The deadline is approaching for nominations for awards for the section.
The Political Psychology section of the APSA will give several awards at the 2016 annual meeting in Philadelphia:
- the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology in 2015
- the Best Paper Award for the best paper in political psychology presented at the 2015 APSA meeting
- the Best Dissertation Award
If you’ve read a great new book in political psychology, advised a terrific dissertation project, or saw an excellent paper on a panel at APSA, please consider nominating scholars for these awards. Self-nominations are of course welcome.
The deadline for nominations is March 7, 2016. Details of the awards follow.
Robert E. Lane Award
The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year. Send your nominations to the members of the committee.
Award Committee
Kent Jennings (chair), University of California, Santa Barbara, jennings@polsci.ucsb.edu
Beth Miller Vonnahme, University of Missouri, Kansas City, vonnahmeb@umkc.edu
Daniel Myers, University of Minnesota, cdmyers@umn.edu
Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award is given to the most outstanding paper in political psychology delivered at the previous year’s Annual Meeting.
Award Committee
David Redlawsk (chair), Rutgers University, redlawsk@rutgers.edu
Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth College, nyhan@dartmouth.edu
Michael Tesler, University of California, Irvine, mtesler@uci.edu
Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year.
To nominate a dissertation, send an electronic copy of the dissertation to the members of the committee. Self-nominations are accepted. All nominations should include a letter of support from the chair of the dissertation committee that addresses the contribution of the dissertation to the field of political psychology.
Award Committee
Zoe Oxley (chair), Union College, oxleyz@union.edu
Elizabeth Suhay, American University, suhay@american.edu
Timothy Ryan, University of North Carolina, tjr@email.unc.edu