Nominations

The Political Psychology section of APSA gives out several awards each year at APSA. The details of these awards are below. The nomination deadline for the 2024 APSA awards is April 5, 2024.

ROBERT E. LANE AWARD. The Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in the past year.

Award Committee:

Name

Affiliation

Email Address

 

Margit Tavits

Washington U- St. Louis

tavits@wustl.edu

 

Josh Gubler

BYU

jgub@byu.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:

Name

Affiliation

Email Address

 

Elizabeth Suhay

American University

suhay@american.edu

 

Andrew Engelhardt

Stony Brook University

andrew.engelhardt@stonybrook.edu

 

Wayde Marsh

University of Tennessee

wmarsh5@utk.edu

BEST DISSERTATION AWARD. The Best Dissertation Award is given for the best dissertation in political psychology filed during the previous year. 

Award Committee:

Name

Affiliation

Email Address

 

Alexandra Filindra

University of Illinois-Chicago

aleka@uic.edu

 

Biz Herman

University of Pennsylvania

elizabethdherman@berkeley.edu

 

Ethan Busby

BYU

ethan.busby@byu.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 fund their travel to the APSA meeting.

Award Committee:

Name

Affiliation

Email Address

 

Ben Lyons

University of Utah

ben.lyons@utah.edu

 

Nicole Yadon

Ohio State University

yadon.4@osu.edu

Hazel Gaudet Erskine Career Achievement Award. The Career Achievement Award is awarded biennially to recognize a scholar whose lifetime scholarship and service to the profession has made an outstanding contribution to the field of political psychology.

Not available in 2024.