Organized Section 17: Best Paper Award

Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Recipients

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.

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”