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 18. Information Technology and Politics awards to-date »

Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation in information technology and politics defended since the last award call (April 1, 2026). Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Hanna Sistek	Harvard University	hsistek@fas.harvard.edu
Yingdan Lu	Northwestern University	yingdan@northwestern.edu
Ethan Porter	George Washington University	evporter@email.gwu.edu
Yunkang Yang	Texas A&M University	yunkangyang@tamu.edu

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Best Book Award

Best book in information technology and politics published in the previous calendar year. Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Tamar Mitts	Columbia University	tm2630@columbia.edu
Václav Štětka	European University Viadrina	stetka@europa-uni.de
Benjamin Burnley	Colorado State University	benjamin.burnley@colostate.edu

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Best Article Published in Information Technology and Politics

Best article published in Information Technology and Politics published in the previous calendar year (ie 2026 for 2027’s award call; must have appeared in an issue – articles that are published as online first should be considered for the year in which they are published in their final version).  Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Lindsay Hoffman	University of Delaware	lindsayh@udel.edu
Daniel Muise	Screenlake	muise.dan@gmail.com
Augusto Valeriani	University of Bologna	augusto.valeriani@unibo.it
Lisa Argyle	Purdue University	largyle@purdue.edu

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Best Conference Paper Award

The Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best conference paper in the area of information technology and politics. The contest is limited to articles presented at conferences in the previous calendar year. Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Jan Zilinsky	Technical University of Munich	zilinsky@hey.com
Thomas Zeitzoff	American University	zeitzoff@american.edu
Kirill Chmel	Columbia University	kc3580@columbia.edu
Ross Dahlke	University of Wisconsin-Madison	dahlke2@wisc.edu

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Best Student Paper Award

Best student paper presented in information technology and politics at the previous year’s APSA. Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Yilin Su	University College London	yilin.su@ucl.ac.uk
Allison Koh	University of Birmingham	a.w.koh@bham.ac.uk
Shun Yamaya	Stanford University	syamaya@stanford.edu
Morgan Wack	University of Zurich	m.wack@ikmz.uzh.ch

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Best Public Facing Scholarship Award

Best public-facing scholarship published in the previous calendar year (ie 2026 for 2027’s award call). This includes blog posts and popular press publications intended for a broad public audience. Deadline for nominations: April 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Daniel Schiff	Purdue University	dschiff@purdue.edu
Michael Bossetta	Lund University	michael.bossetta@gmail.com
Manu Singh Burson	Columbia University	ms5129@columbia.edu
Rosalynd Southern	University of Liverpool	r.southern@liverpool.ac.uk