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Congratulations to all our 2025 award recipients!

We loved connecting with you at #APSA2025

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We also want to recognize two honorable mentions for the Best Paper Award: 🏆

Joshua Ferrer for the paper "To Elect or Appoint? Evidence from Local Election Administration.”

Mirya Holman, Rebecca Johnson, and Tyler Simko, Princeton University for their paper "Measuring Conflict in Local Politics.”

📝 And finally, the Award for Best Paper presented at APSA 2024, awarded by the Urban Affairs Review, goes to

Elisa Maria Wirsching for her paper “Barriers to Representation: Selection Processes and Political Diversity in US Urban Bureaucracy.”

🎓 Byran Jackson Dissertation Research on Minority Politics Award

Winner: Antonia Gordon (Michigan State), “The Urban School Ecosystem.”

Honorable Mention: Jeremiah Cha (Harvard), “Racial Representation in American Local Politics.”

🏆 The Best Dissertation Award goes to Elisa Maria Wirsching (now at LSE), for her 2024 dissertation “Essays on the Politics of Local Bureaucracy.”

🌟 The Susan Clarke Young Scholar Award goes to
Tanushree Goyal (Princeton University) and Stephanie Ternullo (Harvard University), celebrating their contributions as emerging scholars!

🌟 The Clarence Stone Scholar Award goes to
Michael Hankinson (George Washington University) for his contributions to the field!

📖 Dennis Judd Best Book Award

Winner: Veronica Herrera, "Slow Harms and Citizen Action: Environmental Degradation and Policy Change in Latin American Cities" (Oxford)

Honorable Mentions:
• S. Ternullo, How the Heartland Went Red (Princeton)
• E. Farris & M. Holman, The Power of the Badge (Chicago)

Plenty of exciting presentations on urban & local politics all day long — check our pinned post for panel locations

(Spoiler: We’ll be in the Pan Pacific Vancouver, Oceanview 7 + 8 all day 😉)

Then we have three great panels lined up:

🕙 10:00 AM - Inequality and Immigration
🕛 12:00 PM - Non-State Actors and Urban Governance
🕑 2:00 PM - Police, Politics, and Power

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📌 Poster Session — don’t miss it!
📍 East Exhibit Level, East Exhibit Hall A today at 12:00

📌 Section Business Meeting — join us as we present this year’s Section Awards 🏆
📍VCC East Meeting Level, East 20

📌 Reception 🎉
📍Crystal Pavilion C in the Pan Pacific