{"id":1398,"date":"2024-01-25T13:19:30","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:03:43","slug":"2024-call-for-award-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/2024-call-for-award-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Call for Award Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=apsa_section11\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Hubert Morken Award\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0<strong>Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024<\/strong>. [For more information, go to<strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/2023-hubert-morken-best-book-award-call-for-nominations\/\">2024 Hubert Morken Best Book Award\u2014Call for Nominations]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nandini Deo, chair (Lehigh University, <a href=\"mailto:ndd208@lehigh.edu\">ndd208@lehigh.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Zeynep Bulutgil (University College London, <a href=\"mailto:z.bulutgil@ucl.ac.uk\">bulutgil@ucl.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Andrew Murphy (University of Michigan,\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:murphyan@umich.edu\">murphyan@umich.edu<\/a>)\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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. <strong>Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Committee: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sabri Ciftci (Kansas State University, <a href=\"mailto:ciftci@ksu.edu\">ciftci@ksu.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Ron Hassner (University of California-Berkeley, <a href=\"mailto:hassner@berkeley.edu\">hassner@berkeley.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Elizabeth Oldmixon (James Madison University, <a href=\"mailto:oldmixea@jmu.edu\">oldmixea@jmu.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous year\u2019s 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). <strong>Nomination deadline: April 1, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cammie Jo Bolin (University of Albany-SUNY, <a href=\"mailto:cbolin@albany.edu\">cbolin@albany.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Feyaad Allie (Harvard University, <a href=\"mailto:feyaadallie@fas.harvard.edu\">feyaadallie@fas.harvard.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Abbie Vegter (Berry College, <a href=\"mailto:avegter@berry.edu\">avegter@berry.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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. <strong>Nomination Deadline: April 1, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Felipe Mantilla (chair, University of South Florida, <a href=\"mailto:lfm1@usf.edu\">lfm1@usf.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Amy Lakeman (Harvard University, <a href=\"mailto:alakeman8@gmail.com\">alakeman8@gmail.com<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Jason Klocek (University of Nottingham, <a href=\"mailto:Jason.Klocek@nottingham.ac.uk\">Klocek@nottingham.ac.uk<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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. <strong>Nomination Deadline: April 1, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Paul Djupe (chair, Denison University, <a href=\"mailto:djupe@denison.edu\">djupe@denison.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Danielle Lussier (Grinnell College, <a href=\"mailto:lussierd@grinnell.edu\">lussierd@grinnell.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Enrique Quezada (Agnes Scott College, <a href=\"mailto:equezada@agnesscott.edu\">equezada@agnesscott.edu<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Lifetime Achievement Award of the Religion &amp; 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 &amp; 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 &amp; Politics Section, chaired by the section chair, to whom nominations shall be addressed. <strong>Nomination Deadline: May 15, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Award Committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David Buckley (chair, University of Louisville, david.buckley@louisville.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Vineeta Yadav (Penn State University, vuy2@psu.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Nandini Deo (Lehigh University, ndd208@lehigh.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Paul Djupe (Denison University, djupe@denison.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Luis Felipe Mantilla (University of South Florida, lfm1@usf.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Eric McDaniel (University of Texas-Austin, emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Cammie Jo Bolin (SUNY-Albany, cbolin@albany.edu)<\/li>\n<li>Sabri Ciftci (Kansas State University, ciftci@ksu.edu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hubert Morken Award\u00a0 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. 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