Dissertation Awards

GABRIEL A. ALMOND AWARD

for best dissertation in the field of comparative politics

CO-RECIPIENT: David Peyton, Northwestern University

TITLE: "Property Security in the Midst of Insecurity: Wealth, Violence, and Institutional Stasis in the Democratic Republic of Congo"

CO-RECIPIENT: Chantal Berman, Princeton University

TITLE: "Protest, Social Policy, and Political Regimes"

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: David Rueda, University of Oxford

Jaimie Bleck, University of Notre Dame

David T. Buckley, University of Louisville

WILLIAM ANDERSON AWARD

for best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state, and local politics

RECIPIENT: Scott LaCombe, University of Iowa

TITLE: “Institutional Design and the Politics of US States”

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Jeffrey J. Harden, University of Notre Dame

Shelly R. Arsneault, California State University

Brian Roberts, University of Texas at Austin

EDWARD S. CORWIN AWARD

for the best dissertation in the field of public law

RECIPIENT: Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University

TITLE: "Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs"

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Lori J. Hausegger, Boise State University

Paul M. Collins, Jr., University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Matthew P. Hitt, Colorado State University

HAROLD D. LASSWELL AWARD

for best dissertation in the field of public policy

RECIPIENT: Guillermo Toral, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TITLE: “The Political Logics of Patronage: Uses and Abuses of Government Jobs in Brazil”

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Colleen M. Grogan, University of Chicago

Ursula Hackett, Royal Holloway, University of London

Jeffrey R. Henig, Columbia University

E. E. SCHATTSNEIDER AWARD

for best dissertation in the field of American government

RECIPIENT: Christina Kinane, University of Michigan

TITLE: "Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments"

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Chris Bonneau, University of Pittsburgh

Kenneth W. Kollman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Sharece Thrower, Vanderbilt University

KENNETH SHERRILL PRIZE

for best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science

RECIPIENT: Joseph Saraceno, University of Southern California

TITLE: “Three Essays on the Representation of LGBT Americans”

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Gary Mucciaroni, Temple University

Douglas Page, Gettysburg College

Kelly Kollman, University of Glasgow

LEO STRAUSS AWARD

for best dissertation in the field of political philosophy

RECIPIENT: David Lowry Pressly, Harvard University

TITLE: “Being Accountable: Privacy, Self, and Society”

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Julie L. Rose, Dartmouth College

Jennifer Forestal, Loyola University, Chicago

Philip A. Michelbach, West Virginia University

MERZE TATE AWARD

for the best dissertation in the field of international relations, law, and politics

RECIPIENT: Danielle Gilbert, George Washington University

TITLE: "The Logic of Coercive Kidnapping"

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London

Clifford Bob, Duquesne University

Quan Li, Texas A&M University

LEONARD D. WHITE AWARD

for the best dissertation in the field of public administration

RECIPIENT: Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University

TITLE: "Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs"

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: George A. Krause, University of Georgia

Randall Scott Davis, Southern Illinois University

Alisa Moldavanova, Wayne State University

Paper, Article, and Poster Awards

APSA BEST POSTER AWARD

for best poster presented by a graduate student and/or early career scholar at the previous year’s annual meeting

RECIPIENTS: Stephanie Chan, Tanika Raychaudhuri, and Ali Valenzuela

TITLE: “Group Threat or Contact? The Effects of Local Immigration Primes on Policy Views”

AWARD COMMITTEE:

CHAIR: Paul MacDonald, Wellesley College,

Tobin Grant, Southern Illinois University

Erica Owen Palmer, University of Pittsburgh

FRANKLIN L. BURDETTE/PI SIGMA ALPHA AWARD

For best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting

RECIPIENT: Aditya Dasgupta, University of California, Riverside

TITLE: “Explaining Rural Conservatism: Technological and Political Change in the Great Plains"

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Elizabeth Suhay, American University

Joanne Miller, University of Delaware

Hans Peter Schmitz, University of San Diego

HEINZ I. EULAU AWARD

RECIPIENTS (APSR): Beatriz Magaloni, Edgar Franco-Vivanco, and Vanessa Melo

Title: “Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro”

RECIPIENT (POP): Natalie Wenzell Letsa

TITLE: “Expressive Voting in Autocracies: A Theory of Non-Economic Participation with Evidence from Cameroon”

AWARD COMMITTEES

CHAIR: Miki Caul Kittilson, Arizona State University

R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology

Aarie Glas, Northern Illinois University

Ms. Hannah Smidt, University of Zurich

Dr. Marianne C. Stewart, University of Texas at Dallas

Book Awards

APSA BEST BOOK AWARD

for best book on government, politics, or international affairs

RECIPIENTS: Ismail K. White and Chryl N. Laird, Princeton University Press

TITLE: Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Anjali Thomas, Georgia Institute of Technology

Heath Brown, City University of New York, Graduate Center and John Jay College

Han Dorussen, University of Essex

Liza Mugge, University of Amsterdam

Anand Edward Sokhey, University of Colorado, Boulder

RALPH J. BUNCHE AWARD

for best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism

RECIPIENT: LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, University of Chicago Press

TITLE: Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Saskia Bonjour, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Darren Davis, University of Notre Dame

Bradford S. Jones, University of California, Davis

ROBERT A. DAHL AWARD

for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on democracy

RECIPIENT: Mai Hassan, University of Michigan

TITLE: Regime Threats and State Solutions: Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Rachel Riedl, Institute of Advanced Studies

Agustina Giraudy, American University

Imke Harbers, University of Amsterdam

Eva Sørensen, Roskilde Universitet

GLADYS M. KAMMERER AWARD

for best book published during the previous calendar year in the field of US national policy

RECIPIENT: James Curry and Francis Lee, University of Chicago Press

TITLE: The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: James C. Garand, Louisiana State University

Matt Grossmann, Michigan State University

Allyson Shortle, University of Oklahoma

BENJAMIN E. LIPPINCOTT AWARD

for exceptional work by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication

RECIPIENT: Charles Mills, Cornell University Press

TITLE: The Racial Contract

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia

David Runciman, University of Cambridge

Steven B. Smith, Yale University

APSA-IPSA THEODORE J. LOWI FIRST BOOK AWARD

for best first book in any field of political science, showing promise of having substantive impact on the overall discipline

RECIPIENT: Simukai Chigudu, Cambridge University Press

TITLE: The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia

David Runciman, University of Cambridge

Steven B. Smith, Yale University

VICTORIA SCHUCK AWARD

for best book published on women and politics

RECIPIENTS: Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder, Cambridge University Press

TITLE: A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Melissa Deckman, Washington College

Lisa A. Bryant, California State University, Fresno

Louise K. Davidson-Schmich, University of Miami

Career Awards

APSA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FACULTY AWARD

for excellence in teaching, mentoring, community engagement, governance, and/or research by a community college faculty member in the profession

RECIPIENT: Cammy Shay, Houston Community College

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Veronica Reyna, Houston Community College

Erich G. Frankland, Casper College

Sierra Powell, Mount San Antonio College

APSA DISTINGUISHED AWARD OF CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

for significant civic or community engagement activity by a political scientist which merges knowledge and practice and has an impact outside of the profession or the academy

RECIPIENT: Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Nancy Burns, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Cassandra Giana Khatri, Lone Star College- University Park

Kyle Casimir Kopko, Center for Rural Pennsylvania

Gisela Sin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Matthew Woessner, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg

APSA DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD

for outstanding contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching political science at two- or four-year institutions

RECIPIENT: Charity Butcher, Kennesaw State University

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Marijke Breuning, University of North Texas

David Monda, CUNY York College

Paula O’Loughlin, University of Minnesota, Morris

JOHN GAUS AWARD

for a career of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration

RECIPIENT: Christopher Hood, University of Oxford

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Donald P. Moynihan, Georgetown University

Arjen Boin, Louisiana State University

Ines A. Mergel, University of Konstanz

FRANK J. GOODNOW AWARD

for service to the community of political science by teachers, researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of politics

RECIPIENT: Henry E. Brady, University of California, Berkeley

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Louise K. Comfort

Frederick J. Boehmke, University of Iowa

Lorenzo Morris, Howard University

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY AWARD

for notable public service by a political scientist

RECIPIENT: Charles Kupchan, Georgetown University

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Keren Yarhi-Milo, Princeton University

Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia

Sarah Anderson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Herbert B. Asher

Laura M. Luehrmann, Wright State University

CAREY MCWILLIAMS AWARD

for a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of politics

RECIPIENT: Loren Ghiglione, Northwestern University

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Jennifer Nicoll Victor, George Mason University

Steven E. Schier, Carleton College

Jenifer Whitten-Woodring, University of Massachusetts, Lowell

CHARLES E. MERRIAM AWARD

for an individual whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research

RECIPIENT: Arthur Lupia, University of Michigan

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Simon Hix, London School of Economics

Sarah A. Fulton, Texas A&M University

Seth E. Masket, University of Denver

BARBARA SINCLAIR LECTURE

for achievement in promoting the understanding of the US Congress and legislative politics

RECIPIENT: Wendy Schiller, Brown University

AWARD COMMITTEE

CO-CHAIR: David C. Barker, American University

CO-CHAIR: Megan McConaughey

Alison Craig, University of Texas, Austin

Nancy Martorano Miller, University of Dayton

Jean Reith Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University

HANES WALTON, JR. CAREER AWARD

for political scientist whose distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics

RECIPIENT: Cathy J. Cohen, University of Chicago

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Chris Zepeda-Millan, UCLA

Maya Sen, Harvard University

K. Tate, Brown University

Teaching and Learning Awards

CQ PRESS AWARD FOR TEACHING INNOVATION

for developing a new approach to teaching

RECIPIENT: Megan Becker, University of Southern California

AWARD COMMITTEE

CHAIR: Vanessa Bouche, Texas Christian University

Mary A. McHugh, Merrimack College

Nathaniel Swigger, Ohio State University

MICHAEL BRINTNALL TEACHING AND LEARNING AWARD

to support attendance at the conference

RECIPIENT: No Award Given ■