The Christian Bay Award recognizes the best paper presented on a critical political science panel at the previous year’s annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.
2026 Nomination Deadline: April 1st, 2026
2026 Committee Members: William L. Niemi, Andrew Alexander, and Justin L. Brooks
Contact: William L. Niemi (Chair) wniemi@western.edu
Past Recipients
2025 Justin L. Brooks
“Juridical Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor, and Private Law”
2023 Bradley J. Macdonald
“Morris’ Utopian Matrix: Art, Socialism, and Political Action”
2022 Nancy Sue Love, Appalachian State University
“Land and Song: Indigenous Reflections on Sovereign Community”
2021 Joanna Wuest, Princeton University
“The Impossibility of Liberation: Queer Political Thought Since the New Left”
2020 Gregory Koutnik, University of Pennsylvania
“Ecological Populism: Politics In Defense of Home.”
2019 Mark Major, Independent Scholar
“Why the South Prevailed: Civil Rights, Anticommunism, and the Origins of the ‘Liberal Media.’”
2018 Priscilla Yamin and Alison Gash, University of Oregon
“‘Illegalizing Families’: State Status and Deportability.”
2017 Timothy Weaver, University at Albany, SUNY
“A City of Citizens: Social Justice and Urban Social Citizenship.”
2016 Jocelyn Boryczka, Fairfield University
“An Anatomy of Sexism: The Colonized Vagina.”
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