MPSA Awards Committees for 2008 Conference
The members of the 2008 MPSA Awards Committees are listed below. These individuals will select recipients of awards for outstanding papers delivered at the 2008 MPSA Annual National Conference, the AJPS Best Paper Award, and the Herb Simon Award. The awards will be announced at the MPSA business meeting during 2009 National Conference.
Section heads, panel chairs, and panel discussants may nominate papers for these awards. MPSA strongly encourages individuals with section or panel responsibilities to nominate papers from their panels for consideration. Nominators should prepare a memo identifying the award for which the paper is to be considered, the author(s) name(s), paper title, and the panel on which the paper was presented. Nominations should be sent to awards@mpsanet.org
- AJPS Best Paper Award. A $1,000 award, sponsored by Blackwell Publishing, for the best paper appearing in the volume of the American Journal of Political Science preceding the conference.
Award Committee: Greg Caldeira, The Ohio State University; Anna Harvey, New York University; Ron Rappaport, College of William and Mary
- Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award. A $250 award for the best paper, regardless of field or topic, authored by a scholar or scholars who have received their terminal degree(s) no sooner than six years prior to the year of the meeting at which the paper was delivered.
Award Committee: Melinda Hall, Michigan State University (Chair); Sanford (Sandy) Gordon, New York University; Susan Tabrizi, Wells College
- Best Paper in International Relations. A $250 award for the best paper in international relations.
Award Committee: Helen Milner, Princeton University (Chair); Wendy Hansen, University of New Mexico; Will Moore, Florida State University
- Herbert Simon Award. A $500 award for a scholar who has made a significant contribution to the scientific study of bureaucracy.
Award Committee: Martha Feldman, University of California, Irvine (Chair); Greg Huber, Yale University; Bat Sparrow, University of Texas, Austin
- Kellogg/Notre Dame Award. A $250 award for the best paper in comparative politics.
Award Committee: Steven Finkel, University of Pittsburgh (Chair): Kathleen Bawn, University of California, Los Angeles; Sunita Parikh, Washington University in St. Louis
- Lucius Barker Award. A $250 award for the author or authors of the best paper on a topic investigating race or ethnicity and politics and honoring the spirit and work of Professor Barker.
Award Committee: Darren Davis, University of Notre Dame (Chair); Regina Branton, Rice University; Byron D’Andra Orey, University of Nebraska Lincoln
- Patrick J. Fett Award. A $250 award for the best paper on the scientific study of Congress and the Presidency.
Award Committee: Wendy Schiller, Brown University (Chair); Alan Abramowitz, Emory University; Patrick Sellers, Davidson College
- Pi Sigma Alpha Award. A $250 award for the best paper delivered at the conference.
Award Committee: Brandice Canes-Wrone, Princeton University (Chair); Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania; Isaac Unah, University of North Carolina
- Review of Politics Award. A $250 award for the best paper in normative political theory.
Award Committee: John Gunnell, University at Albany State University of New York (Chair); Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis; Jennifer Rubenstein, Princeton University
- Robert H. Durr Award. A $250 award for the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem in political science.
Award Committee: Gary King, Harvard University (Chair); Brandon Bartels, Stony Brook University; Walter Mebane, University of Michigan
- Sophonisba Breckinridge Award. A $250 award for the best paper delivered on the topic of women and politics.
Award Committee: Frances Rosenbluth, Yale University (Chair); Anna Kirkland, University of Michigan; Christina Wolbrecht, University of Notre Dame
- Westview Press Award. A $250 award for the best paper delivered by a graduate student.
Award Committee: Robert Erikson, Columbia University (Chair); Rosalyn Cooperman, University of Mary Washington; Suzanna De Boef, Penn State University