The Race, Politics, and Ethnicity Section of the American Political Science Association is accepting nominations for Best Dissertation completed in the period January 2012 to December 2012. Nominations and accompanying materials will be accepted until April 30.
The selection will be announced at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Nominations can be made by chairs of dissertation committees or individuals completing the dissertation. A nomination must include a precis of the dissertation (no more than 20 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining how the dissertation expands our understanding of race, ethnicity, and politics. After a review of the nomination materials submitted, members of the Best Dissertation Committee will request 4 hard copies of the complete dissertation of some nominees.
The Best Dissertation award is based on the following criteria -- the dissertation:
- makes an important theoretical contribution to our understanding of historical and/or contemporary processes of racial and ethnic information
- addresses critical substantive issues through which racial and ethnic politics are played out
- generates discourse for innovative frameworks (and analyses) for the study of race, ethnicity, and politics
- is well-written; and is analytically rigorous (primary source data, case material, extant analyses, new or underutilized methodology)
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