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Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award – 2021

02/15/2021

Call for Nominations

The Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award will be given annually to a conference paper studying any aspect of religion and politics presented by a Ph.D. student in political science. 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 and presented in 2019 or 2020. Papers written 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-nomination is okay) including an electronic copy of the paper and an electronic copy of the conference program listing to the committee members.

Deadline for Nominations: April 15, 2021

Award Committee:

Christopher Hale (Committee Chair)
The University of Alabama
cwhale@ua.edu 

Robert Braithwaite 
Michigan State University
brathwa1@msu.edu 

Esen Kirdis
Rhodes College
kirdise@rhodes.edu
 

Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award, 2021

Call for Nominations
Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award

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 (2019 or 2020), and should make a distinctive contribution to the study of religion and politics, broadly understood. Please submit nominations to the committee members 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 members by email.

Deadline for Nominations: April 15, 2021

Award Committee:

Rina Williams (Chair)
University of Cincinnati
willi3ra@UCMAIL.UC.EDU  

Peter Henne 
University of Vermont
Peter.Henne@uvm.edu  

Kristina Teater 
US Commission on International Religious Freedom
teaterkm@ucmail.uc.edu   

Guadalupe Tuñón
Princeton University
tunon@princeton.edu

Nominate Best Paper – APSA Religion and Politics Weber Award 2021

Call for Nominations – Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award

 
Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting (2020). The paper should address a timely and relevant topic, within the discipline and beyond, in a theoretically innovative and methodologically thorough manner.

Please submit nominations to the committee members by email by April 15, 2021.

Jonathan Agensky, Ohio University, agensky@ohio.edu  (Committee Chair)
Steven Brooke, University of Wisconsin, sbrooke@wisc.edu 
Laura Vinson, Lewis & Clark College, lvinson@lclark.edu