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 43. Migration and Citizenship awards to-date »

Best Book Award

Award given to the best book on migration and/or citizenship published in calendar year 2025. Edited volumes are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; if a publisher submits the nomination, the author(s) must be a section member. Nomination instructions: Please send a copy of the nominated book to each committee member at the below addresses:  Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Anthony Messina (Chair)	Trinity College	Anthony.Messina@trincoll.edu
Eiko Thielemann	London School of Economics and Political Science	e.thielemann@lse.ac.uk
Emma Empociello	Tufts University	emma.empocie@gmail.com

---

Best Article Award

Best article on migration and/or citizenship published (and printed) in 2025. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Rahsaan Maxwell (Chair)	New York University	rmaxwell@nyu.edu
Alexander Kustov	University of North Carolina at Charlotte	akustov@charlotte.edu
Eroll Kuhn	Sam Houston State University	eroll.kuhn@stonybrook.edu

---

Best Dissertation Award

Best dissertation on migration and/or citizenship accepted in 2025. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the dissertation, a dissertation abstract, and an electronic letter of recommendation from the nominee’s advisor to each of the committee members below. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Louis DeSipio (Chair)	University of California, Irvine	ldesipio@uci.edu
Ayca Arkilic	Victoria University of Wellington	ayca.arkilic@vuw.ac.nz
Amanda von Koppenfels	University of Kent, Brussels	A.K.Von-Koppenfels@kent.ac.uk

---

Best Graduate Paper Award

Best paper on migration and/or citizenship presented by a graduate student at the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting (either as part of a panel or poster session). Papers co-authored with faculty are not eligible. Nominations (including self-nominations) must be made by a section member; and author(s) must be a section member. Nomination Instructions: Please send an electronic copy of the article to each committee member. Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Maarten Vink (Chair)	European University Institute	maartenvink@eui.edu
Daniel Szabo	N/A	dszabo@danielwszabo.com
Hanno Hilbig	University of California, Davis	hhilbig@ucdavis.edu
Daniel William Szabo	Youth for Excellence Association	dszabo@danielwszabo.com

Emerging Scholar Award

The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate an outstanding scholar who is within 8 years from the year of their PhD or holds a pre-tenure status and whose scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship has made a significant contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life. The winner will receive a $500 cash prize. Send an electronic nomination letter to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1st.

Eligibility criteria:

• Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. 
• Recipients must have their PhD degree conferred within the past eight calendar years (e.g., for the award to be awarded in 2026, recipients can have received their PhDs no earlier than 2018) or hold a pre-tenure status.
• Nominations need to be accompanied by at least one nomination letter, written by the nominee and/or a scholar other than the nominee, along with supporting documents that will allow the award committee to learn of the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life, including but not limited to a CV, writing sample(s) (not exceeding 30 pages total), and evidence of teaching excellence (not exceeding 30 pages total).

Nomination Instructions: Please send all material in a single PDF document to the award committee chair. In the case of self-nomination, any additional letters should be sent directly to the award committee.

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Kamal Sadiq (Chair)	University of California, Irvine	kamal@uci.edu
Sara Goodman	University of California, Irvine	swgood@uci.edu
Allan Colbern	Arizona State University	Allan.Colbern@asu.ed

Career Achievement Award

The goal of this award is to recognize and celebrate career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life. Send two electronic nomination letters to the award committee chair. All materials are due by March 1st.

Eligibility criteria:

• Recipients need to be current members of the APSA Section on Migration and Citizenship. 
• Nominations need to be accompanied by at least two nomination letters, which explain and illustrate the nominee’s outstanding contribution to understanding migration and/or citizenship in political life in their scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship. 

Deadline for nominations: March 1, 2026

Award Committee

Name	Affiliation	Email
Noora Lori (Chair)	Boston University	nlori@bu.edu
Claire Addida	Stanford University	cadida@stanford.edu
Gerasimos Tsourapas	University of Birmingham	g.tsourapas@bham.ac.uk