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." |
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2014 |
Brandon Terry, Yale University
"Rawls, Race, and Critique: Engaging with Charles Mills' The Racial Contract" |
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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." |
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2012 |
Jane Gordon, Temple University
Theorizing Contemporary Practices of Slavery |
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2011 |
Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University
"How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?: A Comparative Study of Two Cairo Neighborhoods" |
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2011 |
Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside
"Gandhi's Body: Asceticism, Pain and Suffering in Environmental Political Discourse" |
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2010 |
Philip Michelbach, West Virginia University
"Renewing Democratic Authority: Hamlet's Politics with (and against) Carl Schmitt" |
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2010 |
Andrew Poe, University of California, San Diego
"Renewing Democratic Authority: Hamlet's Politics with (and against) Carl Schmitt" |
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2006 |
Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
"The Insufficiency of Non-Domniation" |
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2005 |
Samuel Chambers, University of Wales Swansea
"The Alterirty of the Present: Reading Sexuality in Six Feet Under" |
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2003 |
Leigh Jenco, University of Chicago
"Representing a Noble Heart: Thoreau's Critique of Democracy" |
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2002 |
Lawrie Balfour, University of Virginia
"The Argument of John Brown" |
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2002 |
Roy Tsao, Georgetown University
"Arendt Against Athens: Rereading the Human Condition" |
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2001 |
Jennifer Pitts, Yale University
"Legislator of the World? A Rereading of Bentham on India." |
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1999 |
Albert Dzur, Univerity of Utah
"Comprehensive Liberal Politics and the Fact of Pluralism" |
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1998 |
Kennan Ferguson, University of Hawaii
"Communities of Meaning: Toward a Kantian Non-Universal Judgment" |
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1997 |
Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan
"Republican Romance" |