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Foundations of Political Theory Section Award Recipients

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Best Paper Award
David Easton Award
First Book Award
Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory

Best Paper Award

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper presented on a foundations panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2020	Murad Idris, University of Virginia “Founding Kazanistan: The Muslim Question in the John Rawls Archives”
2019	Cigdem Cidam, Union College “Rousseau's Disastrous Utopias? On the Interchangeability of Political Theory, Pedagogy and Art.”
2018	Sophie Smith, Oxford University “Okin, Rawls, and the ‘Quest for Legitimacy’.”
2017	Zach Reyna, Johns Hopkins University "Bovine Bellow and Aquiline Vision: Aquinas' Ecological Approach to Law & Politics"
2016	Josh Simon, Columbia University “Jose Marti’s Immanent Critique of American Imperialism”
2015	Alex Gourevitch, Brown University "Quitting Work But Not the Job: Liberty and the Right to Strike."
2014	Brandon Terry, Yale University "Rawls, Race, and Critique: Engaging with Charles Mills' The Racial Contract"
2014	Eline Severs, Vrije Universiteit Brussel "Determining the Quality of Women’s Substantive Representation: A Study of Muslem Women’s Voice and Influence in the Belgian Headscarf Debate."
2012	Jane Gordon, Temple University Theorizing Contemporary Practices of Slavery
2011	Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University "How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?: A Comparative Study of Two Cairo Neighborhoods"
2011	Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside "Gandhi's Body: Asceticism, Pain and Suffering in Environmental Political Discourse"
2010	Philip Michelbach, West Virginia University "Renewing Democratic Authority: Hamlet's Politics with (and against) Carl Schmitt"
2010	Andrew Poe, University of California, San Diego "Renewing Democratic Authority: Hamlet's Politics with (and against) Carl Schmitt"
2006	Patchen Markell, University of Chicago "The Insufficiency of Non-Domniation"
2005	Samuel Chambers, University of Wales Swansea "The Alterirty of the Present: Reading Sexuality in Six Feet Under"
2003	Leigh Jenco, University of Chicago "Representing a Noble Heart: Thoreau's Critique of Democracy"
2002	Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia "The Argument of John Brown"
2002	Roy Tsao, Georgetown University "Arendt Against Athens: Rereading the Human Condition"
2001	Jennifer Pitts, Yale University "Legislator of the World? A Rereading of Bentham on India."
1999	Albert Dzur, Univerity of Utah "Comprehensive Liberal Politics and the Fact of Pluralism"
1998	Kennan Ferguson, University of Hawaii "Communities of Meaning: Toward a Kantian Non-Universal Judgment"
1997	Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan "Republican Romance"

David Easton Award

The David Easton Award is given for a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities.

2022	Ellen Hunt Botting, University of Notre Dame Artificial Life After Frankenstein. University of Pennsylvania, 2021.
2021	Cressida Heyes, University of Alberta Anaesthetics of Experience. Duke University Press, 2020.
2021	Honorable Mention Mahmood Mandani Neither Settler Nor Native. Harvard University Press, 2020.
2020	Murad Idris, University of Virginia War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought. Oxford 2019.
2020	Honorable Mention Lida Maxwell, Boston University Insurgent Truths: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling. Oxford 2019.
2019	Jill Frank, Cornell University Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato’s Republic. University of Chicago Press, 2018.
2018	Clare Chambers, University of Cambridge Against Marriage: An Egalitarian Defense of the Marriage-Free State. Oxford University Press. 2017.
2018	Barbara Arneil, University of British Columbia Domestic Colonies: The Turn Inward to Colony. Oxford University Press. 2017.
2017	Margaret Kohn, The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016
2016	Patrick Wolfe, past university affiliations include: University of Melbourne, Victoria University and La Trobe University Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race. Verso 2015
2015	Michael Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Mānoa War Crimes, Atrocity, and Justice. Polity Press, 2015.
2015	Joan Cocks, Mount Holyoke College On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions. Bloomsbury, 2014
2014	Joseph Carens, University of Toronto The Ethics of Immigration. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013
2014	Honorable Mention Philip Petit, Princeton University On the People’s Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2012
2013	Tracy B Strong, UCSD Distinguished Professor emeritus / Professor. University of Southampton (UK) Politics without Vision: ‘Thinking without a Banister’ in the Twentieth Century (Chicago)
2012	Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University Emergency Politics: Paradox, Law, Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2011)
2012	Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley Walled States, Waning Sovereignty (Zone Books, 2010)
2011	Joseph Schwartz, Temple University The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America
2010	George Shulman, New York University American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture
2009	Carol Gould, George Mason University Globalizing Democracy (Cambridge University Press)
2007	Quentin Skinner Visions of Politics (Three Volumes), Cambridge University Press, 2002
2006	Henry Richardson, Georgetown University Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford University Press, 2003)
2005	Ira Katznelson, Columbia University "Desolation and Enlightenment. Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust" (Columbia University Press, 2003)
2004	Scott Althaus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (Cambridge University Press, 2003)
2003	Sheldon Wolin Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of Political and Theoretical Life. (Princeton University Press 2001)
2002	Nancy Rosenblum, Harvard University Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America
2001	Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
2000	Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University Facing the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1999)
1999	David Laitin, Stanford University Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998)
1998	Robert Putnam, Harvard University Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993)
1997	Jürgen Habermas Between Facts and Norms (MIT Press 1996)

First Book Award
The First Book Award is given for a first book by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career in the area of political theory or political philosophy.

2022	Erin Pineda, Smith College Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford, 2021.
2022	Zeynep Pamuk, University of San Diego Politics and Expertise: How to Use Science in a Democratic Society. Princeton, 2021.
2021	Kyong-Min Son, University of Delaware The Eclipse of the Demos: The Cold War and the Crisis of Democracy before Neoliberalism. University Press of Kansas, 2020.
2021	Honorable Mention Sara Rushing, Montana State University The Virtues of Vulnerability. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2020	Adom Getachew, University of Chicago Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Chicago 2019.
2020	Honorable Mention Jairus Grove, University of Hawaii Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World. Duke 2019.
2019	Yves Winter, McGill University Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence. Cambridge University Press, 2018.
2018	Sina Jo Kramer, Loyola Marymount University Excluded Within: The (Un)Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors. Oxford University Press. 2017.
2018	Siavash Saffari, Seoul National University Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism, and Islam in Iranian Political Thought. Cambridge University Press. 2017.
2018	Honorable Mention Angelica Bernal, Universityof Massachusetts, Amherst Beyond Origins: Rethinking Founding in a Time of Constitutional Democracy. Oxford University Press, 2017.
2017	Joseph J. Fischel Sex and Harm in the Age of Consent
2016	Neil Roberts, Williams College Freedom as Marronage. University of Chicago Press
2016	Shalini Satkunanandan, University of California, Davis Extraordinary Responsibility: Politics Beyond the Moral Calculus. Cambridge University Press
2015	Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons. Columbia University Press, 2014.
2014	Christopher Lebron, Yale University The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time (Oxford University Press)
2013	Jeffrey Church Infinite Autonomy: The Divided Individual in the Political Thought of G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche
2012	Stephen Marshall, University of Texas, Austin The City on the Hill from Below: The Crisis of Prophetic Black Politics (Temple University Press, 2011)
2010	Jeffrey Green, University of Pennsylvania The Eyes of the People: Democracy in a Age of Spectatorship
2010	Honorable Mention Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney The Sins of the Nation an dthe Ritual of Apologies (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
2010	Honorable Mention Mark B. Brown, California State University, Sacramento Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (MIT Press, 2009)
2009	Samantha Frost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lessons from a Materialist Thinker (Stanford University Press)
2007	Bryan Garsten, Yale Univesrity Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006)
2006	Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M University Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (Yale University Press, 2005)
2006	Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University A Turn to Empire: Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton University Press, 2005)
2005	Corey Robin, CUNY Brooklyn Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004).
2004	Alan Keenan, Bryn Mawr College Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003)
2004	Patchen Markell, University of Chicago Bound by Recognition (Princeton University Press, 2003)
2003	Laura Janara, University of British Columbia Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (SUNY Press)
2002	Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights
2002	Honorable Mention Dan Engster, University of Texas, San Antonio Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
2001	Sara Monoson, Northwestern University Plato's Democratic Entanglements
2000	Alan Patten, McGill University Hegel's Idea of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1999)
1999	C. Thompson, Ashland University John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (University of Kansas Press, 1998)
1999	Melissa Williams, University of Toronto Voice, Trust, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1998)
1998	James Bailey, Princeton University Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 1997)
1997	Simone Chambers, University of Toronto Reasonable Democracy (Cornell University Press, 1996)
1994	Bonnie Honig, Harvard University Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell University Press, 1993)
1993	Richard Sinopoli, University of California, Davis The Foundations of American Citizenship and Civic Virtue (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992)
1992	Alan Houston, University of California, San Diego Algernon Sydney and the Republican Heritage in England and America (Princeton University Press, 1991)
1991	Stephen Leonard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Political Theory in Political Practice (Princeton University Press, 1990)
1990	William Corlett, Bates College Community Without Unity: A Politics of Deridian Extravagance (Duke University Press)

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory

The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory, co-sponsored by Women and Politics, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women’s Caucus for Political Science, commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.

2022	Kimberly Hutchings, Queen Mary University of London “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution ”American Political Science Review, May 2021.
2022	Patricia Owens, University of Oxford “Women Thinkers and the Canon of International Thought: Recovery, Rejection, and Reconstitution” American Political Science Review, May 2021.
2021	Dr. Jemima Repo, Newcastle University "Feminist Commodity Activism: The New Political Economy of Feminist Protest."
2020	Menaka Philips, Tulane University “Feminist Preoccupations: Liberalism as Method in Debates concerning Gender and Culture.” Signs vol. 44, no. 4 (2019).
2019	Heath Fogg Davis, Temple University “Why the 'transgender' bathroom controversy should make us rethink sex-segregated public bathrooms." Politics, Groups, and Identities 6(2): 199-216.
2019	Honorable Mention Ashleigh Campi, Loyola Marymount University “The Unstable Alliance for School Choice: Social Movements and American Neoliberalism.” Polity 50(3): 398-427.
2018	Nina Hagel, Bates College Alternative Authenticities: Thinking Transgender Without Essence. Theory & Event. 20(3): 599–628. 2017.
2017	Lorna Bracewell, University of Nebraska at Kearney "Beyond Barnard: Liberalism, Antipornography Feminism, and the Sex Wars." Signs
2016	Jakeet Singh, Illinois State University "Religious Agency and the Limits of Intersectionality.” Hypatia, Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 657–674, Fall 2015
2015	Shatema Threadcraft, Dartmouth College "Intimate Injustice, Political Obligation, and the Dark Ghetto." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 39(3) Spring 2014: 735-760
2014	Eileen Botting, University of Notre Dame "Making an American Feminist Icon: Mary Wollstonecraft's Reception in U.S. Newspapers, 1800-1869" (History of Political Thought, 2013)
2013	Lori Marso, Union College "Simone de Beauvoir and Hannah Arendt: Judgments in Dark Times" Political Theory 40(2): 165-193
2012	Bonnie Honig, Northwestern University Ismene's Forced Choice: Sacrifice and Sorority in Sophocles' Antigone (Arethusa. 44(1))
2011	Jennifer Einspahr, Kalamazoo College "Structural Domination and Structural Freedom: A Feminist Perspective,"
2010	Ann Towns, University of Delaware "The Status of Women as a Standard of "Civilization"
2009	Kathy Ferguson, University of Hawaii "Discourses of Danger: Locating Emma Goldman" Political Theory 36 (5) 735-761"
2009	C. Heike Schotten, University of Massachusetts, Boston "Nietzche/Pentheus: The Last Disciple of Dionysus and Queer Fear o the Feminine." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 19 (3) 90-125
2007	Stephen Leonard, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill "The Genders of Citizenship" (American Political Science Review)
2007	Joan Tronto, CUNY, Hunter College "The Genders of Citizenship" (American Political Science Review)
2007	Tamara Metz, Reed College "The Liberal Case for Disestablishing Marriage" (Contemporary Political Theory)