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Human Rights Section Award Recipients

More on the Human Rights section

Best Book Award
Best Dissertation Award
Best Paper Award
Distinguished Scholar Award

Best Book Award

The competition is open to all books on human rights that were written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years.

2021	Adam Chilton, University of Chicago How Constitutional Rights Matter. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2021	Mila Versteeg, University of Virginia How Constitutional Rights Matter. Oxford University Press, 2020.
2020	Rauna Kuokkanen, University of Lapland Restructuring Relations: Indigenous Self-Determination, Governance, and Gender. Oxford University Press, 2019.
2019	Andrea Vilán, Princeton University The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Treaties. Princeton University Press, 2018.
2018	Manfred Nowak, University of Vienna Human Rights or Global Capitalism. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.
2017	Onur Bakiner, Seattle University Truth Commissions: Memory, Power, and Legitimacy. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
2015	Lisa Baldez Defying Convention: US Resistance to the UN Treaty on Women's Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
2014	Jeffrey Hilgert Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013)
2014	Jo Becker Campaigning for Justice: Human Rights and Advocacy in Practice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013)
2013	Jacqui True, University of Auckland The Political Economy of Violence Against Women (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012)
2012	Richard Price Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
2011	Karen Engle, University of Texas Austin The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture and Strategy
2010	Richard P. Hiskes The Human Rights to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
2010	Shadi Mokhtari After Abu Ghraib: Exploring Human Rights in the Americas and the Middle East (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009)
2009	Barbara Bennett Woodhouse Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate (Princeton University Press, 2008)
2007	Stephen Hopgood, University of London Keepers of the Flame: Understanding Amnesty International
2006	Eric Stover, University of California, Berkeley The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in the Hague (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005)
2004	Rhoda Howard-Hassmann FRSC, Wilfrid Laurier University Compassionate Canadians: Civic Leaders Discuss Human Rights (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
2003	Richard Claude, University of Maryland Science in the Service of Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002)

Best Dissertation Award

Political Science dissertations that focus on human rights and completed and accepted in the previous two calendar years are eligible for the award competition.

2023	Sumin Lee, Rutgers University “Gender Justice for Whom? Domestic Accountability for Wartime Sexual Violence.” Dissertation submitted to the School of Graduate Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
2022	Kelebogile Zvobgo, College of William and Mary “Governing Truth: NGOs and the Politics of Transitional Justice," Dissertation at USC.
2021	Anthony DeMattee, Indiana University “Domesticating Civil Society: How and Why Governments Use Laws to Regulate CSOs.” Indiana University, 2020.
2020	Francesca Keiko Teraoka Parente, University of California, Los Angeles “Past Regret, Future Fear: Compliance with International Law.”
2019	Andrea Vilán, University of California, Los Angeles "The Domestic Incorporation of Human Rights Treaties"
2018	Suparna Chaudhry, Yale University “The Assault on Democracy Assistance: Explaining State Repression of NGOs.”
2015	Peter Haschke, University of North Carolina "Democracy and the Human Right to the Physical Integrity of the Person"
2012	Kali Wright-Smith, Purdue University The Decision to Comply: Patterns of compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
2010	Andreas von Staden, Princeton University Shaping Human Rights Policy in Liberal Democracies: Assessing and Explaining Compliance with the Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights
2009	Hun Joon Kim, University of Minnesota "Expansion of Transitional Justice Measures: A Comparative Analysis of Its Causes"
2007	Daniel Whelan, University of Denver Interdependent, Indivisible and Interrelated Human Rights: A Political and Historical Investigation
2006	Matthew Price, Harvard University "Political Conception of Asylum"
2005	Leslie Wirpsa, University of Southern California and Stanford University "Oil and Indigenous Rights in Colombia/Andes"
2004	Emilie Hafner-Burton, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Globalizing Human Rights? How International Trade Agreements Shape Government Repression"
2003	Claudio Fuentes, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill "Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile"

Best Paper Award

The APSA Best Paper Award recognizes the "best paper" presented on a Human Rights Section Panel at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting

2021	Xinyuan Dai, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “New Democracies, Sovereignty Costs, and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties.” Paper presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Alexandros Tokhi, WBZ Berlin Social Science Center “New Democracies, Sovereignty Costs, and Commitment to Human Rights Treaties.” Paper presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting
2020	Kate Cronin-Furman, University College London “Human Rights Half-Measures: Avoiding Accountability in Post-War Sri Lanka.”
2019	Kelebogile Zvobgo, University of Southern California "Reserving Rights: Examining Human Rights Treaty Reservations."
2019	Wayne Sandholz, University of Southern California "Reserving Rights: Examining Human Rights Treaty Reservations."
2009	Manoj Mate, University of California, Berkeley "State Security and Elite Capture: The Implementation of Ant-Terrorist Legislation in India"
2009	Adnan Naseemullah, University of California, Berkeley "State Security and Elite Capture: The Implementation of Anti-Terrorist Legislation in India

Distinguished Scholar Award

This Award recognizes an individual who has worked in the field of Human Rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching and mentorship.

2022	Richard P. Hiskes, Grand Valley State University
2014	Claude Welch, University of Buffalo
2011	Mark Gibney, University of North Carolina-Asheville
2010	Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Purchase College, SUNY
2009	Rhoda Howard-Hassmann FRSC, Wilfrid Laurier University
2009	Jack Donnelly, University of Denver