Human Rights

Membership

Section List

Award Winners

Human Rights

The Section on Human Rights was established to encourage scholarship and facilitate exchange of data and research findings on all components of human rights (e.g., civil, political, economic, social, cultural, environmental), their relationship, determinants and consequences of human rights policies, structure and influence of human rights organizations, development, implementation, impact on international conventions, and changes in the international human rights regime.

Website: www.apsanet.org/~humanrights/

2009-10 Officers

President:
Todd Landman
University of Essex
Government
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester, Essex C04 3SQ
United Kingdom
todd@essex.ac.uk

Vice President:
Jack Donnelly
University of Denver
Graduate School of International Studies
2201 South Gaylord St.
Denver, CO 80208
jdonnell@du.edu

Vice President-Elect:
Mahmood Monshipouri
San Francisco State University
International Relations
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco CA 94132-4155
mmonship@sfsu.edu

Secretary:
Bethany Barratt
Roosevelt University
School of Policy Studies
430 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
bbarratt@roosevelt.edu

Treasurer:
Basak Cali
University College London
Political Science
29/30 Tavistock Square
London WC1H 9QU
United Kingdom
b.cali@ucl.ac.uk

2010 Program Chair:
Jack Donnelly
University of Denver
Graduate School of International Studies
2201 South Gaylord St.
Denver, CO 80208
jdonnell@du.edu

Steering Committee:
Todd Landman, University of Essex
Jack Donnelly, University of Denver
Bethany Barratt, Roosevelt University
Basak Cali, University College London
David Benjamin, University of Bridgeport
Alistair Cook, RSIS Centre for Non Traditional Security Studies
Shareen Hertel, University of Connecticut

Awards

Previous Award Recipients

The Best Book Award is given for the best single-authored, multi-authored or edited volume on human rights published in 2009. To be considered for the award, a copy of the book must be sent to each of the four committee members listed below by April 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Mahmood Monshipouri
San Francisco State University
International Relations
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132-4155
mmonship@sfsu.edu

Committee Members:
Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat
State University of New York, Purchase
School of Natural and Social Sciences
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
zehra.arat@purchase.edu

Sonia Cardenas
Trinity College
Political Science
300 Summit Street
Hartford, CT 06106
carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu

Best Dissertation Award
Political science dissertations that focus on human rights and were filed in the academic years of 2008-09 are eligible for this award. Copies of the nominated dissertation and a letter of support, from the Dissertation Chair, which specifies the contribution of the work in the field of human rights should be received by each committee member by March 1, 2010. No email submissions will be accepted.

Award Committee Chair:
Michael J. Struett
North Carolina State University
Political Science
Campus Box 8102
Raleigh, NC 27695-8102
mjstruet@ncsu.edu

Committee Member:
Richard P. Hiskes
University of Connecticut
Political Science
341 Mansfield Road, Room 137
Monteith Building, U24
Storrs, CT 06269-1024
richard.hiskes@uconn.edu

Carolyn Shaw
Wichita State University
Political Science
1845 Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260-0017
carolyn.shaw@wichita.edu

The APSA Best Paper Award recognizes the "best paper" presented on a Human Rights Section Panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. The papers must be submitted by November 1, 2009.

Award Committee Chair:
Bethany Barratt
Roosevelt University
School of Policy Studies
430 S. Michigan Avenue
Room 752
Chicago, IL 60605
bbarratt@roosevelt.edu

Committee Members:
Monika Nalepa
University of Notre Dame
Political Science
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
mnalepa@nd.edu

Victor A. Peskin
Arizona State Unviersity
School of Global Studies
P.O. Box 874802
Tempe, AZ 85287-5102
victor.peskin@asu.edu

Distinguished Scholar Award
This award recognizes an individual who has worked in the field of Human Rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching and mentorship. Nomination should include a short justification and the nominee's CV. Nominations can be submitted electronically by June 1, 2010.

Award Committee Chair:
Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
Wilfrid Laurier University
Global Studies
75 University Avenue West
Waterloo ON N2L 3C5 Canada
hassmann@wlu.ca

Committee Members:
Jack Donnelly
University of Denver
Graduate Schl of Intl Studies
2201 South Gaylord St.
Denver CO 80208
jdonnell@du.edu

David P. Forsythe
University of Nebraska
Political Science
511 Oldfather Hall
13th and R Streets
Lincoln NE 68588-0328
dforsythe1@unl.edu