APSA Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty Award for excellence in scholarship, teaching, or leadership by contingent faculty who have made significant contributions to the field of political science without the support of tenure-track employment.

APSA Community College Faculty Award for made exemplary contributions to advance the multi-faceted goals of community college faculty.

APSA Distinguished Award for Civic and Community Engagement for significant civic or community engagement activity by a political scientist

APSA Distinguished Teaching Award for outstanding contributions to undergraduate and/or graduate teaching of political science at a two- or four-year institution.

Frank J. Goodnow Award for distinguished service to the profession and the Association, not necessarily a career of scholarship.

John Gaus Award for a lifetime of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration.

Hubert H. Humphrey Award for notable public service by a political scientist.

Carey McWilliams Award for major journalistic contributions to our understanding of politics.

James Madison Award for an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.

Charles Merriam Award for an individual whose published work and career represent a significant contribution to the art of government through the application of social science research.

Ithiel de Sola Pool Award for a scholar exploring the implications of research on issues of politics in a broad range of scholarship pursued by Ithiel de Sola Pool.

Barbara Sinclair Lecture commemorates the life and scholarship of renowned scholar of legislative politics, Barbara Sinclair.

Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award for a political scientist whose lifetime of distinguished scholarship that has made significant contributions to our understanding of racial and ethnic politics and illuminates the conditions under which diversity and intergroup tolerance thrive in democratic societies.

Gabriel A. Almond Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of comparative politics.

William Anderson Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state and local politics.

Edward S. Corwin Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law.

Harold D. Lasswell Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public politics.

Merze Tate Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of international relations, law and politics.

E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of American government.

Kenneth Sherrill Award for Emerging Scholars is given for the best doctoral dissertation on lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBTQ+) topics in political science.

Kenneth Sherrill Prize for the best doctoral dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science.

Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political philosophy.

Leonard D. White Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration.

Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.

Beginning in 2023, APSA will present the Merze Tate–Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award in lieu of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award. In 2020, the APSA Council approved changing the name of the Wilson Award as well as the creation of an ad-hoc committee to determine the new name. The award criteria will remain the same – honoring the best book on government, politics, or international affairs.
 

Ralph J. Bunche Award for the best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism.

Gladys M. Kammerer Award for the best book in the field of U.S. national policy.

Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for exceptional work by a living political theorist that is still considered significant after a time span of at least 15 years since the original publication.

APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for the author of a first book in any field of political science that shows promise of having a substantive impact on the discipline, regardless of method, specific focus of inquiry or approach to subject.

Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics.