Awards

2020 Awardees
Religion and Politics Section Awards

a. Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award

The winner:
Laura Dudley Jenkins. Religious Freedom and Mass Conversion in India. UPenn Press, 2019.

The honorable mention:
Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti. What is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

b. Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award

The winner:
Guadalupe Tuñon. When the Church Votes Left: The Electoral Consequences of Progressive Religion. University of California, Berkeley.

The honorable mention:
Alexandre Paquin-Pelletier. Radical Leaders: Status, Competition, and Violent Islamic Mobilization in Indonesia. University of Toronto.

c. Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award

The winner:
Elizabeth Dekeyser (MIT). “Islam, Exclusivity, and the State: Evidence from France.” Paper presented in APSA Annual Meeting, 2019.

The honorable mention:
Yusuf Magiya (Columbia University) and M. Tahir Kilavuz (Marmara University). “Islamism, Policy Positions and Vote Choice: What Experimental Evidence Tells About Islamist Advantage in Turkey.” Paper presented in Midwest Annual Meeting, 2019.

d. Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award

The winner:
Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin), David Buckley (University of Louisville), Clarissa David (Ateneo School of Government), and Ronald Mendoza (Ateneo School of Government). “Populist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.” Paper presented at APSA Annual Meeting, 2019.

e. Ted Jelen Best Journal Article in Politics and Religion Award

The winner:
Paul Djupe (Denison University) and Jacob Neiheisel (University of Buffalo). “Political Mobilization in American Congregations: A Religious Economies Perspective.” Politics and Religion 12, no. 1 (2019): 123-152.

2020
Religion and Politics
Section Awards Committees

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award

The Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award recognizes a scholar who has made outstanding contributions to the field of religion and politics. These contributions should be through a combination of excellent and widely influential scholarship, policy input/impact, public engagement, service, teaching, and mentorship. Although the committee highly encourages nominations of APSA members and takes service to APSA seriously, nominees do not have to be current APSA members. The nominees are expected to attend the following year’s APSA Annual Meeting and participate in the roundtable organized in to celebrate their work.

The award is presented annually, following a review of applications by the committee. The winner will be honored with a plaque, a monetary award of $500, and a roundtable symposium honoring their work at the APSA Annual Meeting of the next calendar year. (The 2020 Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Awardee will be honored at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting both during the business meeting and the roundtable).

The award is intended as an addition to, not replacement for, the practice of awarding special lifetime achievement awards’ for scholars who have made substantial contributions to the Section on the event of their retirement. Instead, this is meant to reward political scientists (including those who are mid-career) who have made a substantial contribution to the field of religion and politics.

Nomination letters and the CVs of the nominees are due to the Committee Chair, Ben Gaskins, (bgaskins@lclark.edu) by April 15, 2020. The nomination letter should clearly describe how the nominee fulfills the criteria described above. Since this award is meant to reflect peer recognition, self-nominations will not be considered.

Award Committee:

Ben Gaskins (bgaskins@lclark.edu)
Lewis and Clark College

Tanya Schwarz (tschwarz@apsanet.org)
APSA

Andrea Hatcher (ahatcher@sewanee.edu)
The University of the South

Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics

The APSA Religion and Politics Section invites nominations for the Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award. The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation in the field of religion and politics. Eligible dissertations have been defended in the last two years (2018 or 2019), and should make a distinctive contribution to the study of religion and politics, broadly understood. Please submit nominations to the committee by email – self-nominations are welcome!

Nomination Instructions: Please send a letter of nomination (maximum 2 pages) and a copy of the dissertation to the committee by email.

Deadline for Nominations: April 15, 2020

Award Committee:

Christopher Hale (Chair) – University of Alabama – cwhale@ua.edu
David Buckley – University of Louisville – dtbuck02@louisville.edu
Jason Klocek – University of Notre Dame – jklocek@nd.edu

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award in Religion and Politics

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award will be given to a conference paper studying any aspect of religion and politics presented by a Ph.D. student in political science in 2019. The conference can be affiliated with any of the US-based political science associations or a conference affiliated with another association, such as the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, the American Academy of Religion, the Middle East Studies Association, or the International Studies Association, as long as the paper was written by a student or students enrolled in a graduate program in political science. Papers co-authored with faculty will not be considered. Papers presented at poster sessions are welcome. The award will be announced and presented at the annual APSA conference during the business meeting. The award committee is under no obligation to make an award if no submissions merit such recognition.

Nomination Instructions: Please send nominations (self-nominations are welcome) including an electronic copy of the paper and an electronic copy of the conference program listing to the committee members. Questions can be directed to the award committee chair.

Deadline for Nominations: April 30, 2020

Güneş Murat Tezcür (Chair)
University of Central Florida
tezcur@ucf.edu

Consuelo Amat
Stanford University
amat@stanford.edu

Kikue Hamayotsu
Northern Illinois University
khamayotsu@niu.edu

Hubert Morken Best Book Award