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 2019 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. The authors should be contacted directly to obtain mailing addresses by May 1st.
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Matt Barreto
University of California-Los Angeles
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Rene Rocha
University of Iowa
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Karam Dana
University of Washington
[email protected]


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 2019 to December 2019. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30, 2020. Please submit all materials directly to the committee.

The selection will be announced at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations can be made by chairs of dissertation committees or by 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)​

Best Dissertation Committee

Jenn Merolla
University of California, Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521
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Chris Zepeda Milan
University of California, Los Angeles
3250 Public Affairs Building - Box 951656
Los Angeles, CA 90095
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Jennifer Chudy
Wellesley College
Pendleton East 234
106 Central Street
Wellesley, Massachusetts 02481
[email protected]


BEST PAPER AWARD​

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
Deadline for nominations: June 1, 2020
Award Committee:

Best Paper Award Committee

Brad Jones
University of California, Davis
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469 Kerr HallUniversity of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616

Hakeem Jefferson
Stanford University
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Encina Hall West
Suite 100
Stanford, CA 94305-6044

Kassra Oskooii
University of Delaware
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347 Smith Hall
18 Amstel Avenue
Newark, DE 19716