Section Awards

BOOK AWARD

The REP Section’s annual book awards recognize the very best research exploring the multiple junctures between politics and issues of race, ethnicity, immigration, and indigeneity, as well as their intersections with other axes of identity and marginalization. We seek nominations for books that broadly focus on racial and ethnic politics, from scholars across all sub-fields of political science and allied disciplines. Singly- and multiply-authored books, monographs as well as textbooks, will be considered. Books published/copyrighted in calendar year 2023 are eligible for the prize. Books that were nominated in previous years are not eligible and should not be renominated.

Instructions: Please send one copy of each nominated book directly to each of the committee members. The authors should be contacted directly to obtain mailing addresses by May 1st.

Previous recipients can be viewed here.

BEST BOOK AWARD 2023

  • Best book in Race, Ethnicity and Migration: Andrew Rosenberg. 2022. Undesirable Immigrants: Why Racism Persists in International Migration. Princeton University Press.
  • Best book in Race, Ethnicity and Public Policy: Sally Nuamah. 2022. Closed for Democracy: How Mass School Closure Undermines the Citizenship of Black Americans. Oxford University Press.
  • Best book in Race, Ethnicity and Representation: LaGina Gause. 2022. The Advantage of Disadvantage: Costly Protest and Political Representation for Marginalized Groups. Cambridge University Press.
  • Best book in Race, Ethnicity and Justice: Marcus Board, Jr. 2022. Invisible Weapons: Infiltrating Resistance and Defeating Movements. Oxford University Press.
  • Best book in Race, Ethnicity and Identity: James Lai. 2022. Asian American Connective Action in the Age of Social Media. Temple University Press.

Best Book Committee

  • Valarie Martinez-Ebers, University of North Texas
  • Corrinne McConnaughy, Princeton University
  • Shamira Gelbman, Wabash College
  • Deva Woodly, The New School for Social Research

DISSERTATION AWARD

The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in the period January 2023 to December 2023. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30, 2024. Please submit all materials directly to the committee.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

The selection will be announced at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations can be made by chairs of dissertation committees or by individuals completing the dissertation. A nomination must include a precis of the dissertation (no more than 20 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining how the dissertation expands our understanding of race, ethnicity, and politics. After a review of the nomination materials submitted, members of the Best Dissertation Committee will request 4 hard copies of the complete dissertation of some nominees.

Please follow the submission guidelines. Do not submit full dissertations unless requested to do so by the committee.

The Best Dissertation award is based on the following criteria — the dissertation:

  • makes an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary processes of racial and ethnic information
  • addresses critical substantive issues through which racial and ethnic politics are played out
  • generates discourse for innovative frameworks (and analyses) for the study of race, ethnicity, and politics
  • is well-written; and is analytically rigorous (primary source data, case material, extant analyses, new or underutilized methodology)

Previous recipients can be viewed here.

BEST DISSERTATION AWARD 2023

Dr. Ada Johnson-Kanu. “Colonial Legacies in State Building: Bureaucratic Embeddedness, Public Goods Provision, and Public Opinion in Nigeria”

Best Dissertation Committee

  • Princess Williams, Amherst College
  • Maraam Dwidar, Syracuse University
  • Christopher Towler, CSU Sacramento

BEST PAPER

The Best Paper Award is given for the best paper on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Deadline for nominations: June 1, 2024

BEST PAPER AWARD 2023

Jessica Sarah Taghvaiee. “UnDACAmented and Unafraid: How United We Dream Uses Twitter in Reaction to #DACA.” Presented at the 2022 annual convening of the American Political Science Association Meeting.

Best Paper Committee:

  • Roberto Carlos, UT Austin
  • Vanessa Cruz Nichols, Indiana University
  • Margaret Teresa Brower, Harvard University