APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 APSA Awards! APSA recognizes and honors the work of various scholars who have made outstanding contributions to political science research, teaching and service. Recipients will be honored at the APSA Awards Reception during the 120th APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
DISSERTATION AWARDS
| Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics |
Recipient: Feyaad Allie, Harvard University
Title: “Power, Exclusion and Identity: The Politics of Muslim Marginalization in India” |
| William Anderson Award for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state, and local politics |
Recipient: Abigail Mancinelli, Guidehouse Consulting
Title: “A ‘Clean’ Slate: Public Financing and Representation in American Legislatures” |
| Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law |
Recipient: Lucien Ferguson, Boston College Law School
Title: “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights” |
| Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in the field of public policy |
Recipient: Alice Xu, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities” |
| E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in the field of American government |
Recipient: Claire Willeck, Netflix
Title: “Active Civics: How Civic Education Shapes Political Engagement” |
| Kenneth Sherrill Prize for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science |
Recipient: : Nancy Yun Tang, Princeton University
Title: “Making Autocracy Queer: A Dance in ‘Law’ Between LGBTQ Movements and Authoritarian States in China and Singapore” |
| Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in the field of political philosophy |
Recipient: William Tilleczek, McGill University
Title: “Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism” |
| Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics |
Recipient: Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Princeton University
Title: “Who is Watching? The Consequences of Foreign Criticism” |
| Leonard D. White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration |
Recipient: Sarah Rozenblum, Cornell University
Title: “Why Do Governments Ignore Their Own Experts? The Role of Scientific Advice in Covid-19 Vaccine Policy in France and the United States” |
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: Annamaria Prati, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: “Can International Interventions Build States? Evidence From UNDP” |
| Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting |
Recipients: Dorothy Kronick, University of California, Berkeley and John Marshall, Columbia University
Title: “Collateral Censorship: Theory and Evidence from Venezuela” |
| 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): Suthan Krishnarajan, Aarhus University
Title: “Rationalizing Democracy: The Perceptual Bias and (Un)Democratic Behavior.” Volume 117, Issue 2
Recipients (PoP): Adam B. Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Title:“Blurring the Boundaries of War: PTSD in American Foreign Policy Discourse.” Volume 21, Issue 2 |
BOOK AWARDS
| Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs |
Recipient: Olukunle P. Owolabi, Villanova University
Title: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects (Oxford University Press) |
| Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism |
Recipient: Melvin Rogers, Brown University
Title: The Darkened Light of Faith (Princeton University Press) |
| Robert A. Dahl Award for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on democracy |
Recipient: Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany, State University of New York
Title: Under the Gun: Political Violence and Parties in Pakistan (Cambridge 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: James Druckman, University of Rochester and Elizabeth Sharrow, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Title: Equality Unfulfilled: How Title IX’s Policy Design Undermines Change to College Sports (Cambridge 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: James Tully, University of Victoria
Title: Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity (Cambridge University Press) |
| 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: Rochelle Terman, University of Chicago
Title: The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires (Princeton University Press) |
| Victoria Schuck Award for the best book published on women and politics |
Recipient: Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University
Title: The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India (Cambridge University Press) |
CAREER AWARDS
| APSA Award for Teaching Innovation Award for a political scientist who has developed an effective new approach to teaching in the discipline |
| Recipient: Dr. Ñusta Carranza Ko, University of Baltimore |
| 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: Dr. Farhana Loonat, Skagit Valley College |
| APSA Distinguished Award for Civic and Community Engagement for significant civic or community engagement activity by a political science which merges knowledge and practice and has an impact outside of the profession or the academy |
| Recipient: Emily Beausoliel, Victoria University of Wellington |
| APSA Distinguished Teaching Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching political science at two- or four-year institutions |
| Recipient: Katy Harriger, Wake Forest University |
| John Gaus Award for a career of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration |
| Recipient: Lael Keiser, University of Missouri |
| 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: Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago |
| Hubert H. Humphrey Award for notable public service by a political scientist |
| Recipient: Colleen Shogan, National Archives |
| 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: James Fielder, Colorado State University, Jennifer Ostojski, Colgate University, Kalina Zhekova, University College London, Cathy Eliot, University College London, John-Paul Salter, University College London, John Wilesmith, University College London, Simon Usherwood, The Open University, Amanda Rosen, U.S. Naval War College, and Chad Raymond, Salve Regina University |
| Carey McWilliams Award for a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics |
| Recipient: Adam Iscoe, The New Yorker |
| Barbara Sinclair Lecture for achievement in promoting the understanding of the U.S. Congress and legislative politics |
| Recipient: Eric Schickler, University of California, Berkeley |
| Michael Brintnall Teaching and Learning Award supports faculty attendance at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference |
| Recipient: Elizabeth Dorssom, Lincoln University of Missouri |
