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Phd alum, nicholas kuipers, wins apsa dissertation award.

The department is happy to share that recent Ph.D. Nicholas Kuipers won the 2023 Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award from APSA’s Political Economy section. Please join us in congratulating Nicholas on this wonderful achievement.

You can see him and the other 2023 award winners here,  https://www.apsanet.org/STAFF/Staff-Page-dev/Membership-Workspace/Organized-Sections/Organized-Section-Awards/Organized-Section-Awards/Section-25#dissertation .

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2023 U-M Faculty, Students, & Alum Award Recipients

Russell Dalton (Ph.D. 1978) received the 2023 Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award, which recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

• He joins previous recipients Rick Hall , Frank Baumgartner (Ph.D. 1986), and Sam Eldersveld .

LaGina Gause's  (Ph.D. 2016) book The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups is the 2023 winner of the American Political Science Association Legislative Studies Section's Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book in legislative studies published in the previous year.

• LaGina joins Chuck Shipan, David King (Ph.D. 1992), and Rick Hall in this distinguished group of UM award recipients.
• LaGina's book is also the co-winner of the 2023 American Political Science Association Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section's Best Book Award for the best book on Race, Ethnicity, and Representation published in the prior two calendar years.
• LaGina joins these great UM recipients: Ismail White (Ph.D. 2005), Laura Evans (Ph.D. 2005), Christian Davenport , and Katherine Tate (Ph.D. 1989).

Jean Hong (University of Michigan) has received the 2023 Democracy and Autocracy Section's Best Article Award for her article titled "In Strongman We Trust: The Political Legacy of the New Village Movement in South Korea." American Journal of Political Science 2022.

• She joins Dan Slater (who won this award two times!).

Vince Hutchings will receive the Hanes Walton Jr. Award for a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship has significantly contributed to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics and illuminated the conditions under which diversity and intergroup tolerance thrive in democratic societies.

• He joins UM's Cathy Cohen (Ph.D. 1993), who received this award last year.

Holly Jarman (University of Michigan School of Public Health) will receive the 2023 Outstanding Public Engagement in Health Policy Award. The award is given to individuals actively engaging in politics and policymaking to improve health and the healthcare system.

Michael Lerner's  (Ph.D. 2021) dissertation, "Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership," received the Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best dissertation in public policy.

• He joins these other great UM recipients:  Jennifer Kavanagh (Ph.D. 2011) and Karen Long Jusko (Ph.D. 2008)

Guoer Liu (current graduate student) received the Best Poster Award from the Society for Political Methodology. 

• She joins this great group of UM recipients of the Best Poster Awards from the Society for Political Methodology:  Nuannuan Xiang (Ph.D. 2022), John Jackson , and Yuki Shiraito .

Anil Menon's  (Ph.D. 2022) paper, "Whose Critique Matters? The Effects of Critic Identity and Audience on Public Opinion," received the 2023 best paper award for the Human Rights Section Panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

Sara Morell (Ph.D. 2023) received a 2023 Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section Microgrant. 

Fabian Neuner (Ph.D. 2018) received the 2023 APSA Political Psychology Section Distinguished Junior Scholars Award.

• He joins Crystal Robertson (B.A. 2019), Spencer Piston (Ph.D. 2014), and Nicole Yadon (see below!).

Ragnhild Nordås and Dara Kay Cohen will be receiving the J. David Singer Data Innovation Award for the Sexual Violence and Armed Conflict dataset.

• Ragnhild joins these great UM recipients: —J. David Singer and Lars-Erik Cederman (Ph.D. 1994).

Julie Novkov (Ph.D. 1998) received the 2023 Public Engagement Award, an annual award that recognizes the exemplary public-facing work of political scientists in Women, Gender, and Politics.

Joe Ornstein's  (Ph.D. 2018) paper, "How the Trump Administration's Quota Policy Transformed Immigration Judging," received the 2023 Law and Courts Best Conference Paper Award. This award is given annually for the best paper on law and courts presented at the previous year's annual meetings of the American, International, or regional political science associations.

• He joins Deborah Beim, who received an Honorable Mention and who received (in a different year) the award.

Roya Talibova's  (Ph.D. 2022) paper, "Choosing Sides: The Price for Battlefield Loyalty under Autocracy," will receive the 2023 Politics and History Section Brian Dave Robertson Conference Paper Award. The award recognizes the best paper in Politics and History presented at the previous annual meeting.

Katherine Tate (Ph.D. 1989) received the 2023 Legislative Studies Section's Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award, which honors the work of a scholar or set of scholars who have contributed a lifetime of significant scholarship to the study of legislative politics.

Yuhua Wang's  (Ph.D. 2011) book The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development is a co-winner of the Gregory Luebbert Best Book Prize in Comparative Politics, awarded by the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

• He joins a great group of UM recipients: Karen Long Jusko (Ph.D. 2008), who received an honorable mention, Ken Kollman, and Chuck Shipan . 
• Yuhua Wang's APSR article "Blood Is Thicker Than Water: Elite Kinship Networks and State Building in Imperial China" received Honorable Mention for the Political Ties Award, awarded by the Political Networks Section of the American Political Science Association. 

Nicole Yadon (Ph.D. 2020) received the 2023 APSA Political Psychology Section Distinguished Junior Scholars Award.

• She joins Crystal Robertson (B.A. 2019), Spencer Piston (Ph.D. 2014), and Fabian Neuner (see above!).

Paul Beck (Ph.D. 1971) was a co-recipient of the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award Awarded annually to a publicly available dataset in the field of comparative politics with Richard Gunther for the "Comparative National Elections Project (CNEP)."

Timm Betz (Ph.D. 2015) will receive the Lawrence Longley Award from the section on Representation and Electoral Systems for his co-authored paper, "Women's Descriptive Representation and Gendered Import Tax Discrimination," American Political Science Review 115 (1) 2021, 307-315.

Ted Brader  will receive the Philip E. Converse Book Award for his book Campaigning for Hearts and Minds: How Emotional Appeals in Political Ads Work. The Converse Award recognizes the author(s) of an outstanding book published at least five years ago.

• Tali Mendelberg (Ph.D. 1994, twice!), Don Kinder , and then the first recipients of this award were Angus Campbell , Phil Converse , Warren Miller , and Don Stokes .

Sasha de Vogel  (Ph.D. 2021) will receive the Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy and Autocracy from the APSA Democracy & Autocracy Section for her dissertation, "Protest, Mobilization, Concessions, and Policy Change in Autocracies."

Lauren Davenport (B.A. 2005) will receive the best paper award from the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section for her co-authored paper, "Perfect Proxies or Crosscutting Cleavages  Racial Context(s) in the United States."

Edgar Franco Vivanco 's 2021 World Politics article, "Justice as Checks and Balances: Indigenous Claims in the Courts of Colonial Mexico," will be co-winner of the 2022 Mary Parker Follett Award for the best article in politics and history in 2021.  

Ashley Jardina  (Ph.D. 2014) will be a co-winner of the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Political Behavior Section. This award is presented to top scholars in the field within ten years of receiving their Ph.D.

• She joins these previous UM recipients:  Lauren Davenport  (B.A. 2005), Yanna Krupnikov (Ph.D. 2009), Cindy Kam (Ph.D. 2003), Ted Brader , Adam Berinsky (Ph.D. 2000), and Skip Lupia .

Yanna Krupnikov (Ph.D. 2009, and soon-to-be UM Communications and Media Professor) will receive the Experimental Research Section's Best Article with a Preregistration in JEPS, along with her co-authors, James N Druckman, Samara Klar, Matthew Levendusky, and John Barry Ryan.

Michael Lerner  (Ph.D. 2021) will receive the Virginia Walsh Dissertation Award from the APSA Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section for his dissertation, "Green Catalysts? The Impact of Transnational Advocacy on Environmental Policy Leadership. "

Ellen Lust (Ph.D.  1997) will receive the Comparative Politics section's Bingham Powell mentoring award. 

Anil Menon  (Ph.D. 2022) will receive the Best Paper Award from the APSA European Politics and Society Section for his paper, "The Political Legacy of Forced Migration: Evidence from Post-WWII Germany.    

Eitan Paul  (Ph.D. 2022) will receive an honorable mention for the Best Field Work Award from APSA's Democracy & Autocracy Section for his work on "Raising Representation  Gender and Village Budgeting Reforms in Indonesia."

Crystal Robertson (B.A. 2019) received the APSA Political Psychology section's Distinguished Junior Scholars Award.

Roya Talibova  (Ph.D. 2022) will receive the Best Paper Award from APSA's Democracy & Autocracy Section for "Repression, Military Service, and Insurrection."

Nick Valentino 's co-authored book, Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy, will receive the APSA Best Book Award. The American Political Science Association gives this award annually for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

• He joins this great UM group:  Ismail White  (Ph.D. 2005),  Kristina Miler (Ph.D.  2003), Tali Mendelberg (Ph.D. 1994), Phil Converse , and  Sam Eldersveld . 

Nick Valentino 's book, Seeing Us in Them: Social Divisions and the Politics of Group Empathy, will also receive the award for the best book in experimental research.

• He joins this great group of UM recipients of the Best Book in Experimental Methods:  Yanna Krupnikov (Ph.D. 2009), Adam Seth Levine (Ph.D. 2010), Tali Mendelberg (Ph.D. 1994), and Skip Lupia .

Valentino 's book will receive a third fabulous APSA award, the Robert Lane Book Award for the best book in Political Psychology, from APSA's Political Psychology Section.

• He joins a great group of Lane Award recipients from UM: Ashley Jardina (Ph.D. 2014), Yanna Krupnikov (Ph.D.  2009), Tali Mendelberg (Ph.D.  1994), and Skip Lupia .

Charley Willison (Ph.D., with cognate in Political Science, 2019) will receive the Dennis Judd Best Book Award, APSA Urban and Local Politics Section, for her book Ungoverned and Out of Sight: Public Health and the Political Crisis of Homelessness in the United States.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (PhD 1971) received the SSIP Distinguished Scholar Award for his contributions to the scientific study of international processes.

• This award was launched in 2020. The first recipient was Jim Morrow.

Chinbo Chong (Ph.D. 2019) and Tanika Raychaudhuri (B.A. 2014 ) received APSA’s Race & Ethnic Politics  Best Paper Award of 2020, entitled “Group-based Belief Systems about the Racial Order: Racial Stereotypes and Asian American Partisan Identification.”

Cathy J. Cohen (Ph.D. 1993) received the Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award in recognition of a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics and illuminates the conditions under which diversity and intergroup tolerance thrive in democratic societies.

Lauren Davenport (B.A. 2005) received the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion,  and Voting Behavior section. Recognizing a top scholar in the field within ten years of the Ph.D. She joins these previous UM recipients:  

• Yanna Krupnikov (Ph.D. 2009), Cindy Kam (Ph.D. 2003), Ted Brader, Adam Berinsky (Ph.D. 2000), and Skip Lupia .

Mandi Eatough  received the CQ Press Award for the best paper presented on  Legislative Studies at APSA 2020. She joins this great UM group:

• Stuart Soroka , Dan Magleby (Ph.D. 2011), Pam Clouser McCann (Ph.D. 2011), and Liz Gerber (Ph.D. 1991).

Edgar Franco Vivanco received the Heinz Eulau Award for the article “Killing in the Slums: Social Order, Criminal Governance and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro." The Eulau Award honors the best articles published in the American Political Science Review and Perspectives on Politics the previous calendar year. Edgar joins a fabulous group of UM Eulau Award winners:

• Kathy Cramer (Ph.D. 2000), Noah Nathan , Lars-Erik Cederman (twice!) (Ph.D. 1994), David Lazer (Ph.D. 1996), Liz Perry (Ph.D. 1978), Liz Gerber (1991), and John Jackson .

Rick Hall received the Samuel Eldersveld Career Achievement Award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of APSA! The Eldersveld Award recognizes a scholar whose lifetime professional work has made an outstanding contribution to the field.

Rick Hall also received the APSA Public Policy Section’s Excellence in Mentoring Award. This award was established to recognize sustained efforts by senior scholars to encourage and facilitate the careers of emerging political scientists in public policy.

Mai Hassan received the Robert A. Dahl Award for her book Regime Threats and State Solutions (Cambridge, 2020). The Dahl Award honors an untenured scholar who has produced the highest-quality scholarship on democracy. (Mai is now an Associate  Professor of Political Science.)

Nathan Kalmoe (Ph.D. 2012) received two awards -- the ISPP David Sears award for best book on mass politics (co-winning with LaFleur!) and the Leon Epstein Outstanding Book award from the APSA section on political organizations and parties for his book, "With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War" (Cambridge, 2020). Previous UM recipients of the Leon Epstein Award include:

• Frank Baumgartner (Ph.D. 1986), Ken Kollman (twice!), Phil Converse , Warren Miller , Donald Stokes , and Angus Campbell .

Christina Kinane (Ph.D. 2019) received the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best American-politic dissertation for her "Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in  Presidential Appointments." She joins a great group of UM Schattschneider Award winners:

• Rachel Potter (Ph.D. 2014), Adam Levine (Ph.D. 2010), Rob Mickey , David King (Ph.D. 1992), Doug  Dion (Ph.D. 1991), Laura Stoker (Ph.D. 1990), Mark Peterson (Ph.D. 1985), Paul Light (Ph.D. 1980),  and Michael Robinson (Ph.D. 1972).

Yanna Krupnikov 's (Ph.D. 2009) book, Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Politics Leads to  Political Inaction (Cambridge, 2016), received the Philip E. Converse Award for an outstanding book on public opinion, published more than five years ago. Here are the fabulous previous UM winners of the  Converse Award:

•  Tali Mendelberg (Ph.D., 1994, twice!), Don Kinder , and then the first recipients of this award were Angus Campbell , Phil Converse , Warren Miller , and Don Stokes .

Michael Lerner (Ph.D. 2021) received an honorable mention for the Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award for his article, “Investigating the Generation and Spread of Numerical Misinformation: A  Combined Eye Movement Monitoring and Social Transmission Approach.”

Skip Lupia received the Charles E. Merriam Award. This award recognizes a person whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research. First presented in 1975, the award was revived in 1995 and is presented biennially.

• Skip joins another great group of UM Merriam Award winners: Bob Axelrod and Tom Mann (Ph.D. 1977).

Mara Cecilia Ostfeld and Nicole Yadon (Ph.D. 2020) received the award for the Best Article in Political Behavior published in 2020 for “The New White Flight?: The Effects of Political Appeals to Latinos on White Democrats.”

• Mara also won this award in 2020, along with Antoine Banks (Ph.D. 2009), Ismail White (Ph.D. 2005), and Brian McKenzie (Ph.D. 2004).

Chinnu Parinandi (Ph.D. 2015) received the APSA State Politics Section award for the best article about US state politics or policy published in the last year for his AJPS article "Policy Inventing and Borrowing among State Legislatures."

Tanika Raychaudhuri (B.A. 2014) received the 2020 APSA Best Poster Award for her poster, "Group  Threat or Contact? The Effects of Local Immigration Primes on Policy Views."

J. David Singer received the J David Singer Data Innovation Award for the Militarized Interstate Disputes Data.  

Kimberly Smith (Ph.D. 1997) was awarded the Lynton Keith Caldwell Prize for her book, "The Conservation Constitution, The Conservation Movement and Constitutional Change 1870-1930." The prize is given for the best book on environmental politics and policy published in the past three years.

• Barry Rabe received this award in 2005.

LaFleur Stephens (Ph.D. 2013) received the APSA Ralph Bunche award for the best book on ethnic or cultural pluralism, "Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics" (Chicago, 2020). She also just won the ISPP David Sears book award for best book on mass politics.

• She joins UM Ralph Bunche recipients Davin Phoenix (Ph.D. 2015), Julie Novkov (Ph.D. 1998), and Brian McKenzie (Ph.D. 2004).

Ismail White (Ph.D. 2005) won *the* APSA Best Book Award (formerly the Woodrow Wilson Award) for his co-authored book Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior (Princeton, 2020). He joins this great UM group: 

• Kristina Miler (Ph.D. 2003), Tali Mendelberg (Ph.D. 1994), Phil Converse , and Sam Eldersveld .

Nicole Yadon (Ph.D. 2020) and Mara Ostfeld will receive the award for the best paper in Race and Ethnic  Politics (for a paper that is now coming out in Social Forces); this is also the award that Chinbo and Tanika received. 

Kirill Zhirkov (Ph.D. 2020) won the best dissertation prize in political psychology from the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP), which Carly Wayne (Ph.D. 2019) also won last year.

Yuen Yuen Ang received the Theda Skocpol Prize for Emerging Scholars, awarded to a scholar up to ten years post-Ph.D. whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical, and methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics. 

Antoine J. Banks , Ismail K. White , and Brian D. McKenzie won the Best Article in Political Behavior Award. This award is for the best article published in the previous calendar year. The title is "Black Politics: How Anger Influences the Political Action Blacks Pursue to Reduce Racial Inequality." 

Deborah Beim and Kelly Rader won the Best Journal Article Award. The award recognizes the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year. Their title was "Legal Uniformity in American Courts."

Jenna Bednar  received the Daniel Elazar Distinguished Federalism Scholar Award for her "distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations."

Kiela Crabtree  was awarded the Byran Jackson Dissertation Research Award from APSA's Urban and Local Politics Section (for an outstanding scholarship for a graduate student studying race and ethnic politics in an urban setting) for her prospectus and ongoing dissertation work, "Racially-Targeted Violence and Implications for Political Behavior in the United States."

Jesse Crosson , Zander Furnas , and Geoff Lorenz won the Best Paper Award from APSA's Parties and Political Organizations section. Title: "Polarized Pluralism: Preferences and Biases in the American Pressure System."

Rick Hall  received the Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award for his career contributions to understanding legislative politics.

Mai Hassan and Thomas O'Mealia  won the best article award from the African Politics Conference Group ( American Political Science Association  African politics section) for their article, "Uneven accountability in the wake of political violence: Evidence from Kenya's ashes and archives," Journal of Peace Research, 55(2), 161-174.

Murad Idris received the David Easton Award for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through various approaches in the social sciences and humanities. The title is "War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought."

Murad Idris won the Best Paper Award for the best paper presented on a Foundations panel at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting. Title: "Founding Kazanistan: The Muslim Question in the John Rawls Archives."

Ashley Jardina 's "White Identity Politics" won the Robert E. Lane Award for best book in political psychology.

Hakeem Jefferson  is co-winner of the best dissertation award in APSA's Political Psychology section for his dissertation, "Policing Norms: Punishment and the Politics of Responsibility among Black Americans." 

Kent Jennings  received the Frank Goodnow Award.  This award honors service to the community of teachers, researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of politics.

Christina Kinane  received the George Edwards Award from APSA's Presidency and Executive Politics section for her dissertation, "Control without Confirmation: The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments." 

Kenny Lowande  and  Chuck Shipan  received the American Political Science Association's (APSA)  Founders Award  for "Where is Presidential Power? Measuring Discretion with Experts and Laypersons." The award is given annually for the best presidential and executive politics paper.

Tali Mendelberg and Christopher F. Karpowitz  were awarded the Philip E. Converse Best Book Award for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before. The title is "The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, & Institutions." 

Steven Moore won the Best Paper Award for the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous year's annual meeting. His title was "The Road to Hell: Racialized Paternalism and Political Behavior."

Mara Ostfeld won the Best Article in Political Behavior Award; this award is for the best article published in Political Behavior in the previous calendar year. Title: "The New White Flight?: The Effects of Political Appeals to Latinos on White Democrats."

Davin Phoenix  received APSA's Ralph J. Bunche award for his 2019 book,  The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotions in Politics  (Cambridge University Press). 

Rachel Potter was awarded the  APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award  and the  Richard E. Neustadt Book Award  (best book on the American presidency) for "Bending the Rules: Procedural Politicking in the Bureaucracy (University of Chicago Press 2019)."

Albana Shehaj received the Best Article Award for the best article on European politics and society, which was published last year. Her title was "Backslicing in a Landslide: How EU's Fiscal Distributions Empower Corrupt Governments."

James Strickland received APSA's William Anderson Award for his dissertation, "Multi-Client Lobbying in the American States." 

Nuannuan Xiang won the best graduate student poster award from APSA's Political Methodology Section. Her poster was entitled "A Gaussian Process Model for Causal Inference with Time Series Cross-Sectional Data."

Frank R. Baumgartner and co-authors Derek Epp and Kelsey Shoub received the C. Herman Pritchett Award for Best Book in Law and Courts for their book "Suspect Citizens: What 20 Million Traffic Stops Tell Us About Policing Race."

Jenna Bednar' s book The Robust Federation won APSA's Martha Derthick Best Book Award in 2019.  

Christian Fong received an APSA Congressional Fellowship.

Zander Furnas'  paper (co-authored with Michael Heaney and Tim LaPira), "The Partisan Ties of Lobbying Firms," is receiving the POP/Party Politics Award.

Diana Greenwald won the award for best paper in the MENA politics section for her paper "Coercion and Extraction Amid Constraints: Theorizing the Functional Coherence of Aspiring States."

Karen L. Jusko received the Leon Weaver Award for best paper in the Representation and Electoral Systems division for her paper titled "Opportunity, not Grievance: The Strategic Entry of the Norwegian Labor Party."

Don Kinder received the Hazel Gaudet-Erskine Career Achievement Award from the APSA Political Psychology Section.

Christina Kinane' s paper, "Control without Confirmation:  The Politics of Vacancies in Presidential Appointments or Administration Without Confirmation: The Value of Absent and Interim Appointees," was selected as the Presidents & Executive Politics Section, Founders Award for Best Graduate Student Paper.

David Lazer , co-authors Kevin Esterling, and Michael Neblo received an honorable mention for the Best Experimental Research Book Award for their book Politics with the People: Building a Direction Representative Democracy. 

Thomas Mann received the Hubert Humphrey Award.

Kris Miler received the Woodrow Wilson Award for her book Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the U.S.

Fabian Guy Neuner' s dissertation, "Elite Framing and the Legitimacy of Global Governance," was selected by the Political Psychology section as the recipient of the Thomas E. Patterson Best Dissertation Award in Political Communication and as an honorable mention for the best dissertation.

Julie Novkov received the APSA Law and Courts Service Award.

Angela Ocampo' s dissertation, The Politics of Inclusion:  A Sense of Belonging to U.S. Society and Latino Political Participation, received the APSA Race and Ethnic Politics Section's award.

Molly Reynolds received the Legislative Studies Section Emerging Scholar Award.

Gisela Sin received the Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.

Nick Valentino and Fabian Guy Neuner' s paper (co-authored with L. Matthew Vandenbroek), "The Changing Norms of Racial Political Rhetoric and the End of Racial Priming," received an honorable mention for the 2019 Walter Lippmann Best Published Article Award from APSA Political Communication section.

Nicholas J. G. Winter received the Best Paper Award in the Women and Politics Research section for his paper titled "Ambivalent Sexism and Election 2016."

Katherine Cramer 's article (co-authored with Benjamin Toff), "The Fact of Experience: Rethinking Political Knowledge and Civic Competence," is the 2018 recipient of the Heinz I. Eulau Award.

Mark Dincecco 's book (co-authored with Massimiliano Onorato), "From Warfare to Wealth," is the 2018 Winner of the Riker Best Book Award of APSA’s Political Economy Section.

John Jackson 's poster "Correct Standard Errors with Clustered Data" is receiving the 2018 Society for Political Methodology Poster Award.

Karen Jusko 's book "Who Speaks for the Poor?" is receiving an honorable mention for the 2018 Luebbert Best Book Award of APSA’s Comparative Politics Section. 

Christina Kinane 's paper "The Politics of Vacancies and Interim Appointments in the Bureaucracy" is receiving an honorable mention for the 2018 Founder’s Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

Kevin McAlister is the 2018 John T. Williams Prize recipient from APSA's Society for Political Methodology for his dissertation proposal "Roll Call Scaling in the U.S. Congress: Addressing the Deficiencies."

Brendan Nyhan 's paper (co-authored with Andrew Guess and Jason Reifler), "Inside the Fake News Bubble? Consumption of Online Fake News in the 2016 U.S. Election," is receiving the 2018 Best Conference Paper Award.

Marzia Oceno received a 2018 grant through the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs to support her research, "Explaining Heterogeneity in Women's Support for Female Candidates: Feminists, Non-Feminists, and Non-Labelers as Political Subgroups."

H.W. Perry is the 2018 recipient of the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship.

Crystal Robertso n has been named a 2018 APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Scholar. She is a rising senior political science major at the University of Michigan.

Chuck Shipan is the 2018 recipient of the Herbert Simon Award, which honors significant contributions to the scientific study of bureaucracy.

Gisela Sin received the 2018 Dean's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education.

Elizabeth Suhay 's paper (co-authored with Marko Klašnja and Gonzalo Rivero) "Ideology of Affluence: Explanations for Inequality and Political Attitudes among Rich Americans." is the 2018 winner of the Best Paper Award of APSA’s Class and Inequality Section.

Nick Valentino and Kirill Zhirkov 's "The Images in our Heads: Race, Partisanship and Affective Polarization" is this year’s Best Paper in Political Behavior recipient. 

Brian Weeks ' article (co-authored with Homero Gil de Zúñiga and Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu), "Effects of the News-Finds-Me Perception in Communication: Social Media Use Implications for News Seeking and Learning About Politics," is the recipient of the 2018 Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award.

Katherine Cramer 's book "The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker" is this year's recipient of the (Qualitative and Multi-Method Research) Giovanni Sartori Book Award. This award honors Sartori's work on qualitative methods and concept formation, and especially his contribution to helping scholars think about problems of context as they refine concepts and apply them to new spatial and temporal settings. 

Jesse Crosson  and  Michael Heaney 's co-authored paper "Constructing Interest Group Coalitions" won the POP Party Politics Best APSA Paper Award. This award recognizes the best paper on a panel sponsored by Political Organizations and Parties at the preceding APSA annual meeting.

Marty Davidson  was named an APSA minority fellow for 2017-2018.

Michael Heaney 's book (co-authored with Rabio Rojas), "Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11," is this year's winner of the (APSA Political Organizations and Parties) Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award. This award recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that contributed to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties. Bai Linh Hoang 's dissertation, "Democratic Listening: Race and Representation in Local Politics," won the APSA 2017 William Anderson Award, a prize awarded annually for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state, and local politics. Committee members include Rick Hall (Co-Chair), Vince Hutchings (Co-Chair), Ted Brader, and Michael Heaney. Yanna Krupnikov 's book (co-authored with Samara Klar), "Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction," is this year's winner of the (APSA Political Psychology Section) Robert E. Lane Award. The Robert E. Lane Award recognizes the best book in political psychology published in the past year. Krupnikov and Klar's book was also selected as the recipient of the (Experimental Research) Best Book Award, which recognizes the best book published in 2016 that either uses or is about experimental research methods in the study of politics.​ Elizabeth Mann 's dissertation "Presidential Policymaking at the State Level: Revisions Through Waivers" won the Presidents and Executive Politics organized section of APSA's 2017 George C. Edwards Award for the Best Dissertation on the Presidency. Committee members include Chuck Shipan (Chair), Liz Gerber, William Howell, John Jackson, and Rob Mickey.

Mann 's 2016 Southern Political Science Association conference paper of the same title also received the Founders Award (Honoring Francis E. Rourke) for Best Paper on Executive Politics presented by a Graduate Student at either the 2016 APSA meeting or any regional meetings in 2016-2017.

Tali Mendelberg 's book The Race Card: Campaign Strategy, Implicit Messages, and the Norm of Equality is this year's recipient of the (Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior) Philip E. Converse Best Book Award. This award is given for an outstanding book in the field published at least five years before. 

Fabian Neuner 's paper "From a 'Central Organizing Idea' in a Frame to a 'Central Organizing Idea' in the Brain: The Psychology of Framing Effects Revisited" is this year's recipient of the (Political Communication) Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Award. This award recognizes the best paper on political communication presented by a graduate student at the previous year's APSA Annual Meeting.

Barry Rabe 's book, Statehouse and Greenhouse: The Emerging Politics of American Climate Change Policy, is this year's winner of the Martha Derthick Best Book Award from the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations section of APSA. The Derthick Award recognizes the "best book published at least ten years ago that has made a lasting contribution to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations." Adrian Shin 's dissertation "Primary Resources, Secondary Labor: Natural Resources and Immigration Policy around the World" won the APSA Award for the Best Dissertation in Migration and Citizenship. Committee members include Bill Clark (Co-Chair), Rob Franzese Jr. (Co-Chair), Jim Morrow, Iain Osgood, and Alan Deardorff (Economics). Chuck Shipan 's paper (co-authored with Fabrizio Gilardi and Bruno Wueest), "The Diffusion of Policy Frames: Evidence from a Structural Topics Model," is this year's winner of the Deil S. Wright Best Paper Award from the APSA Section on Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations.

H.W. Perry  is the recipient of the 2017 Law and Courts Teaching and Mentoring Award. This award recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials in law and courts.

Rocio Titiunik  (along with Matias D. Cattaneo, Sebastian Calonico, Max H. Farrell, Michael Jansson, Xinwei Ma, and Gonzalo Vazquez-Bare) is this year's winner of the APSA Society for Political Methodology's Best Statistical Software Award, for work on a group of open source packages (rdrobust, rdlocrand, rddensity, rdpower) for regression discontinuity problems, written for both R and Stata. The Best Statistical Software Award recognizes individuals who have developed statistical software that makes a significant research contribution.  

Manuel Teodoro . Herbert Simon Book Award, American Political Science Association (for Bureaucratic Ambition); 2016.

Carolyn Barnes  received the Clarence Stone Scholar Award from APSA's Urban Politics section. This award is given to a young scholar who has made a significant contribution to the study of urban politics.

Logan Casey ’s 2015 APSA paper, "Can Disgust Derail LGBT Advocacy?"  won the LGBT Caucus Award for the Best Paper Presented at APSA 2015.

Michael Heaney 's "Party in the Street: The Antiwar Movement and the Democratic Party after 9/11" was selected as a co-winner of APSA's Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award. This award recognizes a book published in the last two calendar years that made an outstanding contribution to research and scholarship on political organizations and parties.

Allen Hicken and Kelly McMann won the 2016 Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Dataset Award of the Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for the V-Dem dataset and the Best Paper Award, Southeast Asia Related Group, American Political Science Association (for a paper presented at the 2015 APSA meeting).

Hyeran Jo ’s book, "Compliant Rebels: Rebel Groups and International Law in World Politics" (Cambridge University Press, 2015), received the ISA Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book in the area of International Organizations. 

Yanna Krupnikov  won the Emerging Scholar Award from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior APSA section.

Yanna Krupnikov  and  Adam Levine  won the 2016 Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award from the APSA Political Communication Section (for the best paper presented at the 2015 Annual Meeting).

Adam Levine ’s "American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction" (Princeton University Press) won the 2016 Best Book Award from the APSA Experimental Research Section.

Rob Mickey 's Paths Out of Dixie (Princeton University Press) just won the J. David Greenstone Prize for Best Book Published in the Past 2 Years in Politics and History.

Dean Andrew Martin  just won the APSA Law & Courts Lasting Contribution Award for his article with Kevin Quinn, “Dynamic Ideal Point Estimation via Markov Chain Monte Carlo for the U.S. Supreme Court, 1953-1999.” 2002. Political Analysis 10:134-153.

Devra Moehler  won the Sanders-Kaid Award for Best Article from the Political Communication Division and the Journal of Politics Best Article Award.

Noah Nathan 's article, “What Do I Need to Vote? Bureaucratic Discretion and Discrimination by Local Election Officials," just won the American Political Science Association's 2016 Heinz I. Eulau Award, the annual award for the best article published in the American Political Science Review in the calendar year. 

Srinivas Parinandi ’s dissertation, “Solving Brandeis’s Mystery: The Link between Electoral Vulnerability, Resource Capacity, and Policy Innovation in the American States,” just won the Christopher Mooney Dissertation Award from the APSA Section on State Politics and Policy. Chinnu's Spectacular Committee:  Jenna Bednar (Co-Chair), Chuck Shipan (Co-Chair), Robert Franzese, and Elisabeth Gerber.

Rachel Potter 's dissertation, "Writing the Rules of the Game: The Strategic Logic of Agency Rulemaking," just won APSA's Schattschneider Award, George Edwards Award, and Olson Prize! Her spectacular committee included Chuck Shipan (chair), Jowei Chen, Rick Hall, and Ken Kollman.

Molly Reynolds ' dissertation, "Exceptions to the Rule: Majoritarian Procedures and Majority Party Power in the United States Senate," just won APSA's Carl Albert Dissertation Award! Her spectacular committee included Rick Hall and Charles Shipan, co-chairs Kenneth Kollman and Elisabeth Gerber.

Virginia Sapiro  won APSA’s Frank J. Goodnow Award, which honors service to the community of teachers, researchers, and public servants who work in the many fields of politics. 

Arlene Saxonhouse 's paper, "Save Our City: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought," won the Best Paper Award of the APSA Section on Politics, Literature & Film.

Rocio Titiunik  will receive the Society for Political Methodology's 2016 Emerging Scholar Award. 

Kate Bradley .   Leonard D. White Award for the best dissertation in public administration.

Julie Novkov .  Law and Courts teaching and mentoring award.

Dan Magleby and Pam McCann .   CQ Press Award for the best paper on legislative studies.

Gisela Sin .  Alan Rosenthal Prize in Legislative Studies.

Lars-Erik Cederman .   J. David Singer Data Innovation Award in political conflict.

Rocio Titiunik .   Harold F. Gosnell Prize in Political Methodology.

Timothy Ryan .  Award for the best dissertation in political psychology.

Tali Mendelberg .   Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology.

Ashley Jardina .   Award for the best dissertation in race, ethnicity, and politics.

Tali Mendelberg .  Award for the best book using experimental methods.

Nancy Burns .   Martha Derthick Award for the best enduring book on federalism and intergovernmental relations.

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Edward S. Corwin Award  

Nominations for the 2024 APSA Awards have closed.

The Corwin Award honors the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. Edward S. Corwin was a former Association president who is nationally known and widely published.  He consulted with many other academics as well as politicians involved with constitutional issues, most notably when he publicly supported Franklin D. Roosevelt's Supreme Court reorganization ("court packing") plan.   The award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $750. 

Nomination Information

Public law is broadly defined to include the judicial process, judicial behavior, judicial biography, courts, law, legal systems, the American constitutional system, civil liberties, or any other substantial area, or any work which deals in a significant fashion with a topic related to or having substantial impact on the American Constitution.

• Eligibility: Nominees do not have to be members of APSA, affiliated with an institution in the United States, or an American citizen in order to be considered for an award. Dissertations must have been successfully defended within the previous two calendar years (dissertations for the 2024 award must be defended in 2022 or 2023). Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations from non-PhD departments and institutions are also welcome if the nominee is currently employed there. APSA will accept up to two nominations for the Corwin Award per school or political science department.

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APSA 2022 Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

Deadline: Wed, 15 Jun 2022

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The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce the 2022 Political Science Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) period is now open!

This National Science Foundation-funded program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented. The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program awards up to twenty grants yearly of between $10,000 and $15,000 to support doctoral dissertation research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics. Learn more about eligibility and the application process or find the application here . The deadline to apply is June 15, 2022.

In addition, as APSA assembles a review panel for the new APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, we are committed to selecting excellent scholars that are diverse on a variety of characteristics. To achieve this goal, we rely on the membership to help us develop a diverse pool from which we can assemble a balanced and representative review panel. If you or other scholars within your network are interested in volunteering to serve as a reviewer, please sign up here .

For more information on the APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants, visit our website, or email Katherine or Meghan at [email protected] .

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Applications now open for the 2022 APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Cycle

The Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant project provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented. The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant program awards up to twenty grants yearly of between $10,000 and $15,000 to support doctoral dissertation research that advances knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics.

Eligibility :

The APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grants are available to all US-based graduate students who are at the point of initiating or are already conducting empirical dissertation research focused on advancing knowledge and understanding of citizenship, government, and politics.

Applicants must meet the following qualifications:

• Applicants must be enrolled at a doctoral degree granting university at the time of application.
• Applicants must be enrolled at a university accredited in and having a campus located in the United States.
• Applicants must have completed all preliminary degree requirements at the time of their application, including having successfully completed comprehensive exams and a dissertation prospectus defense.
• Applicants must be sponsored by their dissertation adviser.
• Applicants must be endorsed by their graduate institution. If the grant application is successful, grant funds will be distributed through the student’s host institution.

For more information about the grant, the application, and eligibility, visit the APSA DDRIG website . The application can be found here . If you have any additional questions, please contact Katherine or Meghan at [email protected]

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Migration and Citizenship (Section 43)

Nominations are now open for our awards:  Best Book, Best Journal Article, Best Dissertation, Best Graduate Paper Award, Emerging Scholar Award, and Career Achievement Award.  Deadline for all nominations:  March 1, 2024. 

Best Book Award

Award given to the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in calendar year 2023. Edited volumes are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; if a publisher submits the nomination, the author(s) must be a section member. Nomination instructions: Please send a copy of the nominated book to each committee member at the below addresses: Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Award Committee:

Joseph Wright (chair),  [email protected]

Katrina Burgess,  [email protected]

Victoria Finn,  [email protected]

Best Article Award

Best article on migration and/or citizenship published (and printed) in 2023. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Elizabeth Iams Wellman (chair),  [email protected]

Ezgi Irgil,  [email protected]

Alexandra Délano Alonso,  [email protected]

Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in 2023. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the dissertation, a dissertation abstract, and an electronic letter of recommendation from the nominee’s advisor to each of the committee members below. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Laura Cleton (chair),  [email protected]

Zack Taylor,  [email protected]

Ugur Altundal,  [email protected]

Best Graduate Paper Award

Best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (either as part of a panel or poster session). Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Lilian Frost (chair),  [email protected]

Rithika Kumar,  [email protected]

Yi-Chun Chien,  [email protected]

Emerging Scholar Award

The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate an outstanding scholar who is within 8 years from the year of their PhD or holds a pre-tenure status and whose scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship has made a significant contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize. Send an electronic nomination letter to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1st.

Eligibility criteria:

Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship.

Recipients must have their PhD degree conferred within the past eight calendar years (e.g., for the award to be awarded in 2024, recipients can have received their PhDs no earlier than 2016) or hold a pre-tenure status.

Nominations need to be accompanied by at least one nomination letter, written by the nominee and/or a scholar other than the nominee, along with supporting documents that will allow the award committee to learn of the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life, including but not limited to a CV, writing sample(s) (not exceeding 30 pages total), and evidence of teaching excellence (not exceeding 30 pages total).

Nomination Instructions: Please send all material in a single PDF document to the award committee chair. In the case of self-nomination, any additional letters should be sent directly to the award committee.

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Jeanette Money (chair)  [email protected]

Erin Aeran Chung,  [email protected]

Justin Gest,  [email protected]

Career Achievement Award

The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life. Send two electronic nomination letters to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1st.

Nominations need to be accompanied by at least two nomination letters, which explain and illustrate the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life in their scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship.

Elizabeth Cohen (chair),  [email protected]

Alexandra Filindra,  [email protected]

Dan Tichenor,  [email protected]  

Listing of previous section award winners, 2013-23.