Honors & Awards

Recent Award Recipients

APCG Best Book Award 2022

Winner: Robtel Neajai Pailey (London School of Economics), for her book, Development,(Dual) Citizenship and Its Discontents in Africa: The Political Economy of Belonging to Liberia (Cambridge University Press)

APCG-African Affairs Best Graduate Student Paper Award 2023

Winner: Sean Paul Ashley (Harvard University), for his paper, “Born Strong: Wartime Institutions and the Durability of Rebel Regimes.”

APCG/John Harbeson Distinguished Africanist Award (bi-annual) 2022

Winner (2022): Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University

APCG Best Graduate Student Paper 2022

Vladimir Chlouba (University of Notre Dame/University of Richmond),for his paper entitled “The Politics of Respect: Early State Inheritance and Traditional Governance”

APCG Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award 2023

Winner: Melanie Phillips (UC Berkeley), for her dissertation, “Gendered Gatekeepers: Barriers to Women in Party-Controlled Candidate Selection.”

Past Award Recipients

APCG Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award 2023

Winner: Melanie Phillips (UC Berkeley), for her dissertation, “Gendered Gatekeepers: Barriers to Women in Party-Controlled Candidate Selection.”

APCG Best Article Award 2023

Winner: Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland), for the article “Why do Different Cultures Form and Persist? Learning from the Case of Makerere University.”

APCG Best Dissertation 2022

APCG Best Article 2022

Elizabeth Wellman (University of Memphis), for her article “Emigrant Inclusion in Home Country Elections: Theory and Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa”