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 2017 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, 2018.
Saladin Ambar
Best Book Award
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Lehigh University
Department of Political Science
Maginnes Hall, Room 307
9 West Packer Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Chris Stout
Best Book Award
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Oregon State University
Political Science Department
300 Bexell Hall
2251 SW Campus Way
Corvallis, OR 97331
Vanessa Tyson, Scripps
Best Book Award
APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Scripps College
Politics Department
1030 Columbia Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711
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 2017 to December 2017. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30, 2018. Please submit all materials directly to the committee.
The selection will be announced at the 2018 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)
Ashley Jardina
Duke University
Political Science Department
140 Science Drive
288 Gross Hall
Box 90204
Durham, NC 27708
Jason Casellas
The University of Houston
Political Science Department
3551 Cullen Boulevard
Room 447
Houston, TX 77204-3011
Matt Mendez
CSU Channel Islands
Political Science Department
One University Drive
Camarillo, CA 93012
