The Political Psychology section of the APSA will give several awards at the 2018 annual meeting in Boston:
- the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology in 2017
- the Best Paper Award for the best paper in political psychology presented at the 2017 APSA meeting
- the Best Dissertation Award
- Distinguished Junior Scholar Award
Please consider nominating scholars for these awards. Self-nominations are, of course, welcome as well. The deadline for nominations is March 31, 2018. 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. To nominate a book for the award, send a copy of the book to each committee member.
Award Committee:
Patrick Egan
patrick.egan@nyu.edu
NYU Dept. of Politics
19 W. 4th Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10012
Darren Davis
ddavis7@nd.edu
Department of Political Science
2060 Jenkins Nanovic Halls
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Amy Lerman
alerman@berkeley.edu
Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley
2607 Hearst Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-7320
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. E-mail your nominations to the members of the committee.
Award Committee:
Corrine McConnaughy (chair), George Washington University, corrine@email.gwu.edu
Peter Dinesen, University of Copenhagen, ptd.ifs.ku.dk
Christopher Parker, University of Washington, csparker@uw.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:
Michael Tesler (chair), University of California, Irvine, mtesler2@gmail.com
Martin Bisgaard, Aarhus University, mbisgaard@ps.au.dk
Ariel White, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, arwhi@mit.edu
Distinguished Junior Scholar Award The APSA Political Psychology section gives Distinguished Junior Scholar Awards as grants to junior scholars (graduate students or those no more than seven years since receiving their Ph.D) to help fun their travel to the APSA meeting. E-mail your nominations to the members of the committee.
Award Committee:
Rosario Aguilar (chair), Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), rosario.aguilar@cide.edu
Morris Levy, University of Southern California, morriselilevy@gmail.com
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Princeton University, lafleurs@Princeton.edu