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2025 Organized Section Awards

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SECTION 1: FEDERALISM & INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

Martha Derthick Book Award

Award Committee: Heidi Jane Smith (Chair), Universidad Iberoamericana; Pamela McCann, University of Southern California; Kenneth Kollman, University of Michigan

Recipient: Daniel Treisman, University of California, Los Angeles

Title: The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization. Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award Award Committee : Raúl Alberto Ponce Rodríguez (Chair), Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez; Katrina Kosec, International Food Policy Research Institute; Jake Grumbach, University of California, Berkeley

Recipient: Meredith Dost, University of Wisconsin

Title: “The Mass Political Implications of Medicaid Administrative Burden” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting.

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.

SECTION 2: LAW AND COURTS

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

SECTION 3: LEGISLATIVE STUDIES

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.

SECTION 6: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

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

SECTION 7: CONFLICT PROCESSES

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

SECTION 9: PRESIDENTS AND EXECUTIVE POLITICS

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

SECTION 11: RELIGION AND POLITICS

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

SECTION 13: URBAN AND LOCAL POLITICS

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.

SECTION 15: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS

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

SECTION 16: WOMEN, GENDER, AND POLITICS RESEARCH

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”

The WGPRS Public Engagement Award

Award Committee: Jason Windett (Chair), University of North Carolina at Charlotte; Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College; Malliga Och, Denison University

Recipient: Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, University of Portland

Politics & Gender Best Article Award

Politics & Gender Editorial Board Award Committee: Daniel Hohmann, Universität Basel; Rebecca Sanders, University of Cincinnati; Veronica Zebadua Yanez, Emory University; Paru Shah, Rutgers University

Recipients: Anne Louise Schotel, University of Amsterdam and Liza Mügge, University of Amsterdam

Title: “Politics without Presence? The Symbolic Representation of Trans People in Germany and the Netherlands” Politics & Gender 20(4): 788-813. 2024.

Section 16 Microgrants

Award Committee: Heather Ondercin (Chair), Appalachian State University; Sumin Lee, Texas A&M University; Anne Whitesell, Miami University; Jessica Smith, University of Southampton

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

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.

SECTION 18: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS

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”

SECTION 19: INTERNATIONAL SECURITY

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

SECTION 20: COMPARATIVE POLITICS

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.

SECTION 21: EUROPEAN POLITICS AND SOCIETY

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”

SECTION 22: STATE POLITICS AND POLICY

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.

SECTION 23: POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

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

SECTION 25: POLITICAL ECONOMY

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

SECTION 27: CRITICAL POLITICAL SCIENCE

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”

SECTION 28: POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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

SECTION 29: POLITICAL SCIENCE EDUCATION

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

SECTION 30: POLITICS, LITERATURE, AND FILM

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”

SECTION 31: FOREIGN POLICY

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

SECTION 32: ELECTIONS, PUBLIC OPINION, AND VOTING BEHAVIOR

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.

SECTION 34: INTERNATIONAL HISTORY AND POLITICS

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.

SECTION 35: DEMOCRACY AND AUTOCRACY

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”

SECTION 36: HUMAN RIGHTS

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

SECTION 37: QUALITATIVE AND MULTI-METHOD RESEARCH

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”

SECTION 38: SEXUALITY AND POLITICS

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.

SECTION 39: HEALTH POLITICS AND POLICY

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

SECTION 41: POLITICAL NETWORKS

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

SECTION 42: EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

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.

SECTION 43: MIGRATION AND CITIZENSHIP

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)

SECTION 45: CLASS AND INEQUALITY

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

SECTION 46: IDEAS, KNOWLEDGE AND POLITICS

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.

SECTION 48: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION BEST ARTICLE AWARD

Award Committee: Thomas Sommerer (Chair), University of Potsdam; Averell Schmidt, Cornell University; Siyao Li, University of Pittsburgh

Recipients: Iasmin Goes, Colorado State University and Terrence Chapman, University of Texas at Austin

Title: “Can ’Soft’ Advice from International Organizations Catalyze Natural Resource Sector Reform?” International Studies Quarterly 68(2). 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

SECTION 49: MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA POLITICS

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”

SECTION 50: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

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

SECTION 51: EDUCATION POLITICS AND POLICY

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”

SECTION 52: FORMAL THEORY

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.

SECTION 53: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS THEORY

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”

SECTION 54: AMERICAN POLITICAL ECONOMY

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

SECTION 55: SOUTH ASIAN POLITICS

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. ■