New Political Science 2009 Awards Winners

Michael Harrington Book Award:

Stephen Pimpare, Yeshiva University

A People’s History of Poverty in America (The New Press, 2008)

The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award

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

 Laura Katz Olson, Lehigh University

The Christian Bay Award

For best paper presented at the Annual Meeting.

Elisabeth K. Chaves, Virginia Tech for “The Internet as Global Platform? Grounding the Magically Levitating Public Sphere”

The 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.

 The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty