{"id":1514,"date":"2025-01-17T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T17:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/?p=1514"},"modified":"2025-09-24T13:03:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:03:42","slug":"call-for-section-award-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s11\/call-for-section-award-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Section 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>Each year, Religion and Politics recognizes significant contributions to the field. We invite your nominations (including self-nominations) for our 2025 awards. All nominations are due by April 1. 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award<\/span><\/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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sabri Ciftci, Chair\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Political Science, Kansas State University<\/li>\n<li>ciftci@ksu.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Esen Kirdis\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Political Science, Rhodes College<\/li>\n<li>kirdise@rhodes.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ryan P. Burge\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Political Science, Eastern Illinois University<\/li>\n<li>rpburge@eiu.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Weber Best Paper in Religion and Politics Award<\/span><\/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 (2024). 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 2024 Annual Meeting are eligible, regardless of modality of presentation (ie. in person, virtual\/synchronous, and pre-recorded paper presentations are all eligible)<\/p>\n<p><em>Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cammie Jo Bolin, Chair\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Political Science<\/li>\n<li>University at Albany, SUNY<\/li>\n<li>cbolin@albany.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Asli Cansunar\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Political Science, University of Washington<\/li>\n<li>cansunar@uw.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Hannah Ridge\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Political Science, Chapman University<\/li>\n<li>haridge@chapman.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Aaron Wildavsky Best Dissertation Award<\/span><\/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 and should make a distinctive contribution to the study of religion and politics, broadly understood.<\/p>\n<p><em>Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Angelia Wilson, Chair\n<ul>\n<li>School of Politics, U. of Manchester<\/li>\n<li>angelia.r.wilson@manchester.ac.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Radha Sarkar\n<ul>\n<li>Department of International Relations and Political Science, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico<\/li>\n<li>radha.sarkar@tec.mx<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Ursula Hackett\n<ul>\n<li>Department of Politics and International Relation, University of London<\/li>\n<li>ursula.hackett@rhul.ac.uk<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Hubert Morken Best Book Award<\/span><\/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 the preceding year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guadalupe Tu\u00f1\u00f3n (chair)\n<ul>\n<li>409 Robertson Hall<\/li>\n<li>Princeton University<\/li>\n<li>Princeton, NJ 08540<\/li>\n<li>tunon@princeton.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Paul Djupe\n<ul>\n<li>461 E Clearview Ave<\/li>\n<li>Worthington, OH 43085<\/li>\n<li>djupe@denison.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Anna Grzymala-Busse\n<ul>\n<li>Dept of Political Science<\/li>\n<li>100 West Encina<\/li>\n<li>Stanford University<\/li>\n<li>Stanford, CA 94305 amgbusse@stanford.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Ted Jelen Best Journal Article Award<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This annual award goes to the best paper in the Politics &amp; Religion journal.<\/p>\n<p><em>Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jacob Nieheisel, Chair\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Political Science, University at Buffalo, SUNY<\/li>\n<li>acobnei@buffalo.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Gaziza Shakhanova\n<ul>\n<li>Faculty of International Relations, Anglo American University in Prague<\/li>\n<li>gaziza.shakhanova@aauni.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Daniel Koev\n<ul>\n<li>Dept. of Government, History and Criminal Justice, Regent University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award<\/span><\/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.<\/p>\n<p><em>Committee<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eric McDaniel\n<ul>\n<li>University of Texas at Austin<\/li>\n<li>emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Allyson Shortle\n<ul>\n<li>University of Oklahoma<\/li>\n<li>allysonshortle@ou.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Emma Rosenberg\n<ul>\n<li>New York University<\/li>\n<li>erosenberg@nyu.edu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, Religion and Politics recognizes significant contributions to the field. We invite your nominations (including self-nominations) for our 2025 awards. 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