Women and Politics Research Section Award Recipients
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Best Dissertation Prize
Best Paper Award
The Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory
Best Paper on Race and Intersectionality
Public Engagement Award
Best Article Published in Politics & Gender
Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section Microgrants
The Best Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and accepted in the previous year.
| 2023 | Bhumi Purohit, University of California, Berkeley |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Sara Hassani, New School for Social Research “CLOISTERED INFERNOS: The Politics of Self-Immolation in the Persian Belt.” The New School, 2022. |
| 2022 | Elizabeth Corredor, Rutgers University “Gender Justice, Resistance, and the Politics of Peace in Colombia: A Gender Analysis of Colombia’s 2010-2016 Peace Negotiations and Final Agreement.” |
| 2022 | Tutku Ayhan Ergin, University of Central Florida “Trauma, Resilience, and Empowerment: Post-Genocide Experiences of Yezidi Women” |
| 2021
2020 | Kelly Kaitlin-Thompson, Isabel Castillo, Northwestern University |
| 2020 | Cathy Wineinger, Western Washington University |
| 2019 | Hind Ahmed Zaki, University of Washington “In the Shadow of the State: Gender Contestation and Legal Mobilization in the Context of the Arab Spring in Egypt and Tunisia.” |
| 2018 | Jennifer Jones, University of California, Irvine “Talk ‘Like a Man’: Feminine Style in the Pursuit of Political Power.” |
| 2017 | Catherine Reyes-Householder, Cornell Unviersity “Presidentas, Power, and Pro-Women Change.” |
| 2016 | Dawn Teele, Yale University (Ph.D); University of Pennsylvania (assistant professor) “The Logic of Women’s Enfranchisement: A Comparative Study of the United States, France, and the United Kingdom.” Yale University, 2015 |
| 2016 | Honorable Mention Hürcan Asli Aksoy, University of Tübingen “Engendering Democracy in Turkey: Participation and Inclusion of Women’s Civil Society Organizations under AKP Rule.” University of Tübingen, 2015 |
| 2015 | Mona Tajali, Concordia University “Demanding a Seat at the Table: Iranian and Turkish Women’s Organizing for Political Representation” |
| 2015 | Honorable Mention Shauna Lani Shames, Harvard University “The Rational Non-Candidate: A Theory of (Uneven) Candidate Deterrence” |
| 2014 | Cheryl O'Brien, Purdue University “Beyond the National: Transnational Influences on (Subnational) State Policy Responsiveness to an International Norm on Violence Against Women” |
| 2013 | Diana O'Brien, University of Southern California “When Women Matter: The Relationship Between Women's Numeric and Policy Representation in Western European States” |
| 2012 | Jennifer Piscopo, Salem College Do Women Represent Women? Gender and Policy in Argentina and Mexico (completed at the University of California, San Diego; advised by Peter H. Smith) |
| 2012 | Honorable Mention Valerie Hennings, Iowa State University Civic Selves: Gender, Candidate Training Programs, and Envisioning Political Participation |
| 2011 | Dara Cohen, University of Minnesota “Explaining Sexual Violence During Civil War” |
| 2011 | Rosanne Kennedy, Union Institute and University of Cincinnati Ohio “Rousseau and the Perversion of Gender” |
| 2010 | Samantha Majic, John Jay College “Protect By Other Means? Sex Workers, Social Movement Evolution, and the Political Possibilities of Nonprofit Service Provision |
| 2009 | Melanie Hughes, University of Pittsburgh “Politics at the Intersection: A Cross-National Analysis of Minority Women's Legislative Representation” |
| 2006 | Kate Bedford, Rutgers University “The World Bank's Employment Programs in Ecuador and Beyond: Empowering Women, Domesticating Men, and Resolving the Social Reproduction Dilemma” |
| 2006 | Honorable Mention Mona Lena Krook, Columbia University “Politicizing Representation: Campaigns for Candidate Gender Quotas Worldwide” |
| 2005 | Carisa Showden, University of North Carolina-Greensboro “Mythologies of Choice: The Politics of Domestic Violence and Alternative Reproduction” |
| 2004 | Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, University of Arizona “Legislative Representation in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Descriptive, Substantive, and Symbolic Representation of Women” (Supervisor: Brian F. Crisp) |
| 2004 | Sarah Song, Yale University “Culture, Gender, and Equality” (Supervisor: Rogers M. Smith) |
| 2003 | Jennifer Disney, Winthrop University The Theories and Practices of Women's Organizing: Marxism, Feminism, Democratization and Civil Society in Mozambique and Nicaragua. |
| 2002 | Wendy Smooth, University of Nebraska at Lincoln “African American Women State Legislators: The Impact of Gender and Race on Legislative Influence.” |
| 2001 | Kimberly Morgan, Princeton University “Whose Hand Rocks the Cradle? The Politics of Child Care Policy in Advanced Industrialized States” |
| 2000 | Mala Htun, Harvard University “Private Lives, Public Policies: Divorce, Abortion, and Family Equality in Latin America.” |
| 1999 | Michele Berger, University of Nevada, Las Vegas “Workable Sisterhood: A Study of the Political Participation of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS” |
| 1997 | Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Whitman College “Heroes, Martyrs, and Mothers: Maternity Identity Politics in Revolutionary Nicaragua” |
| 1996 | Anna Harvey, Princeton University “The Legacy of Disenfranchisement: Women in Electoral Politics, 1917 – 1932” |
| 1996 | Cindy Rosenthal, University of Oklahoma “Women's Ways of Political Leadership: A Cross-Jurisdictional Study of State Legislative Committee Chairs” |
| 1995 | Robin LeBlanc, Oglethorpe University “Homeless as Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife” |
| 1994 | Joanna Goven, University of California, Berkeley “The Gendered Foundations of Hungarian Socialism: State, Society and the Anti-Politics of Anti-Feminism, 1948-1990” (University of California, Berkeley) |
| 1993 | Beth Reingold, Emory University “Representing Women Gender Difference among Arizona and California State Legislators” (University of California, Berkeley) |
The Best Paper Award presented for the best paper presented at the previous year’s annual meeting in the field of women and politics.
| 2023 | Ana Catalano Weeks, University of Bath “The Political Consequences of the Mental Load” |
| 2022 | Rebekka Friedman, King’s College London “Violations of the Heart: Parental Harm in Contexts of Mass Violence.” Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting. |
| 2022 | Hanna Ketola, King’s College London “Violations of the Heart: Parental Harm in Contexts of Mass Violence.” Paper presented at the 2021 APSA Annual Meeting. |
| 2021 | Rebecca Sanders, |
| 2021 | Laura Dudley Jenkins University of Cincinnati “Control, Alt, Delete: Patriarchal Populist Attacks on International Women's Rights.” |
| 2020 | Elena Gambino, Bates College “Politics as Sinister Wisdom: Reparation and Responsibility in Lesbian Feminism.” |