Congratulations to the 2025 APSA Organized Section Award Recipients (Sections 42-50)

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 recognize winners at their 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 Recipient
Section 41: Political Networks
  • The Political Ties Award Recipient: Noah L. Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Best Conference Paper Award Recipient: Weidong Zhang, University of Texas at El Paso
  • John Sprague Award Recipient: Charlie Carter, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Best Book Award Recipient: Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University
  • Career Achievement Award Recipient: David Lazer, Northeastern University
Section 42: Experimental Research
  • Best Dissertation Award Recipient: Natán Skigin, Harvard University
  • Best Paper Award Recipients: Priyadarshi Amar, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Sumitra Badrinathan, American University; Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III Madrid; Florian Sichart, Princeton University
  • Best Book Award Recipient: William G. Nomikos, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article Recipients: Frederico Batista Pereira, University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Natália S. Bueno, Emory University; Felipe Nunes, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais; Nara Pavão, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
  • Best Article with a Pre-Registration Plan in JEPS Recipient: D.G. Kim, Harvard University
  • Best Replication in JEPS Award Recipient: Rafael Ahlskog, Uppsala University
Section 43: Migration and Citizenship
  • Best Book Award Recipients: Catherine De Vries, Bocconi University; David Doyle, University of Oxford; Hector Solaz, Bocconi University; Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford
  • Best Article Award Recipients: Marc Helbling, University of Mannheim; Rahsaan Maxwell, New York University; Richard Traunmüller, University of Mannheim
  • Best Dissertation Award Recipient: Tauhid S. Bin Kashem, University of California, Irvine
  • Best Graduate Student Paper Recipient: Deepika Padmanabhan, Yale University
  • Emerging Scholar Award Recipient: Katharina Natter, University of Leiden
  • Career Achievement Award Co-Recipient: Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University (Emerita) Co-Recipient: Joseph Carens, University of Toronto (Emeritus)
Section 45: Class and Inequality
  • Best Paper in Class & Inequality Recipients: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia and Tanu Kumar, World Bank
  • Best Paper in Social Inequality Recipients: Gautam Nair, Harvard University and Akshay Dixit, Harvard University
Section 46: Ideas, Knowledge and Politics
  • Jeffrey Friedman Best Book on Ideas, Knowledge and Politics Award Recipient: Paul David Beaumont, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Section 47: American Political Thought
  • Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient: Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
  • Best Book Award Recipient: Keidrick Roy, Dartmouth College
  • Best Paper Presented on American Political Thought at the APSA Annual Meeting Recipient: Susan McWilliams Barndt, Pomona College
  • Best Article Published in American Political Thought Award Recipient: Jacob Little, Duke University
  • Best Dissertation in American Political Thought Award Recipient: Stephen Goniprow, Hillsdale College
Section 48: International Collaboration
  • Best Article Award Recipients: Iasmin Goes, Colorado State University, and Terrence Chapman, University of Texas at Austin
  • Best Book Award Recipient: Clara Park, Duke University
  • Best Dissertation Award Recipient: Averell Schmidt, Cornell University
  • Distinguished Mentor Award Recipient: Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego
Section 49: Middle East and North Africa Politics
  • Best Book on MENA Politics
    • Recipient, Best First Book: Diana Greenwald, The City College of New York
    • Recipient, Best Book by a Senior Scholar: Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University
  • Best MENA Politics Article Recipient: Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
  • Best Dissertation on MENA Politics Recipient: Elizabth K. Parker-Magyar, Yale University
  • Best MENA Politics APSA Paper Recipients: Berfin Baydar, Duke University and Asli Cansunar, University of Washington
Section 50: Civic Engagement
  • Established Leader Award Recipient: Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University South Bend
  • Outstanding Civic Engagement Project Recipient: Nhat-Dang Do, Trinity College
  • Best Paper Award Recipients: Stephanie Chan, Lafayette College; Rosa Castillo Krewson, American University; Frank Reichert, The University of Hong Kong
  • Emerging Scholar Award Co-Recipient: Diana Da In Lee, Princeton University Co-Recipient: William O’Brochta, Texas Lutheran University
Section 51: Education Politics and Policy
  • Best Education Politics and Policy Dissertation Recipient: Julia Smith Coyoli, Harvard University
  • Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book on Education Politics and Policy Recipient: R. Shep Melnick, Boston College
  • Best APSA Paper on Education Politics and Policy Recipients: Mirya Holman, University of Houston; Rebecca Johnson, Georgetown University; Tyler Simko, Princeton University
Section 52: Formal Theory
  • Journal of Theoretical Politics Ostrom Award Co-Recipient: Benjamin Broman, Purdue University Co-Recipients: Yohei Yamaguchi, Kansai University and Ken Yahagi, Seikei University
  • Best Article by a Non-Tenured Scholar Award Recipients: Germán Gieczewski, Princeton University and Korhan Koçak, New York University Abu Dhabi
  • Best Article Award Recipients: Steven Callander, Stanford University; Dana Foarta, Stanford University; Takuo Sugaya, Stanford University
  • Best APSA Paper Award Recipient: Jack Paine, Emory University
Section 53: International Relations Theory
  • Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award Recipient: Eun A Jo, Cornell University
  • Best Graduate Student Paper Award Recipient: Adrian Calmettes, The Ohio State University
Section 54: American Political Economy
  • Best Dissertation on Political Economy Award Recipient: Trellace Lawrimore, New York University
  • Best Paper in American Political Economy Award Recipient: Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University
  • Emerging Scholar in American Political Economy Award Recipient: Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University
Section 55: South Asian Politics
  • Rajni Kothari Award for Best Article on the Politics of South Asia Recipients: Niloufer Siddiqui, State University of New York at Albany; Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III; Sumitra Badrinathan, American University
  • Francine Frankel Best Book Award Co-Recipients: Adam Auerbach, Yale University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania Co-Recipient: Sandipto Dasgupta¸The New School