Sexuality and Politics Section Award Recipients
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Cynthia Weber Best Conference Paper Award
Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award
Graduate Student Award
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.
| 2025 | Gabriele Magni, Loyola Marymount University “Minority Candidates and the Electability Curse: Exploring Causes and Remedies through the Lens of LGBTQ+ Candidates.” Presented at the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting. |
| 2023 | Jordan Carr Peterson, Jacksonville University “Implementing Equality: The Sources of State (Non)Compliance with Judicial Revisions to Public Policy on Gay Rights” |
| 2022 | Zein Murib, Fordham University “The Not-So Silent B: Bisexuality, from a Cultural Movement to Political Identity and Praxis” |
| 2021 | Shih-chan Dai, University of Massachusetts Amherst “Describing Sexual Minority and Gay Rights: A Longitudinal Analysis of Pro-and Anti-Gay Rights Groups’ Online Messages in Taiwan.” |
| 2020 | Anne Louise Schotel. University of Amsterdam “Bye Bye Binary: The political making of a third sex in Germany and the Netherlands” |
| 2020 | Liza Mügge, University of Amsterdam “Bye Bye Binary: The political making of a third sex in Germany and the Netherlands” |
| 2019 | H. Howell Williams, Western Connecticut State University |
| 2018 | R.G. Cravens, Bowling Green State University “Out for Social Justice: Predicting Queer & Liberationist Public Attitudes.” APSA 2017. |
| 2017 | Douglas Page, Gettysburg College “When do Voters Support the European Union’s Involvement in Gay Rights?” |
| 2016 | Joseph J. Fischel, Yale University “Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy.” Columbia Journal of Gender Equality (vol. 30, no. 2, 2015) |
| 2016 | Hilary R. O’Connell, AccessMatters.Org “Disabling Consent, or Reconstructing Sexual Autonomy.” Columbia Journal of Gender Equality (vol. 30, no. 2, 2015) |
| 2015 | Drew Walker, Brown University “The Queer Politics of Possibility” |
| 2014 | R. Steven Daniels, California State University, Bakersfield “The Tipping Point: Attitudes on Same-Sex Marriage in the United States, 1998-2012.” |
| 2012 | Abouzar Nasirzadeh, University of Toronto Desire Re-Cast: The Production of Gay Identity in Iran |
| 2012 | Kate Korycki, University of Toronto Desire Re-Cast: The Production of Gay Identity in Iran |
| 2011 | Beth Jamieson, Princeton University Fixing Gender: Gender Classifications, Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Prisoners, and the Politics of Law |
Sexuality & Politics Lasting Contribution Award
| 2025 | Jeffrey R. Lax, Columbia University Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University “Gay Rights in the States: Public Opinion and Policy Responsiveness.” American Political Science Review 103(3): 367-386. 2009. |
| 2024 | Kenneth Meier, American University |
| 2024 | Don Haider-Markel, University of Kansas |
| 2023 | Kenneth Sherrill, Hunter College, City University of New York |
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.
| 2025 | Gino Pauselli, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “Under Friendly Fire: A Study of Foreign Criticism Effects on LGBT Rights Change.” |
| 2024 | Myles Williamson, University of Baltimore “A Global Analysis of Transgender Rights.” |
| 2023 | Razan Ghazzawi, Suffolk University |
| 2023 | Honorable Mention Samuel Ritholz, University of Oxford |
| 2022 | Minwoo Jung, Loyola University of Chicago “Rights Projects in a Globalized World” |
| 2021 | Andrew Proctor, University of Minnesota “Coming out to Vote: LGBT Mobilization in the Two-Party System, 1986-2016.” Ph.D. Princeton University |
| 2020 | Camilla S. Reuterswärd, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Party Competition, the Catholic Church, and Moral Gender Policy in Mexico” |
| 2019 | Joanna Wuest, University of Pennsylvania |
| 2018 | Erin Mayo-Adam, Hunter College “Queer Alliances: Paradoxes and Power in the Formation of Rights-Based Movement Coalitions.” University of Washington, 2018. |
| 2017 | Zein Murib, Fordham University “Brokering Identity: Exploring the Construction of LGBT Political Identity and Interests in U.S. Politics.” |
| 2016 | Satoko Itani, University of Toronto “Japanese Female and ‘Trans’ Athletes: Negotiating Subjectivity and Media Constructions of Gender, Sexuality, and Nation.” University of Toronto, 2015 |
| 2016 | Carly Thomsen, University of California, Santa Barbara “Unbecoming: Visibility Politics and Queer Rurality.” University of California, Santa Barbara, 2014 |
| 2015 | Bogdan Popa, Oberlin College “Parting Company with the Opinion of the World”: Shame and Political Agency in Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Feminism” |
| 2014 | Phillip Ayoub, Cornell University “When States ‘Come Out’: The Politics of Visibility and the Diffusion of Sexual Minority Rights in Europe” |
| 2011 | Jeremiah Garretson, Vanderbilt University Changing Media, Changing Minds: The Lesbian and Gay Movement, Television and Public Opinion |
| 2011 | Sami Zeidan, Graduate Center of the City University of New York Navigating International Rights and Local Politics: Sexuality Governance in a Post-Colonial Setting |
Graduate Student Award
The Graduate Student Award is awareded to annually to a graduate student who has advanced the work and purpose of the section.
| 2021 | Isabel Felix Gonzales, University of California, Riverside |
Sexuality and Politics Best Book Award
| 2024 | Zein Murib, Fordham University Terms of Exclusion: Rightful Citizenship Claims and the Construction of LGBT Political Identity. Oxford University Press, 2023. |
| 2023 | Jason A. Pierceson, University of Illinois Springfield Before Bostock: The Accidental LGBTQ Precedent of Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins. University Press of Kansas (2022). |
| 2023 | Paisley Currah, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York Sex Is as Sex Does: Governing Transgender Identity. New York University Press (2022). |
Donald Haider-Markel Best Book in the Study of Sexuality and Politics Award
| 2024 | Philip M. Ayoub, University College London Kristina Stoeckl, LUISS University The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights: How Transnational Conservative Networks Target Sexual and Gender Minorities. New York University Press, 2024. |