Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Organized Section Award Recipients (Sections 1-20)

In an effort to bring attention to exceptional scholarship, many of APSA Organized Sections have established awards. Currently, there are more than 100 such awards honoring dissertations, papers, articles, books, and career achievement. Winners are generally selected by member committees appointed by the chair or executive committee of the section. The organized section recognizes winners at its annual business meetings, which are held in conjunction with the APSA Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to APSA Organized Section Award Recipients (Sections 1-20)
Congratulations to APSA Organized Section Award Recipients (Sections 21-40)
Congratulations to APSA Organized Section Award Recipients (Sections 41-55)

Section Name Name of Award and 2025 Recipient
Section 1: Federalism & Intergovernmental Relations
  • Martha Derthick Book Award: Recipient: Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award: Recipient: Meredith Dost, University of Wisconsin
  • Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award: Recipient: Pablo Beramendi, Duke University
  • John Kincaid Best Article Award: Recipient: Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University 
Section 2: Law and Courts
  • Best Graduate Student Paper Award: Recipient: Matthew Dahl, Yale University
  • Teaching Award: Recipient: Vanessa Barid, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Law and Courts Service Award: Recipient: Reggie Sheehan, Michigan State University
  • Best Article Published in the Journal of Law and Courts Award: Recipient: Jake S. Truscott, University of Florida
  • Best Journal Article Award: Recipient: Matthew Dahl, Yale University
  • Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book: Recipients: Ryan C. Black, Michigan State University; Ryan J. Owens, Florida State University; Patrick C. Wohlfarth, University of Maryland
  • Mentoring Award: Recipient: Ryan Black, Michigan State University
  • Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award: Recipient: Charles Cameron, Princeton University
  • Best Conference Paper Award: Recipient: Andrew O’Donohue, Harvard University
  • Lasting Contribution Award: Recipients: Timothy R. Johnson, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Paul J. Wahlbeck, George Washington University; James F. Spriggs, Washington University in St. Louis
Section 3: Legislative Studies
  • Carl Albert Dissertation Award: Recipient: Rob Oldham, Agnes Scott College
  • CQ Press Award: Recipients: Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara; Daniel Butler, Washington University in St. Louis; Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University
  • Jewell-Loewenberg Prize: American Politics: Recipients: Ayse Eldes, Princeton University; Christian Fong, University of Michigan; Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan: Comparative: Recipient: Lotte Hargrave, University of Manchester: Subnational: Recipient: Rob Oldham, Agnes Scott College
  • Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize: Recipients: Nathan F. Bueno, Academia Sinica, and Emily Beaulieu, University of Kentucky
  • Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award: Recipient: Gary Cox, Stanford University
  • Emerging Scholar Award: Recipient: Christian Fong, University of Michigan
  • Alan Rosenthal Prize: Recipients: Pamela Ban, University of California, San Diego; Ju Yeon Park, The Ohio State University; Hye Young You, Princeton University
Section 6: Public Administration
  • Herbert Kaufman Award: Recipient: Nirvikar Jassal, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Herbert A. Simon Book Award: Recipient: Tyler Jost, Brown University
  • Paul Volker Junior Scholar Research Grant: Co-Recipients: Gus Greenstein, Leiden University; Jae Yeon Kim, Johns Hopkins University; Sheeling Neo, American University; Xiaochun Zhu, Indiana University
Section 7: Conflict Processes
  • Best Paper by a Junior Scholar Award: Recipients: Risa Kitagawa, Northeastern University, and Sumin Lee, Texas A&M University
  • Best Paper Co-Authored by a Tenured Scholar Award: Recipients: Seden Akcinaroglu, Binghamton University; Jeremy Berkowitz, Prairie View A&M University; Carlos E. Moreno Leon, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana; Sema Hande Ogutcu-Fu, Lincoln University; Evgency Sedashov, HSE University; Efe Tokdemir, Bilkent University
  • Lifetime Achievement Award: Recipient: Elisabeth Wood, Yale University
  • Singer Data Innovation Award: Recipients: Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute Oslo & Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Andreas Forø Tollefsen, PRIO; Håvard Strand, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Jonas Vestby, Peace Research Institute Oslo; Scott Gates, Peace Research Institute Oslo
Section 8: Representation & Electoral Politics
  • Lawrence Longley Award: Recipients: Vicente Valentim, IE University, and Elias Dinas, European University Institute
  • George Hallett Award: Recipient: Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Leon Weaver Award: Recipient: Nirvikar Jassal, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • RES Graduate Student Research Grant: Co-Recipient: Graham Straus, University of California, Los Angeles, and Chandler L’Hommedieu, The Ohio State University
Section 9: Presidents and Executive Politics
  • The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award: Recipient: Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan
  • George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award: Recipient: Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Founders Best Paper Award Honoring Peri Arnold by PhD-holding Scholar: Co-Recipient: Anna Callis, Tulane University, Christopher Carter, University of Virginia, Co-Recipient: John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University
  • Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award Honoring James Sterling Young: Recipient: Benjamin Goehring, University of Michigan
  • Emerging Scholar Award: Recipient: Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan
  • Lyn Ragsdale Mentorship Award: Recipient: Nancy Kassop, State University of New York at New Paltz
Section 11: Religion and Politics
  • Hubert Morken Book Award: Recipient: Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University
  • Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award: Recipient: Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University
  • Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award: Recipients: Peitong Jing, University of Notre Dame, and Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame
  • Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award: Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville
  • Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award: Co-Recipient: Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University; Co-Recipient: Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham
Section 13: Urban and Local Politics
  • Susan Clarke Young Scholars Award: Co-Recipient: Tanushree Goyal, Princeton University; Co-Recipient: Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University
  • Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award: Recipient: Antonia Gordon, Michigan State University
  • Clarence Stone Scholar Award: Recipient: Michael Hankinson, George Washington University
  • Urban Affairs Review Best Paper on Urban and Regional Politics: Recipient: Elisa Maria Wirsching, Princeton University
  • Best Dissertation Award: Recipient: Elisa Maria Wirsching, Princeton University
  • Dennis Judd Best Book Award: Recipient: Veronica Herrera, University of California, Los Angeles
Section 15: Science, Technology & Environmental Politics
  • Don K. Price Award: Recipient: Thomas Hale, Oxford University
  • Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize: Recipient: Denise Sienli van der Kamp, Oxford University
  • Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award: Recipient: Guoer Liu, University of California, San Diego
  • Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award: Recipients: Joshua A. Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University; Christopher W. Blair, Princeton University; Sabrina B. Arias, Lehigh University
  • The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award: Recipient: Barry Rabe, University of Michigan
  • The Emerging Young Scholar Award: Recipient: Tara Grillos, Purdue University
  • Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award: Recipients: Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara; Polycarp Komakech, University of California, Santa Barbara; Shiran Victoria Shen, Stanford University
  • STEP Graduate Student Inclusion Travel Grant: Recipient: Sara Saastamoinen, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
Section 16: Women, Gender, and Politics Research
  • Best Dissertation Award: Recipient: Apekshya Prasai, Brown University
  • Best Paper Award: Recipients: Elizabeth Sperber, University of Denver; Gwyneth McClendon, New York University; O’Brien Kaaba, University of Zambia
  • The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory: Recipient: Rose Owen, The New School for Social Research
  • Best Paper on Intersectionality Award: Co-Recipients: Christine M. Slaughter, Boston University; Kennia L. Coronado, Texas Woman’s University; Camille Burge-Hicks, Villanova University; Nadia E. Brown, Georgetown University, Co-Recipient: Aditi Malik, College of the Holy Cross
  • The WGPRS Public Engagement Award: Recipient: Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, University of Portland
  • Politics & Gender Best Article Award: Recipients: Anne Louise Schotel, University of Amsterdam, and Liza Mügge, University of Amsterdam
  • Section 16 Microgrants: Co-Recipients: Dhauha Djerbi, Geneva Graduate Institute; Alexandra Snipes, Emory University; Jamie Chow, University of Western Ontario; Elisabeth (Annie) Jarman, Washington University in St. Louis; Christy Oh, The Ohio State University
Section 17: Foundations of Political Theory
  • David Easton Award: Co-Recipient: Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Co-Recipients: Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University, and Jack Knight, Duke University
  • First Book Award: Recipient: Lowry Pressly, Stanford University
  • The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory: Recipient: Rose Owen, The New School for Social Research
  • Best Paper Award: Recipient: Anna Terwiel, Trinity College
Section 18: Information Technology and Politics
  • Best Conference Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section: Recipients: Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich, and Thomas Zeitzoff, American University
  • Best Book in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section: Recipients: Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University, and Václav Štětka, Loughborough University
  • Best Public-Facing Scholarship in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section: Recipients: Michael Bossetta, Lund University
  • Best Student Paper Award: Recipient: Yilin Su, University College London
  • Best Journal of Information Technology and Politics Article Award: Recipients: Daniel Muise, Stanford University; David M. Markowitz, Michigan State University; Byron Reeves, Stanford University; Nilam Ram, Stanford University; Thomas N. Robinson, Stanford University
  • Best Dissertation Award: Recipient: Eddie Young, University of California, San Diego
Section 19: International Security
  • Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award: Recipient: Hohyun Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Catherine McArdle Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article: Recipient: Cameron Mailhot, University of Arizona
  • Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award: Recipient: Tyler Jost, Brown University
  • Joseph Kruzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Public Service: Recipient: Thomas G. Mahnken, Johns Hopkins University & Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments
Section 20: Comparative Politics
  • Luebbert Book Prize: Recipient: Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University
  • Sage Paper Prize: Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville
  • Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award: Recipients: Nick Carnes, Duke University; Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles; Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University; Eugenia Nazrullaeva, University of Konstanz
  • Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars: Recipient: Robert Blair, Brown University
  • Luebbert Best Article Prize: Recipients: Jack Paine, Emory University; Xiaoyan Qiu, Washington University in St. Louis; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland
  • Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology: Recipients: Marco Morucci, New York University; Margaret J. Foster, Duke University; Kaitlyn Webster, Independent Scholar; So Jin Lee, Harvard University; David A. Siegel, Duke University