New Political Science Section Award Recipients
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Christian Bay Award
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
Michael Harrington Book Award
New Political Science Dissertation Award
Christian Bay Award
The Christian Bay Award recognizes the best paper presented on a new political science panel at the previous year’s annual meeting.
| 2025 | Justin L. Brooks, Harvard University “Judicial Occasions for Racial Formation: The Freedmen’s Bureau, Labor and Private Law.” |
| 2023 | Bradley J. Macdonald, Colorado State University “Morris’s Utopian Matrix: Art, Socialism, and Political Action” |
| 2022 | Nancy Sue Love, Appalachian State University “Land and Song: Indigenous Reflections on Sovereign Community.” |
| 2021 | Joanna Wuest, Princeton University “The Impossibility of Liberation: Queer Political Thought Since the New Left?” |
| 2020 | Gregory Koutnik, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2019 | Mark Major, Pennsylvania State University |
| 2018 | Alison Gash, University of Oregon “Illegalizing Families’: State Status and Deportability.” |
| 2018 | Priscilla Yamin, University of Oregon “Illegalizing Families’: State Status and Deportability.” |
| 2017 | Timothy Weaver, University at Albany, SUNY “A City of Citizens: Social Justice and Urban Social Citizenship.” |
| 2016 | Jocelyn Boryczka, Fairfield University “An Anatomy of Sexism: The Colonized Vagina.” |
| 2015 | Robert Kirsch, Arizona State University “Tweets, Retweets, and Tweeting Retreats: Critically Assessing the Digital Revolution as Veblenian Machine Process.” |
| 2014 | Alix Olson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst “Queer(y)ing Permanent Partnership” |
| 2012 | M. Forrest, University of Minnesota The Limits of Political Representation: Anti-Foreclosure Activism and Racial Injustice in the Post-Civil Rights Era |
| 2011 | Brian Waddell, University of Connecticut Stamford That Time Again? Revisiting the Debates Over the Wagner Act |
| 2010 | Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University “Hearing the Voice of the People: Human Rights as if People Mattered” |
| 2010 | Jose Cruz, Vanderbilt University “Hearing the Voice of the People: Human Rights as if People Mattered” |
| 2009 | Elisabeth Chaves, Virginia Tech “The Internet as Global Platform? Grounding the Magically Levitating Public Sphere” |
| 2007 | Angelica Bernal, Yale Power, Powerlessness, and Petroleum: Indigenous Environmental Claims and the Limits of International Law |
| 2006 | Immanuel Ness, Brooklyn College / CUNY “Temporary Labor Migration and the Labor Movement: Globalization and Worker Resistance to Restructuring Information Technology” |
| 2005 | Hamideh Sedghi, Columbia University “Islamization, Globalization, and Gender in Iran: Compatible or Not?” |
| 2004 | Dorothee Benz, City University of New York “Innovative Labor Organizing in a Hostile Climate” |
| 2003 | Jennifer Disney, Winthrop University “The Potential and Limitations of Democratization: Civil Society and Women’s Organizing in Post-Revolutionary Mozambique and Nicaragua” |
| 2002 | Carl Swidorski, College of Saint Rose “From the Wagner Act to the Human Rights Watch Report: Labor and Freedom of Expression and Association, 1935-2000.” |
| 2001 | Chenshan Tian, University of Hawaii at Manoa “The Reception of Marxist Thought in China: A Chinese Representation of Dialectical Materialism” |
| 2000 | Carl Swidorski, The College of Saint Rose “Political Science and the First Amendment: Ignoring Labor’s Role in the Struggle for Freedom of Expression” |
| 1998 | Timothy Luke, Virginia Tech “The Discipline as Disciplinary Normalization: Networks of Research” |
| 1997 | Thomas De Luca Jr., Fordham University “The Future of Democratic Politics” |
| 1997 | John Buell, Fordham University “The Future of Democratic Politics” |
| 1996 | Ho-Won Jeong, Ohio State University “Discourse of Political Economy in Africa” |
| 1995 | Gregory Delaurier, Ithaca College “Class Struggle Without Class: Maoism, the U.S. New Left, and the Demise of the ‘Labor Metaphysic’” |
| 1994 | C. Hilisi, Indiana University-Bloomington “From Liberalism to Citizenship in Black South African Political Thought” |
| 1993 | Carl Boggs, National University |
Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award
The Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Award recognizes an activist group, in the region of the annual meeting, that puts the ideals of the New Political Science Section, ’to make the study of politics relevant to the struggle for a better world,’ into practice.
| 2025 | Rueben George |
| 2024 | Students for the Preservation of Chinatown |
| 2023 | Food Chain Workers Alliance |
| 2022 | Hoodstock |
| 2021 | Familias Unidas por la Justicia, Burlington, Washington |
| 2020 | East Side Arts Alliance and Cultural Center |
| 2019 | Black Lives Matter DC |
| 2018 | Young Abolitionists |
| 2017 | LeftRoots |
| 2016 | Urban Tree Connection |
| 2015 | POWER |
| 2014 | Empower DC |
| 2012 | New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice |
| 2011 | South Seattle Community College |
| 2007 | Chicago Living Wage Campaign |
| 2005 | Institute for Policy Studies |
| 2004 | Lamda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Chicago Office |
| 2003 | Ann Kretzton, Kensington Welfare Rights Union |
Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award
The Charles A. McCoy Career Achievement Award recognizes a progressive political scientist who has had a long, successful career as a writer, teacher and activist.
| 2025 | Dr. Marvin Surkin, Intercultural Open University Foundation |
| 2024 | Nancy Love, Appalachian State University |
| 2024 | Bradley J. Macdonald, Colorado State University |
| 2023 | Adolf L. Reed, Jr., University of Pennsylvania |
| 2023 | Victor Wallis, Berklee College of Music |
| 2022 | Clyde Barrow, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| 2022 | Judith Grant, Ohio University |
| 2021 | Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary |
| 2020 | Rosalind Petchesky, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University |
| 2019 | Joseph Schwartz, Temple University |
| 2018 | Cynthia Enloe, Clark University |
| 2017 | Mark Kesselman, Columbia University |
| 2016 | V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona |
| 2015 | Terrell Carver, University of Bristol |
| 2014 | Timothy Luke, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University |
| 2013 | Deborah Stone, Dartmouth College |
| 2012 | Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr College |
| 2011 | George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Institute of Technology |
| 2010 | John Berg, Suffolk University |
| 2009 | Laura Olson, Lehigh University |
| 2007 | H. Mark Roelofs, New York University |
| 2006 | Carl Boggs, National University |
| 2005 | Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University |
| 2004 | Frances Piven, CUNY Graduate Center |
| 2003 | Michael Parenti |
| 2002 | Philip Green, Smith College |
| 2001 | Bertell Ollman, New York University |
Michael Harrington Book Award
The Michael Harrington Book Award recognizes an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world.
| 2025 | Biko Koenig, Franklin & Marshall College Worker Centered: Allyship & Action in the Contemporary Labor Movement. Oxford University Press, 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Rachel H. Brown, Washington University in St. Louis Unsettled Labors: Migrant Care Work in Palestine/Israel. Duke University Press, 2024. |
| 2024 | Tom Malleson, King’s University College at Western University Canada Against Inequality: The Practical and Ethical Case for Abolishing the Superrich. Oxford University Press, 2023. |
| 2023 | Mark R. Warren, University of Massachusetts Boston Willful Defiance: The Movement to Dismantle the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Oxford University Press. |
| 2022 | Hahrie Han, Johns Hopkins University Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Elizabeth McKenna, Johns Hopkins University Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| 2022 | Michelle Oyakawa, Muskingum University Prisms of the People: Power & Organizing in Twenty-First-Century America. University of Chicago Press, 2021. |
| 2021 | Albena Azmanova, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies Capitalism on Edge: How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia. Columbia University Press, 2020. |
| 2020 | Rebecca Tarlau, Pennsylvania State University Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers’ Movement Transformed Brazilian Education. Oxford University Press, 2019. |
| 2019 | Keisha Lindsay, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| 2018 | Gordon Lafer, University of Oregon The One-Percent Solution: How Corporations Are Remaking American One State at a Time. ILR Press, 2017. |
| 2017 | Peter Dauvergne, University of British Columbia Environmentalism of the Rich. MIT Press, 2016. |
| 2016 | Marie Gottschalk, University of Pennsylvania Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics. Princeton University Press, 2015 |
| 2015 | Naomi Murakawa, Princeton University The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America. Oxford University Press, 2014 |
| 2014 | Craig Wilder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America’s Universities (New York Bloomsbury Press, 2013) |
| 2013 | Meira Levinson, Harvard University No Citizen Left Behind (Harvard University Press 2012) |
| 2012 | Joe Soss, University of Minnesota Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Richard Fording, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2011) |
| 2012 | Sanford Schram, Bryn Mawr College Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race (University of Chicago Press, 2011) |
| 2011 | Michelle Alexander, Ohio State University The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness |
| 2010 | Marshall Ganz, Harvard University Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement |
| 2009 | Stephen Pimpare, Yeshiva University A People’s History of Poverty in America (The New Press, 2008) |
| 2007 | Daniyal Zuberi, University of British Columbia Differences that Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada |
| 2006 | Odd Westad, London School of Economics and Political Science The Global Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2006) |
| 2005 | Katherine Stone, UCLA From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace (Cambridge UP, 2004) |
| 2004 | Linda Williams, University of Maryland The Constraint of Race: Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (Penn State University Press, 2003) |
| 2003 | Manfred Steger, Illinois State University Globalization: the New Market Ideology |
| 2002 | Peter Dreier, Occidential College Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century |
| 2002 | John Mollenkopf, CUNY, Graduate Center Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century |
| 2002 | Todd Swanstrom, Saint Louis University Place Matters: Metropolitics for the Twenty-First Century |
| 2001 | Stan Luger, University of Northern Colorado Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry |
| 2000 | John Ehrenberg, Illinois State University Globalization: the New Market Ideology (Rowman & Littlefield, 2001) |
| 1999 | Michael Forman, University of Washington, Tacoma Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory (Penn State Press, 1998) |
| 1999 | Teodros Kiros, Suffolk University Self Contradiction and the Formation of Human Values: Truth, Language and Desire (Greenwood Press, 1988) |
| 1998 | George Katsiaficas, Wentworth Inst of Tech The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life |
| 1998 | Steven Best The Postmodern Turn (Guilford Press, 1997) |
| 1998 | Douglas Kellner, Univ of California-Los Angeles The Postmodern Turn (Guilford Press, 1997) |
| 1997 | Ira Katznelson, Columbia University Liberalism’s Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik (Princeton University Press, 1996) |
| 1996 | Sanford Schram, Macalester College Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press) |
| 1995 | Elizabeth Kelly, DePaul University Education, Democracy, and Public Knowledge (Westview Press) |
| 1994 | Stephen Bronner, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Moments of Decisions (New York and London, Routledge, 1992) |
| 1993 | H. Mark Roelofs, New York University Poverty of American Politics: A Theoretical Interpretation (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992) |
Stephen Eric Bronner Dissertation Award
For outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the APSA Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world.
| 2025 | Ricardo Esteban Vega León, Rutgers University “Capitalist Abolitionism: Racial Capitalism After the End of Slavery.” |
| 2024 | Be Stone, City University of New York |
| 2023 | Candice K. Travis, University of Massachusetts Amherst “The Violence of Nostalgia: Conspiracy Theorism, White Nationalism, and Restoring American Exceptionalism” |
| 2022 | Lahoma Thomas, Toronto Metropolitan University “Seeing from Da Yaad: Black Women and the Politics of Respect,” PhD., University of Toronto. |
| 2021 | Matt York, University College, Cork, Ireland “Imagining New Worlds: (R)evolutionary Love and Radical Social Transformation in the 21st Century.” |
| 2020 | Lucas Pinheiro, University of Chicago “Factories of Modernity: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Historical Capitalism” |
| 2019 | Igor Shoikhedbrod, University of Toronto |
| 2018 | Rafael Khachaturian, Indiana University “Discipline, Knowledge, and Critique: Marxist Theory and the Revival of the State in American Political Science, 1968–1989.” |
| 2017 | Kevin Funk, Spring Hill College “Between National Attachments, Rooted Transnationalism, and Borderless Utopias: Searching for Imagined Communities in Latin America’s Booming Economic Relations with the Arab World.” University of Florida, 2016 |
| 2016 | Dean Snyder, Antioch College “Commercial Capital and the Political Economy of Agricultural Overproduction.” Syracuse University, 2015 |