Award Information
2017 Award Winners Winners
Distinguished Scholar Award: Alison Brysk, University of California, Santa Barbara
Best Dissertation Award: Robert Braun (PhD, Cornell; Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University), for "Religious Minorities and Resistance to Genocide: Christian Protection of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust"
Best Book Award: Onur Bakiner, Seattle University, for Truth Commissions: Memory, Power and Legitimacy (University of Pennsylvania Press)
Best Book Award
Committee: Zehra Arat
Oak Hall 429
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Bethany Barratt
Roosevelt University
430 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60605
Patrice McMahon
Department of Political Science
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
511 Oldfather hall
Lincoln NE 68588-0328
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
511 Oldfather hall
Lincoln NE 68588-0328
Deadline: April 1, 2017
This competition is open to all books on human rights written by a political scientist and published in the previous two years. Please send one copy of the book to each member of the award committee.
Best Dissertation Award
Committee: Alison Brysk (UC Santa Barbara), abrysk@global.ucsb.e
Mikyoung Kim (Hiroshima Peace Institute),
mkkim_33@hotmail.com; mkkim@peace.hirosh
Jamie Mayerfeld (University of Washington), jasonm@uw.edu
Copies of the dissertation and a letter of support (less than 1000 words) from the dissertation chair outlining the contributions of the dissertation to the field of human rights should be received by the committee by May 15, 2017.
Best Paper Award
Committee: Michael Goodhart (University of Pittsburgh), goodhart@pitt.edu
Shareen Hertel (University of Connecticut), shareen.hertel@u
Richard Hiskes (Grand Valley State University), hiskesr@gvsu.edu
This award recognizes the best paper presented on a Human Rights Section Panel at the APSA Annual Meeting.
Distinguished Scholar Award
Committee: Carol Gould (Section Chair)
CUNY Graduate School
carolcgould@gmail.com
Rhonda Callaway (Section Vice Chair)
Sam Houston State University
rlc005@shsu.edu
Sam Houston State University
rlc005@shsu.edu
Bethany Barratt (Section Vice Chair Designate)
Roosevelt University
bbarratt@roosevelt.edu
Deadline: April 1, 2017
This award recognizes an individual who has worked in the field of human rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching and mentorship.
Roosevelt University
bbarratt@roosevelt.edu
Deadline: April 1, 2017
This award recognizes an individual who has worked in the field of human rights and made an exceptional contribution to the field through research, teaching and mentorship.
