This is a general announcement of the 2008 NPS Award Committees. If you have a nominee for any of the awards, contact the Chair to learn the procedure and send in your nominations early!!

Christian Bay Award

For the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at the 2007 annual meeting

Chair: Dr. Ilene Feinman
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Pre-Law and Peace Studies, and Director, Division of Humanities and Communication
California State University Monterey Bay
CSU Monterey Bay, 100 Campus Center, Seaside, CA 93955-8001
Building 2, Room 112
(831) 582-4147
Ilene_Feinman@csumb.edu

Dr. Julie Mertus
Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MA Program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs
School of International Service
American University
School of International Affairs
Clark Hall 203
(202) 885-2215
mertus@american.edu

Dr. J. Phillip Thompson
Associate Professor of Urban Politics
Department of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
Email: jt71@mit.edu <mailto:jt71@mit.edu
Tel: (617) 452-2813

 

Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

For a progressive political scientist who has had a long successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist

Chair: Dr. Manfred Steger
Professor of Global Studies
Academic Director, Globalism Institute
School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning
RMIT UniversityTel: +61 3 / 03 9925 3081
manfred.steger@rmit.edu.au

Dr. Mary Hawkesworth
Professor of Women's and Gender Studies
Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics
Rutgers University
Department of Political Science
89 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(732)932-9283

mhawkes@rci.rutgers.edu

Dr. Wendy Sarvasy
Professor, Department of Political Science
California State University East Bay
4092 Meiklejohn Hall, CSUEB
Hayward CA 94542
wendy.sarvasy@csueastbay.edu

Michael Harrington Award

For an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world

Only publishers can submit nominations by MAILING a copy of eligible book(s) to each committee member at the addresses listed below.

For a recent outstanding book (published in 2007--collections not eligible)

Chair: Dr. William L Niemi
Chair, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Professor of Politics and Government
Western State College of Colorado
Gunnison, CO 81231
(970) 943-7078
wniemi@western.edu

Dr. Gerard Huiskamp
Department of Political Science
Wheaton College
26 E. Main Street
Norton MA  02766
508.286.3682
ghuiskam@wheatonma.edu

Dr. Jamie Warner
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Political Science
318 Township Road 519
Proctorville, OH  45669
740-894-8113
warnerj@marshall.edu

Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award

For an activist group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, "to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world," into practice.

Chair: Dr. Victor Wallis
Professor, Liberal Arts
Berklee College of Music
1140 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02215
Telephone (617) 266-1400
ZENDIVE@aol.com

Dr. Maggie Gray
Assistant Professor
Adelphi University
Department of Political Science
Blodgett Hall, Rm 202B
Garden City, NY 11530
516.877.4589
maggiegray@hotmail.com

Jennifer Shea
Ph.D Candidate and Project Manager
The Center for Social Policy
University of Massachusetts Boston
100 Morrissey Boulevard
Boston, MA 02125-3393
jennifer.shay@umb.edu

Francis Fox Piven, Honorary