2018 Award Recipients

Recipient: David Szakonyi, Columbia University
Title: “Renting Elected Office: Why Businesspeople Become Politicians in Russia”

Award Committee:
Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Chair)
Ernesto Calvo, University of Maryland, College Park
Jane Gingrich, Magdalen College, Oxford

Recipient: Mariano Sanchez Talanquer, Cornell University
Title: “States Divided: History, Conflict, and State Formation in Mexico and Colombia”

Award Committee:
Jenna Bednar, University of Michigan (Chair)
Jörg Broschek, Wilfrid Laurier University
Kent Eaton, University of California, Santa Cruz

Recipient: Abigail Matthews, University of Iowa
Title: “Connected Courts: The Diffusion of Precedent Across State Supreme Courts”

Award Committee:
Jeb Barnes, University of Southern California (Chair)
Rebecca Gill, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Eve Ringsmuth, Oklahoma State University

Recipient: Jonathan Mummolo, Princeton University
Title: “Modern Police Tactics, Police-Citizen Interactions, and the Prospects for Reform

Award Committee:
Jacob Hacker, Yale University (Chair)
William Gormley, Georgetown University
Jennifer Kavanagh, RAND Corporation

Recipient: Christoph Mikulaschek, Princeton University
Title: “The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council”

Award Committee:
Ido Oren, University of Florida (Chair)
K. Orfeo Fioretos, Temple University
Stacie Goddard, Wellesley College

Recipient: Benjamin Toff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Title: “The Blind Scorekeepers: Journalism, Polling, and the Battle to Define Public Opinion in American Politics”

Award Committee:
Mark Peterson, University of California, Los Angeles (Chair)
Susan Haire, University of Georgia
Vesla Weaver, Johns Hopkins University

Recipient: Anna L. Weissman, University of Florida
Title: “LGBT Tolerance and the Focus on Non-Normative Parenting: Same-Sex Marriage vs. Same-Sex Parenting”

Award Committee:
Patrick Egan, New York University (Chair)
Jyl Josephson, Rutgers University, Newark
Andrew S. Reynolds, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Recipient: Tae-Yeoun Keum, Harvard University
Title: “Plato and the Mythic Tradition of Political Thought”

Award Committee:
Mary Dietz, Northwestern University (Chair)
Andrew Valls, Oregon State University
David Lay Williams, DePaul University

Recipient: Jennifer Mei Jun Yim, University of Utah
Title: “Delinquency’s Treatment: Why Interactions Produce Policy and Identity in Secure Juvenile Facilities”

Award Committee:
Steven Maynard-Moody, University of Kansas (Chair)
Lotte Andersen, University of Aarhus
Christine Roch, Georgia State University

Paper & Article Awards

Recipient: Ana Catalano Weeks, University of Bath
Title: “Why Are Gender Quota Laws Adopted by Men? The Role of Inter- and Intra-Party Competition”

Award Committee:
Julia Lynch, University of Pennsylvania (Chair)
Frank Schimmelfennig, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Patricia Strach, SUNY, University of Albany

Recipients: Matthew T. Pietryka and Donald A. DeBats
Title: “It’s Not Just What You Have, but Whom You Know: Networks, Social Proximity to Elites, and Voting in State and Local Elections”

Award Committee:
Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford (Chair)
Tariq Thachil, Vanderbilt University
Jessica Weeks, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Recipients: Katherine J. Cramer and Benjamin Toff
Title: “The Fact of Experience: Rethinking Political Knowledge and Civic Competence”

Award Committee:
Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford (Chair)
Janet Johnson, CUNY, Brooklyn College
Jan Toerell, Lund University

Book Awards

Co-Recipient: Juliet Hooker, Brown University
Title: Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos (Oxford University Press)

Co-Recipient: Chris Zepeda-Millan, University of California, Berkeley
Title: Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism (Cambridge University Press)

Award Committee:
Antje Ellermann, Institute for European Studies (Chair)
Erin Chung, Johns Hopkins University
Sophia Jordan Wallace, University of Washington, Seattle

Recipients: Sarah Binder, George Washington University and Mark Spindel, Potomac River Capital LLC
Title: The Myth of Independence: How Congress Governs the Federal Reserve (Princeton University Press)

Award Committee:
Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon (Chair)
Corrine McConnaughy, George Washington University
David Robertson, University of Missouri, St. Louis

Recipient: Kara Ellerby, University of Delaware
Title: No Shortcut to Change: An Unlikely Path to a More Gender Equitable World (NYU Press)

Award Committee:
Mona Lena Krook, Rutgers University (Chair)
Amrita Basu, Amherst College
Farida Jalalzai, Oklahoma State University

Recipient: Margaret Peters, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: Trading Barriers: Immigration and the Remaking of Globalization (Princeton University Press)

Award Committee:
Carlo Guarnieri, Università di Bologna (Chair)
Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University
David Vogel, University of California, Berkeley

Co-Recipient: Paul D. Kenny, Australian National University
Title: Populism and Patronage: Why Populists Win Elections in India, Asia, and Beyond (Oxford University Press)

Co-Recipient: K. Sabeel Rahman, Brooklyn Law School
Title: Democracy Against Domination (Oxford University Press)

Award Committee:
John Seery, Pomona College (Chair)
Lucan Way, University of Toronto
Margaret Weir, Brown University

Recipient: Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University
Title: Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge University Press)

Award Committee:
Allison Stanger, New America (Chair)
Ester Fuchs, Columbia University
Timothy Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College

Career Awards

Recipient: John Ishiyama, University of North Texas

Award Committee:
Linda Fowler, Dartmouth College (Chair)
Karen Hult, Virginia Tech
C. Morrison, University of Delaware

Recipient: Condoleezza Rice, Hoover Institution at Stanford University

Award Committee:
William Galston, The Brookings Institution (Chair)
Peter Feaver, Duke University
Barbara Romzek, American University

Recipient: Norma Riccucci, Rutgers University

Award Committee:
Kelly Leroux, University of Illinois, Chicago (Chair)
Jill Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University
Andrew Whitford, University of Georgia

Recipient: Craig Silverman, BuzzFeed News

Award Committee:
Erika Franklin Fowler, Wesleyan University (Chair)
Bruce Bimber, University of California, Santa Barbara
Stephen Saideman, Carleton University

Recipient: Sarah Binder, George Washington University

Award Committee:
Jim Thurber, American University (Chair)
Janna Deitz, Western Illinois University
Ron Elving, National Public Radio and American University
Greg Koger, Miami University
Cathy Rudder, George Mason University

Recipient: Timothy Johnson, University of Minnesota

Award Committee:
Amanda Hollis-Brusky, Pomona College (Chair)
Chris Howell, Oberlin College
Tamara Metz, Reed College