Section awards for prior years can be found in the Annual newsletters

Information on Book and Dissertation Awards are listed below

BOOK AWARD
REVISED ELIGIBILITY GUIDELINES:

Books published/copyrighted in calendar year 2011 are eligible for the prize. Books that were nominated in previous years are not eligible and should not be renominated. In addition to demonstrated superiority in scholarship on the studying of race, ethnicity, and politics, nominated work should focus substantially or entirely on developments in the U.S. context.

In September 2005 the REP Section voted to make an award in the textbook category. For the first award (2006), textbooks published in the last 10 years were eligible for nomination. After the 2006 award, selection is at the committee's discretion. Instructions: Please send one copy of each nominated book directly to each of the committee members at the addresses listed below by March 1, 2012.

Melissa Michelson (Chair)
Menlo College 
3715 Redwood Circle 
Palo Alto CA 94306 
Email: melissa.michelson@gmail.com

Jason Casellas
Department of Government
University of TexasUniversity Station A1800 Austin, Texas 78712-0119
casellas@mail.utexas.edu


James Lai
Department of Political Science
Santa Clara University500 El Camino RealSanta Clara, CA 95053
jlai@scu.edu

Jessica Lavariega-Monforti
University of Texas-Pan American1201 West University Drive, Political Science, SBSC 208, Edinburg, TX 78541
lavariegaj@utpa.edu


Maruice Mangum 
Texas Southern University 
Associate Director, Barbara Jordan Institute for Policy Research 
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science 
3100 Cleburne Street 
Houston, TX 77004 
Email: maruicemangum@yahoo.com


DISSERTATION AWARD

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 2011 to December 2011. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30, 2012.

The selection will be announced at the 2012 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.

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)

Chris Parker (Chair)
University of Washington 
Department of Political Science 
101 Gowen Hall, Box 353530 
Seattle, WA 98195-3530 
E-mail: csparker@u.washington.edu

Regina Freer 
Department of Political Science
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041
Email: rfreer@oxy.edu

 John Mollenkopf 
City University of New York, Graduate Center 
Center for Urban Research 
CUNY Graduate Center 
365 Fifth Avenue Room 6202 
New York, NY 10016 
Email: jmollenkopf@gc.cuny.edu