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Home  › Membership  › Organized Section Membership  › Section List  › 36. Human Rights  › Award Winners Award Winners Human Rights Awards Best Book Award given for the best book on human rights written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years 2006 Eric Stover University of California, Berkeley The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) 2004 Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman Wilfred Laurier University Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (University of Toronto Press, 2003) 2003 Richard Pierre Claude University of Maryland Science in the Service of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) Best Dissertation Award given for the best political science dissertation focusing on human rights, and completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years 2006 Matthew Price Harvard University "Political Conception of Asylum" 2004 Emilie Marie Hafner-Burton University of Wisconsin, Madison "Globalizing Human Rights? How International Trade Agreements Shape Government Repression" 2003 Claudio A. Fuentes University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile" Distinguished Scholar Award 2006 Rhoda E. Howard-Hassman Wilfred Laurier University