ASPA 2024 R&P Awards

Congratulations to our 2024 R&P award winners!

Hubert Morken Best Book Award
Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford University) for Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award
Amaney A. Jamal (Princeton University)

Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award

Berfin Baydar (Duke University) and Asli Cansunar (University of Washington) for “Homogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination”

Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar (Yale University), Sofia Elverdin (Yale University), Sebastian Lucek (Stanford University), and Amar Sarkar (Harvard University) for “Religious Communication, ‘Benevolent Sexism,’ and Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Columbia”

Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation Award

Anirvan Chowdhury (Harvard University) for Religiously Conservative Parties and Women’s Political Mobilization: Gender Norms, Party Activism, and Democratization in India

Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar (Yale University) for Religion and the Politics of Gender

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Radha Sarkar (Yale University), Sofia Elverdin (Yale University), Sebastian Lucek (Stanford University), and Amar Sarkar (Harvard University) for “Religious Communication, ‘Benevolent Sexism,’ and Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Columbia”

Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award

Dan Koev (Regent University) for “The Influence of State Favoritism on Established Religions and Their Competitors”