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APSA Award Records

2025 APSA Award Recipients by UM Faculty, Students, Alumni:

Ayse Eldes, Christian Fong, and Kenny Lowande's article “Information and Confrontation in Legislative Oversight” will be awarded the APSA Legislative Studies Section's 2025 Jewell-Loewenberg Prize in American Politics for the best article published in Legislative Studies Quarterly. (Eldes, currently a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, was an undergraduate research assistant at the time the paper was written.)

Christian Fong will receive the APSA Legislative Studies Section's 2025 Emerging Scholar Award, which recognizes a scholar “no more than 6 years from the year of their PhD who has informed the study of legislative politics through innovative and rigorous scholarship.”

Don Kinder is the 2025 winner of the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award, which honors "a scholar whose research explores a broad range of fields including political theory, political behavior, political communication, science and technology policy, and international affairs." He delivered the Pool lecture, “Paying for Slavery,” on Friday, September 12, at 2 pm. 

Kenny Lowande’s book False Front: The Failed Promise of Presidential Power in a Polarized Age (Chicago, 2024) will be awarded the Richard E. Neustadt Best Book Award from the Presidents and Executive Politics Section.

Kenny Lowande will also receive the APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Section’s Emerging Scholar Award, which is awarded to “an early career scholar (10 years from date of award of PhD) that has made a significant contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and executive politics.”.

Francy Luna Diaz received an APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant for her dissertation entitled “Rumors Across Borders: The Impact of Transnational Ties on Latino Information Environments and Political Attitudes.”

Chuck Shipan will receive the APSA Public Policy Section's Excellence in Mentoring Award. This award recognizes your outstanding commitment to mentoring within the field of political science. The committee singled out Chuck’s “exemplary guidance and support,” which “have significantly impacted the academic and professional development of numerous students and colleagues.”

Tyler Simko, Mirya Holman (University of Houston), and Rebecca Johnson (Georgetown) will receive the Education Politics and Policy’s Best APSA Paper on Education Politics and Policy Award for “Measuring Conflict in Local Politics.” The paper also received an Honorable Mention for the Urban Affairs Review Best Paper Award from the Urban Politics Section.

Recently departed, but we still claim them as our own!

Ben Goehring has won the Founders Best Graduate Student Paper Award, which honors James Sterling Young, for “Partisan Departures from the Administrative States.” Ben defended his dissertation in July 2025 and is currently an assistant professor of public policy in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. 

David Suell’s paper “Untimely Continuities: Nyerere and Cabral on Politicizing History for Socialist Strategy” received an Honorable Mention for the Foundations of Political Theory’s Best Paper Award. David defended his dissertation in September 2024 and is currently an assistant professor of political science at Eastern Michigan University.

Also of note: 

POLMETH’s 2025 Best Statistical Software Award has gone to Licheng Liu, along with collaborators Ziyi Liu, Shijian Liu, Tianzhu Qin, Ye Wang, Yiqing Xu, for fect, a multi-platform package for estimating causal effects using panel data. The award recognizes individuals for developing statistical software that makes a significant research contribution.