NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE AWARD WINNERS – APSA 2008, BOSTON, MA

Presentation of the Awards will be made at the NPS Plenary

Title of Award	Recipient and affiliation
Christian Bay Award For the best paper presented at a New Political Science panel at the 2007 APSA 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 Committee: Dr. Julie Mertus, Associate Professor and Co-Director of the MA Program in Ethics, Peace and Global Affairs, School of International Service American University Dr. J. Phillip Thompson, Associate Professor of Urban Politics, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Peter Nikolaus Funke, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania “Late Capitalism and the World Social Forum: Social Movement Resistance in the 21st Century”
Michael Harrington Award For an outstanding book published in 2007 that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world Chair: Dr. William L Niemi, Professor and Chair, Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Professor of Politics and Government, Western State College of Colorado Committee: Dr. Gerard Huiskamp, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science Wheaton College Dr. Jamie Warner, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Marshall University	Dr. Geoff Mann, Assistant Professor of Geography, Simon Fraser University Our Daily Bread: Wages, Workers, & the Political Economy of the American West, University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Title of Award	Recipient and affiliation
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award For a progressive political scientist active in NPS 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 University Committee: Dr. Mary Hawkesworth, Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, Senior Scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, Department of Political Science, Rutgers University Dr. Wendy Sarvasy, Professor, Department of Political Science, California State University East Bay	Dr. John Ehrenberg, Professor of Political Science and Department Chair, Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus
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 Committee: Dr. Maggie Gray, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Adelphi University Jennifer Shea, Ph.D Candidate and Project Manager The Center for Social Policy, University of Massachusetts Boston Dr. Frances Fox Piven, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York, Honorary Member	There are two winners for this award: 1. Centro Presente 54 Essex Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139 Phone: 617-497-9080, Fax: 617-497-7247 http://www.cpresente.org/programs.html Contact: Elena Letona Mletona@cpresente.org <mailto:Mletona@cpresente.org> Centro Presente, established in 1981, is a member-driven, state-wide Latin American immigrant organization dedicated to the self-determination and self-sufficiency of the Latin American immigrant community of Massachusetts. Operated and led primarily by Central American immigrants, Centro Presente struggles for immigrant rights and for economic and social justice. Through the integration of community organizing, leadership development and basic services, Centro Presente strives to give its members voice and to build community power. Elena Letona, the Executive Director of Centro Presente, herself a Latina immigrant, was one of the first graduates of UMass Boston's Public Policy Ph.D. Program.  2. Open Media Boston 33 Harrison Ave., 5th Flr. Boston, MA 02111 info@openmediaboston.org www.openmediaboston.org 617-460-0848 Contact: Jason Pramas Open Media Boston is an online media outlet dedicated to regularly publishing fair and accurate news, views, arts, and entertainment content in text, image, audio and video formats from a progressive political perspective for the Boston, Massachusetts, USA metropolitan area. Open Media Boston is an audience-centered publication that solicits submissions and commentary from the general public using the latest social media technology while maintaining professional journalistic standards at all times. Open Media Boston strives to balance open participation with editorial control in the service of this goal.