Section awards are presented during the APSA annual meeting awards ceremony. To learn more about any award listed, contact the award committee chair for the award.

All section 43. Migration and Citizenship awards to-date »

 

Best Book Award

Award given to the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in calendar year 2023. 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 copy of the nominated book to each committee member at the below addresses:  Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email	Address
Joseph Wright (Chair)	Pennsylvania State University	josephgwright@gmail.com	Political Science Pond Lab Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802
Katrina Burgess	Tufts University	katrina.burgess@tufts.edu	Fletcher School 160 Packward Ave. Medford, MA 02155
Victoria Finn	University of Oslo	victoria.finn@stv.uio.no	UiO Department of Political Science Postboks 1097 Blindern 0317 Oslo Norway

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Best Article Award

Best article on migration and/or citizenship published (and printed) in 2023. 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, 2024

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Elizabeth Iams Wellman (Chair)	University of Memphis	elizabeth.wellman@memphis.edu
Ezgi Irgil	Swedish Institute of International Affairs	ezgi.irgil@gmail.com
Alexandra Délano Alonso	The New School	delanoa@newschool.edu

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Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in 2023. 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, 2024

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Laura Cleton (Chair)	Erasmus University Rotterdam	cleton@essb.eur.nl
Zack Taylor	University of Western Ontario	zack.taylor@uwo.ca
Ugur Altundal	Dartmouth College	ugur.altundal@dartmouth.edu

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Best Graduate Paper Award

Best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting in Los Angeles (either as part of a panel or poster session). Papers co-authored 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 18, 2024

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Lillian Frost (Chair)	Virginia Tech	lfrost@vt.edu
Rithika Kumar	University of Notre Dame	rkumar3@nd.edu
Yi-Chun Chien	National Chengchi University	chienyichun@gmail.com

 

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 1st.

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 2024, recipients can have received their PhDs no earlier than 2016) 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, 2024

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Jeannette Money (Chair)	University of California Davis	jnmoney@ucdavis.edu
Erin Aeran Chung	Johns Hopkins University	echung@jhu.edu
Justin Gest	George Mason University	jgest@gmu.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 1st.

Eligibility criteria:

• Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. 
• 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 publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship. 

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2024

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Elizabeth Cohen (Chair)	Boston University	efcohen@bu.edu
Alexandra Filindra	University of Illinois Chicago	aleka@uic.edu
Dan Tichenor	University of Oregon	tichenor@uoregon.edu