WPSA AWARDS: 2018 ANNUAL MEETING
THE BETTY MOULDS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
This award was created in 2015-16 to honor the remarkable contributions of the longtime Executive Director of WPSA, Betty Moulds. Ron Schmidt Sr. was the inaugural awardee in 2017. This year the members of the Betty Moulds Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee are delighted to announce that
Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn (Tim)
who is the Baker Ferguson Professor of Politics and Leadership,
at Whitman College is the 2018 recipient of the Betty Moulds Lifetime
Achievement Award.
Tim originally served as president of the WPSA from 2001 to 2002 but
then agreed to serve one additional year when the president-elect had
to step down for personal reasons. Previously, he served the WPSA as:
Vice President (2000-01), Executive Council Member (1995-98, 2000-03),
Political Theory, Section Coordinator (1997) and Educational and Professional
Issues, Section Coordinator (1994) Tim’s service to the Association
also includes 11 years on the Editorial Board of Political Research
Quarterly (2003-2014) and assisting in the selection of the PRQ Editors
(2004-2005).
Please join the Betty Moulds Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee
and the Association in congratulating this outstanding, remarkable,
generous WPSA leader.
BETTY NESVOLD WOMEN AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Edana Beauvais, McGill University
Paper Title: Discursive Inequity and the Internal
Exclusion of Women Speakers
BLACKS AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Jennifer Garcia, Oberlin College, and Christopher
Stout, Oregon State University
Paper Title: Racism and Policymaking: How Racial
Resentment Shapes Legislative Behavior in the U.S. Congress
CHARLES REDD AWARD FOR BEST PAPER ON THE POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN
WEST ($250)
To: Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon, and Robin
Jacobson, University of Puget Sound
Paper Title: The Uneven Welcome: Diversity, Power,
and Identity in the U.S. Southwest
CLAY MORGAN AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY
To: John Meyer, Humboldt State University
Book title: Engaging the Everyday: Environmental
Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma (MIT Press, 2015)
DISSERTATION AWARD ($250)
To: Nazita Lajevardi, Michigan State University
For Her Dissertation Completed at Washington State University:
A Comprehensive
Study of Muslim American Discrimination by Legislators, the Media, and
the Masses
DON T. NAKANISHI AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP
AND SERVICE IN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN POLITICS ($250)
To: Diane Wong, Cornell University
Paper Title: The Politics of Staying Put: (Re)generation
Not Gentrification of New York City's Chinatown
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY AWARD ($250)
To: Christian Hunold, Drexel University
Paper Title: Green Infrastructure and Urban Wildlife:
From Animal Control to Shared Existence?
Honorable mention to: Piers H.G. Stephens
Paper title: Environmental Exploitation: A Preliminary
Examination of the Terrain
LATINA/LATINO POLITICS ($250)
To: Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, University of Oklahoma,
and Allyson Shortle, University of Oklahoma
Paper Title: Mobilizing Fears: Perceptions of Deportation
Risk and Political Participation in 2016
PI SIGMA ALPHA AWARD ($500)
To: Rebekah Herrick, Oklahoma State University, and Jeanette
Mendez, Oklahoma State University
Paper Title: American Indian Identity's influence
on Party Identification
POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($1000)
To: Tiffany D. Barnes, University of Kentucky, and Erin
C. Cassese,
West Virginia University
For their March 2017 PRQ article: American Party
Women: A Look at the Gender Gap within Parties
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