Organized Section Awards (Section 53)
Nuno P. Monteiro Best Disseratation Award
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Nuno P. Monteiro Best Dissertation Award
The Best Dissertation Award, named for Nuno P. Monteiro, is given for the best dissertation in International Relations Theory. All dissertations completed within the previous two calendar years are eligible for consideration.
| 2025 | Eun A Jo, Cornell University “Nations After Democracy: Politics of Storytelling in South Korean and Taiwan.” Cornell University, 2024. |
| 2025 | Honorable Mention Moritz Graefrath, University of Notre Dame “Power Vacuums in Great Power Politics: The Consequences of Retrenchment and Collapse.” University of Notre Dame, 2023. |
| 2024 | Soyoung Lee, Duke University “National Interest in International Relations: Domestic Distributional Consequences and Constraints to Conflict.” Stanford University, 2023. |
| 2023 | Katherine Beall, Princeton University “Trading Sovereignty for Self-Determination: Regional Organizations, Authority, and Human Rights.” University of California Berkeley, 2022. |
Best Graduate Student Paper Award
Best paper presented by a graduate students at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.
| 2025 | Adrian Calmettes, The Ohio State University “At stake is doing Technology as one does Sociology: Historicizing Global Governance through its Technical Systems.” |