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 52. Formal Theory awards to-date »

Journal of Theoretical Politics Ostrom Award

This award is given to the author(s) of the best article published in the Journal of Theoretical Politics within the previous two calendar years (2024, 2025). To be eligible for this award, an article must have appeared in an issue of JTP during one of these two years. OnlineFirst articles are not eligible for nomination, but they may be later nominated for the year in which they appear in an issue of JTP. Due Date: March 1, 2026

Name	Affiliation	Email
Natalia Garbiras-Diaz	Harvard University	ngarbirasdiaz@hbs.edu
Alex Hirsch	California Institute of Technology	avhirsch@hss.caltech.edu
Federica Izzo	Vanderbilt University	federica.izzo@vanderbilt.edu
In Song Kim	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	insong@mit.edu

Best Article by a Non-Tenured Scholar

This award is given to the author(s) of the best paper published in 2025 by a non-tenured scholar. To be eligible for this award, an article must have been published during 2025 and the recipient must not have tenure on the date the article is first published on a journal’s website. An article may only be nominated once and it may be nominated for either the year in which it is first published on a journal’s website (e.g., as an “OnlineFirst” or “FirstView” article) or the year in which it appears in a print issue (but not both). Due Date: March 1, 2026

Name	Affiliation	Email
Hülya Eraslan	Rice University	eraslan@rice.edu
Justin Fox	Washington University in St. Louis	justin.fox@wustl.edu
German Gieczewski	Princeton University	germang@princeton.edu
Bahar Leventoglu	Duke University	bahar.leventoglu@duke.edu

Best Article 

This award is given to the author(s) of the best paper published in 2025. To be eligible for this award, an article must have been published during 2025. An article may only be nominated once and it may be nominated for either the year in which it is first published on a journal’s website (e.g., as an “OnlineFirst” or “FirstView” article) or the year in which it appears in a print issue (but not both). Due Date: March 1, 2026

Name	Affiliation	Email
Avidit Acharya	Stanford University	avidit@stanford.edu
Arjada Bardhi	New York University	arjada.bardhi@nyu.edu
Susan Hyde	University of California, Berkeley	susanhyde@berkeley.edu
Arturas Rozenas	New York University	ar199@nyu.edu

Best APSA Paper

This award is given to the author(s) of the best paper presented at APSA in 2025. To be eligible for this award, a paper must have been presented during the 2025 APSA Annual Meeting. Due Date: March 1, 2026

Name	Affiliation	Email
Peter Buisseret	Harvard University	pbuisseret@fas.harvard.edu
Michael Gibilisco	California Institute of Technology	Michael.Gibilisco@caltech.edu
Branislav Slantchev	University of California, San Diego	bslantchev@ucsd.edu
Elaine Yao	Washington University in St. Louis	eyao@wustl.edu