outstanding Article Award is given to a published article that appeared in print in the calendar year preceding the APSA Annual Meeting at which the award is presented. It may be granted to an article that is single- or co-authored. The year of final journal publication, as detailed by print citation, establishes eligibility.

Nominations due: January 31, 2023

Award Committee: Jennifer Dixon (Chair), Villanova University; Alexander Lanoszka, University of Waterloo; Mohamed Sesay, York University

Best Article Award

Solo- or co-authored articles focusing directly on the subject of democracy, autocracy and/or regime change and published in 2022 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged. Copies of the article should be sent by email to each of the committee members.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Amy Catalinac, New York University; Lucia Motolinia, Washington University in St. Louis; Steven White, Syracuse University

Juan Linz Prize for Best Book in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy

Given for the best book in the comparative study of democracy, autocracy and/or regime change published in 2022 (authored, co-authored, or edited). Copies of the nominated book should be sent to each committee member in time to arrive by March 15, 2023. Books received after this deadline will not be considered.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Richard Snyder, Brown University; Bryn Rosenfeld, Cornell University; Michael Albertus, University of Chicago

Juan Linz Prize for Best Fieldwork

This prize rewards dissertation students who conduct especially innovative and difficult fieldwork in the comparative study of regime change. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who completed their dissertations in 2022 are eligible. Candidates must submit two chapters of their dissertation and a short letter of nomination from the chair of their dissertation committee describing the field work. The material submitted must describe the field work in detail and should provide one or two key insights from the evidence collected in the field. The chapters may be sent electronically or in hard copy directly to each committee member.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Jillian Schwedler, Hunter College, City University of New York; Kaustav Chakrabarti, Ashoka University; Carolyn Barnett, University of Arizona

Best Paper Award

Given to the best paper on the comparative study of democracy, autocracy and/or regime change presented at the previous year’s APSA Convention. Papers can be nominated by panel chairs or discussants. Self-submissions are also encouraged

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Sirianne Dahlum, University of Oslo; Thomas Mustillo, University of Notre Dame; Dan Mattingly, Yale University

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 APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented (2021 or 2022 for the 2023 Annual Meeting). The prize can be awarded to analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective. A copy of the dissertation, accompanied by a letter of support from a member of the dissertation committee, should be sent to each member of the prize selection committee.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Rikhil Bhavnani, University of Wisconsin; Agnes Cornell, University of Gothenburg; Didac Queralt, Yale University

Distinguished Scholar Award

Given every three years to a section member 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.

Distinguished scholars will:

1. [1] Have records of scholarly excellence, as demonstrated in their publications, grants, pedagogical accomplishments, and/or outreach and engagement efforts;

2. [2] Have been active participants in the section, now or in the past, and have contributed to the maintenance of our scholarly community in some meaningful way (e.g., in a leadership or mentoring role, as an active panel or workshop participant, etc.);

3. [3] Be at least 10 years from the date of their PhD degrees.

Nomination instructions: Nomination packages should include a letter of nomination describing how the nominee meets the award criteria, a copy of the nominee’s full cv, and letters from up to four people in support of the nomination. Self-nominations are not accepted. The committee will consider all nominations but reserves the right not to make an award if no nominees fulfill the criteria. The committee acknowledges that the division of academic labor remains deeply gendered, racialized, and hierarchical, including with respect to institutional type and type of academic appointment or affiliation. We therefore especially invite nominations of scholars and scholar-activists who have made significant contributions to our field and profession in ways that work to challenge and eradicate these forms of domination.

Nominations due: May 1, 2025

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

Nomination Instructions: Send copies of the nominated dissertation and a letter of support from the dissertation Chair, which should specify the contribution of the work to the field of human rights within no more than 1000 words, to ALL members of the Dissertation Award Committee by email. Dissertation may be pdf or hard copy. Please check with award committee members for their preference.

Nominations due: May 1, 2023

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

Best Book Award

This competition is open to all books on human rights written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years. Please send one hard copy or pdf of the book to each member of the award committee.

Nomination instructions: Email members directly to determine preferred format: pdf or hard copy of book.

Nominations due: May 1, 2023

Award Committee: George Andreopolous (Chair), John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York; Alison Renteln, University of Southern California; Lucrecia Garcia lommi, Fairfield University

Best Paper Award

This award recognizes the best paper presented on a Human Rights Section Panel at the APSA Annual Meeting.

Nomination procedures: Submit nominations, including a copy of the paper, to all members of the committee via email.

Nominations due: May 1, 2023

Award Committee: Brian Greenhill (Chair), University at Albany, State University of New York; Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut; Karen Zivi, Grand Valley State University

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. This award may be granted to a journal article or to a chapter in an edited volume that stands on its own as an article. The George award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA Annual Meeting at which the award is presented, i.e. for the 2023 award to materials published in 2022. In determining the date of an article publication, authors may choose either the date the article was first electronically published or the date of the formal journal citation (but not both). In determining the date of a book chapter publication, the copyright date of the book will establish the relevant year. A pdf file of the nominated article/chapter should be emailed to T.A.Fairfield@LSE.ac.uk.

Nominations due: January 31, 2023

Award Committee: Kathleen Klaus, Uppsala University; Ma Xiao; Peking University; Elliot Posner, Case Western Reserve University

David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award

This award honors David Collier’s contributions – through his research, graduate teaching, and institution-building – as a founder of the qualitative and multi-method research movement in contemporary political science. The award is presented to a mid-career political scientist to recognize distinction in methodological publications, innovative application of qualitative and multi-method approaches in substantive research, and/or institutional contributions to this area of methodology. To be eligible for the mid-career award, nominees must have defended their dissertation within fifteen years of the beginning of the year in which the award is presented. For the 2023 award, for example, nominees must have defended their dissertation in or later than 2008.

Nominations due: January 31, 2023

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. This award may be granted to a single-authored or multi-authored book, or to an edited volume. The Sartori award will be given to works published in the calendar year prior to the year of the APSA meeting at which the award is presented, i.e. for the 2023 award to materials published in 2021. The copyright date of the book will establish the relevant year. One copy of the nominated work should be sent to each of the three committee members. Please contact the section’s Secretary-Treasurer, Tasha Fairfield, T.A.Fairfield@LSE.ac.uk to request their mailing addresses.

Nominations due: January 31, 2023

Award Committee: Martha Wilfahrt, University of California, Berkeley; Nicolas Jabko, Johns Hopkins University; Chloe Thurston, Northwestern University

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 APSA Annual Meeting. Please note that to be eligible for consideration, the paper must be the version that was presented at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting, not a subsequent iteration. A pdf file of the nominated APSA paper should be emailed to T.A.Fairfield@LSE.ac.uk.

Nominations due: January 31, 2023

Award Committee: Oumar Ba, Cornell University; Amy Liu, University of Texas at Austin; Guillermo Toral, Vanderbilt University

Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award

The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Brian Harrison (Chair), University of Minnesota; Isabel Felix Gonzales, University of California, Irvine; Zein Murib, Fordham University

Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

The Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years. The award is open to all scholarship that falls under the broad rubric of sexuality and politics, including studies concerning the regulation of sexuality, political responses to the regulation of sexuality, the uses of sexuality as a political construct, the intersections of sexuality with gender, race, and class, or LGBT politics and mobilizations.

Nominations due: March 15, 2023

Award Committee: Scott Nicholas Segal (Chair), San Francisco State University; Joanna Wuest, Mount Holyoke College; Minwoo Jung, Loyola University Chicago

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.

Nominations due: December 31, 2022

Award Committee: Phillip Singer, University of Utah; Kristin Lunz-Trujillo, Northeastern University and Harvard University; Ann Keller, University of California, Berkley

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.

Nominations due: May 1, 2023

Award Committee: Eduardo Gomez, Lehigh University; Isabel Perera, Cornell University; Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Alan Zarychta, University of Chicago

David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award

The purpose of this award is to recognize a junior or mid-career scholar for their distinguished contributions to the field of health policy and politics. The award honors the significant contributions of David Kline Jones, a scholar who had an enormous impact on the field of health policy and politics through impactful research, commitment to health equity, and generous and devoted attention to teaching and mentoring.

Nominations due: April 1, 2023

Award Committee: Patricia Strach, University at Albany, State University of New York; Colleen Grogan, University of Chicago; Jonathan Oberlander, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Mildred Schwartz Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Canadian Politics

The Mildred A. Schwartz Lifetime Achievement Award goes to scholars who have made significant contributions through their career to the study of Canadian politics, either through development of political analysis of Canada or through incorporating Canada as a significant case in comparative political analyses.

Nominations due: June 15, 2023

Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award

The Seymour Martin Lipset Best Book Award is given to honor a significant contemporary contribution to the scholarship on Canadian politics, or Canada in a comparative perspective, or a comparative analysis of Canada with other countries, particularly the United States.

Nomination Instructions: Books dealing with Canadian politics or incorporating Canada as a significant case in a comparative political analysis are eligible for consideration. Nominations, including self-nominations, and books should be sent to the Chair of the Selection Committee not later than March 1, 2023.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

The Political Ties Award

The APSA organized section on Political Networks is seeking nominations for the Political Ties Award. This award is given annually to the best article published on the subject of political networks. Nominees must have been published—either on-line or in print—in a peer-reviewed journal between January 1st and December 31st of 2021.

Nominations due: April 7, 2023

Award Committee: Lindsey Cormack, Stevens Institute of Technology and Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania

Best Book on Political Networks Award

Awarded on a biennial basis to the best book published on political networks in a two-year period (current cycle includes books published April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023).

Nominations due: April 14, 2023

Award Committee: Jared Edgerton, University of Texas at Dallas; Barry Ames, University of Pittsburgh; Virginia Oliveros, Tulane University

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.

Nominations due: April 7, 2023

Award Committee: Omer Yalcin, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Naoki Egami, Columbia University; Abigail Matthews, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

John Sprague Award

This award, issued by the Political Networks Section of APSA, is given annually to the best paper on political networks presented by a graduate student delivered at a political science conference in the previous year. The award includes a cash prize.

Nominations due: April 7, 2023

Award Committee: Taegyoon Kim, Northwestern University; Bomi Lee, Washington University in St. Louis; Katya Ognyanova, Rutgers University

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: Natalia Garbiras Diaz, European University Institute; Anna Wilke, Washington University in St. Louis; Erin Rossiter, University of Notre Dame

Best Paper Award

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

Award Committee: Nicholas Haas, Aarhus University; Emmy Lindstam, IE Business School; Nicholas Sambanis, University of Pennsylvania

Best Book Award

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

Award Committee: Jose Villalobos, University of Texas at El Paso; Cigdem Sirin, University of Texas at El Paso; Marzia Oceno, Florida International University

Public Service Award

Many experiments only occur thanks to the assistance of non-researchers who provide access to resources and data. This award recognizes a special form of public service, the facilitation of randomized experiments in political science by those outside the academy.

Award Committee: Alex Hartman; University College London; Ana de la O, Yale University; Peter Van Der Windt; NYU Abu Dhabi

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: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth University; Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

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: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth University; Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

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: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth University; Scott Clifford, University of Houston; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

Best Book Award

Award given to the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in calendar year 2022. Edited volumes are not eligible.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Lamis Elmy Abdelaaty (Chair), Syracuse University; Rahsaan Maxwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jeffrey Pugh, University of Massachusetts Boston

Best Article Award

Best article on migration and/or citizenship published (and printed) in 2022.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Audie Klotz (Chair), Syracuse University; Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos, University of Toronto; Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia

Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in 2022.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Angie Bautista-Chavez (Chair), Arizona State University; PJ Brendese, Johns Hopkins University; Yi Chun Chien, National Chengchi University

Best Graduate Student Paper

Best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting in Montreal (either as part of a panel or poster session). Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Stephanie Schwartz (Chair), London School of Economics; Yehonatan Abramson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Elizabeth Iams Wellman, Williams College

Emerging Scholar Award

The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate an outstanding scholar who is within 6 years from the year of their PhD or holds a pre-tenure status and whose scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship has made a significant contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life.

Eligibility criteria:

• • Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship.

• • Recipients must have their PhD degree conferred within the past six calendar years (e.g., for the award to be awarded in 2024, recipients can have received their PhDs no earlier than 2018) or hold a pre-tenure status.

• • Nominations need to be accompanied by at least one nomination letter, written by the nominee and/or a scholar other than the nominee, along with supporting documents that will allow the award committee to learn of the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life, including but not limited to a CV, writing sample(s) (not exceeding 30 pages total), evidence of teaching excellence (not exceeding 30 pages total),…etc.

Prize:

• • The winner will be honored and receive a certificate at the business meeting of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship.

• • The winner will also receive a $500 cash prize.

Instructions and selection process:

• • To be considered for this award, please send nominations and/or self-nominations to the committee chair by the deadline.

• • The award committee, comprising three members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship designated by the section’s Executive Committee, ensures that the nominations fit the award criteria and assess the contribution made by the nominees.

• • The award committee reserves the right not to extend the award.

• • Once the deadline for nominations has closed, verify eligibility in terms of PhD conferral date and section membership. If they are not currently a section member, ask them to join for full consideration for this award.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Willem Maas (Chair), York University; Sara Wallace Goodman, University of California, Irvine; Leila Kawar, University of Michigan

Career Achievement Award

The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life.

Eligibility criteria:

• • Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship.

• • Nominations need to be accompanied by at least two nomination letters, which explain and illustrate the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life in their scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship.

Prize:

• • The winner will be honored and receive a certificate at the business meeting of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship.

Instructions and selection process:

• • To be considered for this award, please send nominations to the committee chair by the deadline.

• • The award committee, comprising three members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship designated by the section’s Executive Committee, ensures that the nominations fit the award criteria and assess the contribution made by the nominees.

• • The award committee reserves the right not to extend the award.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Els de Graauw (Chair), Baruch College, the City University of New York; Antje Ellermann, University of British Columbia; Kamal Sadiq, University of California, Irvine

APCG Ralph Bunche Best Graduate Paper Award

Best graduate student paper in political science based in African empirics.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Peter Lewis, Johns Hopkins University

APCG Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation in political science based in African empirics.

Nominations Due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Peter Lewis, Johns Hopkins University

Best Article

Best article published in political science based in African empirics.

Nominations Due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Peter Lewis, Johns Hopkins University

Best Book

Best book published in political science based in African empirics.

Nominations Due: April 15, 2023

Award Committee: Peter Lewis, Johns Hopkins University

Best Paper Award

For the best paper presented at a panel sponsored (or co-sponsored) by the Class and Inequality Section at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting. Please be sure to submit the conference version of paper.

Nominations due: April 3, 2023

Award Committee: Adam Thal, Loyola Marymount University

Best Paper on Economic and Social Inequality

For the best paper on the intersection of social and economic inequality presented at any panel—including those not hosted by the Class and Inequality section—at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting. Please be sure to submit the conference version of paper.

Nominations due: April 3, 2023

Award Committee: Adam Thal, Loyola Marymount University

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. In 2023, the committee will consider dissertations defended in 2022. (Note that nominated authors must be members of the Class & Inequality section.)

Nominations due: April 3, 2023

Award Committee: Adam Thal, Loyola Marymount University

Best Book on Class and Inequality

The book will be chosen from among those published by Section members in the prior two calendar years. In 2023, the committee will consider books published in 2021 and 2022. (Note that nominated authors must be members of the Class & Inequality section.)

Nominations due: April 3, 2023

Award Committee: Adam Thal, Loyola Marymount University

Christopher Faricy Graduate Student Travel Award

To help defer the cost of travel expenses related to attending the APSA Annual Meeting, the Section makes every effort to grant the travel award to all graduate students presenting a paper at a C&I panel who apply and demonstrate that insufficient funding is available from other sources. We will contact all those offered C&I roles with additional details and deadlines; note that we will begin accepting funding applications soon after APSA sends acceptances and will communicate grant decisions before the APSA registration deadline.

Nominations Due: Within one month of APSA notification of acceptance.

Award Committee: Adam Thal, Loyola Marymount University

Best Graduate Student Paper Prize

This award recognizes the APSA conference paper by a graduate student or post-doc, presented at an Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics panel at the 2022 APSA Annual Meeting, that best explored the causal role of ideas or knowledge claims in politics or government. Nominations will be solicited from 2022 IKP panel chairs and discussants. The awards committee reserves the right to make no award.

Nominations due: September 1, 2022

Award Committee: Winston Berg, University of Chicago

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. The committee is authorized to go back several years, at its discretion, and to make its own nominations as well as accepting nominations from others, including book authors. Nominated books published in 2022 or previous years should be sent to committee members with a note or email message specifying that the book is being nominated. If only one copy of the book is available, please communicate this to the chair of the committee. Authors are urged to follow up with publishers to be sure that books have been submitted. Publishers are urged to contact committee members for their current mailing addresses.

Nominations due: February 1, 2023

Award Committee: Paul M. D. Gunn (Chair), Goldsmiths, University of London; Kevin Elliott, Murray State University; Renée Marlin-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University

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. The monetary value of the award will be established by the Council in consultation with the Secretary-Treasurer and publicized appropriately. Please check the section website for updates on nomination deadlines and committees.

Best Dissertation in American Political Thought

The winner of The Best Dissertation in American Political Thought Award will be chosen every two years by the Section Council. The Council will select award recipients from among nominations provided by department chairs (one per department). The monetary value of the award will be established by the Council in consultation with the Secretary-Treasurer and publicized appropriately. Please check the section website for updates on nomination deadlines and committees.

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. The monetary value of the award will be established by the Council in consultation with the Secretary-Treasurer and publicized appropriately. Please check the section website for updates on nomination deadlines and committees.

The Best Conference Paper in American Political Thought Award

The winner of The Best Conference Paper in American Political Thought Award will be chosen every year by the Section Council from among nominations provide by panel chairs at the APSA Annual Meeting. The monetary value of the award will be established by the Council in consultation with the Secretary-Treasurer and publicized appropriately. Please check the section website for updates on nomination deadlines and committees.

Best Article Award

The Best Article Award is given for the best article on international collaboration published in 2022. Nominations, which must include a PDF of the article and publication information, should be emailed to the Section Chair. Self-nominations are welcome.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Best Book Award

The Best Book Award is given for the best book on international collaboration published in 2022. Nominations, which must include a PDF of the full book manuscript, should be emailed to the Section Chair. Self-nominations are welcome.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on international collaboration for a PhD awarded in 2022. Students may self-nominate their dissertations. Nominations, which must include a PDF of the filed version of the dissertation, should be emailed to the Section Chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Distinguished Mentor Award

The Distinguished Mentor Award is given for excellence in mentoring graduate students and junior faculty in the study of international collaboration. We particularly welcome nominations from groups of scholars who can provide a holistic assessment of their nominee’s impact as a mentor. Nominations should be emailed to the Section Chair.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Best Book on MENA Politics

Awarded for the best book published in the previous year (January-December). Monographs utilizing any methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools for the study of the politics of the Middle East and North Africa will be considered. Edited volumes, handbooks, and similar works will not be considered. If there are sufficient nominations, the award committee may choose to split the award into “first book” and “second+ book” categories. Please submit nominations or self-nominations to the award committee with the subject heading “MENA Politics Best Book Nomination” at apsamena@gmail.com by January 1. Electronic copies of the nominated book should be sent to the chair of the award committee. Members of the award committee who have worked closely with a nominee (as advisor, dissertation committee member, co-author, etc.) will recuse themselves from deliberation over that nominee’s work.

Nominations due: January 1, 2023

Award Committee: Khalid Medani, McGill University and Avital Livny, University of Illinois

Best Article on MENA Politics

Awarded for the best article published in a peer-reviewed journal the previous year (January-December). Articles utilizing any methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools for the study of the politics of the Middle East and North Africa will be considered. Should sufficient nominees exist, the committee may also consider recognizing any submission for a “Best Fieldwork” or “Best Dataset” sub-award. Please submit nominations or self-nominations to the award committee with the subject heading “MENA Politics Best Journal Article Nomination” at apsamena@gmail.com by January 1.

Nominations due: January 1, 2023

Award Committee: Sarah Parkinson, Johns Hopkins University and Dina Bishara, Cornell University

Best Dissertation on MENA Politics

Awarded for the best doctoral thesis defended in the previous academic year. (August-July). To be considered, the dissertation must be nominated by the dissertation adviser or another faculty member familiar with the work; self-nominations are not permitted and dissertations may only be nominated once. The nominator should submit a short letter explaining why the dissertation makes an exceptional contribution to the study of the politics of the Middle East and the broader discipline of Political Science; this letter should also indicate if any portion of the dissertation has been published in article format and/or if it is being nominated for another section award. Work utilizing any methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools for the study of the politics of the Middle East and North Africa will be considered. Please submit nomination letters, with the dissertation as a PDF attachment, to the chair of the award committee with the subject heading “MENA Politics Best Dissertation Nomination” at apsamena@gmail.com by January 1. A member of the selection committee may not nominate their own graduate student and will recuse themselves from deliberations over their student’s work should it be nominated.

Nominations due: January 1, 2023

Award Committee: Ian Hartshorn, University of Nevada, Reno; Jannis Grimm, Freie Universität-Berlin; Neil Ketchley, Oxford University

Best Paper on MENA Politics

Awarded for the best conference paper presented at the previous APSA Annual Meeting. Papers utilizing any methodological, theoretical, and empirical tools for the study of the politics of the Middle East and North Africa will be considered. Please submit nominations or self-nominations to the award committee with the subject heading “MENA Politics Best Paper Nomination” at apsamena@gmail.com by January 1.

Nominations due: January 1, 2023

Award Committee: Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins SAIS; Bozena Welborne, Smith College; Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Emerging Scholar

The Emerging Scholar Award honors an individual within five years of earning their terminal degree who is making notable contributions in the teaching and/or research of civic engagement and whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise in this area.

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

Best Paper

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

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

Best APSA Paper on Education Politics and/or Policy

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

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Elizabeth Sharrow, University of Massachusetts and Christopher Chambers-Ju, University of Texas at Arlington

Best Education Politics and Policy Dissertation

Recognizes the best dissertation on education politics and/or education policy completed in the previous two calendar years.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Anja Giudici, Newcastle University

Best Book on Education Politics and Policy

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

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Julian Garritzman, Goethe University Frankfurt; Sara Dahill-Brown, Wake Forest University; Melissa Arnold Lyon, University at Albany, State University of New York

Journal of Theoretical Politics Ostrom Award

The Journal of Theoretical Politics Ostrom Award is given to the best article published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics within the previous two calendar years (2021, 2022).

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Deborah Beim, University of Michigan; Alan Wiseman, Vanderbilt University; Scott Wolford, University of Texas at Austin

Best Article by a Non-Tenured Scholar

Best paper published in 2022 by a non-tenured scholar.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Avidit Acharya, Stanford University; Brenton Kenkel, Vanderbilt University; Adam Meirowitz, Yale University

Best Article

Best paper published in 2022.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Craig Volden, University of Virginia; Andrew Little, University of California, Berkeley; Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Georgia State University

Best APSA Paper

Best paper presented at APSA in 2022.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Ken Shotts, Stanford University; Mattias Polborn, Vanderbilt University; Raúl Ponce Rodriguez, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez

Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award

The Best Dissertation Award, named for Nuno P. Monteiro, is given for the best dissertation in International Relations Theory. All dissertations completed within the previous two calendar years are eligible for consideration. Nominations should be directed to all three members of the award committee. All members of the Section are eligible to make nominations.

Nominations due: March 31, 2023

Award Committee: Alex Debs, Yale University; Bridget Coggins, University of California, Santa Barbara; Adam Lerner, Royal Holloway, University of London

Emerging Scholar in American Political Economy

Given to a scholar not more than five years beyond the PhD who has made important contributions to the study of the American political economy. The award is focused on political scientists who study the United States, though comparative scholars who include the United States in their analyses are also eligible. Self-nominations are encouraged, but should include the name of at least one external reference. The award comes with a prize of $1000.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Kathleen Thelen (Chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Daniel Galvin, Northwestern University; Jane Gingrich, Oxford University

Best Dissertation on American Political Economy

Given to a dissertation defended in the previous two calendar years (2021 or 2022) that makes an important contribution to the study of the American political economy. The award is focused on political scientists who study the United States, though comparative scholars who include the United States in their analyses are also eligible. Self-nominations are encouraged, but should include the name of at least one external reference. The award comes with a prize of $500.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Paul Pierson (Chair), University of California, Berkeley; Nicholas Carnes, Duke University, Margaret Weir; Brown University

Best Paper on American Political Economy

Given to a paper presented at the 2022 meeting of the American Political Science Association that makes an important contribution to the study of the American political economy. In this initial year, papers do not have to have been presented on panels sponsored by the Organized Section on American Political Economy. The award is focused on political scientists who study the United States, though comparative scholars who include the United States in their analyses are also eligible. Self-nominations are encouraged, but should include the name of at least one external reference. The award comes with a prize of $500.

Nominations due: March 1, 2023

Award Committee: Jacob Grumbach (Chair); University of Washington; Isabel Perera, Cornell University; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University