WPSA AWARDS: 2023 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
Jane Bayes
WPSA President, 1996-97
Director, Institute of Gender, Globalization and Democracy
Political Science Professor, Emeritus
California State University, Northridge
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 Jane’s extensive work on behalf of the Association, which included serving as program chair and president. But the committee’s discussion focused preeminently on her contributions in making the WPSA a home for what was originally known as the Women’s Caucus, but is now the Caucus for Women and Gender Justice. Jane's early and sustained leadership has benefited generations of students and scholars while improving the character and raising the quality of our Association. Jane completed her Ph.D. at UCLA in 1967 and was then hired to teach at California State University Northridge, where she taught for 50 years. She has written or edited eight books.
Please join the Betty Moulds Lifetime Achievement Award Selection Committee and the Association in congratulating this outstanding, remarkable, generous WPSA leader.
BEST PAPER IN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN POLITICS ($250)
To:
Eunji Kim, Columbia University, and Cindy D. Kam, Vanderbilt University
Paper Title:
“Othering in Everyday Life: Anti-Chinese Bias in the COVID-19 Pandemic”
BEST PAPER IN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN POLITICS ($250)
To:
Eunji Kim, Columbia University, and Cindy D. Kam, Vanderbilt University
Paper Title:
“Othering in Everyday Life: Anti-Chinese Bias in the COVID-19 Pandemic”
BETTY NESVOLD WOMEN AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To:
Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College
Paper Title:
“Inability to Protect: Mexican State Capacity and United States Asylum Claims”
BLACKS AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To:
Elizabeth Maltby, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Olivia Cheche, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Paper Title:
“Racial Threat, Black Lives Matter, and Shaping 2020 Politics: How Race Influenced Political Participation in Year of George Floyd”
CHARLES REDD AWARD FOR BEST PAPER ON THE POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN WEST ($250)
To:
Paige Pellaton, University of California, Davis
Paper Title:
"Are You Qualified for This Position? The Influence of Career Congruence on Legislative Committee Assignments"
CLAY MORGAN AWARD FOR BEST BOOK IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY
To:
Katie Woolaston, Queensland University of Technology
Book Title:
Ecological Vulnerability: The Law and Governance of Human-Wildlife Conflict
DISSERTATION AWARD ($250)
To:
Jasmine Jackson, Texas Christian University
For dissertation completed at Purdue University:
The Knowledge Within: Conceptualizing African American Political Knowledge
DON T. NAKANISHI AWARD FOR DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AND SERVICE IN ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN POLITICS
To:
Pei-te Lien, University of California, Santa Barbara
Recognizing her decades of dedicated service to the field of Asian American Politics and her groundbreaking 2022 book, Contesting the Last Frontier: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans.
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY AWARD ($250)
To:
Franziska Strack, University of Munich
Paper Title:
“Atmospheric Listening: Rethinking Normativity Through Sound Art”
LATINA/LATINO POLITICS ($250)
To:
Alison Gash, University of Oregon, and Daniel Tichenor, University of Oregon
Paper Title:
“Dreamers, Queer Kids and the Politics Youth Make”
POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($1000)
To:
Erik J. Engstrom, University of California, Davis; Matthew T. Pietryka, Florida State University, Tallahassee; and John T. Scott, University of California, Davis
For March 2022 Article:
“Constitutional Innovation and Imitation in the American States”
POLITICS, GROUPS, AND IDENTITIES BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($500)
To:
Estefania Castaneda Perez, University of Pennsylvania
For 2022 Article:
"Transborder (In)Securities: Transborder Commuters' Perceptions of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Policing at the Mexico-U.S. Border."
WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY AWARD FOR BEST PAPER IN POLITICAL THEORY ($250)
To:
Ferris Lupino, University of Missouri, Columbia
Paper Title:
“Genres of Charisma: Demagogues, Leaders, and the Mosaic Theme in W.E.B. Du Bois”
WPSA BEST PAPER AWARD ($500)
To:
Tiago Peterlevitz, University of Sao Paulo
Paper Title:
“Patronage Contracting”
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