Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award

Award Committee: Ignacio Lago (Chair), Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan; Jonathan Rodden, Stanford University

Recipient: Pablo Beramendi, Duke University

John Kincaid Best Article Award

Award Committee: Tessa Provins (Chair), University of Arizona; Allyson Benton, University of Essex; Vlad Kogan, The Ohio State University

Recipient: Meghan Leonard, Illinois State University

Title: “Democratic Backsliding in the American States: The Case of Judicial Independence” Publius: The Journal of Federalism 54(3): 573-597. 2024.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Christina Bambrick, University of Notre Dame; Abigail Matthews, State University of New York at Buffalo; Roberto Carlos, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Matthew Dahl, Yale University

Title: “Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law”

Teaching Award

Award Committee: Sara Heridia, Emory University; Filiz Kahraman, University of Toronto; Nathan Carrington, Saint Louis University; Lori Ringhard, University of Georgia

Recipient: TBA

Law and Courts Service Award

Award Committee: Sivaram Cheruvu, University of Texas at Dallas; Tommaso Pavone, University of Toronto; Thomas Hayes, University of Connecticut; Anna Gunderson, University of Texas at Austin

Recipient: Reggie Sheehan, Michigan State University

Best Article Published in the Journal of Law and Courts Award

Award Committee: Sara C. Benesh, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee; Allison Merrill, Susquehanna University; Patrick Wohlfarth, University of Maryland

Recipient: Jake S. Truscott, University of Florida

Title: “Analyzing the Rhetoric of Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings” Journal of Law and Courts 12(1): 45-66. 2024.

Best Journal Article Award

Award Committee: Susan Achury Plaza, Lycoming College; Lisa Hilbink, University of Minnesota; Whitney Katherine Taylor, San Francisco State University

Recipient: Matthew Dahl, Yale University

Title: “Chain novel, or Markov chain? Estimating the authority of U.S. Supreme Court case law” Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 21(4): 861-898. 2024.

C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book

Award Committee: Ali Masood, Oberlin College; Alex Badas, University of Houston; Morgan Hazelton, Saint Louis University

Recipients: Ryan C. Black, Michigan State University; Ryan J. Owens, Florida State University; Patrick C. Wohlfarth, University of Maryland

Title: Cognitive Aging and the Federal Circuit Courts: How Senescence Influences the Law and Judges. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Mentoring Award

Award Committee: Sara Heridia, Emory University; Filiz Kahraman, University of Toronto; Nathan Carrington, Saint Louis University; Lori Ringhard, University of Georgia

Recipient: TBA

Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Jeffrey Staton, Emory University; Stefanie Lindquist, Washington University in St. Louis; Anne Boustead, University of Arizona

Recipient: Charles Cameron, Princeton University

Carl Albert Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Eric Michael Manning, Princeton University; Geoffrey M. Lorenz, University of Nebrasaka-Lincoln; Pamela Clouser McCann, University of Southern California

Recipient: Rob Oldham, Agnes Scott College

Title: “Congress in Crisis: Lawmaking Under Pressure” Princeton University.

CQ Press Award

Award Committee: Sara Chatfield, University of Denver; Jennifer L. Selin, Arizona State University; Magna Inácio, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Recipients: Sarah E. Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara; Daniel Butler, Washington University in St. Louis; Laurel Harbridge-Yong, Northwestern University

Title: “The Primary Premium: Why Legislators are Incentivized to Side with Primary Voters over General Election Voters”

Jewell-Loewenberg Prize

Award Committee: Emily Ommundsen, University of Mississippi; Paula Clerici, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella; Miguel M. Pereira, London School of Economics and Political Science; Pablo Fernandez-Vazquez, Carlos III University

American Politics

Recipients: Ayse Eldes, Princeton University; Christian Fong, University of Michigan; Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan

Title: “Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight” Legislative Studies Quarterly, 49: 227-256. 2023.

Comparative

Recipient: Lotte Hargrave, University of Manchester

Title: “Earning Their Stripes? How Political Experience Shapes Gendered Policy Prioritization” Legislative Studies Quarterly 49(3): 429-454. 2023.

Subnational

Recipient: Rob Oldham, Agnes Scott College

Title: “Partisan Governance and Minority Party Vetoes: Evidence from State Legislatures” Legislative Studies Quarterly 49(3): 617-648. 2023.

Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize

Award Committee: Tiffany D. Barnes (Chair), University of Texas at Austin; Rachel Blum, University of Oklahoma; Cheryl M. Schonhardt-Bailey, London School of Economics and Political Science

Recipients: Nathan F. Bueno, Academia Sinica and Emily Beaulieu, University of Kentucky

Title: Making Punches Count: The Individual Logic of Legislative Brawls. University of Oxford Press, 2024.

Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award

Award Committee: Kaare Strøm, University of California, San Diego; John Coleman, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Beth Reingold, Emory University

Recipient: Gary Cox, Stanford University

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Jesse Crosson, Purdue University; Alan E. Wiseman, Vanderbilt University; Jennifer Nicoll Victor, George Mason University

Recipient: Christian Fong, University of Michigan

Alan Rosenthal Prize

Award Committee: Melinda Ritchie, The Ohio State University; Jennifer Hayes Clark, University of Houston; Alexander Bolton, Emory University

Recipients: Pamela Ban, University of California, San Diego; Ju Yeon Park, The Ohio State University; Hye Young You, Princeton University

Title: Hearings on the Hill: The Politics of Informing Congress. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Herbert Kaufman Award

Award Committee: Amanda Girth, The Ohio State University; Kate Wassel, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth; Cody Droic, University of South Carolina

Recipient: Nirvikar Jassal, London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: “Hate-Crime and Co-Ethnicity: Evidence from Caste-Segregated Police Enclaves in India”

Herbert A. Simon Book Award

Award Committee: Aaron Deslatte, Indiana University Bloomington; Scott Limbocker, United States Military Academy West Point; Robin Saywitz, Saint Louis University

Recipient: Tyler Jost, Brown University

Title: Bureaucracies at War. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Paul Volker Junior Scholar Research Grant

Award Committee: Bill Resh, University of Southern California; Manny Teodoro, University of Wisconsin – Madison; Randy Davis, Southern Illinois University

Co-Recipients: Gus Greenstein, Leiden University; Jae Yeon Kim, Johns Hopkins University; Sheeling Neo, American University; Xiaochun Zhu, Indiana University

Best Paper by a Junior Scholar Award

Award Committee: Sabine Carey (Chair), University of Mannheim; Isak Svensson, Uppsala University; Jaroslav Tir, University of Colorado Boulder

Recipients: Risa Kitagawa, Northeastern University and Sumin Lee, Texas A&M University

Title: “Gendered historical legacy of wartime sexual violence” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Paper Co-Authored by a Tenured Scholar Award

Award Committee: Aysegul Aydin (Chair), University of Colorado Boulder; Kristine Höglund, Uppsala University; Luis de la Calle, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas

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

Title: “Unique Offerings: Ideological Competition and Rebel Governance” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Chris Blattman (Chair), University of Chicago; Tanisha Fazal, University of Minnesota; Kristin Bakke, University College London

Recipient: Elisabeth Wood, Yale University

Singer Data Innovation Award

Award Committee: Lars-Erik Cederman (Chair), ETH Zürich; Danielle Lupton, Colgate University; Michael Findley, University of Texas at Austin

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

The Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award

Award Committee: Charles M. Cameron (Chair), Princeton University; William Howell, University of Chicago; Gary Hollibaugh, University of Pittsburgh; Richard Ellis, Willamette University; Michelle Belco, University of Houston

Recipient: Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan

Title: False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age. Chicago University Press, 2024.

George C. Edwards III Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Benjamin Noble (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Zak Taylor, Georgia Institute of Technology; Alejandra Aldridge, Brigham Young University; Austin Trantham, Saint Leo University

Recipient: Julian Michel, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “The Subnational Roots of Democratic Stability”

Founders Best Paper Award Honoring Peri Arnold by PhD-holding Scholar

Award Committee: Dino Christenson (Chair), Washington University in St. Louis; Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon; Joshua B. Kennedy, Georgia Southern University; Christina Kinane, Yale University

Co-Recipients: Anna Callis, Tulane University and Christopher Carter, University of Virginia

Title: “Balancing Bossism: Education Expansion in the Face of Elite Capture”

Co-Recipient: John Dearborn, Vanderbilt University

Title: “Contesting the Reach of the Rights Revolution: The Reagan Administration and the Unitary Executive”

Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award Honoring James Sterling Young

Award Committee: Annie Benn (Chair), Colgate University; Jakob Wedekind, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; David Foster, Florida State University

Recipient: Benjamin Goehring, University of Michigan

Title: “Partisan Departures from the Administrative States”

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Samuel Kernell (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Casey Dominguez, University of San Diego; David Lewis, Vanderbilt University; Nancy Kassop, State University of New York at New Paltz

Recipient: Kenneth Lowande, University of Michigan

Lyn Ragsdale Mentorship Award

Award Committee: Terri Bimes (Chair), University of California, Berkeley; Heath Brown, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY; Andrew Rudalevige, Bowdoin College; Gary King, Harvard University

Recipient: Nancy Kassop, State University of New York at New Paltz

Hubert Morken Book Award

Award Committee: Guadalupe Tuñón, Princeton University; Paul Djupe, Denison University; Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

Recipient: Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University

Title: Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies. Cornell University Press. 2024.

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award

Award Committee: Angelina Wilson (Chair), University of Manchester

Recipient: Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University

Title: “Essays on Religious Nationalism and Partisan Cues in India”

Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award

Award Committee: Jacob Neiheisel (Chair), State University of New York at Buffalo; Gaziza Shakhanova, Anglo-American University; Dan Koev, Regent University

Recipients: Peitong Jing, University of Notre Dame and Karrie Koesel, University of Notre Dame

Title: “Church and State in Contemporary China: Securing Christianity” Politics and Religion 17(1): 107-137. 2024.

Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award

Award Committee: Cammie Jo Bolin (Chair), State University of New York at Albany; Hannah Ridge, Chapman University; Vineeta Yadav, Pennsylvania State University

Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville

Title: “Domesticating Politics: How Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women in India”

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award

Award Committee: Sabri Ciftci (Chair), Kansas State University; Esen Kirdis, Rhodes College; Ryan P. Burge, Eastern Illinois University

Co-Recipient: Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown University

Co-Recipient: Jocelyne Cesari, University of Birmingham

Susan Clarke Young Scholars Award

Award Committee: Jessica Zarkin, Claremont McKenna College; Brian Hamel, University of North Texas; Ashley E. Nickels, Kent State University

Co-Recipient: Tanushree Goyal, Princeton University

Co-Recipient: Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University

Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award

Award Committee: Emily Farris, Texas Christian University; Alexander Sahn, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Patricia Posey, University of Chicago

Recipient: Antonia Gordon, Michigan State University

Title: “The Urban School Ecosystem” Michigan State University, 2025.

Clarence Stone Scholar Award

Award Committee: Ellen L. Shiau, California State University, Los Angeles; Meghan Rubado, Cleveland State University; Veronica Herrera, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipient: Michael Hankinson, George Washington University

Urban Affairs Review Best Paper on Urban and Regional Politics

Award Committee: Maureen Donaghy, Rutgers University–Camden; Vlad Kogan, The Ohio State University; Keneshia Grant, Howard University

Recipient: Elisa Maria Wirsching, Princeton University

Title: “Barriers to Representation: Selection Processes and Political Diversity in US Urban Bureaucracy” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Domingo Morel, New York University; Kaylyn Jackson Schiff, Purdue University; Alice Xu, University of Pennsylvania

Recipient: Elisa Maria Wirsching, Princeton University

Dennis Judd Best Book Award

Award Committee: Michael W. Sances, Temple University; Virginia Oliveros, Tulane University; Patricia Strach, State University of New York at Albany

Recipient: Veronica Herrera, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Don K. Price Award

Award Committee: Aaron Deslatte (Chair), Indiana University; Alexander F. Gazmararian, Princeton University; Deserai Anderson Crow, University of Colorado Denver

Recipient: Thomas Hale, Oxford University

Title: Long Problems: Climate Change and the Challenge of Governing across Time. Princeton University Press, 2024.

Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize

Award Committee: David Switzer (Chair), University of Missouri; Wesley Wade, Texas Tech University; Sara Constantino, Stanford University

Recipient: Denise Sienli van der Kamp, Oxford University

Title: Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Virginia M. Walsh Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Gwen Arnold (Chair), University of California, Davis; Jonathan Lewallen, University of Tampa; Christina Toenshoff, Leiden University

Recipient: Guoer Liu, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Why Automated Data is Biased: The Politics of Air Quality Data in China” University of Michigan, 2024.

Paul A. Sabatier Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Matthew C. Nowlin (Chair), University of Texas at Arlington; Colin Keuhl, Northern Illinois University; Michael Ross, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipients: Joshua A. Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University; Christopher W. Blair, Princeton University; Sabrina B. Arias, Lehigh University

Title: “Beyond Meeting Climate Goals: The Unpopularity of Masculine-Threatening Climate Policies” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

The Elinor Ostrom Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Elizabeth Albright (Chair), Duke University; David Konisky, Indiana University; Mark Lubell, University of California, Davis

Recipient: Barry Rabe, University of Michigan

The Emerging Young Scholar Award

Award Committee: Geoboo Song (Chair), University of Arkansas; Edella Schlager, University of Arizona; Tyler Scott, University of California, Davis

Recipient: Tara Grillos, Purdue University

Evan Ringquist Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Tomás Olivier (Chair), Syracuse University; Rob DeLeo, Bentley University; Annemieke van den Dool, Duke Kushan University

Recipients: Mark T. Buntaine, University of California, Santa Barbara; Polycarp Komakech, University of California, Santa Barbara; Shiran Victoria Shen, Stanford University

Title: “Social competition drives collective action to reduce informal waste burning in Uganda” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121(23). 2024.

STEP Graduate Student Inclusion Travel Grant

Award Committee: Kristin Taylor (Chair), Wayne State University and Deserai Anderson Crow, University of Colorado Denver

Recipient: Sara Saastamoinen, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Kristen Williams (Chair), Clark University; William Daniel, University of Nottingham; Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville

Recipient: Apekshya Prasai, Brown University

Title: “Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Andrea Aldrich (Chair), Yale University; Noah Zucker, London School of Economics and Political Science; Allyson Shortle, University of Oklahoma; Kendall Funk, Arizona State University

Recipients: Elizabeth Sperber, University of Denver; Gwyneth McClendon, New York University; O’Brien Kaaba, University of Zambia

Title: “Threading the Needle Between Stasis and Backlash: An Experiment in Reducing Gender Gaps in Youth Political Participation in Zambia”

The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory

Award Committee: Sam Galloway (Chair), State University of New York at Purchase and Lisa Pace Vetter, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Recipient: Rose Owen, The New School for Social Research

Title: “‘A New Kind of Death’, Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought” Political Theory 52(5): 754-781. 2024.

Best Paper on Intersectionality Award

Award Committee: Kanisha Bond (Chair), State University of New York at Binghamton; Savannah Plaskon, University of California, Irvine; Danielle Thomsen, University of California, Irvine; Lahoma Thomas, Toronto Metropolitan University

Co-Recipients: Christine M. Slaughter, Boston University; Kennia L. Coronado, Texas Women’s University; Camille Burge-Hicks, Villanova University; Nadia E. Brown, Georgetown University

Title: “All Emotions Aren’t the Same: Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses.”

Co-Recipient: Aditi Malik, College of the Holy Cross

Title: “Mobilizing Mass Protests against Sexual Violence: Cross-Regional Insights from India and South Africa”

David Easton Award

Award Committee: Jane Gordon, University of Connecticut; Jacob Levy, McGill University; Clarissa Hayward, Washington University in St. Louis

Co-Recipient: Banu Bargu, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title: Disembodiment. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Co-Recipients: Melissa Schwartzberg, New York University and Jack Knight, Duke University

Title: Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining. Harvard University Press, 2024.

First Book Award

Award Committee: Douglas Thompson, University of South Carolina; Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University Chicago; Begüm Adelet, Cornell University

Recipient: Lowry Pressly, Stanford University

Title: The Right to Oblivion. Harvard University Press, 2024.

The Okin-Young Award in the Feminist Political Theory

Award Committee: Sam Galloway (Chair), State University of New York at Purchase and Lisa Pace Vetter, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Recipient: Rose Owen, The New School for Social Research

Title: “‘A New Kind of Death’, Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin’s Thought” Political Theory 52(5): 754-781. 2024.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Claire McKinney, College of William & Mary; Jared Loggins, Amherst College; Ferris Lupino, New York University

Recipient: Anna Terwiel, Trinity College

Title: “The power of new rights: extreme heat, the right to comfort, and the futures of abolition democracy” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Conference Paper in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Award Committee: Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University; Jianing Li, Rutgers University; Augusto Valeriani, University of Bologna

Recipients: Jan Zilinsky, Technical University of Munich and Thomas Zeitzoff, American University

Title: “Artificial Intelligence, Social Media, and the Politics of Anti-Technology” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Book in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Award Committee: Thomas J. Bilard, Northwestern University; Nina Hall, Johns Hopkins University; Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Recipients: Sabina Mihelj, Loughborough University and Václav Štětka, Loughborough University

Title: The Illiberal Public Sphere: Media in Polarized Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2024.

Best Public Facing Scholarship in the APSA Information Technology and Politics Section

Award Committee: Kathleen Searles, University of South Carolina and Curd Knüpfer, University of Southern Denmark

Recipients: Michael Bossetta, Lund University

Title: Social Media and Politics Podcast

Best Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Manu Singh, Columbia University; Yotam Ophir, State University of New York at Buffalo; Camila Mont’Alverne, University of Strathclyde

Recipient: Yilin Su, University College London

Title: “Fake News and Public Opinion in Nondemocracies: Evidence from Singapore.” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Journal of Information Technology and Politics Article Award

Award Committee: Sharon Meraz, University of Illinois Chicago; Lindsay Hoffman, University of Delaware; Ana Langer, University of Glasgow

Recipients: Daniel Muise, Stanford University; David M. Markowitz, Michigan State University; Byron Reeves, Stanford University; Nilam Ram, Stanford University; Thomas N. Robinson, Stanford University

Title: “(Mis)measurement of political content exposure within the smartphone ecosystem: investigating common assumptions” Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media 4: 1-46. 2024.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: William Schulz, Stanford University; Rosalynd Southern, University of Liverpool; Jessica Baldwin-Philippi, Fordham University

Recipient: Eddie Young, University of California, San Diego

Title: “Automating Autocracy: Authoritarian Institutions and the Politics of Artificial Intelligence”

Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Dave Sacko (Chair), United States Air Force Academy; Jason Lyall, Dartmouth College; Indu Saxena, Consortium of Indo-Pacific Researchers

Recipient: Hohyun Yoon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: “Emotion and Coercive Credibility: The Strategic Role of Anger in International Crises”

Catherine McArdle Kelleher Award for Best International Security Article

Award Committee: Kathryn Fisher (Chair), Johns Hopkins University; Vandana Bhatia, Sheridan College; Anit Mukherjee, King’s College London

Recipient: Cameron Mailhot, University of Arizona

Title: “How UN Peacekeeping Missions Enforce Peace Agreements” American Journal of Political Science 69(2): 669-684. 2025.

Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award

Award Committee: Sumit Ganguly (Chair), Stanford University; Erik Gartzke, University of California, San Diego; Stephen M. Greiner, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Tyler Jost, Brown University

Title: Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Joseph Kruzel Memorial Award for Distinguished Public Service

Award Committee: Charles Boehmer (Chair), University of Texas at El Paso; John Riley, United States Air Force Academy; Jodi Vittori, Georgetown University

Recipient: Thomas G. Mahnken, Johns Hopkins University & Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Luebbert Book Prize

Final Selection Committee: Lauren Honig (Chair), Boston College; Tom Pepinsky, Cornell University; Ellen Immergut, European University Institute

Short Listing Committee: Şener Aktürk (Chair), Koc University; David Waldner, University of Virginia; Shandana Mohmand, Institute of Development Studies

Recipient: Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University

Title: The Patriarchal Political Order. Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Sage Paper Prize

Award Committee: Matt Wilson (Chair), University of South Carolina; Anna Callis, Tulane University; Stephen Hanson, College of William & Mary

Recipient: Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville

Title: “Domesticating Politics: How Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women in India”

Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award

Award Committee: Michael Wahman (Chair), Michigan State University; Jose Cheibub, University of Pittsburgh; Zeynep Somer Topcu, University of Texas at Austin

Recipients: Nick Carnes, Duke University; Miriam Golden, University of California, Los Angeles; Noam Lupu, Vanderbilt University; Eugenia Nazrullaeva, University of Konstanz

Title: “Global Legislator Dataset (GLD)”

Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars

Award Committee: Sarah Brooks (Chair), The Ohio State University; Kenneth Roberts, Cornell University; Marko Klašnja, Georgetown University

Recipient: Robert Blair, Brown University

Luebbert Best Article Prize

Award Committee: Regina Bateson (Chair), University of Colorado Boulder; Anna Gryzmala-Busse, Stanford University; Brian Palmer-Rubin, University of Southern California; Michael Albertus, University of Chicago; Marwa Shalaby, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Recipients: Jack Paine, Emory University; Xiaoyan Qiu, Washington University in St. Louis; Joan Ricart-Huguet, Loyola University Maryland

Title: “Endogenous Colonial Borders: Precolonial States and Geography in the Partition of Africa” American Political Science Review 119(1): 1-20. 2024.

Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology

Award Committee: Margaret Levi (Chair), Stanford University; John Ahlquist, University of California, San Diego; Libby Wood, Yale University

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

Title: “Measurement that Matches Theory: Theory-Driven Identification in Item Response Theory Models” American Political Science Review 119(2): 727-745. 2025.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Charlotte Cavaillé, University of Michigan; Isabela Mares, Yale University; Simon Hix, European University Institute

Recipient: Volha Charnysh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Uprooted, How Post-WWI Population Transfers Remade Europe. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Ernst B. Haas Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Stephanie Hofmann, European University Institute; Will Phelan, Trinity College Dublin; Mark Hallerberg, Hertie School

Recipient: Caterina Chiopris, Harvard University

Title: “Regional Inequalities and Spatial Integration: Essays on the Political Economy of Europe”

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Cathie Jo Martin, Boston University; Matthew Gabel, Washington University in St. Louis; Tine Paulsen, University of Zurich

Recipients: Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte, University of Southampton and Alberto López Ortega, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Title: “Instrumentally Inclusive: The Political Psychology of Homonationalism” American Political Science Review 118(3): 1360-1378. 2024.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Orfeo Fioretos, Temple University; Adriana Bunea, University of Bergen; Chase Foster, King’s College London

Recipients: Hannah Alarian, University of Florida; Michael Bernhard, University of Florida; Andrew Rosenberg, University of Florida

Title: “Traces of the Past: Regime Histories and Anti-Foreigner Violence in Post-Unification Germany”

Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Shanna Pearson (Chair), University of Maryland; Dan Smith, University of Florida; Brent Boyea, University of Texas at Arlington

Recipient: Janine Parry, University of Arkansas

Virginia Gray Book Award

Award Committee: Chris Clark (Chair), University of North Carolina; Austin Trantham, Saint Leo University; Jordan Butcher, Arkansas State University

Co-Recipient: Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University

Title: Accountability in State Legislatures. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Co-Recipient: Peverill Squire, University of Missouri

Title: Reforming Legislatures: American Voters and State Ballot Measures, 1792-2020. University of Missouri Press, 2024.

Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize

Award Committee: Craig Burnett (Chair), Hofstra University; Nick LaRowe, University of Southern Indiana; Karin Kitchens, Virginia Tech

Recipient: Michael Auslen, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Essays on Media and Public Opinion in State and Local Politics”

Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Ali Yanus (Chair), High Point University; Adam Brown, Brigham Young University; Boris Shor, University of Houston

Recipients: Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester and Justin R. Phillips, Columbia University

Title: “Party Reform and the Origins of Abortion Politics”

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Ali Yanus (Chair), High Point University; Adam Brown, Brigham Young University; Boris Shor, University of Houston

Recipient: Mackenzie R. Dobson, University of Virginia & Notre Dame University

Title: “Selective Reciprocity in Bipartisan Collaboration: How Majority Security Shapes Legislative Success”

Best Journal Article Award

Award Committee: Eric Hansen (Chair), Loyola University Chicago; Dave Rausch, West Texas A&M University; Shaniqua Williams, West Virginia University

Recipients: Galen Hall, University of Michigan; Joshua Basseches, Tulane University; Rebacca Bromley-Trujillo, Christopher Newport University; Trevor Culhane, Brown University

Title: “CHORUS: A New Dataset of State Interest Group Policy Positions in the United States” State Politics & Policy Quarterly 24(3): 322-347. 2024.

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Shanna Pearson (Chair), University of Maryland; Dan Smith, University of Florida; Brent Boyea, University of Texas at Arlington

Co-Recipient: Anna Gunderson, University of Texas at Austin

Co-Recipient: Michael P. Olson, Washington University in St. Louis

Service Award

Award Committee: Connor Dowling (Chair), State University of New York at Buffalo; Elle Pfeffer, Dartmouth College; Kal Munis, Utah Valley University

Recipient: Jason Windett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award

Award Committee: Alexandra Filandra (Chair), University of Illinois Chicago; Michael McDonald, University of Florida; Martha Kropf, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Co-Recipients: Boris Shor, University of Houston and Nolan McCarty, Princeton University

Title: “The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures” American Political Science Review 56(1): 148-166. 2012.

Co-Recipients: Kathleen Bratton, Louisiana State University and Kerry Haynie, Duke University

Title: “Agenda-Setting and Legislative Success in State Legislatures: The Effects of Gender and Race” Journal of Politics 61(3): 658-679. 1999.

Doris Graber Outstanding Book Award

Award Committee: Jaime Settle (Chair), College of William & Mary; Dan Lane, University of California, Santa Barbara; Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Parami University; Will Schultz, Stanford University; J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron

Recipient: Margaret Roberts, University of California, San Diego

Title: Censored: Distraction and Diversion Inside China’s Great Firewall. Princeton University Press, 2018.

Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Tiago Ventura (Chair), Georgetown University; Katherine Kountz, Georgia Highlands College; Ashley Muddiman, University of Kansas; Amanda Wintersieck, Virginia Commonwealth University

Recipients: Jasmine English, Stanford University

Title: “Carceral Political Discussion” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Eddy S.F. Yeung (Chair), Emory University; Andy Guess, Princeton University; Rajeshwari Majumdar, Yale University; Elizabeth Stein, United States Coast Guard Academy

Recipient: Rex Weiye Deng, Washington University

Title: “Screened Realities: How Entertainment Fosters Political Compliance in China” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Anirvan Chowdhury (Chair), Harvard University; Nichole Bauer, Louisiana State University; Alon Kraitzman, University of Pennsylvania; Emily Van Duyn, University of Illinois

Recipient: Tony Zirui Yang, University of Oxford

Title: “Essays on Censorship and Public Opinion in Authoritarian Regimes” Washington University in St. Louis, 2024.

Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award

Award Committee: Eunji Kim (Chair), Columbia University; Michael Bossetta, Lund University; Christoph Mergerson, University of Maryland; Annelisa Russell, University of Kentucky, Diana Zulli, Purdue University

Recipients: Alessandro Nai, University of Amsterdam; Chiara Valli, University of Bern; Jürgen Maier, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau; Loes Aaldering, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Title: “Gendered Backlash Depends on the Context: Reassessing Negative Campaigning Sanctions Against Female Candidates via Large-Scale Comparative Data” Political Communication 42(3): 454-475. 2025.

Murray Edelman Lifetime Distinguished Career Award

Award Committee: David Karpf (Chair), George Washington University; Deen Freelon, University of Pennsylvania; Shannon McGregor, University of North Carolina; Patricia Rossini, University of Glasgow

Recipient: Regina Lawrence, University of Oregon

McGillivray Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Lindsay Dolan (Chair), Wesleyan University; John Doces, Bucknell University; Charles Dainoff, University of Idaho

Recipients: Beatriz Jambrina-Canseco, London School of Economics and Political Science and Stephanie J. Rickard, London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: “The Political Impact of Active Labor Market Policies Amid Manufacturing Job Losses”

Michael Wallerstein Award

Award Committee: Jessica Gottlieb (Chair), University of Houston; Katelyn Heath, University of Houston; Jonathan Hanson, University of Michigan; Noah Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipients: Aditya Dasgupta, University of California, Merced and Elena Ramirez, University of California, Merced

Title: “ Explaining Rural Conservatism: Political Consequences of Technological Change in the Great Plains” American Political Science Review 119(1): 277-299. 2025.

Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Lucy Martin (Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Lauren Ferry, University of Mississippi; Jana Grittersova, University of California, Riverside; Carissa Tudor, University of Amsterdam

Co-Recipient: Nicole Wilson, Northwestern University

Title: “Seeing Like an Estate: Middle-Class Political Behavior After Collective Exit” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024.

Co-Recipient: Alice Xu, University of Pennsylvania

Title: “Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Interdependence and Public Goods in Cities” Harvard University, 2023.

William H. Riker Book Award

Award Committee: Erin Snider (Chair), New America Foundation; Sean Ehrlich, Florida State University; Sandra Joireman, University of Richmond; Sarah Sokhey, University of Colorado

Recipient: TBA

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award

Award Committee: James K. Rowe (Co-Chair), University of Victoria; Andrew W. Alexander (Co-Chair); Virginia Tech; Sarah Marie Weiebe, University of Victoria

Recipient: Rueben George

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Bradley J. Macdonald (Co-Chair), Colorado State University; Nancy S. Love (Co-Chair), Appalachian State University; Clyde W. Barrow, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Recipient: Dr. Marvin Surkin, Intercultural Open University Foundation

Michael Harrington Book Award

Award Committee: Bryant Sculos (Chair), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley; Michael Méndez, University of California, Irvine; Kevin Funk, Columbia University

Recipient: Biko Koenig, Franklin and Marshall College

Title: Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Be Sone (Chair), Rhodes College and Lucrecia Garcia Iommi, Fairfield University

Recipient: Ricardo Esteban Vega León, Rutgers University

Title: “Capitalist Abolitionism: Racial Capitalism After the End of Slavery”

Christian Bay Award for Best Paper

Award Committee: Dan Jacob (Chair), Rutgers University and Cedar Welker, University of Northern Colorado

Recipient: Justin L. Brooks, Harvard University

Title: “Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor, and Private Law”

Robert E. Lane Book Award

Award Committee: Alex Coppock, Yale University; Markus Prior, Princeton University; Nichole Bauer, Louisiana State University

Recipient: Taylor Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: Through the Grapevine. University of Chicago Press, 2024.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Eunji Kim, Columbia University; Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University; Hilary Izatt, State University of New York at Binghamton

Recipient: Nathan Skigin, University of Georgia

Title: “Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Rune Slothuus, Aarhus University and Mackenzie Israel-Trummer, College of William & Mary

Recipient: Jasmine English, Stanford University

Title: “Close Race: How Correcting Underestimations of African Americans with Irish Ancestry Impacts Irish Americans’ Racial Attitudes”

Distinguished Junior Scholar Award

Award Committee: Bianca Vicuña, University of California, Davis and Amanda D’Urso, Georgetown University

Co-Recipients: Vicente Valentim, IE University; Rongbo Jin, Chinese University of Hong Kong; Joseph S. Akowuah, Washington State University

Hazel Gaudet Erskine Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Lilliana Mason, Johns Hopkins University; Christopher Johnston, Duke University; Ted Brader, University of Michigan

Recipient: Kristen Monroe, University of California, Irvine

The Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentorship

Award Committee: Megan Becker, University of Southern California and Maureen Feeley, University of California, San Diego

Recipient: Daniel J. Mallinson, Penn State Harrisburg

The Best APSA Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Charles C. Turner, Chico State University and Erin Richards, Cascadia College

Co-Recipient: Kate Prendergast, University of Canterbury

Title: “Attending to the tā and the vā–reimagining “civics” education to support Indigenous youth leadership in chaotic climate futures” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Co-Recipient: Christopher Wegemer, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “Who Motivates? Longitudinal Effects of Discussions, Interest, and Efficacy” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

The Lifetime Achievement Award

Award Committee: Maureen Feeley (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Colin Brown, Northeastern University; Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College; Jyl Josephson, Rutgers University–Newark; Diana Owen, Georgetown University; Charles C. Turner, Chico State University; Young Im Lee, California State University, Sacramento; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Joseph Roberts, Roger Williams University

Recipient: Renée Van Vechten, University of Redlands

The Distinguished Service Award

The awardee has a strong record of exceptional and extensive contributions to the goals of the section, including the promotion of teaching and learning in the discipline and the scholarship of teaching.

Award Committee: Maureen Feeley (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Colin Brown, Northeastern University; Matt Evans, Northwest Arkansas Community College; Jyl Josephson, Rutgers University–Newark; Diana Owen, Georgetown University; Charles C. Turner, Chico State University; Young Im Lee, California State University, Sacramento; Megan Becker, University of Southern California; Joseph Roberts, Roger Williams University

Recipient: J. Cherie Strachan, University of Akron

Wilson Carey McWilliams Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Alex D. Cole, Northeastern State University; Davide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles; Adriana Alfaro Altamirano, Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico

Recipient: Jialin (David) Liang, Yale University

Title: “Quiet Politics, Unquiet Minds: Benjamin Constant’s Critique of Political Quietism”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Tom Dolan, University of Central Florida (Chair); William Bendix, Dakota State University; Luba Levin-Banchik, California State University, San Bernardino

Recipients: Tyler Jost, Brown University; Joshua David Kertzer, Harvard University; Robert Schub, Rutgers University; Eric Min, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: “How Hawks Win: Dispositions and Advisory Influence in Foreign Policy Decision-Making”

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Chad Nelson (Chair), Brigham Young University; Kelsey Larsen, University of Central Florida; Kelly Matush, Florida State University

Co-Recipient: Andrew Kenealy, Duke University

Title: “The Voice of Congress on War and Diplomacy”

Co-Recipient: Sowon Park, University of Virginia

Title: “The Structure of Foreign Policy Preferences in the US Congress”

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Christine Sixta Rinehart (Chair), University of South Carolina; Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong; Melissa Willard-Foster, University of Vermont; William Bendix, Dakota State University

Recipients: Miles M. Evers, University of Connecticut and Eric Grynaviski, George Washington University

Title: The Price of Empire. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

The Foreign Policy Section Graduate Student Travel Grant

Award Committee: Brian Blankenship, University of Miami and Jordan Tama, American University

Co-Recipients: Emily Chen, University of Tokyo; Muhammed Topcu, Georgia State University; Rachel Yu, University of California, San Diego; Jinwon Lee, University of Illinois

Best Annual Conference Discussant Award

Award Committee: Dov Levin, University of Hong Kong and Pearl Matibe, George Mason University

Co-Recipient: Guan Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Co-Recipient: Jordan Tama, American University

Philip E. Converse Book Award

Award Committee: Alexander Coppock, Yale University; Wayde Marsh, University of Tennessee; Jean-François Daoust, Université de Sherbrooke; Hannah Ridge, Chapman University

Recipients: Ismail K. White, Princeton University and Chyl N. Laird, University of Maryland

Title: Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior. Princeton University Press, 2020.

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Dan Cassino, Fairleigh Dickinson University; Dave Peterson, Iowa State University; Jason Windett, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Recipient: Tyler Reny, Claremont Graduate University

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Ruth Dassonneville, University of Montreal; Ken Greene, University of Texas at Austin; Steven Rosenzweig, Boston University

Recipient: TBA

Best Article in Political Behavior

Award Committee: Caroline Tolbert, University of Iowa; Charles Crabtree, Dartmouth College; Paul Lendway, Yale University

Recipients: Benjamin S. Noble, University of California, San Diego and Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University in St. Louis

Title: “CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them” Political Behavior 47(1): 435-456. 2025.

John Sullivan Award

Award Committee: Mike Cowburn, European University Viadrina Frankfurt; Debra Leiter, University of Missouri-Kansas City; Joshua Derr, Syracuse University

Recipient: Sophie Mainz, Uppsala University

Title: “Femonationalism and Citizens’ Preferences: A Multifactorial Survey Experiment” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award

Award Committee: Sheila Miyoshi Jager (Chair), Oberlin College; Natasha Wheatley, Princeton University; Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University

Recipient: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Stanford University Press, 2024.

Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics

Award Committee: Ayşe Zarakol (Chair), Cambridge University; Andrews Phillips, University of Queensland; Jason Sharman, Cambridge University

Recipient: Şener Aktürk, Koç University

Title: “Not So Innocent: Clerics, Monarchs, and the Ethnoreligious Cleansing of Western Europe” International Security 48(4): 87-136. 2024.

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Daniela Donno (Chair), University of Oklahoma; Henry Thomson, Arizona State University; Pearce Edwards, Louisiana State University

Recipients: Edward Goldring, University of Melbourne and Peter Ward, Sejong Institute

Title: “Elite Management Before Autocratic Leader Succession: Evidence from North Korea” World Politics 76(3): 417-456. 2024.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Ora John Reuter (Chair), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Erin Baggott Carter, University of Southern California; Faisal Ahmed, Wellesley College

Recipient: Vicente Valentim, IE University

Title: The Normalization of the Radical Right: A Norms Theory of Political Supply and Demand. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Best Fieldwork Award

Award Committee: Darin Self (Chair), Brigham Young University; Christiana Parreira, Geneva Graduate Institute; Kevin Luo, University of Minnesota

Recipient: Elizabeth K. Parker-Magyar, Harvard University

Title: “Workplace Networks and Autonomous Organizations in Contemporary Jordan”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Roya Talibova (Chair), Harvard University; Shikhar Singh, Duke University; Giancarlo Visconti, University of Maryland

Recipient: Eddy Yeung, Emory University

Title: “Dynamic Democratic Backsliding”

Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Erin York (Chair), Vanderbilt University; Nicholas Kuipers, Princeton University; Feyaad Allie, Harvard University

Recipient: Andres Uribe, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Title: “Coercion and Capture in Democratic Politics”

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Michael Ben-Josef Hirsch, Suffolk University; Robert Tanner Bivens, Eastern Illinois University; Janice Gallagher, Rutgers University; Daniel Pedreira, Florida International University; Petra Hendrickson, Northern Michigan University; Tricia Olsen, University of Minnesota

Co-Recipients: Phillip M. Ayoub, University College London and Kristina Stoeckl, Luiss University

Title: The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities. NYU Press, 2024.

Co-Recipient: Ezgi Yildiz, California State University, Long Beach

Title: Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Pelekeh Tapang, York University; Hannah M. Ridge, Chapman University; Charles D. Crabtree, Dartmouth College; Yuan Zhou, Kobe University

Recipients: Emily Hencken Ritter, Vanderbilt University and Katerina Tertytchnaya, Oxford University

Title: “Functionaries of Repression: Autocratic Control through Bureaucratic Supervision in Russia”

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Eugene Richard Sensenig, Notre Dame University–Louaize; David Ebner, Sweet Briar College; Gabriella Anne Levy, University of Washington; Sanjeev Kumar, University of Delhi; David Richards, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Isabel G. Laterzo, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “From Campaigns to Policy: Politicians, Law Enforcement, and Citizen Insecurity in Latin America” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2024.

Distinguished Human Rights Scholar Award

Award Committee: Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, University of Connecticut; Alison Brysk, University of California, Santa Barbara; Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina at Asheville; Richard Hiskes, University of Connecticut

Recipient: Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut

Alexander L. George Article Award

Award Committee: Jeb Barnes, University of Southern California; Mai Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nicholas Barnes, University of St. Andrews

Recipients: Ezequiel Gonzalez-Ocantos, Oxford University and Juan Masullo, Leiden University

Title: “Aligning Interviews with Process Tracing” Sociological Methods and Research, 2024.

Giovanni Sartori Book Award

Award Committee: Fiona Shen-Bayh, University of Maryland; Iza Ding, Northwestern University; Tomila Lankina, London School of Economics and Political Science

Recipient: Erin Lin, The Ohio State University

Title: When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia. Princeton University Press, 2024.

Kendra Koivu Paper Award

Award Committee: Jasmine English, Stanford University; Consuelo Amat, Johns Hopkins University; Kevin Mazur, King’s College London

Recipient: Ronay Bakan, Johns Hopkins University

Title: “Counterinsurgent Urbanism: Conflict in Ruins of a UNESCO World Heritage Site”

David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Nicholas Rush Smith, The City College of New York; Tasha Fairfield, London School of Economics and Political Science; Dan Slater, University of Michigan

Recipient: Amanda Robinson, The Ohio State University

Politics of Marginalization and Inclusion Award

Award Committee: Dipali Mukopadhayay, Johns Hopkins University; Rana Khoury, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University

Co-Recipient: Erin Lin, The Ohio State University

Title: When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia. Princeton University Press, 2024.

Co-Recipient: Nirvikar Jassal, London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: “Does Victim Gender Matter for Justice Delivery? Police and Judicial Responses to Women’s Cases in India” American Political Science Review 118(3): 1278-1304. 2024.

Qualitative Evidence Award

Award Committee: Killian Clarke, Georgetown University; Callan Hummel, University of British Columbia; Janice Gallagher, Rutgers University

Recipient: Apekshya Prasai, Brown University

Title: “Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence”

Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Myles Williamson, University of Alabama at Birmingham; Mori Reithmayr, University of Oxford; Cyril Ghosh, Clark University

Recipient: Gino Pauselli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Title: “Under Friendly Fire: A Study of Foreign Criticism Effects on LGBT Rights Change.”

The Donald Haider-Markel Best Book Award

Award Committee: Patrick Miller, Kent State University; Zein Murib, Fordham University; Andrew Proctor, University of Chicago

Recipients: Philip M. Ayoub, University College London and Kristina Stoeckl, LUISS University

Title: The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities. New York University Press, 2024.

Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Jason Pierceson, University of Illinois Springfield; Jordan Carr Peterson, University of Tennessee; Rachel O’Neal, University of Colorado

Recipients: Gabriele Magni, Loyola Marymount University

Title: “Minority Candidates and the Electability Curse: Exploring Causes and Remedies through the Lens of LGBTQ+ Candidates” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Leonard S. Robins Award for the Best Paper on Health Politics and Policy

Award Committee: Julianna Pacheco, University of Iowa; Ashley Fox, State University of New York at Albany; Michael Sheperd, University of Michigan

Recipients: Andrea Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Nolan Kavanagh, Harvard University; James Jolin, Harvard University

Title: “Medicaid Made me a Democrat: The Effect of Expanding Public Health Insurance on Partisan Identification” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy Award

Award Committee: Holly Jarman, University of Michigan; Herschel Nachlis, Dartmouth College; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Carmen Ho, University of Guelph; Robert Brehm, University of Virginia

Recipient: Eric Patashnik, Brown University

David Kline Jones Distinguished Scholar Award

Award Committee: Timothy Callaghan, Boston University; Nicole Huberfield, Boston University; Jonathan Oberlander, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Co-Recipient: Phillip Rocco, Marquette University

Co-Recipient: Ashley Fox, State University of New York at Albany

Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Holly Jarman, University of Michigan; Herschel Nachlis, Dartmouth College; Shana Gadarian, Syracuse University; Carmen Ho, University of Guelph; Robert Brehm, University of Virginia

Recipient: Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles

The Political Ties Award

Award Committee: Laurence Brandenberger (Chair), University of Zurich; Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University; John Schoeneman; Oklahoma State University

Recipient: Noah L. Nathan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “Do Grids Demobilize? How Street Networks, Social Networks, and Political Networks Intersect” American Journal of Political Science Early View. 2024.

Best Conference Paper Award

Award Committee: Thomas Malang (Chair), University of Zurich; Sangyeon Kim, Indiana University; Laurie Durel; University of Bern

Recipient: Weidong Zhang, University of Texas at El Paso

Title: “The Importance of Money and Connections: Explaining International Status from UNGA Draft Sponsorship Networks” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

John Sprague Award

Award Committee: Tim Henrichsen (Chair), University of Birmingham; Jennifer Forestal; Loyola University Chicago, Michael Genkin; University of Manchester

Recipient: Charlie Carter, London School of Economics and Political Science

Title: “The Co-Evolution of Conflict Aid and Terrorism Rhetoric” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Michael Heaney (Chair), University of Glasgow; Jaime Settle, College of William & Mary; Howard Liu, University of South Carolina

Recipient: Soledad Artiz Prillaman, Stanford University

Title: The Patriarchal Political Order. Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Skyler K. Cranmer (Chair), The Ohio State University; Matthew Pietryka, Florida State University; Katherine Ognyanova; Rutgers University

Recipient: David Lazer, Northeastern University

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, College of William & Mary; Lotem Bassan-Nygate, Harvard University; Salma Mousa, University of California, Los Angeles

Recipient: Natán Skigin, Harvard University

Title: “Challenging Stigma from Below: How Human Rights Movements Contest Repressive States and Shape Democratic Citizenship”

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Lauren Prather, University of California, San Diego; Naoki Egami, Columbia University; David Romney, Brigham Young University

Recipients: Priyadarshi Amar, University of Wisconsin–Madison; Sumitra Badrinathan, American University; Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III Madrid; Florian Sichart, Princeton University

Title: “Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-Based Field Experiment in India” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Adam Auerbach, Johns Hopkins University; Matt Graham, Temple University; Jonathan Ladd, Georgetown University

Recipient: William G. Nomikos, University of California, Santa Barbara

Title: Local Peace, International Builders: How UN Peacekeeping Builds Peace from the Bottom Up. Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Rebecca Morton Award for Best JEPS Article

Award Committee: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, Texas A&M University; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

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

Title: “Inoculation Reduces Misinformation: Experimental Evidence from Multidimensional Interventions in Brazil” Journal of Experimental Political Science 11(3): 239-250. 2023.

Best Article with a Pre-Registration Plan in JEPS

Award Committee: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, Texas A&M University; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

Recipient: D.G. Kim, Harvard University

Title: “The Politicization of COVID-19 and Anti-Asian Racism in the United States: An Experimental Approach.” Journal of Experimental Political Science 11(1): 1-11. 2024.

Best Replication in JEPS Award

Award Committee: Jenn Jerit, Dartmouth College; Scott Clifford, Texas A&M University; Bert Bakker, University of Amsterdam

Recipient: Rafael Ahlskog, Uppsala University

Title: “It Matters What and Where We Measure: Education and Ideology in a Swedish Twin Design” Journal of Experimental Political Science 11(3): 360-367. 2024.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Erik Bleich (Chair), Middlebury College; Ana Lopez-Garcia, Maastricht University; Amy Liu, University of Texas at Austin

Recipients: Catherine De Vries, Bocconi University; David Doyle, University of Oxford; Hector Solaz, Bocconi University; Katerina Tertytchnaya, University of Oxford

Title: Money Flows: The Political Consequences of Migrant Remittances. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Jill Gross (Chair), Hunter College; Ron Hayduk, San Francisco State University; Michael Paarlberg, Virginia Commonwealth University

Recipients: Marc Helbling, University of Mannheim; Rahsaan Maxwell, New York University; Richard Traunmüller, University of Mannheim

Title: “Numbers, selectivity, and rights: the conditional nature of immigration policy preferences” Comparative Political Studies 57(2): 254-286. 2024.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Marc Helbing (Chair), Mannheim University; Erica Dobbs, Pomona College; Prema Kurien, Syracuse University

Recipient: Tauhid S. Bin Kashem, University of California, Irvine

Title: “Protection and Violence at the Borders of the Refugee Regime: International Regime Complexity and Refugee Protection in South and Southeast Asia”

Best Graduate Student Paper

Award Committee: Ruxandra Paul (Chair), Smith College; Angel Saavedra, Bowdoin College; Yan Yang Zhou, Dartmouth College

Recipient: Deepika Padmanabhan, Yale University

Title: “Speaking to the State: Everyday Language Imposition as Nation-Building Strategy in Southern India”

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Deborah Schildkraut (Chair), Tufts University; Dan Tichenor, Reed College; Ayelet Schachar, University of Toronto

Recipient: Katharina Natter, University of Leiden

Career Achievement Award

Award Committee: Abigail Williamson (Chair), Trinity College; Antje Ellerman, University of British Columbia; Willem Maas, York University

Co-Recipient: Doris Marie Provine, Arizona State University (Emerita)

Co-Recipient: Joseph Carens, University of Toronto (Emeritus)

Best Paper in Class & Inequality

Award Committee: Ari Arundhati Ray, University of Geneva; Zhihang Ruan, Hunter College; Yann P. Kerevel, Louisiana State University

Recipients: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner, University of Virginia and Tanu Kumar, World Bank

Title: “Voice and Response: How can citizens demand accountability from bureaucrats?”

Best Dissertation in Class & Inequality

Award Committee: Alexander W. Hertel-Fernandez, Columbia University; Daniel Stegmueller, Duke University; Andrea Louise Campbell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Recipient: TBA

Best Paper in Social Inequality

Award Committee: Asli Cansunar, University of Washington; Allison Hartnett, University of Southern California; Annabelle Hutchinson, Hamilton College

Recipient: TBA

Jeffrey Friedman Best Book on Ideas, Knowledge and Politics Award

Award Committee: Adam B. Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Erik Jones, European University Institute; Renée Marlin-Bennett, Johns Hopkins University; Emma Rodman, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Recipient: Paul David Beaumont, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs

Title: The Grammar of Status Competition: International Hierarchies and Domestic Politics. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Best Book Award

Award Committee: Lauren Prather (Chair), University of California, San Diego; Frederica Genovese, Oxford University; Zoltán Búzás, University of Notre Dame

Recipient: Clara Park, Duke University

Title: Making Financial Globalization. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: Michaela Mattes (Chair), University of California, Berkeley; Patrick Bayer, University of Glasgow; Harry Oppenheimer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Recipient: Averell Schmidt, Cornell University

Title: “Essays on the Politics of International Law”

Distinguished Mentor Award

Award Committee: James Vreeland (Chair), Princeton University; Sarah Bush, University of Pennsylvania; Timm Betz, Washington University in St. Louis

Recipient: Christina Schneider, University of California, San Diego

Best Book on MENA Politics

Award Committee: Jillian Schwedler (Chair), Hunter College; Sharan Grewal, American University; Youssef El Chazli, University of Paris

Recipient: Best First Book: Diana Greenwald, The City College of New York

Title: Mayors in the Middle: Indirect Rule and Local Government in Occupied Palestine. Columbia University Press, 2024.

Recipient: Best Book by a Senior Scholar: Güneş Murat Tezcür, Arizona State University

Title: Liminal Minorities: Religious Difference and Mass Violence in Muslim Societies. Cornell University Press, 2024.

Best MENA Politics Article

Award Committee: Pete Moore (Chair), Case Western Reserve University; Dana El-Kurd, University of Richmond; Morten Valbjorn, Aarhus University

Recipient: Fiona Adamson, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)

Title: “The Political Geography of Globalized Civil Wars: Networked Actors and Multi-Scalar Strategies in the Kurdish Conflict Assemblage” International Studies Quarterly 68(1): 1-12. 2024.

Best Dissertation on MENA Politics

Award Committee: Wendy Pearlman (Chair), Northwestern University; Jasmine Gani, London School of Economics and Political Science; Lisel Hintz, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Elizabth K. Parker-Magyar, Yale University

Title: “Workplace Networks and Autonomous Organizations in Contemporary Jordan” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024.

Best MENA Politics APSA Paper

Award Committee: Neil Ketchley (Chair), University of Oxford; Summer Forester, Carleton College; Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Yale University

Recipients: Berfin Baydar, Duke University and Asli Cansunar, University of Washington

Title: “Homogenizing High Street: Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination”

Established Leader Award

Award Committee: Austin Trantham (Chair), Saint Leo University; Abraham Goldberg, James Madison University; Diana Owen, Georgetown University

Recipient: Elizabeth Bennion, Indiana University South Bend

Outstanding Civic Engagement Project

Award Committee: Alison McCartney (Chair), Towson University; Cameron Arnzen, Columbia University; Rachel Houston, Texas Christian University

Recipient: Nhat-Dang Do, Trinity College

Best Paper Award

Award Committee: Jeffrey Kraus (Chair), Wagner College; Lauren Bell, Randolph-Macon College; Maricruz Osorio, Bentley University

Recipients: Stephanie Chan, Lafayette College; Rosa Castillo Krewson, American University; Frank Reichert, The University of Hong Kong

Title: “Vulnerability as Identity Facet: Reconceptualizing Vulnerability to Conduct Civically Engaged Research.”

Emerging Scholar Award

Award Committee: Chapman Rackaway (Chair), Radford University; Jae Yeon Kim, Johns Hopkins University; Carah Ong Whaley, University of Virginia

Co-Recipient: Diana Da In Lee, Princeton University

Co-Recipient: William O’Brochta, Texas Lutheran University

Best Education Politics and Policy Dissertation

Award Committee: Domingo Morel, New York University and Karin Kitchens, Virginia Tech

Recipient: Julia Smith Coyoli, Harvard University

Title: “How Unions Bring About Policy Implementation: Education Reform, Teachers’ Unions, and Subnational Politics in Mexico”

Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book on Education Politics and Policy

Award Committee: Michael T. Hartney, Boston College and Triin Lauri, Tallinn University

Recipient: R. Shep Melnick, Boston College

Title: The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality. University of Chicago Press, 2023.

Best APSA Paper on Education Politics and Policy

Award Committee: Elizabeth Parker-Magyar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Matthew Nelsen, University of Miami

Recipients: Mirya Holman, University of Houston; Rebecca Johnson, Georgetown University; Tyler Simko, Princeton University

Title: “Measuring Conflict in Local Politics”

Journal of Theoretical Politics Ostrom Award

Award Committee: Michael Ting, Columbia University; Leslie Johns, University of California, Los Angeles; David Siegel, Duke University

Co-Recipient: Benjamin Broman, Purdue University

Title: “Indirect rule and mass threat: Two paths to direct rule” Journal of Theoretical Politics 35(3): 232-256. 2023.

Co-Recipients: Yohei Yamaguchi, Kansai University and Ken Yahagi, Seiki University

Title: “Law enforcement and political misinformation” Journal of Theoretical Politics 36(1): 3-36. 2024.

Best Article by a Non-Tenured Scholar Award

Award Committee: John Patty, Emory University; Sanford Gordon, New York University; Ryan Hübert, London School of Economics and Political Science

Recipients: Germán Gieczewski, Princeton University and Korhan Koçak, New York University Abu Dhabi

Title: “Collective procrastination and protest cycles” American Journal of Political Science, 1-14. 2024.

Best Article Award

Award Committee: Sean Gailmard, University of California, Berkeley; Scott Gehlbach, University of Chicago; Carlo Prato, Columbia University

Recipients: Steven Callander, Stanford University; Dana Foarta, Stanford University; Takuo Sugaya, Stanford University

Title: “The Dynamics of a Policy Outcome: Market Response and Bureaucratic Enforcement of a Policy Change” American Journal of Political Science 68(4): 1252-1265. 2024.

Best APSA Paper Award

Award Committee: Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago; James Fearon, Stanford University; Tara Slough, New York University

Recipient: Jack Paine, Emory University

Title: “The Threat-Enhancing Effect of Authoritarian Power Sharing” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award

Award Committee: John Schuessler (Chair), Texas A&M University; Soyoung Lee, Yale University; Jelena Subotic, Georgia State University

Recipient: Eun A Jo, Cornell University

Title: “Nations After Democracy: Politics of Storytelling in South Korean and Taiwan” Cornell University, 2024.

Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Award Committee: Lucrecia Garcia Iommi (Chair), Fairfield University; Adam Lerner, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Jennifer Mitzen, The Ohio State University

Recipient: Adrian Calmettes, The Ohio State University

Title: “At stake is doing Technology as one does Sociology: Historicizing Global Governance through its Technical Systems”

Best Dissertation on Political Economy Award

Award Committee: Alexander Sahn (Chair), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Jae Yeon Kim, Johns Hopkins University; Timothy Weaver, State University of New York at Albany

Recipient: Trellace Lawrimore, New York University

Title: “How Elites Maintained Power in the Antebellum South” New York University, 2024.

Best Paper in American Political Economy Award

Award Committee: Philip Rocco (Chair), Marquette University; Charlotte Cavaille, University of Michigan; Jared Clemons, University of Michigan

Recipient: Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University

Title: “The Politics of Concentrated Advantage” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

Emerging Scholar in American Political Economy Award

Award Committee: Sarah Staszak (Chair), Princeton University; Dara Strolovitch, Yale University; Rob Mickey, University of Michigan

Recipient: Stephanie Ternullo, Harvard University

Rajni Kothari Award for Best Article on the Politics of South Asia

Award Committee: Jennifer Bussell, University of California, Berkeley; Gareth Nellis, University of California, San Diego; Sarah Khan, American University

Recipients: Niloufer Siddiqui, State University of New York at Albany; Simon Chauchard, University Carlos III; Sumitra Badrinathan, American University

Title: “Misinformation and Support for Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan” American Political Science Review 119(2): 947-965. 2025.

Francine Frankel Best Book Award

Award Committee: Louise Tillin, London School of Economics and Political Science; Maya Tudor, Oxford University; Akshay Mangla, Oxford University

Co-Recipients: Adam Auerbach, Yale University and Tariq Thachil, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Migrants and Machines: How Political Networks Form in Urbanizing India. Princeton University Press, 2024.

Co-Recipient: Sandipto Dasgupta, The New School

Title: Legalizing the Revolution: India and the Constitution of the Postcolony. Cambridge University Press, 2024. ■