Best Book Award
Award given to the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in calendar year 2025. Edited volumes are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; if a publisher submits the nomination, the author(s) must be a section member.
Nomination instructions: Please send a hard copy of the nominated book to each committee member at their institutions (addresses are below).
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026
Award Committee: Professor Anthony Messina, Chair Trinity College 1160 Beacon Street, Apt. 202 | Brookline, MA 02446
Professor Eiko Thielemann London School of Economics — European Institute Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE | United Kingdom
Dr. Emma Empociello Attention: Marcela Millan Tufts University | Leir Institute – The Fletcher School 160 Packard Avenue, Cabot 603 | Medford, MA 02155
Best Article Award
Best article on migration and/or citizenship published in 2025 (publication may be digital as well as paper, but an article may only be submitted once for this award in any format). Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member.
Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member.
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026
Award Committee: Rahsaan Maxwell (Chair), New York University rmaxwell@nyu.edu
Alexander Kustov, University of North Carolina, Charlotte akustov@charlotte.edu
Eroll Kuhn, Sam Houston University exk026@shsu.edu
Best Dissertation Award
Best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in 2025.
Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the dissertation, a dissertation abstract, and an electronic letter of recommendation from the nominee’s advisor to each of the committee members below.
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026
Award Committee: Louis DeSipio (Chair), University of California, Irvine ldesipio@uci.edu
Ayca Arkilic, Victoria University, Wellington ayca.arkilic@vuw.ac.nz
Amanda von Koppenfels, University of Kent, Brussels A.K.Von Koppenfels@kent.ac.uk
Best Graduate Paper Award
Best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting in Vancouver (either as part of a panel or poster session). Papers coauthored with faculty are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member.
Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member.
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026
Award Committee: Maarten Vink (Chair) | European University Institute maarten.vink@eui.eu
Daniel William Szabo | Youth for Excellence Association, Approved Vendor, International Organization for Migration dszabo@danielwszabo.com
Hanno Hilbig | University of California, Davis hhilbig@ucdavis.edu
Emerging Scholar Award
The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate an outstanding scholar who is within 8 years from the year of their PhD or holds a pre-tenure status and whose scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship has made a significant contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize. Send an electronic nomination letter to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1, 2026.
Eligibility criteria: Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. Recipients must have their PhD degree conferred within the past eight calendar years (e.g., for the award to be awarded in 2026, recipients can have received their PhDs no earlier than 2018) or hold a pre-tenure status. Nominations need to be accompanied by at least one nomination letter, written by the nominee and/or a scholar other than the nominee, along with supporting documents that will allow the award committee to learn of the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life, including but not limited to a CV, writing sample(s) (not exceeding 30 pages total), and evidence of teaching excellence (not exceeding 30 pages total).
Nomination Instructions: Please send all material in a single PDF document to the award committee chair. In the case of self-nomination, any additional letters should be sent directly to the award committee.
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026
Award Committee: Kamal Sadiq | University of California, Irvine kamal@uci.edu
Allan Colbern | Arizona State University Allan.Colbern@asu.edu
Sara Goodman | University of California, Irvine swgood@uci.edu
Career Achievement Award
The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life. Send two electronic nomination letters to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1, 2026.
Eligibility criteria: Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. This award is intended for senior scholars.
Nomination Instructions: Nominations need to be accompanied by at least two nomination letters, which explain and illustrate the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life in their scholarly publications, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship. Self-nominations are welcome.
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026
Award Committee: Noora Lori (Chair) | Boston University nlori@bu.edu
Claire Adida | Stanford University cadida@stanford.edu
Gerasimos Tsourapas | University of Birmingham, UK g.tsourapas@bham.ac.uk