Human Rights Section Award Recipients
Best Book Award
The competition is open to all books on human rights that were written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years.
2015 |
Lisa Baldez
Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014) |
2014 |
Jeffrey Hilgert
Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013) |
2014 |
Jo Becker
Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights and Advocacy in Practice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013) |
2013 |
Jacqui True, University of Auckland
The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) |
2012 |
Richard Price
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011) |
2011 |
Karen Engle, University of Texas Austin
The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture and Strategy |
2010 |
Richard P. Hiskes
The Human Rights to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) |
2010 |
Shadi Mokhtari
After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in the Americas and the Middle East (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009) |
2009 |
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (Princeton University Press, 2008) |
2007 |
Stephen Hopgood, University of London
Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International |
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 Howard-Hassmann FRSC, Wilfrid Laurier University
Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (University of Toronto Press, 2003) |
2003 |
Richard Claude, University of Maryland
Science in the Service of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002) |