Submit Nominations for the 2023 Kenneth Sherrill Prize
Through APSA’s Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs, the Kenneth Sherrill Prize recognizes the best doctoral dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science. The purpose of this prize is to encourage and enable empirical work on LGBT topics by graduate students, and to broaden the recognition of this work within political science.
Deadline EXTENDED to March 1, 2023! Submit Nominations Here
2022 Awardee: Kellen A. Kane, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy
Kellen A. Kane (he/him/his) is a Research Fellow at the Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy affiliated with the General Service Administration’s Office of Evaluation Sciences. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Organized into three papers, “Health, Wealth, and Representation: Three Essays on LGBTQ+ Politics and Policy” focuses on several aspects of LGBTQ inequality in terms of public policy design, implementation and outcomes as well as in descriptive representation. The dissertation promises to make original contributions to knowledge in these areas by posing questions that have been unanswered and by adopting a mixed method approach in which he collects and combines a variety of data sources and develops new measures and analytical strategies.