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Victoria Schuck Award

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The Schuck Award honors the best book published on women and politics.

Victoria Schuck earned her PhD in 1937 from Stanford University and played a leading role in opening doors for women in the profession. She was not only an outstanding mentor for women, but her service in senior administrative roles at Mt. Holyoke College and Mount Vernon College opened doors for future generations of women leaders. The award is presented at the APSA Annual Meeting and carries a cash prize of $1,000.

Nomination Information

Eligibility: Nominees do not have to be members of APSA, affiliated with an institution in the United States, or an American citizen in order to be considered for an award. It is not compulsory that authors be political scientists.
Books must have been published in the previous calendar year to be eligible for the current awards cycle (books for the 2026 award must be published in 2025). Many books contain both a publication date and a copyright date, and these may differ. Eligibility is determined by the earlier of these dates that is printed with the publication information at the front of the book. Edited books are ineligible for nomination.

Individuals: Please contact the publisher and ask for either an eBook to submit via the online application portal or to have a physical copy of the nominated book mailed directly to each award committee member.
Self-nominations are accepted. If you nominate yourself for a book award, you assume responsibility for contacting your publisher and having copies of your book sent to the award committee either virtually or via mail.
Publishers: Please submit your nomination online through the APSA application portal. You have the option to either submit an eBook via the portal or mail a hard copy of the nominated book directly to each member of the award committee.

Award Committee

Chair

Kira Sanbonmatsu, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Member

Dawn Teele, Johns Hopkins University

Member

Robin Turner, Butler University

Listing of Awardees

Year	Author	Title	Publisher
2025	Cecilia Josefsson	Defending the Status Quo: On Adaptive Resistance to Electoral Gender Quotas	Oxford University Press
2024	Soledad Artiz Prillaman	The Patriarchal Political Order: The Making and Unraveling of the Gendered Participation Gap in India	Cambridge University Press
2023	Ke Li	Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China	Stanford University Press
2022	Laurel Elder	The Partisan Gap: Why Democratic Women Get Elected But Republican Women Don’t	Hartwick College
2021	Christina Wolbrecht and J. Kevin Corder	A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage	Cambridge University Press
2020	Melody Ellis Valdini	The Inclusion Calculation: Why Men Appropriate Women’s Representation	Oxford University Press
2019	Brooke A. Ackerly	Just Responsibility: A Human Rights Theory of Global Justice	Oxford University Press
2018	Kara Ellerby	No Shortcut to Change: An Unlikely Path to a More Gender Equitable World	University of Delaware
2017	J. Kevin Corder and Christina Wolbrecht	Counting Women’s Ballots: Female voters from Suffrage to through the New Deal	Cambridge University Press
2016	Sarah Deer	The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America	University of Minnesota Press
2015	Lisa Baldez	Defying Convention: U.S. Resistance to the U.N. Treaty on Women’s Rights	Cambridge University Press
2014	Deborah Jordan Brooks	He Runs, She Runs: Why Gender Stereotypes Do Not Harm Women Candidates	Princeton University Press
2013	Myra Marx Feree	Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global Perspective	Stanford University Press
2012	S. Laurel Weldon	When Protest Makes Policy: How Social Movements Represent Disadvantages Groups	University of Michigan Press
2011	Torben Iversen and Frances Rosenbluth	Women, Work & Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality	Yale University Press
2010	Mona Lena Krook	Quotas for Women in Politics: Gender and Candidate Selection Reform Worldwide	Oxford University Press
2009	Kristin Bumiller	In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence	Duke University Press
2008	Georgina Waylen	Engendering Transitions: Women’s Mobilization, Institutions, and Gender Outcomes	Oxford University Press
2008	Anna Marie Smith	Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation	Cambridge University Press
2007	Kathrin S. Zippel	The Politics of Sexual Harassment: A Comparative Study of the United States, the European Union, and Germany	Cambridge University Press
2007	Shireen Hassim	Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority	University of Wisconsin Press
2006	Valentine M. Moghadam	Globalizing Women: Transnational Feminist Networks	Johns Hopkins University Press
2005	Saba Mahmood	Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject	Princeton University Press
2004	Nancy J. Hirschmann	Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist Theory of Freedom	Princeton University Press
2003	Louise A. Chappell	Gendering Government: Feminist Engagement with the State in Australia and Canada	University of British Columbia Press

Support for Scholarship

We are continually grateful for the contributions from APSA members and friends that make our work possible. Your donation helps continue the Schuck Award for future scholars researching women and politics. Thank you for your support of APSA and scholars across the discipline.