Past Awards • Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics • Iowa State University

Listed below are past award winners for the Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, including their professional positions and institutional affiliations at the time of their selection. This information may not reflect their current position and/or location.

2023 Winners

Asha Venugopalan, doctoral candidate in political science at the University at Stony Brook, for “‘Joan of America’: How Republican Women Convey their Partisan Credibility.”
Juliana Sanin, assistant professor of political science at the University of Florida; Marcelline Amouzou, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Florida; and Ayu Diasti Rahmawati, Fulbright-sponsored doctoral student in political science at the University of Florida and lecturer in social and political sciences at the Universitas Gadah Mada, for “Women of Autocracy in the Global South.”
Marzia Oceno, assistant professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University; Tessa Ditonto, associate professor of gender and politics at Durham University; and Kyle Mattes, associate professor of politics and international relations at Florida International University, for “The Importance of Gender and Intersectional Stereotypes in Diverse Electoral Races.”

Honorable mention

Shatakshi Singh, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of California Santa Cruz, for “Resisting Displacement: Legal Mobilization and Claim-Making in Urban India.”
Natalya Adam-Rahman, doctoral candidate in political science at Stanford University, for “Stigmatized Labor Force Participation and Women’s Political Agency in Pakistan.”

2022 Winners

Morgan Barry, doctoral student in history at Northwestern University, for “(Im)Possible Threats: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Political Repression in the Twentieth Century U.S.”
Michelle Irving, doctoral student in political science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, for “Mominees of Color: The Raced-Gendered Experience of Mothers of Color Running for Office.”
Rana McReynolds, doctoral student in political science at the University of California, Davis, for “Intersectional Stereotyping: The Impact of Sexism and Racism on Evaluations of Black Women Candidates.”
Helen Rabello Kras, assistant professor in history, politics and political economy at Regis University, for “Crime and Gender-Based Violence: How Location, Type of Crime, and Characteristics of the Aggressor Influence Opinions.”
Elizabeth Tuttle, assistant professor of French at Michigan State University, for “Translating Feminism: French Suffragette Print Culture and Transnational Connections.”
Crystal Whetstone, assistant professor in international relations at Bilkent University, and Murat Yilmaz, assistant professor in international relations at Kastamonu University, for “Gendering Internal Colonialism: Uyghurs’ Reproductive Injustices and the Logics of Colonialism.”

2021 Winners

Komal Preet Kaur, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Colorado Boulder, for “The Paradox of Inclusive Institutions.”
Peter McLaughlin, doctoral student in political science at the University of Oklahoma and research fellow at the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, for “More Money, Less Credit: Measuring Gender Bias in Credit Allocation for Federal Spending Projects.”
Jennifer Piscopo, associate professor of politics at Occidental College, and Katelyn Stauffer, assistant professor of political science at the University of South Carolina, for “‘She’s Too Ambitious’: Does Running for Office Penalize Women in Politics?”

Honorable mention

Elizabeth Brannon, post-doctoral fellow with a joint appointment at the Sié Chéou-Kang Center for International Security and Diplomacy in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver and at Oxfam America, and Laura Huber, assistant professor of political science at the University of Mississippi, for “The Legacy of Female Combatants: Exposure of Female Combatants and Women’s Electoral Success in Uganda.”
Anirvan Chowdhury, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkely, for “How Do Religiously Conservative Parties Mobilize Women? Theory and Evidence from India.”
Micayla Clark, doctoral candidate in political science at Georgia State University, for “Progress and Congress: Gender and Career Progression Among Congressional Staff.”
Joshua Crutchfield, doctoral candidate in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, for “Imprisoned Black Women Intellectuals: Mae Mallory, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, Safiya Bukhari, and the Politics of Abolition, 1955-1983.”
Hope McCaffrey, doctoral student in history at Northwestern University, for “White Women and Democratic Politics in the Antebellum North.”

Special mention

Nadia Brown, professor of government at Georgetown University; Christopher Clark, associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Anna Mahoney, administrative associate professor of women’s political leadership and director of research at the Newcomb Institute at Tulane University, for “Bridges: How Black Women Coordinate the Lawmaking Efforts of Identity-Based Caucuses.”

2020 Winners

Ana Catalano Weeks, assistant professor of comparative politics at the University of Bath, for “The Political Consequences of the ‘Mental Load.’”
Pamela Nwakanma, doctoral candidate in government and African and African American studies at Harvard University, for “Women, Power, and Networks: The Gendered Politics of Economic Empowerment.”
Susan Goodier, assistant professor of history at SUNY Oneonta, for “Networks of Activism: Black Women in the Women’s Rights Movement of New York State.”

Honorable mention

Sydney Carr, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan in the Department of Political Science and the Ford School of Public Policy, for “Television News Media Discourse and Public Opinion towards Black Female Political Elites.”
Brittany Aniar, doctoral candidate in political science at Rutgers University, for “Chutes, Ladders, and Snakes: Candidate Selection and Young Women’s Political Representation.”
Bhumi Purohit, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, for “Laments of Getting Things Done: The Case of Female Politicians and Bureaucrats in India.”
Nainika Paul, doctoral candidate at Rutgers University, for “Reconciliation and Restorative Justice for Women: Lessons Learned from First Nation Womxn in the British Columbia and Ontario Provinces.”

2019 Winners

Rebecca Best, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, for “Gendered Reintegration of Veterans and Political Representation of Women in the United States.”
Katharina Lawall, doctoral candidate in government at the London School of Economics, for “Angry White Women? The Radical Right Gender Gap Revisited.”
Alysia Mann Carey, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Chicago, for “‘I Felt the Hand of the Government in my Womb’: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Transnational Struggle for Life in Brazil and Colombia.”
Tiana Wilson, doctoral candidate in history at the University of Texas at Austin, for “No Freedom Without All of Us: Recovering the Lasting Legacy of the Third World Women’s Alliance.”

Honorable Mention

Regina Bateson, visiting professor of political science at the University of Ottawa, for “Strategic Discrimination.”
Carly Woods, assistant professor of communication at the University of Maryland, for “The Rhetorical Afterlives of Politician Barbara Jordan (1936-1996).”

Special award in honor of the centennial of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

Jennie Sweet-Cushman, assistant professor of political science at Chatham University; Rebecca Gill, associate professor of political science at University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Sondra Cosgrove, associate professor of social and behavioral sciences at College of Southern Nevada, for Nevada Bets on Women’s Political Leadership: An Examination of the First-Ever Majority-Women State Legislature.”

2018 Winners

Rachel Bernhard, postdoctoral Prize Fellow in politics at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom; Andrew Eggers, associate professor of quantitative methods in comparative government at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford; and Marko Klašnja, assistant professor of political science at Georgetown University, for “Wealth and Gender in Congressional Politics.”
Debra Lynn Leiter, assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and Beth Miller Vonnahme, associate professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, for “Can Women Soften the Far Right? How Leadership Gender Affects Far Right Party Evaluations and Reaction to Scandal.”
Alexandria Wilson, doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Florida, for “From Violence to Backlash: An Examination of Feminist Opposition to Anti-Gender Movements in Central and Eastern Europe.”

Honorable Mention

Lindsay J. Benstead, associate professor of political science at Portland State University, for “More Than Numbers: Women’s Political Representation in the Arab World.”
Jennifer E. Cryer, doctoral candidate in political science at Stanford University, for “Candidate Identity, Communication, and Voter Evaluations: The Effect of Campaign Messages on Bias Attenuation.”
Cindy Richards, associate professor of civic communication and media at Willamette University, for “Still Hunt: How Women Remade the Politics of the Pacific Northwest, 1850-1912.”
Amanda Roberti, assistant professor of political science at Ramapo College of New Jersey, for “Conservative Women Legislators and the Co-option of Feminist Rhetoric to Restrict Abortion.”

2017 Winners

Mark Daku, assistant professor in political science at Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, and Meredith Conroy, assistant professor in political science at California State University, Los Angeles, Calif., for “The Development of a Stand-Alone Dictionary for Automated Analysis of Gendered Text.”
Kelly Dittmar, assistant professor in political science at Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., and scholar at the Center for American Women and Politics, for “The Changing Roles, Experiences and Influence of Women Congressional Staff.”
Kimberly Hamlin, associate professor in American studies and history at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, for “Woman Citizen: Helen Hamilton Gardener and Women’s Suffrage in America.”
Ana Catalano Weeks, lecturer (assistant professor) in comparative politics at the University of Bath, United Kingdom, and Sparsha Saha, preceptor at Harvard University’s College Writing Center, Cambridge, Mass., for “Seeking More: Gender, Ambition, and Candidate Evaluations.”

Honorable Mention

Abby Córdova, assistant professor in political science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., and Annabella España-Nájera, associate professor in Chicano and Latin American studies at California State University, Fresno, Calif., for “Making Decentralization Work for Women: The Electability and Representation of Women in Local Governments.”
Heather Hicks, doctoral candidate in government and politics at the University of Maryland – College Park, Md., for “Intersectional Stereotyping in Political Campaigns: The Effects of Race and Gender on Evaluations of Black Women Candidates.”
Neil Narang, assistant professor in political science from the University of California – Santa Barbara, Calif., for “Are Peacekeeping Units With More Females More Effective? Evaluating the Impact of Female Peacekeepers on Post-conflict Outcomes and Behavior.”

2016 Winners

Xinhui Jiang, Ph.D. candidate in political science and international relations at the University of Delaware, Newark, Del., for “Where is the Half Sky? Women’s Representation in County People’s Congresses in China.”
Catherine Wineinger, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., for “Gendering the GOP: Republican Women and the Evolution of Women’s Representation in Congress.”

Honorable Mention

Elizabeth D. Katz, Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., for “Courting American Families: The Creation and Evolution of Courts of Domestic Relations.”
Jeong Hyun Kim, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo., for “Direct Democracy and Women’s Political Participation: Evidence from Sweden.”
Tim LaPira, associate professor of political science at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Va.; Kathleen Marchetti, assistant professor of political science at Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa.; and Herschel F. Thomas, assistant professor of political science at the University of Texas at Arlington, for “Gender and Lobbying.”
Kimberly Saks McManaway, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich., for “Framing Gender, Family and Economics in the Paid Family Leave Debate.”

2015 Winners

Tiffany D. Barnes, assistant professor of political science at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky., and Constanza F. Schibber, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Mo., for “The Successes of Female Representatives: Causes and Consequences of a Gendered Distribution of Legislative Power.”
Christina Ladam, Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Colo.; Jason Windett, assistant professor in political science at Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Mo.; and Jeffrey J. Harden, assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder; for “Does the Election of Female Governors Influence Women’s Political Ambition?”
Jennifer Rosen, visiting assistant professor of sociology at Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif., for “Gender Quotas for Women in National Politics: A Comparative Analysis Across Development Thresholds.”

Honorable Mention

Joel Hanel, Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Miss., for “Assessing the Impact of Female Casualties on Support for Military Conflict.”
Ashley Tallevi, Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., for “Making the Political Personal: Health Insurance, the Submerged State, and Women’s Political Engagement.”

2014 Winners

Erin C. Cassese, associate professor of political science at West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va., and Mirya R. Holman, assistant professor of political science at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Fla., for “Not a Team Player? Communal Challenges to Female Candidates.”
Tarah Williams, Kylee Britzman and Paul Testa, Ph.D. candidates in political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ill., for “The Potential to Persuade: The Gendered Effects of Informal Political Discussions.”
Christina Xydias, assistant professor of political science at Clarkson University, Potsdam, N.Y., for “The Conservative Woman: A Comparative Study of Germany and the United States.”

Honorable Mention

Nichole M. Bauer, visiting assistant professor of political science at Davidson College, Davidson, N.C., for “Strategic Gender Stereotyping in Congressional Campaigns.”
Noaquia Callahan, Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, for “Divided Duty: African American Feminist Transnational Activism and the Lure of the Imperial Gaze, 1888-1922.”
Ashley Farmer, postdoctoral fellow in history at Duke University, Durham, N.C., for “What You’ve Got is a Revolution: Black Women’s Theorizing of Black Power Politics.”
Kendall Funk, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, for “Elected on a Ledge: Women Mayors and the Glass Cliff in Brazil.”

2013 Winners

Annette Joseph-Gabriel, Ph.D. candidate in the French and Italian department at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., for “Women Subverting Empire: Gender and Anticolonial Politics in the Francophone World (1940-1975).”
Michael Callaghan Pisapia, assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C., for “Governing Education: Gender, Federalism and the Rise of Women’s Political Authority.”
Beth Reingold, associate professor of political science at Emory University, Atlanta, Ga., and Adrienne Smith, assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn., for “Legislative Incorporation and Intersections of Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in the American States.”

Honorable Mention

Wendy E. Chmielewski, curator at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection, Swarthmore, Pa., for “Her Hat Was in the Ring: U.S. Women Who Ran for Political Office Before 1920.”
Melanie Hughes, associate professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., for “Indigenous Women in Politics Worldwide.”

2012 Winners

Karin Hayes and Amy C. Elliott , New York filmmakers, for “Power Shift.”
Kimberly Cowell-Meyers, assistant professor of government at American University, Washington, DC, for “Women’s Political Parties: Their Emergence, Substance and Impact.”
Jaclyn Kettler, Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at Rice University, Houston, TX, for “Campaign Networks and the Success of Female State Legislative Candidates.”
Dawn Teele, Ph.D. candidate in the political science department at Yale University, New Haven, CT, for “Understanding Descriptive Representation Requires Better Data: A Proposal to Collect and Refine Data on Women in Parliament.”

Honorable Mention

Mona Tajali, Ph.D. candidate in humanities at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, for “Demanding a Seat at the Table: Women’s Organizing for Political Representation in Iran and Turkey.”
Kerith Woodyard, assistant professor of communication at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill., for “A Bulldog Running along the Feet of Jesus: A Rhetorical Analysis.”

2011 Winners

Karen Beckwith, professor of political science, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Claire Annesley, senior lecturer of politics, the University of Manchester, Manchester, England; Isabelle Engeli, assistant professor of public and international affairs, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada; and Susan Franceschet, associate professor of political science, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, for “Gender and Cabinet Recruitment: Pace and Profile in Gendering Government.”
Melody Ellis Valdini, assistant professor of political science, Portland State University, Portland, Ore., for “A Stubborn Assumption of Innocence: The Effect of Corruption on Women’s Representation.”

Honorable Mention

Jaimie Bleck, Ford Family assistant professor of political science, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Ind., and Kristin Michelitch, Ph.D. candidate of political science, New York University, New York, N.Y., for “Good Morning Timbuktu! The Impact of Radio in Rural Islamic Africa.”
Anna L. Bostwick Flaming, Ph.D. candidate in history, the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, for “The Most Important Person in the World: The Changing Political and Cultural Meanings of American Housewifery in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century.”
David Broockman, graduate student of political science, University of California, Berkeley, Calif., for “Can Successful Female Candidates Break Glass Ceilings for Others?”

2010 Winners

Sarah A. Fulton, assistant professor of political science, Texas, A&M University, College Station, Texas, for “What Underlies the Gendered Quality Gap? The Role of Perceptions in Shaping the Supply of Female Candidates.”
Priscilla Ann Lambert, assistant professor of political science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., and Druscilla Scribner, assistant professor of political science, University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wsi., for “Gender and Constitutions: A Politics of Difference vs. Equality.”

Honorable Mention

Tali Mendelberg, associate professor of politics, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., Christopher F Karpowitz,assistant professor of political science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, and Lee Shaker, postdoctoral researcher, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., for “Gender Equity and Deliberative Justice.”
Trish Gibson, doctoral student in political science, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind., for “Gender Outreach and Sustainability in Microfinance: Does a Tradeoff Exist?”
Brittany L. Stalsburg, doctoral student in political science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., for “Voting for Mom or Dad: How Parenthood Affects Political Candidacy.”

2009 Winners

Amy Beth Aronson, assistant professor of journalism and media studies, Fordham University, New York, N.Y., for “To Live Greatly – That is the Thing’: The Life and times of Crystal Eastman, the Woman Behind the ACLU.”
Kim Miller, assistant professor of art history and women’s studies and coordinator of the Women’s Studies Program, Wheaton College, Norton, Mass., for “Selective Silencing and the Shaping of Memory in Post-Apartheid South African Visual Culture.”
Anca Turcu, lecturer in political science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, for “Winning Seats without Gaining Power: Weak Parliaments, Political Strategies and Women MPs in Emerging Democracies.”

Honorable Mention

Kelly Dittmar, research associate and program assistant at the Center for American Women and Politics and Ph.D. candidate in political science, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Burnswick, N.J., for “Campaigns as Gendered Institutions: Stereotypes and Strategy in Statewide Races.”

2008 Winners

Valerie Hennings, Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., for “Learning to Lead: State-Based Political Leadership Programs and Women’s Political Participation.”
Jennifer M. Piscopo, Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of California, San Diego, Calif., for “Do Women Represent Women? Gender and Policy in Argentina.”

Honorable Mention

Melody Rose, chair of the Department of Political Science at Portland State University, Portland, Ore., and Regina G. Lawrence, the Kevin P. Reilly Sr. Chair in Political Communication at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., for “Playing the Gender Card? Media, Strategy, and Hillary Clinton’s Campaign for the White House.”
Megan Boccardi, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Mo., for “Remembering the Civil War: Women’s Memorialization in Missouri.”
Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson, associate professor, and Maria Escobar-Lemmon, associate professor, Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, for “Tokens, Representatives or Players?: Female Cabinet Secretaries in Presidential Democracies.”

2007 Winners

Karen Kedrowski, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, S.C., for “Gender and the Public Speakership: News Media Coverage of Speaker Nancy Pelosi.”
Candice Ortbals, assistant professor of political science, Pepperdine University, Malibu, Calif., and Meg Rincker, visiting assistant professor of political science, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Ill., for “Decentralization and Women’s Policy Agencies: Relocating Feminist Policy in Spain, Chile, Poland and Pakistan.”

Honorable Mention

Nicole Eaton, doctoral student in history at Brown University, Providence, R.I., for “Women’s History and Women’s Rights: Gender and Collective Memory in American Feminism, 1948-1998.”
Carly Woods, doctoral teaching fellow in communication and women’s studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Pa., for “Women’s Debating Societies as Argumentative Laboratories for Political Activism: The Cases of Lucy Stone and Genevieve Blatt.”

2006 Winners

Pamela Paxton, associate professor of sociology and political science at The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, for “How Women Attain Political Power: Understanding Women’s Representation in Parliaments, 1893-2003.”
Aili Mari Tripp, associate dean of international students and professor of political science and women’s studies at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wis., for “Women and Peacemaking in Africa: When, Why and How Gender Matters.”

Honorable Mention

Jenny Barker-Devine, Ph.D. candidate in history at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, for “‘Our Cherished Ideals’: Rural Women, Activism, and Identity in the Midwest, 1950-1990.”
Petra Hejnova, Ph.D. candidate in political science at Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y., for “Free (Not) to Organize: Uncovering Effects of State Policies on Women’s Activism in the Czech Republic and Chile.”

2005 Winners

Karrin Anderson, assistant professor of speech communication at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo., and Kristina Sheeler, assistant professor of communication studies at Indiana University-Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., for “Woman President: Gender, Rhetorical Leadership, and the U.S. Presidency.”
Miki Kittilson, assistant professor of political science at Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., for “Women, Elected Office, and Policy Choices in Cross-National Perspective, 1960-2005.”
Lester Olson, professor of communication and women’s studies at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., for “Audre Lorde’s Public Speeches: Poet Orator, Wounded Warrior.”
Diana Santillán, graduate student in anthropology and human sciences and lecturer in women’s studies at George Washington University, Washington, DC, for “Local-Global Negotiations: An Ethnographic Case Study of a Women’s Organization in the Peruvian Amazon.”

Honorable Mention

Phyllis Brashler, Ph.D. student in sociology and anthropology, Northeastern University, Boston, Mass., for “Flirting with Feminism: The State and Battered Women’s Movement in Massachusetts.”

2004 Winners

Kathleen Laughlin, professor and chair of the Department of History, Metropolitan State University, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn., for “Citizen Clubwoman: The Politics and Culture of Women’s Clubs in Postwar America.”
Patricia Melzer, assistant professor and director of women’s studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa., for “Terroristenmadchen”: Women in Radical Left Political Groups in Germany and the U.S. in the 1970s.”
Catherine Rymph, assistant professor of history, University of Missouri- Columbia, Columbia, Mo., for “As Women Go, The Country Goes: American Women, Gender, and Nation Building after WWII.”

Honorable Mention

Kathleen A. Bratton, assistant professor of political science, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La., and Michelle Barnello, assistant professor of political science, Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Va., for “Bridging the Gender Gap: The Representation of ‘Women’s Interests’ in State Legislatures.”

2003 Winners

Douglas Schrock, assistant professor of sociology, and Sammy Rastagh, graduate student in sociology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla., for “Gender Dynamics in the Global Justice Movement.”
Aparna Thomas, Ph.D. candidate in political science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., for “Women’s Participation in the Panchayati Raj: A Case Study of Maharashtra, India.”
Gina Serignese Woodall, Ph.D. candidate in political science, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., for “Playing Hardball in a Dress?: Gender Differences in the Effectiveness of Negative Campaigns”

Honorable Mention

Lee Ann Banaszak, associate professor of political science and women’s studies, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., for “In and Out of State: Feminists in the Federal Bureaucracy and their Effect on the Women’s Movement.”
Mary Saracino Zboray, independent scholar, and Ronald Zboray, director of graduate studies and associate professor of communication and history, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., for “Voices Without Votes: Women’s Political Consciousness and Partisan Engagement in Antebellum New England.”

2002 Winners

Karen K. Garner, director of the Women’s Center and adjunct professor of history, Florida International University, Coral Gables, Fla., for “Women and Global Leadership: Theory and Practice in the World YWCA, 1914-2000.”
Kimberley Manning, Ph.D. student in political science, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash., for “Sexual Equality and State-Building Gender Conflict in the Great Leap Forward.”
Corrine M. McConnaughy, Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich., for “Activists, Institutions, and Organizations: Retelling the Story of Suffrage Rights Extension in a Federal System.”

Honorable Mention

Lisa Baldez, assistant professor and Harbison faculty fellow in political science, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., for “Elected Bodies: Gender Quota Laws for Legislative Candidates.”
Maurice Hamington, philosophy instructor, Lane Community College, Eugene, Ore., for “Sympathetic Knowledge: The Ethics and Politics of Jane Addams.”

2001 Winners

Ada Cheng, assistant professor of sociology, DePaul University, Chicago, Ill., for “Serving the Household and the Nation: Filipina Domestics and the Politics of Nationhood in Taiwan.”
Richard L. Fox, assistant professor of political science, Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., and Jennifer Lawless, Ph.D. candidate in political science, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif., for “Gender, Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Elective Office.”
Jerry L. Miller, assistant professor of communications and director of forensics, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, and Ann Gordon, assistant professor of political science, Miami University-Ohio, Oxford, Ohio, for “When Stereotypes Collide: Race, Gender and Congressional Campaigns.”

Honorable Mention

Leslie Petty, Ph.D. candidate in English, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga., for “Romancing the Vote: Feminist Activism in American Fiction, 1870-1920.”
Katherine Mellen Charron, Ph.D. candidate in history, Yale University, New Haven, Conn., for “‘What You Have in Your Mind and Heart to Do’: Septima Clark, Radical Education, and the African American Freedom Struggle.”

2000 Winners

Nancy E. Crowe, assistant professor of government, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., for “The Effects of Race and Sex on Decision Making on the U.S. Court of Appeals.”
Lynda Lee Kaid, professor of telecommunication, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla., and Mary Banwart, Ph.D. candidate in communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., for “Webstyle: Comparison of Gender Differences in Candidate Presentation on the Internet.”
Carol Lomicky, professor of journalism, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, Neb., for “Political Ideology in The Woman’s Tribune: The Journalism of Clara Bewick Colby.”

Honorable Mention

Deana Rohlinger, graduate student in sociology, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, Calif., for “Formal Social Movement Organizations and Media Frames: Examining the Influence of the National Organization for Women and Concerned Women for America on Mass Media in the Abortion Debate.”

1999 Winners

Kim Fridkin Kahn, Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz., for “How Men and Women Govern: Gender Differences in the Goals and Effectiveness of U.S. Senators.”
Christina Wolbrecht, associate professor of political science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind., and J. Kevin Corder, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Mich., for “Women’s Voting Behavior in the 1920s and Early 1930s.”
Karen Kampwirth, professor of political science, Knox College, Galesburg, Ill., for “Feminism and Guerrilla Politics in Latin America.”

1998 Winners

Holly McCammon, professor of sociology, and Karen Campbell, associate professor of sociology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., for “How Women Won the Vote: The Political Successes of State Suffrage Movements, 1866-1920.”
Margaret Trevor, assistant professor of political science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, for “Party Identification, Socialization and the Gender Gap.”

1997 Winners

Kathleen Dolan, assistant professor of political science, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wis., for “Determinants of Support for Women Candidates for Congress in the 1990s.”
Linda Brigance, Ph.D. candidate in communication, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, for “Iowa and the Equal Rights Amendment: Seventy-Four Years of Controversy.”

1996 Winners

Carole Chaney, Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of California-Riverside, Riverside, Calif., for “The Impact of Campaigns and Candidate Gender on Vote Choice in Senate Elections 1988-1992.”

Honorable Mention

Jenny Barbara White, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Omaha, Neb., for “Rethinking Civil Society: Reciprocal Foundations for Women’s Civic Action in Urban Turkey.”

1995 Winners

Cheryl Logan Sparks, Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C., for “How Grandmother Won the War: Strategic and Organization Lessons from the Struggle of Suffrage.”

1994 Winners

Leonie Huddy, professor of political science, State University of New York at Stony Brook, N.Y., for “Feminism and Feminists: A Symbolic Politics Study.”
Robin M. LeBlanc, Ph.D. candidate in political science, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Okla., for “Homeless as Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife.”