As part of the 2003 Annual Meeting in Denver, the WPSA presented awards to these outstanding scholars and students.

The Pi Sigma Alpha award for the best paper presented at the 2003 WPSA meeting in Denver was awarded to: Sarah A. Fulton, Uni ver si ty of California, Davis, for her paper: “Becoming a Woman of the House: A Model of Gender and Progressive Ambition.”

The Dissertation Award for the best doctoral dissertation completed at a university within the regional groupings of the WPSA during the previous academic year was awarded to: Tamir Moustafa, University of Wis con sin-Mad i son, for his dissertation: “Law Versus the State: the Ex pan sion of Con sti tu tion al Power in Egypt, 1980–2001.” The dis ser ta tion was completed at the Uni ver si ty of Washington.

The Betty Nesvold Award for the best paper on women and politics presented at the 2003 WPSA meeting was awarded to: Jane Bayes, California State University, Northridge, for her paper: “Building Scattered Sol i dar i ties Among the Different: Transnational Feminisms in the Globalization Era: An Overview.”

The Award by the Committee on the Status of Blacks, given for an outstanding paper discussing issues and problems that concern most Black Americans was awarded to: Joel David Bloom, University of Oregon, for his paper: “The Principle-Policy Puzzle Revisited II: Raw Rac ism, Symbolic Racism, and Ideological Conservatism, 1990–2000.”

The WPSA Best Paper Award on Latina/Latino Politics, given for an outstanding paper on Latina/o politics and its relative aspects, was awarded to Robin Jacobson, University of Oregon, for her paper “Characterizing Consent: Race, Citizenship and the New Restrictionists.”

The Charles Redd Center Award, given for the best paper on the politics of the American West presented at the previous WPSA annual meeting, was awarded to: Matthew Whittaker and Gary M. Segura, Uni ver si ty of Iowa, and Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside, for their paper “Racial/Ethnic Group Attitudes Towards Environmental Protection in California: Is “Environmentalism” Still a White Phenomenon?”

The Political Research Quarterly Best Article Award for the best article published in the PRQ during the previous calendar year was given to Mark Peffl ey, University of Kentucky and Robert Rohrschneider, Indiana University, for their September 2003 PRQ article, “Democratization and Political Tolerance in Seventeen Coun tries: A Multi-level Model of Democratic Learning.”