Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section Award Recipients
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Best Book Award
Best Dissertation Award
Best Paper Award
Best Comparative Dissertation Award
Best Book Award
The Best Book Award is given for the best book in the field of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics.
| 2024 | Best Book in Race and Political Theory Juliet Hooker, Brown University Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss. Princeton University Press, 2023. |
| 2024 | Best Book in Race and Public Policy Dara Strolovitch, Yale University When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Race, Gender, and What Makes a Crisis in America. University of Chicago Press, 2023. |
| 2024 | Best Book in Race and Intersectionality Pearl Ford Dowe, Emory University The Radical Imagination of Black Women. Oxford University Press, 2023. |
| 2023 | Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Migration |
| 2023 | Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy |
| 2023 | Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Representation |
| 2023 | Best Book on Race, Ethnicity, and Justice |
| 2023 | Best Book on Race, Ethnicity and Identity |
| 2022 | Deva Woodly, New School Reckoning: Black Lives Matter and the Democratic Necessity of Social Movements |
| 2021 | Ismail White, Princeton University |
| 2021 | Chryl Laird, University of Maryland Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior. Princeton University Press, 2020. |
| 2021 | Mark D. Ramirez, Arizona State University |
| 2021 | David A. M. Peterson, Iowa State University Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos. Cambridge University Press, 2020. |
| 2019 | Race and Political Development Thomas Ogorzalek, Northwestern University |
| 2019 | Race and Urban Politics Jessica Trounstine, University of California, Merced |
| 2019 | Race and Comparative Politics Penelope Anthias, University of Copenhagen |
| 2019 | Race and Political Behavior |
| 2018 | Distinguished Career Book Award Carol Hardy-Fanta, Pei-te Lien, Diane Pinderhughes, and Christine Sierra Contested Transformation: Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2018 | Race and Political Theory Juliet Hooker, Brown University Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford University Press) |
| 2018 | Race and Political Behavior Natalie Masuoka, University of California, Los Angeles Multiracial Identity and Racial Politics in the United States (Oxford University Press) |
| 2018 | Race and Comparative Politics Danielle Pilar Clealand The Power of Race in Cuba: Racial Ideology and Black Consciousness During the Revolution (Oxford University Press) |
| 2018 | Race and Immigration Chris Zepeda-Millan Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization and Activism (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2017 | Race and Comparative Politics Debra Thompson, University of Oregon, The Schematic State: Race, Transnationalism, and the Politics of the Census (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2017 | Race and Political Theory Shatema Threadcraft, Rutgers University Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press) |
| 2017 | Race and Political Behavior Angel Saavedra Cisneros, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Latino Identity and Political Attitudes: Why Are Latinos Not Republican? (Palgrave) |
| 2017 | Race Public Opinion Efron Pérez, Vanderbilt University Unspoken Politics: Implicit Attitudes and Political Thinking (Cambridge University Press) |
| 2016 | Lorrie Frasure-Yokley, University of California, Los Angeles Racial and Ethnic Politics in American Suburbs. Cambridge University Press. |
| 2016 | Claire Jean Kim, University of California, Irvine Dangerous Crossings: Race, Species, and Nature in a Multicultural Age. Cambridge University Press |
| 2016 | Christopher T. Stout, Southern Illinois University Bringing Race Back In: Black Politicians, Deracialization, and Voting Behavior in the Age of Obama. University of Virginia Press |
| 2016 | Betina Cutaia Wilkinson, Wake Forest University Partners or Rivals?: Power and Latino, Black, and White Relations in the Twenty-First Century.University of Virginia Press |
| 2015 | David Lublin, American University Minority Rules: Electoral Systems, Decentralization, and Ethnoregional Party Success. Oxford University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Daniel Gillion, University of Pennsylvania The Political Power of Protest: Minority Activism and Shifts in Public Policy. Cambridge University Press |
| 2014 | Christopher Parker, University of Washington Change They Can’t Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America. Princeton University Press |
| 2014 | Matt Barreto, University of Washington Change They Can’t BelieveIn: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America. Princeton University Press. |
| 2013 | Lisa Garcia Bedolla, University of California, Berkeley Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the Vote Campaigns (Yale University Press 2012) |
| 2013 | Melissa Michelson, Menlo College Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the Vote Campaigns (Yale University Press, 2012) |
| 2012 | Zoltan L. Hajnal, University of California, San Diego and Taeku Lee, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2012 | Christian R. Grose, University of Southern California |
| 2012 | Laura E. Evans, University of Washington |
| 2011 | Cristina Beltrán, Haverford College |
| 2011 | Christian Davenport, University of Notre Dame |
| 2011 | Paula D. McClain, Duke University and Steven C. Tauber, University of South Florida |
| 2010 | Anthony Chen, Northwestern University The Fifth Freedom: Jobs, Politics and Civil Rights in the United States, 1941-1972 |
| 2010 | Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago In the Shadow of Dubois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America |
| 2009 | Michelle Boyd, University of Illinois, Chicago Jim Crow Nostalgia: Reconstructing Race in Bronzeville (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) |
| 2009 | Paul Frymer, Princeton University Black and Blue: Aftican Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party (Princeton University Press, 2008) |
| 2009 | Ariela Gross, University of Southern California What Blood Won’t Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America (Harvard University Press, 2008) |
| 2007 | Reuel Rogers, Northwestern University Afro Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Imcorporation: Ethnicity, Exception, or Exit |
| 2007 | Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor |
| 2007 | Byron Shafer The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South |
| 2007 | Richard Johnston, University of British Columbia The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South |
| 2006 | Donna Van Cott, University of Tennessee From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Robert Lieberman, Columbia University Shaping Race Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective (Princeton University Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Lisa Garcia Bedolla, University of California, Irvine Fluid Borders: Latino Power, Identity and Politics in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2005) |
| 2006 | Ange-Marie Hancock, Yale University The Politics of Disgust: The Public Identity of the ‘Welfare Queen’ (NYU Press, 2005) |
| 2005 | Sherene Razack, University of Toronot Dark Threats and White Knights: The Somalia Affair, Peacekeeping and the New Imperialism |
| 2005 | Michele Berger, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS |
| 2005 | Melissa Harris-Perry, University of Chicago Barbershops, Bibles and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought |
| 2005 | Albert Samuels, Southern University Is Separate Unequal? Black Colleges and the Challenge to Desegregation |
| 2004 | Lewis Randolph, Ohio University For research on Race and Ethnicity Politics in Local Contexts, “Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia,” Co-Authored with Gayle T. Tate, Indiana University, Bloomington |
| 2004 | Gayle Tate, Indiana University, Bloomington For research on Race and Ethnicity Politics in Local Contexts, “Rights for a Season: The Politics of Race, Class, and Gender in Richmond, Virginia,” Co-Authored with Lewis Randolph, Ohio University |
| 2004 | Benjamin Marquez, University of Wisconsin Given for research on Race and Ethnic Political Theory and Organizational Development, “Constructing Identities in Mexican American Political Organizations” (University of Texas Press) |
| 2004 | K. Tate, University of California, Irvine Given for research on Race and Ethnic Political Representation, “Black Faces in the Mirror: African Americans and Their Representatives in the U.S. Congress” (Princeton University Press) |
| 2004 | Linda Williams, University of Maryland Given for research on Public Policy and Race and Ethnic Politics in the United States, “The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America” (Pennsylvania State University Press) |
| 2002 | Pei-te Lien, University of Utah The Making of Asian America Through Political Participation |
| 2002 | Keith Wailoo, University of California Dying in the City of the Blues: Sickle Cell Anemia and the Politics of Race and Health |
| 2002 | Nora Hamilton, University of Southern California Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles |
| 2002 | Norma Stoltz Chincilla, California State University, Long Beach Seeking Community in a Global City: Guatemalans and Salvadorans in Los Angeles |
| 2002 | Michael Dawson, Harvard University Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African American Political Ideologies |
| 2002 | Ronald Schmidt Sr., California State University, Long Beach Language Policy and Identity Politics in the United States |
| 2002 | Matthew Guterl, Brown University The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940 (Harvard University Press, 2001) |
| 2001 | Richard Iton, University of Toronto Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture, and the American Left |
| 2001 | Claire Kim, University of California Bitter Fruit, The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City |
| 2001 | William Nelson Jr., Ohio State University Black Atlantic Politics ( State University of New York Press, 2000) |
| 2001 | David Kryder, Massachussetts Insititute of Technology Divided Arsenal: Race and the American State During World War II (Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
| 2001 | Ronald Schmidt Sr., California University, Long Beach Language Policy and Identity Politics in the U.S. (Cambridge University Press, 2000) |
| 2000 | Robert Lee, Marians Baptist Academy Orientals: Asian Americans in Popular Culture (Temple University Press, 1999) |
| 2000 | Mary Waters, Institute for Initative and Referendum Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities ( Harvard University Press, 1999) |
| 1999 | Audra Simpson, University of Washington The Tie that Binds: Identity and Political Attitudes in the Post-Civil Rights Generation (New York University Press, 1998) |
| 1999 | Luana Ross, University of California, Davis Inventing the Savage: The Social Construction of Native American Criminality (University of Taxas Press, 1998) |
| 1999 | Michael Jones-Correa, Micheal Jones-Correa Between Two Nations: The Political Predicament of Latinos in New York City (Cornell University Press, 1998) |
| 1998 | Matthew Jacobson, Yale University Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race |
Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best American dissertation on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics accepted in the previous year
| 2024 | Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz, University of Chicago “La Lucha de Cada Día: Immigrant Justice Organizing and the Political Remaking of Illegality in the U.S.” Yale University. |
| 2023 | Stephanie Chan, Lafayette College “Creative Citizenship: The Impacts of Racialized Incorporation on Political Participation.” Princeton University. Jasmine Smith, George Washington University “Electability Politics: How and Why Black Americans Vote in Primary Elections.” Duke University. |
| 2022 | Ada Johnson-Kanu, UC-Merced (Ph.D)
“Colonial Legacies in State Building: Bureaucratic Embeddedness, Public Goods Provision, and Public Opinion in Nigeria” |
| 2020 |
David De Micheli, Cornell University |
| 2019 |
Angela Ocampo, University of Michigan |
| 2019 |
Julian Wamble, The State University of New York at Stony Brook |
| 2018 | Christian Dyogi Phillips, University of Southern California Expansion and Exclusion: Race, Gender and Immigration in American Politics |
| 2017 | Allison Anoll, Stanford University Race, Place and Political Action: How Social Norms and Racial Segregation Shape Participatory Patterns in America |
| 2017 | Lisa Beard, University of Oregon If We Were Kin: Race, Identification and Intimate Political Appeal |
| 2015 | Ashley Elizabeth Jardina, University of Michigan |
| 2013 | Candis Smith, Texas A&M; University Black Mosaic: Expanding Contours of Black Identity and Black Politics |
| 2012 | Chris Zepeda-Millan, University of Chicago Dignity’s Revolt: Threat, Identity, and Immigrant Mass Mobilization (Completed at Cornell University; advised by Michael Jones-Correa & Sidney Tarrow) |
| 2010 | Sheryl Lightfoot, University of British Columbia Indigenous Global Politics |
| 2009 | Sarah Chartock, Princeton University “Ethnodevelopment in Latin America: Political Competition and the Making of Ethnically-Targeted Participatory Policy in Ecuador, Peru and Guatemale: 1985-2005” |
| 2009 | Sarah Chartock, Princeton University “Ethnodevelopment in Latin America: Political Competition and the Making of Ethnically-Targeted Participatory Policy in Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala: 1985-2005” |
| 2006 | Khalilah Brown-Dean, Ohio State University “One Lens, Multiple Views: Felon Disenfranchisement Laws and American Political Inequality” |
| 2006 | Naomi Murakawa, Yale University “Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State” |
| 2002 | Renee Cramer, California State University at Long Beach “The Multiple Contexts of Federal Acknowledgement Law: A Sociolegal Perspective.” |
| 2001 | Jeannine Bell, University of Michigan “Policing Hatred: Police Officers, Bias Crime, and the Politics of Civil Rights Law Enforcement” |
| 2001 | Felicia Wong, University of California at Berkeley “The Good Fight: Race, Politics, and Contemporary Urban Education Reform” |
| 2000 | Lisa Garcia Bedolla, Yale University “Fluid Borders: Latino Identity Community and Politics in Los Angeles” |
| 2000 | Kristen Maher, University of California, Irvine “A Stranger in the House: American Ambivalence About Immigrant Labor” |
| 2000 | Diane-Michele Prindeville, University of Mexico “On the Streets and in the State House: American Indian and Hispanic Women and Environmental Policymaking in New Mexico.” |
| 1998 | Claire Kim, University of California, Irvine “Cracks in the ‘Gorgeous Mosaic’: Black-Korean Conflict and Racial Mobilization in New York City.” |
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.
| 2024 | Robert Carlos, University of Texas at Austin and Geoffrey Sheagley, University of Georgia “Cutting Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face? How The Psychological Wage of Whiteness Drives Opposition to Public Policies When They Benefit Immigrants.” |
| 2023 | Jessica Taghvaiee, University of California, Irvine “UnDACAmented & Unafraid: How United We Dream Uses Twitter in Reaction to #DACA.” |
| 2022 | Allison Anoll, Vanderbilt University “Perfect Proxies or Crosscutting Cleavages? Racial Context(s) in the United States” |
| 2022 | Lauren Davenport, Stanford University “Perfect Proxies or Crosscutting Cleavages? Racial Context(s) in the United States” |
| 2022 | Rachel Lienesch, Stanford University “Perfect Proxies or Crosscutting Cleavages? Racial Context(s) in the United States” |
| 2021 |
Nicole Yadon, Ohio State University |
| 2021 | Mara Ostfeld, University of Michigan “¿Mejorando La Raza?: The Political Undertones Of Latinos’ Skin Color In The U.S.” |
| 2021 |
Chinbo Chong, Indiana University |
| 2021 |
Tanika Raychaudhuri, Princeton University |
| 2019 | Hannah Walker, Rutgers University, New Brunswick “The Paradox Between Integration and Perceived Discrimination Among U.S. Muslims.” |
| 2019 | Kassra Oskooii, University of Delaware “The Paradox Between Integration and Perceived Discrimination Among U.S. Muslims.” |
| 2019 | Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University “The Paradox Between Integration and Perceived Discrimination Among U.S. Muslims.” |
| 2019 | Aubrey Westfall, Wheaton College “The Paradox Between Integration and Perceived Discrimination Among U.S. Muslims.” |
| 2019 |
Diane Wong, Cornell University |
| 2018 | Michael Jones-Correa, University of Pennsylvania Political Incorporation, Interrupted? Immigrant Responses to the 2016 Elections. |
| 2018 | James McCann, Purdue University Political Incorporation, Interrupted? Immigrant Responses to the 2016 Elections. |
| 2016 | Benjamin McLelland, Columbia University “Ethnic Parties and Strategic Voting: Theory and Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina.” |
| 2015 | Renee Rocha, University of Iowa “Latino Identity, Ethnic Context, and Mass Deportation” |
| 2015 | Elizabeth Maltby, University of Iowa “Latino Identity, Ethnic Context, and Mass Deportation” |
| 2015 | Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University “The Impact of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African-Americans.” |
| 2015 | Sophia Wallace, Rutgers University “The Impact of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African-Americans.” |
| 2015 | Chris Zepeda-Millan, University of California, Berkeley “The Impact of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African-Americans.” |
| 2013 | Joshua Zingher, SUNY, Binghamton University “The Spatial and Demographic Determinants of Racial Threat: A Demonstartion from Louisiana” |
| 2013 | Michael Thomas, SUNY, Binghamton University “The Spatial and Demographic Determinants of Racial Threat: A Demonstartion from Louisiana” |
| 2010 | Susan Eckstein, Boston University The Immigrant Divide:How Cuban Americans Changed the US and their Homeland |
| 2009 | Matt Barreto, University of Washington “Is Islam Compatible With the West? Muslim American Political Participation In America.” (2008 REP Program) |
| 2009 | Karam Dana, University of Washington “Is Islam Compatible With the West? Muslim American Political Participation In America.” (2008 REP Program) |
| 2007 | William Hudson, Providence College When Church Teachings and Republican Ideology Collide: The Perspectives of Catholic Republicans in the House of Representatives |
| 2004 | Christopher Parker, University of California, Santa Barbara “Shades of Patriotism: Group Identity, National Identity, and Democracy” |
| 2000 | Yasmeen Abu-Laban, University of Alberta “Reconstructing an Inclusive Citizenship: Globalization, Migration, and Difference” |
| 1998 | Clare Sheridan, University of Texas, Austin “A Genealogy of Citizenship: Mexican Americans, Race, and National Identity.” |
Best Comparative Dissertation Award
The Best Comparative Dissertation Award is given for the best comparative dissertation on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics of the previous year.
| 1998 | Allaine Cerwonka, University of California, Irvine “Space and Nation in a Global Era: In Search of Australia.” |