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”
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