APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 APSA awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. The awards will be presented at the APSA Awards Ceremony during the 119th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Los Angeles, California.
DISSERTATION AWARDS
| Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics |
Recipient: Nicholas Kuipers, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “Meritocracy Reconsidered: The Politics of Civil Service Recruitment” |
| William Anderson Award for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state, and local politics |
Recipient: Bhumi Purohit, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “Laments of Getting Things Done: Bureaucratic Resistance Against Female Politicians in India” |
| Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law |
Recipient: Sam Hayes, Boston College
Title: “Courtroom Cartography: How Federal Court Redistricting Has Shaped American Democracy from Baker to Rucho” |
| Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in the field of public policy |
Recipient: Michael Lerner, University of Michigan
Title: “Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership” |
| E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in the field of American government |
Recipient: Rachel Porter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: “Some Politics Are Still Local: Strategic Position Taking in Congress & Elections” |
| Kenneth Sherrill Prize for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science |
Recipient: Rachel O’Neal, University of Colorado Boulder
Title: “Hetero-cis-normativity” |
| Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in the field of political philosophy |
Co-recipient: Sara Hassani, New School for Social Research
Title: “Cloistered Infernos: The Politics of Self-Immolation in the Persian Belt”
Co-recipient: Nazli Konya, Cornell University
Title: “The Inappropriable People of Gezi: Refusal, Protest, Desire” |
| Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics |
Recipient: D.G. Kim, University of California, San Diego
Title: “Anti-Asian Racism and the Racial Politics of U.S.-China Great Power Rivalry” |
| Leonard D. White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration |
Recipient: Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Emory University
Title: “The Digital Citizen: The Impact of Technology on Public Participation and Government Responsiveness” |
PAPER, ARTICLE & POSTER AWARDS
| APSA Best Poster Award for the best poster presented by a graduate student and/or early career scholar at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting |
Recipient: Meiqing Zhang, University of Southern California
Title: “Moralized Social Media in the 2020 Presidential Election” |
| Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting |
Recipient: Shengqiao Lin, University of Texas at Austin
Title: “Addressing Risk by Doing Good: Business Responses to Policy Initiatives” |
| Heinz I. Eulau Award for best article published in the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics in the previous calendar year |
Recipient (APSR): Agustina Paglayan, University of California, San Diego
Title: “Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building.” Volume 116, Issue 4
Recipients (PoP): Jamilla Michener, Cornell University; Mallory SoRelle, Duke University; and Chloe Thurston, Northwestern University
Title: “From the Margins to the Center: A Bottom-Up Approach to Welfare State Scholarship.” Volume 20, Issue 1 |
BOOK AWARDS
| Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs |
Recipient: Jacob Grumbach, University of Washington
Title: Laboratories against Democracy: How National Parties Transformed State Politics (Princeton University Press) |
| Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism |
Recipient: Sally A. Nuamah, Northwestern University
Title: Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans (Cambridge University Press) |
| Robert A. Dahl Award for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on democracy |
Recipient: Aram Hur, University of Missouri
Title: Narratives of Civic Duty: How National Stories Shape Democracy in Asia (Cornell University Press) |
| Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of U.S. national policy |
Recipient: R. Douglas Arnold, Princeton University
Title: Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age (Princeton University Press) |
| Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for exceptional work by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication |
Recipient: Joan Tronto, University of Minnesota
Title: Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (Routledge) |
| APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for the best first book in any field of political science, showing promise of having substantive impact on the overall discipline |
Recipient: Fiona Shen-Bayh, The College of William and Mary
Title: Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic Courts (Cambridge University Press) |
| Victoria Schuck Award for the best book published on women and politics |
Recipient: Ke Li, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Title: Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China (Stanford University Press) |
CAREER AWARDS
| APSA Community College Faculty Award for excellence in teaching, mentoring, community engagement, governance, and/or research by a community college faculty member in the profession |
| Recipient: Anne Gillman, American River College |
| APSA Distinguished Award for Civic and Community Engagement for significant civic or community engagement activity by a political scientist which merges knowledge and practice and has an impact outside of the profession or the academy |
| Recipient: Rebecca Glazier, University of Arkansas at Little Rock |
| APSA Distinguished Teaching Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching political science at two- or four-year institutions |
| Recipient: M. Brielle Harbin, United States Naval Academy |
| John Gaus Award for a career of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration |
| Recipient: Daniel Carpenter, Harvard University |
| Frank J. Goodnow Award for service to the community of political science by teachers, researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of politics |
| Recipient: Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University |
| Hubert H. Humphrey Award for notable public service by a political scientist |
| Recipient: Victor Cha, Georgetown University |
| APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award for political scientists engaged in collaborative and productive cross-national partnerships that make a significant contribution to the discipline in the areas of teaching, research, or civic engagement |
| Recipients: Dr Judithanne Scourfield McLauchlan, University of South Florida, and Larisa Patlis, Free University of Moldova |
| James Madison Award for an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science. |
| Recipient: Theda Skocpol, Harvard University |
| Carey McWilliams Award for a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics |
| Recipient: Steve Lopez, The Los Angeles Times |
| Charles E. Merriam Award in recognition of a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research. |
| Recipient: Michael C. Dawson, University of Chicago |
| Barbara Sinclair Lecture for achievement in promoting the understanding of the U.S. Congress and legislative politics |
| Recipient: Steven S. Smith, Washington University in St. Louis |
| Hanes Walton Jr. Award for a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics and illuminates the conditions under which diversity and intergroup tolerance thrive in democratic societies. |
| Recipient: Vincent Hutchings, University of Michigan |
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