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Sexuality and Politics Section Award Recipients

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Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award
Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award
Graduate Student Award

Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award

The Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

2023	Jordan Carr Peterson, Jacksonville University “Implementing Equality: The Sources of State (Non)Compliance with Judicial Revisions to Public Policy on Gay Rights”
2022	Zein Murib, Fordham University "The Not-So Silent B: Bisexuality, from a Cultural Movement to Political Identity and Praxis"
2021	Shih-chan Dai, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Describing Sexual Minority and Gay Rights: A Longitudinal Analysis of Pro-and Anti-Gay Rights Groups’ Online Messages in Taiwan.”
2020	Anne Louise Schotel. University of Amsterdam "Bye Bye Binary: The political making of a third sex in Germany and the Netherlands"
2020	Liza Mügge, University of Amsterdam "Bye Bye Binary: The political making of a third sex in Germany and the Netherlands"
2019	H. Howell Williams, Western Connecticut State University “From Family Values to Religious Freedom: Tracing Conservative Opposition to Gay Rights.”
2018	R.G. Cravens, Bowling Green State University “Out for Social Justice: Predicting Queer & Liberationist Public Attitudes.” APSA 2017.
2017	Douglas Page, Gettysburg College "When do Voters Support the European Union's Involvement in Gay Rights?"
2016	Joseph J. Fischel, Yale University “Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy.” Columbia Journal of Gender Equality (vol. 30, no. 2, 2015)
2016	Hilary R. O'Connell, AccessMatters.Org “Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy.” Columbia Journal of Gender Equality (vol. 30, no. 2, 2015)
2015	Drew Walker, Brown University “The Queer Politics of Possibility”
2014	R. Steven Daniels, California State University, Bakersfield "The Tipping Point: Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage in the United States, 1998-2012."
2012	Abouzar Nasirzadeh, University of Toronto Desire Re-Cast: The Production of Gay Identity in Iran
2012	Kate Korycki, University of Toronto Desire Re-Cast: The Production of Gay Identity in Iran
2011	Beth Jamieson, Princeton University Fixing Gender: Gender Classifications, Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Prisoners, and the Politics of Law

Sexuality & Politics Lasting Contribution Award

2023

Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York

Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

The Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years. The award is open to all scholarship that falls under the broad rubric of sexuality and politics, including studies concerning the regulation of sexuality, political responses to the regulation of sexuality, the uses of sexuality as a political construct, the intersections of sexuality with gender, race, and class, or LGBT politics and mobilizations.

2023	Razan Ghazzawi, Suffolk University "The Pedagogies of Everyday Queer Protests: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and Violence in Syria and Lebanon.”
2023	Honorable Mention Samuel Ritholz, University of Oxford “Civil War and the Politics of Difference.”
2022	Minwoo Jung, Loyola University of Chicago "Rights Projects in a Globalized World"
2021	Andrew Proctor, University of Minnesota “Coming out to Vote: LGBT Mobilization in the Two-Party System, 1986-2016.” Ph.D. Princeton University
2020	Camilla S. Reuterswärd, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Party Competition, the Catholic Church, and Moral Gender Policy in Mexico”
2019	Joanna Wuest, University of Pennsylvania “Born this Way: Scientific Authority and Citizenship in the American LGBTQ Movement.”
2018	Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College “Queer Alliances: Paradoxes and Power in the Formation of Rights-Based Movement Coalitions.” University of Washington, 2018.
2017	Zein Murib, Fordham University "Brokering Identity: Exploring the Construction of LGBT Political Identity and Interests in U.S. Politics."
2016	Satoko Itani, University of Toronto “Japanese Female and 'Trans' Athletes: Negotiating Subjectivity and Media Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Nation.” University of Toronto, 2015
2016	Carly Thomsen, University of California, Santa Barbara “Unbecoming: Visibility Politics and Queer Rurality.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014
2015	Bogdan Popa, Oberlin College “Parting Company with the Opinion of the World”: Shame and Political Agency in Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Feminism”
2014	Phillip Ayoub, Cornell University "When States 'Come Out': The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe"
2011	Jeremiah Garretson, Vanderbilt University Changing Media, Changing Minds: The Lesbian and Gay Movement, Television and Public Opinion
2011	Sami Zeidan, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Navigating International Rights and Local Politics: Sexuality Governance in a Post-Colonial Setting

Graduate Student Award

The Graduate Student Award is awareded to annually to a graduate student who has advanced the work and purpose of the section.

2021

Isabel Felix Gonzales, University of California, Riverside

Sexuality and Politics Best Book Award

2023	Jason A. Pierceson, University of Illinois Springfield Before Bostock: The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins. University Press of Kansas (2022).
2023	Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity. New York University Press (2022).