Hubert Morken Award
The Hubert Morken Award is given for the best book dealing with religion and politics published within the previous year. The criteria for the award include the originality of the argument presented, quality of the research, innovative methods, readability of the text and the policy or practical implications of the scholarship. To be eligible for the award, books must have been published in 2023. Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024. [For more information, go to 2024 Hubert Morken Best Book Award—Call for Nominations]
Award Committee:
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar 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. Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024.
Award Committee:
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 (2023). The paper should address a timely and relevant topic, within the discipline and beyond, in a theoretically innovative and methodologically thorough manner. All papers presented at the 2023 Annual Meeting are eligible, regardless of modality of presentation (ie. in person, virtual/synchronous, and pre-recorded paper presentations are all eligible). Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024
Award Committee:
Aaron Wildavsky Best 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 (2022 or 2023), and should make a distinctive contribution to the study of religion and politics, broadly understood. Nomination Deadline: April 1, 2024
Award Committee:
Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award
The Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award is 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 2022 or 2023. Papers written with faculty will not be considered. Papers presented at poster sessions are welcome. Nomination Deadline: April 1, 2024
Award Committee:
Lifetime Achievement Award
The Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion & Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) recognizes outstanding scholars of religion and politics at the point of retirement (or shortly thereafter) who have made enduring contributions to the field through their scholarship, service, and mentorship. The award is intended to honor recipients who were regular and active Religion & Politics Section members during the periods of their primary contributions to the field. Anticipating that such scholars are exceptional, the call for nominations will remain open, the nominations will be confidential, and the award is not expected to be given every year. The Award committee will be composed of the Executive Committee of the Religion & Politics Section, chaired by the section chair, to whom nominations shall be addressed. Nomination Deadline: May 15, 2024
Award Committee:
- David Buckley (chair, University of Louisville, david.buckley@louisville.edu)
- Vineeta Yadav (Penn State University, vuy2@psu.edu)
- Nandini Deo (Lehigh University, ndd208@lehigh.edu)
- Paul Djupe (Denison University, djupe@denison.edu)
- Luis Felipe Mantilla (University of South Florida, lfm1@usf.edu)
- Eric McDaniel (University of Texas-Austin, emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu)
- Cammie Jo Bolin (SUNY-Albany, cbolin@albany.edu)
- Sabri Ciftci (Kansas State University, ciftci@ksu.edu)