Author: Keena Lipsitz

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

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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

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Best Paper Award

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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

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Best Dissertation Award

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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

The second annual Political Psychology Pre-Conference will be held on Wednesday, August 31, 2016, before the start of the 2016 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, PA.

This year’s event will be hosted by Kevin Arceneaux at Temple University.

Please mark your calendars and plan to attend!

Posted on September 23, 2015 by jenniferwolakcoloradoedu

On Wednesday, September 2, the section hosted the first pre-conference in Political Psychology at the 2015 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association.

The day featured an outstanding slate of speakers, impressive posters from junior scholars, and lively discussion about political psychology.  We had excellent participation and look forward to another successful pre-conference in 2016.

Thanks to Jack Glaser, (UC Berkeley, Psychology), Ryan Enos, (Harvard University, Government), Robb Willer (Stanford, Sociology), Bethany Albertson, (UT Austin, Political Science), and Michael Bang Petersen, (Aarhus University, Political Science) for sharing their work.

If you are interested in reading the papers presented at the pre-conference, visit:

https://sites.google.com/site/2015preconf/papers

Thanks to Leonie Huddy, Sanne Rijkhoff, and Emily Thorson for all of their efforts in organizing the First Political Psychology Pre-conference!

Thanks also to the International Society of Political Psychology for their sponsorship of this event

If you are interested in helping organize the second Political Psychology Pre-Conference at the 2016 APSA meeting in Philadelphia, please contact jennifer.wolak@colorado.edu

The business meeting for the Political Psychology section will be held this year on Friday, September 4 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. (location to be announced).

Please plan to attend and congratulate winners of this year’s section awards. 

Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award

The Political Psychology section will award the first Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award at the 2015 annual meeting.  This award was introduced at last year’s business meeting as a way to recognize scholars whose lifetime scholarship and service to the profession has made an outstanding contribution to the field of political psychology.

David O. Sears (University of California, Los Angeles) has been selected as the first to receive this recognition.  Professor Sears has made innumerable contributions to the study of political psychology across many areas of research, from the psychology of racism, symbolic politics, and political socialization, among others.  As one nomination letter puts it, “Professor Sears has forged a legacy from which all students of political psychology, present and future will always benefit.”

Thanks to the award committee of Tali Mendelberg, Thomas Leeper, and Kathleen Searles for all of their service to this committee and the section.

Robert E. Lane Award
The Robert E. Lane Award is given by the Political Psychology section to recognize the best book in political psychology published in the past year.  Congratulations to Christopher F. Karpowitz (Brigham Young University) and Tali Mendelberg (Princeton University) for being selected as this year’s winners for their book, The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions, published by Princeton University Press.

Thanks to the efforts of Laura Stoker, David Doherty, and Shana Gadarian for all of their excellent efforts in selecting a winner of the award.

Best Paper Award
Samara Klar (University of Arizona) was selected as winner of the section’s Best Paper Award for her paper, “When Common Identities Fuel Affective Polarization: An Experimental Study of Democratic and Republican Women.”  Congrats!

Many thanks to Steven Greene, Rebecca J. Hannagan, Kyle Saunders, and Rune Slothuus for all of their time and service to this award committee.

Best Dissertation Award
Congratulations to Timothy J. Ryan (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) for winning the section’s Best Dissertation Award!

His dissertation, “No Compromise: The Politics of Moral Conviction” was selected from a slate of excellent submissions by the award committee of Stephen Nicholson, Eric Groenendyk, and Samara Klar.  Great job, Tim, and thanks to the committee for all of their efforts!

Distinguished Junior Scholars Award
Five winners were selected to be recognized with Distinguished Junior Scholars Awards.  This award is given to graduate students and junior scholars to help fund their travel to the APSA annual meeting.

This year’s winners are:

Alexa Bankert  (Stony Brook University)
Nichole Bauer  (University of Alabama)
Christopher J. Ojeda (Pennsylvania State University)
Douglas Pierce (Rutgers University)
Eike Mark Rinke (University of Mannheim)

Congratulations to all, and thanks go to Jeffery Mondak, Antoine Banks, and Mark Ramirez for all of their efforts in selecting the winners.