APSA is delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 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 121st APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
DISSERTATION AWARDS
| Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best dissertation in the field of comparative politics |
Recipient: Joséphine Lechartre, Tulane University
Title: “Genocide and Cultural Change: Civilian Survival Strategies and the Reinvention of Political Culture During Guatemala’s Mayan Genocide” |
| William Anderson Award for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state, and local politics |
Recipient: Julian Michel, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Title: “The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability” |
| Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation in the field of public law |
Recipient: Benjamin Garcia-Holgado, University of Delaware
Title: “The Judicial Bulwark: Courts and the Populist Erosion of Democracy” |
| Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in the field of public policy |
Recipient: Shir Raviv, Columbia University
Title: “The Evolving Politics of Using AI Algorithms in Public Policy Implementation” |
| E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in the field of American government |
Recipient: Roxanne Rahnama, Stanford University
Title: “Myths and Monuments: Ideological Tools of Dominance and Symbolic Change” |
| Kenneth Sherrill Prize for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science |
Recipient: Nicholas D’Amico, Syracuse University
Title: “Rainbow Participation? Assessing the Forces Motivating the LGBTQ Participation and Political Identity in the United States” |
| Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in the field of political philosophy |
Recipient: David Guerrero, University of Barcelona and University of Groningen
Title: “Reframing Expressive Freedom: Free Speech Libertarianism, Republicanism, and the Political Economy of Communication” |
| Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics |
Recipient: Jan Eijking, University of Oxford
Title: “A World From Nowhere: Nineteenth-Century Expert Politics and the Technocratic International” |
| Leonard D. White Award for the best dissertation in the field of public administration |
Recipient: David Froomkin, Yale University
Title: “Structuring Democracy” |
PAPER, ARTICLE AND 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: Jerry Min, Harvard University
Title: “Do Left Governments Tax More? How States Tax Global Capital With Tax Treaties” |
| Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting |
Recipient: Matt Brundage, University of California, Berkeley
Title: “How Income Segregation Leads Americans to Underestimate Racial Inequality, Reducing Support to Address It” |
| Heinz Eulau Award (APSR) for the best article published in the American Political Science Review in the previous calendar year |
Recipient: Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University
Title: “Tilly Goes to Church: The Religious and Medieval Roots of European State Fragmentation.” Volume 118, Issue 1 |
| Heinz Eulau Award (Perspectives on Politics) for the best article published in Perspectives on Politics in the previous calendar year |
Recipients: Hannah S. Chapman, University of Oklahoma; Margaret C. Hanson, Middlebury College; Paul DeBell, Fort Lewis College; Valery Dzutsati, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
Title: “Under the Veil of Democracy: What Do People Mean When They Say They Support Democracy.” Volume 22, Issue 1 |
BOOK AWARDS
| Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism |
Recipient: Kevin D. Pham, University of Amsterdam
Title: The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization. (Oxford University Press) |
| Robert A. Dahl Award for untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on democracy |
Recipient: Vicente Valentim, IE University
Title: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand. (Oxford 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: Anthony Grasso, Rutgers University-Camden
Title: Dual Justice: America’s Divergent Approaches to Street and Corporate Crime. (The University of Chicago 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: Jane Bennett, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. (Duke 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: Max Gallien, Institute of Development Studies and the International Centre for Tax and Development
Title: Smugglers and States: Negotiating the Maghreb at Its Margins. (Columbia University Press) |
| Sage/CQ Press Award for research-based projects and those that may involve activism that has focused on advancing social justice and addressing inequality and inequity in society |
Recipients: Phillip Ayoub, University College London and Kristina Stoeckl, Luiss University
Title: The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights. (New York University Press) |
| Victoria Schuck Award for the best book published on women and politics |
Recipient: Cecilia Josefsson, Uppsala University
Title: Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas. (Oxford University Press) |
| Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs |
Recipient: Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Title: Uprooted: How Post-WWII Population Transfers Remade Europe. (Cambridge University Press) |
CAREER AWARDS
| 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: Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Towson University |
| 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: Randy Villegas, College of the Sequoias |
| APSA Distinguished Teaching Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching political science at two- or four-year institutions |
| Recipient: Monti Datta, University of Richmond |
| 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: Akshay Mangla, University of Oxford; Sandip Sukhtankar, University of Virginia; Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia |
| APSA Award for Teaching Innovation for a political scientist who has developed an effective new approach to teaching in the discipline |
| Recipient: Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College |
| Michael Brintnall Teaching and Learning Award supports faculty attendance at the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference |
| Recipient: Intae Choi, University of Missouri |
| John Gaus Award for a career of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration |
| Recipient: Aseem Prakash, University of Washington |
| Frank J. Goodnow Award to honor the outstanding contributions of individuals, groups, and public and private organizations to both the development of the political science profession and the building of the American Political Science Association |
| Recipient: Steven Rathgeb Smith, Georgetown University |
| Hubert H. Humphrey Award for notable public service by a political scientist |
| Recipient: Joseph Nye, Harvard University (posthumously) |
| Carey McWilliams Award for a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics |
| Recipient: Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times |
| Charles Merriam Award for an individual whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research |
| Recipient: Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University |
| Ithiel de Sola Pool Award for a scholar exploring the implications of research on issues of politics in a broad range of scholarship pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool |
| Recipient: Donald Kinder, University of Michigan |
| Barbara Sinclair Lecture for achievement in promoting the understanding of the U.S. Congress and legislative politics |
| Recipient: Matthew Green, The Catholic University of America |
| Hanes Walton Jr. Career Award honors 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: Katherine Tate, Brown University |
Each APSA Award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. This year’s awardees will be honored at the 2025 APSA Awards Reception in Vancouver, Canada, during the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition. If you have additional questions, please contact awards@apsanet.org. Learn more about American Political Science Association Awards.
