Join/Renew Now! Contribute Contact APSA


Heinz I. Eulau Award

The Heinz Eulau prize is awarded annually for the best article published in the American Political Science Review and for the best article published in Perspectives on Politics. It carries a prize of $750. Special thanks go to Cambridge University Press for support of the new prize given in 2005, recognizing scholarship in Perspectives on Politics.

The initiative for the Eulau Award was taken by some of Dr. Eulau's former Ph.D. students, who on occasion of his retirement from Stanford, solicited gifts to create an appropriate memorial. Recognizing his extraordinary contributions to the political science profession, the APSA Council voted in 1986 to honor Heinz by establishing a prize in his name for the best article published in the APSR. It is hoped that the annual award will encourage submission of the highest quality manuscripts to the Review and recognize scholarly excellence in political science. The Eulau Award was first presented at the 1988 meeting.

In 2004, the APSA Council acted to incorporate the best paper published in Perspectives in Politics under the umbrella of the Heinz Eulau Award, as well as the best paper published in APSR. This action was taken to allow APSA to recognize articles in Perspectives on Politics in a way parallel with APSR, without transgressing a council moratorium on new awards. As we build up award endowment, we expect in the future that the two awards will be separated. To manage the effort involved in selecting best articles for two journals, APSA President Margaret Levi, in consultation with the Award Committee Chair, increased the number of appointees to the Eulau Committee from 3 to 5, and suggested that two members focus on APSR articles and two on Perspectives on Politics articles, with the chair acting as the swing participant and coordinating voice.

2009 Heinz I. Eulau Award Recipients

List of All Heinz I. Eulau Award Recipients


2010 Nomination Information

Nominations are due to the APSA office by December 1, 2009 via email or post.

Eulau Award
APSA
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC  20036

2010 Award Committee

Chair: Jack Citrin
University of California, Berkeley
Political Science
210 Barrows Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1950
gojack@berkeley.edu

Perspectives on Politics

William T. Bianco
Indiana University
Political Science
1100 East 7th Street
Bloomingtion, IN 47401
wbianco@indiana.edu
 
Bronwyn Anne Leebaw
University of California, Riverside
Political Science
2218 Watkins Hall
Riverside, CA 92521-0001
bronwyn.leebaw@ucr.edu

APSR

Christopher F. Gelpi
Duke University
Political Science
Box 90204
Durham, NC 27708
gelpi@duke.edu

Marc J. Hetherington
Vanderbilt University
Political Science
VU Station B #351817
Nashville, TN 37235-1817
marc.j.hetherington@vanderbilt.edu