Awards

Women and Politics Research Section

Best Paper Prize
Fall 1999



The Women and Politics Research Section of the APSA announces its annual competition for the Best Paper on Women and Politics delivered at the 1998 APSA Boston meetings.

Past winners of the Best Paper Prize have included: Gretchen Ritter (1998, for "Regendering Citizenship After the Second World War",  Elizabeth Friedman (1997, for "Paradoxes of Party Politics:  The Impact of Gendered Institutions on Women's Incorporation in Latin American Democratization") and Anna L. Harvey (1996, for "Women, Party, and Policy: A Rational Approach").

The 1999 Best Paper on Women and Politics Research Prize will be presented during the annual business meeting of the Women and Politics Research Section, at the American Political Science Association meetings in Atlanta 2-5th September 1999.  The Prize carries a cash award of $100.

Panel chairs are encouraged to submit nominations for papers presented at the recent meetings; paper authors are encouraged to nominate themselves by sending two copies of their paper and a covering letter with contact details to the chair of the committee, Professor Mamie Locke, Dean, School of Liberal Arts and Education, Hampton University, 199 Armstrong Hall, Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23668.  Email: locke@hamptonu.edu.

The deadine for submission of papers is  April 30, 1999.


Women and Politics Research Section

 BEST DISSERTATION PRIZE
Fall 1999


The Women and Politics Research Section announces its annual competition for the Best Dissertation on Women and Politics Research Prize.  The Prize, which carries with it a cash award of $200, is awarded to the winner at the Section's annual business meeting at the  APSA meetings 2-5th September 1999 in Atlanta.

Dissertations eligible for nomination must have been completed and accepted by the dissertation committee in 1998.

Graduate directors and dissertation directors are encouraged to submit nominations to the committee chair, Professor Susan Gluck Mezey.  Individuals who have completed an eligible dissertation are also encouraged to nominate themselves.

Nominations including three copies of the thesis and a covering letter should be sent to Professor Susan Gluck Mezey at the Department of Political Science,  Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, 60626.  Email: smezey@wpo.it.luc.edu.

The deadline for submission of all nominations is April 30, 1999.