The James Madison Award is presented every three years by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science. Peter Katzenstein will deliver the Madison Lecture on Friday, September 4, 2026 at 4:00pm ET as part of the APSA Annual Meeting.
Citation from the Award Committee:
We are pleased to present Peter Katzenstein with the triennial James Madison Award. Over four decades, Prof. Katzenstein’s work on small states, the political economy of the Global North, national security, culture and identity, and other important topics has reshaped every area of the discipline he touches. He joins ambitious theory with flexible yet exacting empirics to reorient our thinking and advance our understanding of political life. Prof. Katzenstein’s impact extends beyond his own books and articles. As an editor, teacher, and president of the American Political Science Association, he has built subfields and opened established ones to new voices. He has shaped an entire generation of political scientists through his intellectual breadth and generosity as a mentor and interlocutor.
Peter J. Katzenstein is the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Interested in all aspects of world politics, he is currently writing a book on Germany. His most recent book is Entanglements in World Politics: The Power of Uncertainty (Cambridge UP 2026). He is the author, coauthor, editor and coeditor of more than 40 books and over 100 articles or book chapters. Between 1982 and 2022 Katzenstein has served as the editor of the Cornell Studies in Political Economy which comprises 148 volumes.
Katzenstein received the 2026 Sakip Sabanci International Research Award. In 2020 he was named the 26th recipient of the Johan Skytte Prize. He served as President of the American Political Science Association in 2008-09, and was the recipient of APSA’s 1974 Helen Dwight Reid and its 1986 Woodrow Wilson prize. Together with Nobuo Okawara, he was awarded the 1993 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. He was elected to three academic societies and holds six honorary degrees. Katzenstein has been a Visiting Fellow at five different Institutes in the United States and Europe. Since 2019 he has served as a visiting Research Professor at the Social Science Center Berlin.
Since joining the Cornell Government Department in 1973 Katzenstein has chaired or been a member of more than one hundred dissertation committees and has received the Russell Distinguished Teaching Award in 1993. In recognition of sustained and distinguished undergraduate teaching and was made one of Cornell University’s Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows in 2004.
APSA thanks the committee members for their service: Michael Neblo (Chair) of Ohio State University, Todd Shaw of the University of South Carolina, and Frances Lee of Princeton University
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