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Religion and Politics Section Award Recipients

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Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award
Weber Best Conference Paper Award
Hubert Morken Best Book Award
Politics and Religion Distinguished Reviewer Award
Kenneth D. Wald Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Ted G. Jelen Best Article Award
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar

Aaron Wildavsky Dissertation Award
The Aaron Wildavsky Award recognizes the best dissertation on religion and politics successfully defended within the last two years.

2023	Amy Lakeman, Harvard University “When Theology Responds: How Politics Shapes Religious Belief.” Harvard University, 2022
2022	Jessica Soedirgo, University of Amsterdam “The Threat of Small Things: Patterns of Repression and Mobilization Against Micro-Sized Groups in Indonesia,” PhD Dissertation, University of Toronto, 2020.
2021	Alexandra Blackman, Cornell University “The Politicization of Faith: Settler Colonialism, Education, and Political Identity in Tunisia.”
2021	Alon Burstein, Hebrew University of Jerusalem “Terrorizing God’s Enemies: The Influence of Religion on Terror Group Activity.”
2020	Guadalupe Tuñon, University of California, Berkeley “When the Church Votes Left: The Electoral Consequences of Progressive Religion”
2020	Honorable Mention Alexandre Paquin-Pelletier, University of Toronto “Status, Competition, and Violent Islamic Mobilization in Indonesia”
2019	Jason Klocek, University of California, Berkeley “The Cult of Coercion: Religion and Strategic Culture in British Counterinsurgency.”
2018	Michael Hoffman, University of Notre Dame “Communal Religion, Sectarian Interests, and Democracy.”
2017	Robert Braun, Northwestern University “Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries During the Holocaust.”
2016	Shoaib A. Ghias, University of California, Berkeley “Defining Shari’a: The Politics of Islamic Judicial Review.”
2016	Honorable Mention Alicia D. Forster, University of Florida “American Political Behavior and the Role of Religious Context.”
2016	Honorable Mention Jonathan S. Blake, Columbia University “Ritual Contention in Divided Societies: Participation in Loyalist Parades in Northern Ireland.”
2015	Michele Margolis, University of Pennsylvania “The Intersection of Religion and Politics: A Two-Way Street.” Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2014
2014	Christopher Hale, Northern Arizona University “Religion and Political Activism.”
2013	Michael Robbins, University of Michigan Bound by Brand: Opposition Party Support under Electoral Authoritarianism
2013	Honorable Mention Jeremy Menchik, Boston University Tolerance Without Liberalism: Islamic Institutions and Political Violence in Twentieth Century Indonesia
2012	Toby Matthiesen, University of Cambridge The Shia of Saudi Arabia: Identity Politics, Sectarianism and the Saudi State (Completed at University of London, SOAS; advised by Professor Charles Tripp)
2011	Brandon Kendhammer, Ohio University “Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Islam and Democracy in Northern Nigeria”
2011	Samuel Goldman, Harvard University “The Shadow of God: Strauss, Jacobi, and the theology-Political Problem”
2010	Karrie Koesel, University of Oregon Belief in Authoritarianism, Religious Revivials, and the Local State in Russia and China
2009	Tarek Masoud, Harvard University Why Islam Wins: Electoral Ecologies and Economies of Political Islam in Contemporary Egypt
2008	Yuksel Sezgin, University of Washington “The States Response to Legal Pluralism: The Case of Religious Law and Courts in Israel, Egypt and India”
2007	Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University Dynamics of Secularism: State-Religion Relations in the United States, France, and Turkey
2006	Andrew March, University of Oxford “Islamic Doctrines of Citizenship in Liberal Democracies: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus”
2006	Gregory Smith, University of Virginia “Political Parishes: The Influence of Priests on the Voting Behavior and Political Attitudes of American Catholics”
2004	Carla Valle, Harvard University “Roman Catholicism in Post-War Italy: How Social Organizations React to Political Change,” Harvard University, 2003
2003	Timothy Shah, Harvard University “A Horror of Discord: Radical Pluralism and the Invention of Liberalism in the Early Writings of Hugo Grotius”
2002	Elora Shehabuddin, Rice University “Encounters with the State: Gender and Islam in Rural Bangladesh”
2001	Nandita Aras, Columbia University “The Social Bases of Hindu Nationalism and Hindu Nationalist Parties”
2001	David Campbell, Harvard University “Acts of Faith: Strict Churches and Political Mobilization”
2000	Peter VonDoepp, Pepperdine University “Presbyterians, Catholics, and Grassroots Politics: Local Churches in Malawi's Post-Authoritarian Era”
1999	Nathalie Gagnere, University of Oklahoma “The Catholic Church and the Rebirth of Civil Society: Elite Convergence, Mobilization, and Civil Society”
1998	Andrew Murphy, University of Wisconsin “Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Dissent in Early Modern England and America”
1997	Carrie Wickham, Princeton University “Political Mobilization under Authoritarian Rule: Explaining Islamic Activity in Mubarek's Egypt”
1996	Geoffrey Layman, Vanderbilt University “Parties and Culture Wars: Conflict in the American Party System”
1995	Thomas Rourke, Texas Tech “Yves R. Simon and Contemporary Catholic Neo-Conservatism”

Weber Best Conference Paper Award
The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper dealing with religion and politics presented at the previous years APSA Annual Meeting

2023	Feyaad Allie, Stanford University “The Representation Trap: How and Why Muslims Struggle to Maintain Power in India”
2023	Honorable Mention Rajeshwari Majumdar, New York University “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp”
2023	Honorable Mention Richard Bonneau, New York University “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp”
2023	Honorable Mention Jonathan Nagler, New York University “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp”
2023	Honorable Mention Joshua A. Tucker, New York University “Reducing Prejudice and Support for Religious Nationalism Through Conversations on WhatsApp”
2022	Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed, Stanford University “Religious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Distribute in Ramadan,” Presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Tugba Bozcaga, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Imams and Businessmen: Islamist Service Provision in Turkey.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Fotini Christia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Imams and Businessmen: Islamist Service Provision in Turkey.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2021	Kikue Hamayotsu, Northern Illinois University “The Political Origins of Religious Regime Formation in Southeast Asia.” Presented at the 2020 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	Steven Brooke, University of Wisconsin “Populist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.” Conference Paper presented in 2019 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	David Buckley, University of Louisville “Populist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.” Conference Paper presented in 2019 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	Clarissa David, Ateneo School of Government “Populist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.” Conference Paper presented in 2019 APSA Annual Meeting.
2020	Ronald Mendoza, Ateneo School of Government “Populist Violence and Social Resistance: The Filipino Catholic Church and the Drug War.” Conference Paper presented in 2019 APSA Annual Meeting.
2019	Carrie Lee, United States Air War College “Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention.” Presented at the American Political Science Annual Meeting, 2018.
2019	Jonathan Chu, University of Pennsylvania “Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention.” Presented at the American Political Science Annual Meeting, 2018.
2018	Paul Djupe, Denison University “Are the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to States of the Non-Religious?”
2018	Jacob Neiheisel, University at Buffalo “Are the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to States of the Non-Religious?”
2018	Kimberly Conger, University of Cincinnati “Are the Politics of the Christian Right Linked to States of the Non-Religious?”
2016	Sultan Tepe, University of Illinois, Chicago “The Elusive Structure of State Secularism and its Disguised Critics.”
2015	Jason A. Klocek, University of California, Berkeley “Band of Believers?: The Influence of Religion on Rebel Group Structure”
2014	Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Northwestern University “The Religious Offensive’: The Politics of Religious Engagement.”
2014	Frank-Borge Wietzke, London School of Economics “One Nation, Two Histories: Long-Term Consequences of Colonial Institutions and Missionary Work in Madagaskar.”
2012	Ramazan Kilinc, University of Nebraska-Omaha Opportunity Junctures as Catalysts: Islam, Secularism and Democratic Consolidation in Turkey
2011	Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University “How Does Islamist Local Governance Affect the Lives of Women?: A Comparative Study of Two Cairo Neighborhoods”
2009	Kerem Kalkan, University of Maryland Will Americans Vote for Muslims? The Impact of Religious and Ethnic Identifiers on Support for Political Candidates
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