WPSA AWARDS: 2019 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 delighted to announce
that this year’s awardee is Lyn Ragsdale.
Lyn Ragsdale earned her doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin,
and has spent much of her career in the west. She served as assistant,
associate, and ultimately full professor at the University of Arizona,
spent five years at the University of Chicago, and is now the Radoslov
Tsanoff Professor of Public Affairs and Professor of Political Science
at Rice University. She has done indispensable work for the Western
Political Science Association, serving as section head for the President/Executive
Politics section in 1992, the Program Chair in 1998, and the association’s
president from 1999-2000.
In addition, she served as a member of the editorial board of the Political
Research Quarterly from 1994-1996 and from 2000-2005, and was the journal¹s
editor with William Dixon from 1996 through 2000. We are grateful for
her generous service, not just in formal terms, but as a member of the
WPSA community.
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: Zein Murib, Fordham University
Paper Title: Identities Under Surveillance: Politics
of Gender, Race and Ability at the Airport and in Survey Research
CHARLES REDD AWARD FOR BEST PAPER ON THE AMERICAN WEST
To: Ben Newman, University of California, Riverside -
and - Tyler Reny, University of California, Los Angeles
Paper Title: Protecting the Right to Discriminate:
The Second Great Migration and Racial Threat in the 1964 California Election
CLAY MORGAN AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY
To: Shiri Pasternak, Ryerson University
Book title: Grounded Authority: The Algonquins of
Barriere Lake Against the State (University of Minnesota Press 2017)
DISSERTATION AWARD ($250)
To: Giorleny Altamirano Rayo, US Department of Labor*
For Her Dissertation Completed at the University of Texas at Austin:
Securing Territory: State Interests and the Implementation of Ethnic
Land Rights in the Americas
*The views and conclusions of the author are personal, and do not purport
to represent the views of the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, the
United States Department of Labor, or the United States government.
DON T. NAKANISHI AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP
AND SERVICE IN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN POLITICS ($250)
To: Janelle Wong, University of Maryland
Paper Title: Immigrants, Evangelicals, and Politics
in an Era of Demographic Change (Russell Sage Foundation, 2018)
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY AWARD ($250)
To: Rafi Youatt, New School for Social Research and Eugene
Lang College
Paper Title: We Are All Wildlife? Border Spaces,
Ecological Life, and Interspecies Internationality
LATINA/LATINO POLITICS ($250)
To: Celeste Montoya, University of Colorado, Boulder
Paper Title: De Guerreras y Puentes: Legacies of
Chicana Feminism
PI SIGMA ALPHA AWARD ($500)
To: Danielle Lemi, Southern Methodist University
Paper Title: The Multiracial Candidate (Dis)Advantage
POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($1000)
To: Kiran Banerjee, University of Saskatchewan, and Abraham
Singer, Loyola University Chicago
For their March 2018 PRQ article: Race and the Meso-Level
Sources of Domination
To: Paul A. Djupe, Denison University, Jacob R. Neiheisel,
University at Buffalo, and Kimberly H. Conger, University of Cincinnati
For their March 2018 PRQ article: Are the Politics
of the Christian Right Linked to State Rates of the Nonreligious? The
Importance of Salient Controversy
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