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2014-15 Prize Committees – send nominations

Dear Colleagues:

Thank you to the many of you who graciously stepped forward and volunteered to serve on the prize committees this year. Committees have now been finalized and are accepting nominations for the Best Paper, Best Book, and Best Dissertation awards.

Please send nominations directly to the 2014-15 prize committee chairs:

Morken Best Book Award (2012-14): Prof. Amaney Jamal of Princeton (ajamal@princeton.edu);
Weber Best Paper award: Prof. Laura Olson of Clemson (laurao@clemson.edu)
Wildavsky Best Dissertation award: Prof. Melani Cammett of Brown (Melani_Cammett@brown.edu).

Thanks to all,

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Religion & Politics Section Chair

Letter from the Chair (October 6, 2014)

Dear Section Members:

Two important announcements from your Section Chair.

First: the Religion and Politics section is now on Twitter! Please spread the word and follow us @apsa_relpol

You can follow the twitter feed on our section website: http://www.apsa-section-religion-and-politics.org/home.html

Second: I would like to invite all section members to become a member of our award committees for 2015 awards – the Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award, the Best Paper Award, and the Best Publication Award (descriptions below). These awards not only recognise the cutting-edge work being done in the field but actively shape the field and the careers of both emerging and established scholars.

Please email me at eshurd@northwestern.edu to express your interest. Committees will be convened in December and awards will be determined in June and presented at the 2015 meeting. If you can't commit to serving this year, please make a note to nominate your best dissertators, paper presenters, and publications later this year.

The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.

The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.

The Hubert Morken Best Book Award is given for the best book dealing with religion and politics published during the last two years (2012-2014). The next Hubert Morken Best Book Award will be presented at the 2015 APSA meeting.

Thank you,

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Chair, APSA Religion and Politics Section
Department of Political Science
Northwestern University
eshurd@northwestern.edu

Section Chair (2014 – 2016): Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

Hurd

Professor of Political Science
Department of Religious Studies (by courtesy)
Northwestern University

eshurd@northwestern.edu

Northwestern home page

 

 

Research Interests

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd teaches and writes on the politics of religion, US foreign relations, and the global politics of the Middle East at Northwestern, where she is Professor of Political Science and Religious Studies. Hurd is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations (2008), Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (2015), and co-editor of Politics of Religious Freedom and Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age. She is co-PI, with Winnifred Sullivan, on a Luce-supported collaborative research project “Politics of Religion at Home and Abroad” (2016-2019) and co-organized the “Politics of Religious Freedom” project (2011-2014). At Northwestern she directs the Buffett Faculty Research Group on Global Politics & Religion.

Books
 
image from ecx.images-amazon.comBeyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015.
 
image from faculty.wcas.northwestern.eduPolitics of Religious Freedom (co-edited with Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Saba Mahmood and Peter Danchin). Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015.

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image from faculty.wcas.northwestern.eduThe Politics of Secularism in International Relations (Princeton Studies in International History and Politics).  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Co-winner of the American Political Science Association’s Hubert Morken Award for the Best Publication in Religion and Politics (2008-2010).

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image from faculty.wcas.northwestern.eduComparative Secularisms in a Global Age, co-edited with Linell E. Cady. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 (Paperback edition, 2013).

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Past Chairs

Invitation from the section chair – award committees 2014!

Dear Religion and Politics Section members,

I'd like to invite you to become a member of our award committees for 2014 awards – the Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award and the Best Paper Award (descriptions below). These awards not only recognise the lively and important work being done in the field, but actively shape the field itself, and the careers of emerging and established scholars. Please email me to express your interest; the committees will be convened in December and awards will be determined in June and presented at the 2014 meeting. If you can't commit to serving this year, please make a note to nominate your best dissertators and paper presenters later this year.

The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting.


The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.

Thank you - 

Iza Hussin
Chair, APSA Religion and Politics Section
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago
hussin@uchicago.edu