Organized Section for a New Political Science
Section Awards

Awards for 2007

Christian Bay Award
 For the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at the 2006 annual meeting.

Angelica M. Bernal, Yale University for "Power, Powerlessness, and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of Internation Law" Pictured with Dorian Warren presenting the award on behalf of the committee and Alethia Jones (co-president of the Caucus) looking on.

 

Michael Harrington Award
 For an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world
Don Zuberi for Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada.ILR Press

Award: Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
For a progressive political scientist who has had a long successful career as a writer, teacher, and activist
Mark Roelofs, New York University

 Author of numerous books in the fields of contemporary social and political theory, European politics, and popular movements. His recent books include The End of Politics: Corporate Power and the Decline of the Public Sphere (1999), Masters of War (2003), Imperial Delusions: American Militarism and Endless War (2005).

 

Award: 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.
Chicago Grassroots Collaborative
Chicago Living Wage Campaign