{"id":1434,"date":"2024-02-27T10:48:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?page_id=1434"},"modified":"2025-07-04T08:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:00:30","slug":"weber-best-paper-award","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/weber-best-paper-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Weber Best Paper Award Past Recipients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\n

2025<\/span><\/p>\n

Anirvan Chowdhury (University of Louisville) for “Domesticating Politics: How Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women in India”<\/span><\/p>\n

2024<\/span><\/p>\n

Berfin Baydar (Duke University) and Asli Cansunar (University of Washington) for \u201cHomogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar (Yale University), Sofia Elverdin (Yale University), Sebastian Lucek (Stanford University), and Amar Sarkar (Harvard University) for \u201cReligious Communication, \u2018Benevolent Sexism,\u2019 and Political Attitudes: Experimental Evidence from Columbia\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Feyaad Allie (Stanford University), \u201cThe Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Honorable Mention) Rajestwari Majumdar (New York University), Richard Bonneau (New York University), Jonathan Nagler (New York University), and Joshua A. Tucker (New York University), \u201cReducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Stanford University), \u201cReligious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Distribute in Ramadan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tugba Bozcaga (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and Fotini Christia (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), \u201cImams and Businessmen: Islamist Service Provision in Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Honorable Mention): Kikue Hamayotsu (Northern Illinois University), \u201cThe Political Origins of Religious Regime Formation in Southeast Asia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steven Brooke (University of Wisconsin), David Buckley (University of Louisville), Clarissa David (Ateneo School of Government) and Ronald Mendoza (Ateneo School of Government), \u201cPopulist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Chu (University of Pennsylvania) and Carrie Lee (United States Air War College), \u201cRace, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018
Paul Djupe (Denison University), Jacob Neiheisel (University at Buffalo), and Kimberly Conger (University of Cincinnati), \u201cAre the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to States of the Non-Religious?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sultan Tepe (University of Illinois, Chicago), \u201cThe Elusive Structure of State Secularism and its Disguised Critics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ramazan Kilinc (University of Nebraska-Omaha), \u201cOpportunity Junctures as Catalysts: Islam, Secularism, and Democratic Consolidation in Turkey.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerem Ozan Kalkan (University of Maryland), Geoffrey C. Layman (University of Notre Dame), and John C. Green (University of Akron), \u201cWill Americans Vote for Muslims? The Impact of Religious and Ethnic Identifiers on Support for Political Candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth A. Oldmixon (University of North Texas) and William Hudson (Providence College), \u201cWhen Church Teachings and Republican Ideology Collide: The Perspectives of Catholic Republicans in the House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David E. Campbell (University of Notre Dame) and Joseph Quin Monson (Brigham Young University), \u201cThe Religion Card: Evangelicals, Catholics, and Gay Marriage in the 2004 Presidential Election.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2025 Anirvan Chowdhury (University of Louisville) for “Domesticating Politics: How Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women in India” 2024 Berfin Baydar (Duke University) and Asli Cansunar (University of Washington) for \u201cHomogenizing the High Street: The Economic Cleansing of Minority Elites through Fiscal Discrimination\u201d Honorable Mention: Radha Sarkar (Yale University), Sofia Elverdin (Yale University), Sebastian Lucek (Stanford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1434","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}