Section Awards
Information on Book and Dissertation Awards are listed below
BOOK AWARD
Previous recipients can be viewed here.
REVISED ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES:
BEST BOOK AWARD
The REP Section's annual book awards recognize the very best research exploring the multiple junctures between politics and issues of race, ethnicity, immigration, and indigeneity, as well as their intersections with other axes of identity and marginalization. We seek nominations for books that broadly focus on racial and ethnic politics, from scholars across all sub-fields of political science and allied disciplines. Singly- and multiply-authored books, monographs as well as textbooks, will be considered. Books published/copyrighted in calendar year 2016 are eligible for the prize. Books that were nominated in previous years are not eligible and should not be renominated.
Instructions: Please send one copy of each nominated book directly to each of the committee members at the addresses listed below by April 1, 2017.
Prof. Daniel HoSang
Best Book Award
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
University of Oregon
Department of Political Science
216 Alder Bldg
1585 E 13th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97403
Prof. Natasha Altema McNeely
Best Book Award
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Department of Political Science
Social & Behavioral Sciences 208
1201 West University
Edinburg, Texas 78539
Jason Casellas
Best Book Award
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
University of Houston
Department of Political Science
3551 Cullen Boulevard
Room 447
Houston, Texas 77204
DISSERTATION AWARD
Previous recipients can be viewed here.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in the period January 2016 to December 2016. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30, 2017.
The selection will be announced at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations can be made by chairs of dissertation committees or individuals completing the dissertation. A nomination must include a precis of the dissertation (no more than 20 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining how the dissertation expands our understanding of race, ethnicity, and politics. After a review of the nomination materials submitted, members of the Best Dissertation Committee will request 4 hard copies of the complete dissertation of some nominees. Please follow the submission guidelines. Do not submit full dissertations unless requested to do so by the committee
The Best Dissertation award is based on the following criteria -- the dissertation:
- makes an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary processes of racial and ethnic information
- addresses critical substantive issues through which racial and ethnic politics are played out
- generates discourse for innovative frameworks (and analyses) for the study of race, ethnicity, and politics
- is well-written; and is analytically rigorous (primary source data, case material, extant analyses, new or underutilized methodology)
Andra Gillespie (Chair)
Emory University, College of Arts and Sciences
North Decatur Building
1784 N. Decatur Rd, Suite 240
Mailstop: 1784-001-2AB
Atlanta, GA, 30322
Melissa Michelson
Menlo College
1000 El Camino Real
Atherton, CA 94027
Ana Sampaio
Santa Clara University
St. Joseph's Hall 106
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
