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2023 APSA Religion & Politics Award Winners!

Congratulations to our 2023 APSA Religion & Politics Award Winners!

Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award

Winner: Shakhanova, Gaziza, and Petr Kratochvíl. “The Patriotic Turn in Russia: Political Convergence of the Russian Orthodox Church and the State?.” Politics and Religion 15, no. 1 (2022): 114-141.

Honorable Mention: Bleich, Erik, Jeffrey Carpenter, and A. Maurits van der Veen. “Assessing the Effect of Media Tone on Attitudes Toward Muslims: Evidence From an Online Experiment.” Politics and Religion 15, no. 3 (2022): 441-461.

Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation in Religion and Politics Award

Winner: Amy Lakeman, When Theology Responds: How Politics Shapes Religious Belief

Hubert Morken Best Book in Religion and Politics Award

Winner:  H. Zeynep Bulutgil, The Origins of Secular Institutions: Ideas, Timing, and Organization

Honorable Mention: Diego Fossati, Unity through Division: Political Islam, Representation and Democracy in Indonesia

Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award

Winner: Feyaad Allie (“The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India”)

Weber Best Conference Paper in Religion and Politics Award

Winner: Feyaad Allie (“The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India”)

Honorable Mention: Rajeshwari Majumdar, Richard Bonneau, Jonathan Nagler, and Joshua A. Tucker (“Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp”)

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar in Religion and Politics Award

Winners: Ron Hassner (University of California, Berkeley)

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

The 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 (2022). 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 all committee members by email by March 17, 2023.

Award Committee:
Kikue Hamayotsu (Committee Chair), Northern Illinois University (khamayotsu@niu.edu)
Cammie Bolin, University at Albany, SUNY (cbolin@albany.edu)
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Stanford University (aem2251@columbia.edu)

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

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 (2021). 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 2021 Annual Meeting are eligible, regardless of modality of presentation (ie. in person, virtual/synchronous, and pre-recorded paper presentations are all eligible).

Please submit nominations to all committee members by email by April 15, 2022.

Award Committee:
David Buckley (Committee Chair), University of Louisville, david.buckley@louisville.edu
Tugba Bozcaga, King’s College London (tugba.bozcaga@kcl.ac.uk)
Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University (nazita@msu.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
 
 

Call – APSA Religion and Politics Weber 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 (2019). 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  15th, 2020.

Andre Audette (Chair)
Monmouth College
aaudette@monmouthcollege.edu

Cynthia Burack
Ohio State University
burack.1@osu.edu

Jonathan Chu
University of Pennsylvania
jonachu@upenn.edu