WPSA AWARDS: 2022 ANNUAL MEETING

THE BETTY MOULDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Betty Moulds Lifetime Achievement Award was created in 2015-16 to honor the remarkable contributions of the longtime Executive Director of WPSA, Betty Moulds. This year the members of the Betty Moulds Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee are proud to announce that this year’s awardee is

Gary Segura
WPSA President, 2012-13
Professor and Dean
Luskin School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles

The Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award is given to individuals who have made a long history of service and an extraordinary contribution to the WPSA. In making its decision, the Awards Committee recognized Gary’s extensive work on behalf of the Association, not only as program chair and president, but in a wide range of positions within the Association. Gary has served on the Executive Council, the PRQ editor search committee, the editorial boards of both our journals, the Committee on the Status of Chicanos (which he has chaired), and many other committees. More than anything else, though, he has provided much needed advice and support to the WPSA’s leadership over the many years in which he has been involved with the Association.

We are grateful for Gary’s generous service, not just in formal terms, but as a member of the WPSA community. Please join the Betty Moulds Lifetime Achievement Award Committee and the Association in congratulating this outstanding WPSA leader.

ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS AND POLITICS BEST PAPER AWARD ($250)
(Formerly the Don T. Nakanishi Award until 2021)
To:
Ngoc T. Phan, Hawaii Pacific University, and Kevin Lujan Lee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Paper title:
“Towards a Decolonial Quantitative Social Science: Indigenous Self-Identification in the 2019 Native Hawaiian Survey”

BETTY NESVOLD WOMEN AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Stephanie L. DeMora, Christian Lindke, Sean Long, Jennifer L. Merolla, and Maricruz Ariana Osorio, University of California, Riverside
Paper Title: "The Effect of the Political Environment on Women’s Political Ambition"

BLACKS AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Stephanie L. DeMora, University of California, Riverside; Sarah Hayes University of California, Riverside; and Melissa R. Michelson, Menlo College
Paper title: “Party at the Mailbox: Mobilizing Black Voters with Celebrations of Community”

CHARLES REDD AWARD FOR BEST PAPER ON THE AMERICAN WEST
To: Mahina Tuteur, University of Hawai?i at Manoa
Paper Title: “The Hawaiian Land Hui Movement: Race, Property, and the Law in Territorial Hawai?i”

CLAY MORGAN AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY
To:
Max Liboiron, Memorial University
Book title: Pollution is Colonialism (Duke University Press, 2021)

DISSERTATION AWARD ($250)
To: Kathy Walker, University of Saskatchewan
For Her Dissertation Completed at the University of British Columbia: "okâwîmâwaskiy: regenerating a wholistic ethics"

DON T. NAKANISHI AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE IN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN POLITICS ($250)
To: Christian Dyogi Phillips, University of Southern California
Book Title: Nowhere to Run: Race, Gender, and Immigration in American Elections (Oxford University Press, 2021)

ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY AWARD ($250)
To: Gwen Ottinger, Drexel University
Paper Title: “Epistemic Justice in Definitions of EJ”
Honorable Mention to: Kyle Haines, University of California, San Diego
Paper title: “Adaptive Governance from the Bottom Up at the US- Mexico Border: On Walls, Bridges, and Regional Resilience”

LATINA/LATINO POLITICS ($250)
To: Marcel Roman, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Title: "Living in the Shadow of Deportation: How Deportation Threat Forestalls Attitudinal Assimilation Among Immigrants and Their Co-Ethnics"

PI SIGMA ALPHA AWARD ($500)
To: TBA
Paper Title:

POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($1000)
To: David Cortez, University of Notre Dame
For September 2021 article: “Latinxs in La Migra: Why They Join and Why It Matters”

POLITICS, GROUPS, AND IDENTITIES BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($500)
To:
Elizabeth Sharrow, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
For 2021 article (Issue 1): “Sex Segregation as Policy Problem: A Gendered Policy Paradox”