Awards
Best Paper Award
The Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association is currently seeking nominations for its 2006 Best Paper on Women and Politics Award. The committee will consider papers presented under the Women and Politics Section (Division 31) during the American Political Science Association annual meeting in Chicago, August 30 - September 2, 2007.
The selection committee encourages panel chairs, participants and section members to nominate papers presented under the Women and Politics Section for consideration. We also strongly encourage authors to self-nominate for the award. Please submit paper nominations as a Word attachment via email to each member of the selection committee. The next deadline for submissions will be February 15, 2008.
The Best Paper on Women and Politics award winner will be recognized at the annual business meeting of the Women and Politics Section.
Note that papers from the women and politics section will be judged from the 2007 APSA conference proceedings on the web site at www.apsanet.org, so all paper authors should ensure that their materials are posted there.
- Best Paper Award Committee Chair
- Suzanne Mettler
Cornell University
sbm24@cornell.edu
- Best Paper Award Committee
- Suzanne Dovi
University of Arizona
sdovi@u.arizona.edu - Sherry L. Martin
Cornell University
slm59@cornell.edu
Best Dissertation Award
The Women and Politics Research Section announces its annual competition for the Best Dissertation on Women and Politics Research Award. The Award, which carries with it a cash award of $200, is awarded to the winner at the Section's annual business meeting at the APSA meetings.
Graduate directors and dissertation directors are encouraged to submit nominations to the committee members. Individuals who have completed an eligible dissertation are also encouraged to nominate themselves. Please mail a covering letter and a copy of the dissertation to each member of the award committee.
The Best Dissertation Award on women and politics. To be eligible, a dissertation must be completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year. The deadline for submissions/nominations is January 15, 2008.
- Best Dissertation Award Committee Chair
- Susan Mezey
Department of Political Science
908 Damen Hall
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan
Chicago, IL 60626
smezey@luc.edu
- Best Dissertation Award Committee
- Richard L. Fox
Department of Political Science
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive, 4129 University Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90045
richard.fox@lmu.edu - Evelyn M. Simien
Department of Political Science
University of Connecticut
341 Mansfield Road, U-1024
Storrs, CT 06269
evelyn.simien@uconn.edu - Leslie Schwindt-Bayer
University of Missouri-Columbia
Department of Political Science
220 Professional Building
Columbia, MO 65211-6030
schwindt@missouri.edu - Mia Bloom
304 Candler Hall
UGA SPIA
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
mbloom@uga.edu
The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory
The Women and Politics and Foundations of Political Theory sections of the American Political Science Association and the Women's Caucus for Political Science announce the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory. The award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year. Papers will be considered by self-nomination or nomination by other individuals. The award carries a cash award of $600. To be eligible, the article must have been published in 2007. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008.
To be considered for the award, one copy of the article should be sent to each member of the award committee by mail or electronically as a PDF attachment.
- The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory Committee Chair
- Professor Nancy J. Hirschmann
Department of Political Science
The University of Pennsylvania
Stiteler Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19104
njh@sas.upenn.edu
- The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory Committee
- Professor Kathy Ferguson
Department of Political Science
University of Hawai'i
640 Saunders Hall
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, HI 96822
kferguson@hawaii.edu - Professor Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott
Eastern Michigan University
1525 Harding Road
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
joanna.v.scott@gmail.com
Best Paper Award Past Winners
| Year | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Mala Htun, New School for Social Research S. Laurel Weldon, Purdue University |
"When and Why Do Governments Promote Women's Rights?: Toward a Comparative Politics of States and Sex Equality" |
| 2006 | Laura Sjoberg Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
"Gendering the Power of Immunity: Empathetic War-Fighting and Jus in Bellow" |
| 2005 | Liesl Haas California State University, Long Beach |
"Intergovernmental Relations and Feminist Policy Makings: A Case Study of Domestic Violence in Chile" |
| 2004 | Anne E. Towns University of Minnesota |
"Women Governing for Modernity: International Hierarchy and Legislature Sex Quotas" |
| 2003 | J. Shoshanna Ehrlich
Carol Hardy-Fanta University of Massachusetts, Boston |
"Grounded in the Reality of their Lives" |
| 2002 | Eileen McDonagh Northeastern University |
"Political Citizenship and Democratization: The Gender Paradox" |
| 2001 | Kimberly J. Morgan Princeton University |
"Women and the Two-Tiered Politics of Social and Political Citizenship in Europe" |
| 2000 | Margaret Moore University of Waterloo |
"The Ethics of Care and Justice," Women and Politics 20(2): 1-16 (April 1999) |
| 1999 | Leonie Huddy SUNY-Stony Brook |
"The Social Nature of Political Identity: Feminist Image and Feminist Identity" |
| 1998 | Gretchen Rittea University of Texas at Austin |
"Regendering Citizenship after the Second World War." |
| 1997 | Elisabeth Friedman Stanford University |
"Paradoxes of Party Politics: The Impact of Gendered Institutions on Women's Incorporation in Latin American Democratization" |
| 1996 | Anna Harvey New York University |
"Women, Party and Policy: A Rational Choice Approach" |
| 1995 | Mary Dietz University of Minnesota |
"Feminist Receptions of Hanna Arendt or how the Analytical Category of Gender Does Injustice to the Theory of Politics" |
| 1995 | Carole Chaney University of California, Riverside |
"Participation and Leadership in Committee Decision-Making: An Experimental Approach to Exploring Gender Differences" |
| 1995 | Lisa Young University of Toronto |
"Social Movements and Political Parties: A Comparison of the Canadian and American Women's Movements, 1970-1993" |
| 1994 | Eileen McDonagh Northeastern University |
"Abortion Rights Alchemy and the U.S. Supreme Court" |
| 1993 | Paul Burstein, R. Marie Bricher and Rachel L. Einwohner University of Washington, Seattle |
"Paid Work, Family and the State: Congressional Proposals to Regulate the Relationship Between Home and Work, 1945-1990" |
| 1993 | Aili Mari Tripp University of Wisconsin, Madison |
"Gender, Political Participation, and the Transformation of Associational Life in Uganda and Tanzania" |
| 1992 | Janet Boles Marquette University |
"Local Elected Women and Policy Making: Movement Delegates or Feminist Trustees" |
| 1992 | Sonia Kruks Oberlin College |
"Gender and Subjectivity: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Feminism" |
| 1991 | Christine Di Stefano University of Washington |
"Rethinking Autonomy" |
| 1990 | Susan Welch, University of Nebraska Donley T. Studlar, Oklahoma State University |
"Multimember Districts and the Representation of Women" |
Best Dissertation Award Past Winners
| Year | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Rachel Rinaldo University of Chicago | "Mobilizing Piety: Women, Islam, and the Public Sphere in Indonesia" |
| 2008 | Heather Ondercin Pennsylvania State University |
"The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender, Gap, 1953-2003" |
| 2007 | Denise Walsh New School for Social Research |
"Just Debate: Culture and Gender Justice in the New South Africa" |
| 2006 | Katharine Bedford Rutgers University |
"The World Bank's Employment Programs in Ecuador and Beyond: Empowering Women, Domesticating Men, and Resolving the Social Reproduction Dilemma" |
| 2006 | Mona Lena Krook* Columbia University |
"Politicizing Representation: Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas Worldwide" |
| 2005 | Carisa R. Showden University of North Carolina, Greensboro |
"Mythologies of Choice: The Politics of Domestic Violence and Alternative Reproduction" |
| 2004 | Sarah Song Yale University |
"Culture, Gender, and Equality" |
| 2003 | Jennifer Leigh Disney Winthrop University |
"The Theories and Practices of Women's Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua" |
| 2002 | Jennifer Leigh Disney CUNY |
"The Theory and Practice of Women's Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua" |
| 2000 | Kimberly J. Morgan Princeton University |
"Whose Hand Rocks the Cradle? The Politics of Child Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States" |
| 1999 | Michele Tracy Berger University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
"Workable Sisterhood: A Study of the Political Participation of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS" |
| 1997 | Lorraine Bayard de Volo Whitman College |
"Heroes, Martyrs, and Mothers: Maternity Identity Politics in Revolutionary Nicaragua" |
| 1996 | Anna Harvey Princeton University |
"The Legacy of Disenfranchisement: Women in Electoral Politics, 1917 - 1932" |
| 1996 | Cindy Simon University of Oklahoma |
"Women's Ways of Political Leadership: A Cross-Jurisdictional Study of State Legislative Committee Chairs" |
| 1995 | Robin May LeBlanc Oglethorpe University |
"Homeless as Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife" |
| 1994 | Joanna Goven University of California, Berkeley |
"The Gendered Foundations of Hungarian Socialism: State, Society and the Anit-Politics of Anit-Feminism, 1948-1990" (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 1993 | Beth A. Reingold Emory University |
"Representing Women Gender Difference Among Arizona and California State Legislators" (University of California, Berkeley) |
*Honorable Mention
Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory Past Winners
| Year | Recipient | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | Stephen T. Leonard and Joan C. Tronto | "The Genders of Citizenship" (American Political Science Review) |
| 2007 | Tamara Metz | "The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage" (Contemporary Political Theory) |