{"id":326,"date":"2023-02-24T18:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s16\/?page_id=326"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:08:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T17:08:58","slug":"section-awards","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/connect.apsanet.org\/s16\/non-working\/section-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Section Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>WGPRS Best Paper Award Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 Winners: \u201cThreading the Needle between Stasis and Backlash: An Experiment in Reducing Gender Gaps in Youth Political Participation in Zambia,\u201d Elisabeth Sperber, Gwyneth McClendon, O&#8217;Brien Kaaba.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Best Paper Award<\/strong> is given for the best paper on women, gender, and politics at the previous year\u2019s APSA conference. Any individual can nominate a paper for the award, including self-nominations. In addition, all papers presented in the Women and Politics Research Section and posted to the APSA conference paper website will be considered nominated. Application deadline: April 1; award amount $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WGPRS Best Paper Award Committee 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Andrea Aldrich (chair), Clark University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Noah Zucker, London School of Economics<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Allyson Shortle, University of Oklahoma<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kendall Funk, Arizona State University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WGPRS Best Dissertation Award Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 Winner: \u201cGendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence,\u201d Apekshya Prasai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous calendar year. Nomination deadline: April 1; award amount $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>WGPRS Best Dissertation Award Committee 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kristen Williams (chair), Clark University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William Daniel, University of Nottingham<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Anirvan Chowdhury, University of Louisville<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory Winner:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 Winner: &#8220;&#8216;A New Kind of Death&#8217;: Rape, Sex, and Pornography as Violence in Andrea Dworkin&#8217;s Thought,&#8221; Rose Owen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory is jointly given by the Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section, Foundations of Political Theory, and the Women\u2019s Caucus for Political Science. The award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year. Papers are considered by self-nomination or nomination by other individuals. Nominations are due no later than April 1 and the Award decision is announced by 1 June. Award amount: $750.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory Committee 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Samuel Galloway (chair), Purchase College (SUNY)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lisa Pace Vetter, University of Maryland, Baltimore County<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Alixandra Yanus, High Point University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Paper on Intersectionality Award (WGPRS &amp; REP) 2025 Co-Winners:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Mobilizing Mass Protests against Sexual Violence: Cross-Regional Insights from India and South Africa,&#8221; Aditi Malik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;All Emotions Aren&#8217;t the Same: Intersectional Analysis of Women&#8217;s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses,&#8221; Christine M. Slaughter, Kennia L. Coronado, Camille Burge-Hicks, Nadia E. Brown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best Paper on Intersectionality, to be co-sponsored with the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section. This award is for the best paper addressing intersectionality presented at the previous year\u2019s annual meeting. The scope of the award recognizes the roots of intersectional analysis in a critical analysis of the lived experiences of women of color, while also allowing for a more expansive reading of identity politics that takes into account multiple subjectivities and experiences, both within and outside the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nomination Instructions: Self-nominations and nominations by others are welcome. To be considered for this award, a copy of the article should be sent electronically. Nomination deadline: April 1; award amount $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Paper on Intersectionality Award Committee 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Kanisha Bond (Chair), Binghamton University<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Savannah Plaskon, University of California, Irvine<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Danielle Thomsen, University of California, Irvine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The WGPRS Public Engagement Award Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2025 Winner: \u200bLara-Zuzan Golesorkhi, University of Portland<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Public engagement award: An annual award to recognize the exemplary public-facing work of political scientists in the field of Women, Gender, and Politics. This award seeks to recognize significant efforts to serve a local community\/do outreach on women, gender and politics, or efforts to diffuse knowledge beyond the classroom, and to make a social\/political difference. While all faculty are eligible for this award, we especially welcome nominations of permanent and non-permanent faculty with teaching loads of 3-3 and above. Nominations by oneself or others should be made to the committee appointed by the Women, Gender, and Politics section by April 1 in the year the award will be made; award amount $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The WGPRS Public Engagement Award Committee 2025:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Jason Windett (chair), University of North Carolina, Charlotte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Malliga Och, Denison University<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00b7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Politics &amp; Gender<\/em><\/strong> <strong>2025 Best Article Award&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anne Louise Schotel &amp; Liza M\u00fcgge. &#8220;Politics without Presence? The Symbolic Representation of Trans People in Germany and the Netherlands.&#8221; Politics &amp; Gender 20(4): 788-813.\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200bHonorable Mention, Politics &amp; Gender Best Article Award:\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Myriam Shiran. &#8220;Backlash after Quotas: Moral Panic as a Soft Repression Tactic against Women Politicians.&#8221; Politics &amp; Gender 20(3): 526-552.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Best article published in Politics &amp; Gender: An annual award to recognize the best article published in our section journal, Politics &amp; Gender, during the previous year. <em>Nominations will not be sought for this award<\/em>; the award will be by a committee chosen by the editors of the journal. Award amount $500.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Politics &amp; Gender<\/em> <\/strong><strong>Best Article Award Committee 202<\/strong>5:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Editorial Board of&nbsp;<em>Politics &amp; Gender<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WGPRS Best Paper Award Winners: 2025 Winners: \u201cThreading the Needle between Stasis and Backlash: An Experiment in Reducing Gender Gaps in Youth Political Participation in Zambia,\u201d Elisabeth Sperber, Gwyneth McClendon, O&#8217;Brien Kaaba. The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on women, gender, and politics at the previous year\u2019s APSA conference. 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