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 38. Sexuality and Politics awards to-date »

Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

The Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award recognizes the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years. The award is open to all scholarship that falls under the broad rubric of sexuality and politics, including studies concerning the regulation of sexuality, political responses to the regulation of sexuality, the uses of sexuality as a political construct, the intersections of sexuality with gender, race, and class, or LGBT politics and mobilizations. Dissertations successfully defended in 2025 and 2026 are eligible. Nominations can be made here: https://forms.gle/dEgBZCiX1vy6EZYs7
Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Ophelia Vedder	Washington University in St. Louis	ophelia@wustl.edu
Benjamin Bishin	University of California, Riverside	ben.bishin@ucr.edu
Myles Williamson	University of Baltimore	mwilliamson@ubalt.edu

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Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award

The Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award recognizes the best paper exploring sexuality and politics presented at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting. Papers presented at APSA 2026 in Boston are eligible. Nominations can be made here: https://forms.gle/NE34SSoxvG1ZWjcWA

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Jeff Feng	American Physical Society and American Astronomical Society	jeff.l.feng@gmail.com
Melissa Michelson	Menlo College	melissa.michelson@menlo.edu
Jerome Hunt	Long Beach City College	jhunt@lbcc.edu

 

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Donald Haider-Markel Best Book on LGBTQ+ Politics Award  

The Don Haider-Markel Bet Book on LGBTQ+ Politics Award is given annually to a book published in the preceding calendar year that addresses LGBTQ+ politics, broadly defined. The committee welcomes books in any subfield of political science and using any appropriate methodology. Books published in 2026 are eligible for this award. Nominations must be received by March 1^st, 2027 to be considered.  

Authors should arrange to have a copy of their book sent to each of the three committee members.

Nominations can be submitted here: https://forms.gle/QbopAbivCjJm3B488

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Kerri Ryer	Foothill College	ryerkerri@fhda.edu
Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte	University of Southampton	S.Turnbull-Dugarte@soton.ac.uk
Patrick Miller	Kent State University	pmille62@kent.edu

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Best LGBTQ Politics Award

This award recognizes the best article on LGBTQ Politics published in the preceding calendar year. The award committee welcomes nominations from all fields of political science using any appropriate methodology. Article must be published in the previous year (including online first articles), in any peer reviewed journal.

Nominations can be made here: https://forms.gle/hS1ZWuquJBw3aYoe6

 Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Andrew Proctor	University College London	andrew.proctor@ucl.ac.uk
Alberto López Ortega	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	a.lopez.ortega@vu.nl
Sara Angevine	Whittier College	sangevin@whittier.edu

Sexuality & Politics Lasting Contribution Award

This award is given to recognize a paper, journal article, book, or body of work that has made a significant and lasting contribution to the field of sexuality and politics and the discipline of political science more broadly. To be considered for this award, the work nominated must be at least 10 years old. Any member of the Sexuality & Politics section can put forward a nomination for this award. Nominations can be made here: https://forms.gle/p94FAzjM963LSTY1A

 Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2027

Name	Affiliation	Email
Edward Kammerer	Idaho State University	edwardkammerer@isu.edu
Cathy Cohen	University of Chicago	cjcohen@uchicago.edu
Cyril Ghosh	Clark University	CGhosh@clarku.edu