WPSA AWARDS: 2017 ANNUAL MEETING
For nearly a quarter century, Betty Moulds served the Western Political Science Association with the highest distinction, a dedication to mentorship, and a commitment to building the WPSA into an exemplary home for political science scholars. The Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award was established to recognize individuals who, like Betty, have a long history of service and extraordinary contribution of time, energy, and talent to the Association.
Our inaugural recipient of the Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award also has served the Association with the highest distinction for well over two decades. He has taken on virtually every role one could in service to the organization: President, Program Chair, Local Arrangements Chair, Section Chair, Executive Council member, and Chair or Member on numerous Association committees over his 20+ years of WPSA activity, not to mention being an active participant at our Annual Meetings through the years.
For the inaugural recipient of the Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award, the selection committee wanted to honor a person not only for his or her service, but who could also serve as an exemplar who all could aspire to follow. For these reasons, we are proud to recognize:
RONALD SCHMIDT
currently at Davidson College, and a long-standing faculty
member at California State University, Long Beach, as the 2017 Western
Political Science Association Betty Moulds Lifetime Service Award
recipient.
ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICANS POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Rhoanne Esteban, University of California, Santa
Barbara
Paper Title: Understanding How Political Context
and Racial Coalitions Matter for Asian Pacific American Representation
in California
BETTY NESVOLD WOMEN AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Sara Angevine, Whittier College
Paper Title: Aborting Global Women's Rights: How
the U.S. Represents Women Worldwide
BLACKS AND POLITICS AWARD ($250)
To: Elizabeth Maltby, University of Iowa
Paper Title: Criminal Justice and the Polarization
of Public Opinion
CHARLES REDD AWARD FOR BEST PAPER ON THE POLITICS OF THE AMERICAN
WEST ($250)
To: Albert Ponce, Diablo Valley College
Paper Title: Racialized Disposability, Migration,
Labor and Violence
DISSERTATION AWARD ($250)
To: Sanne Rijkhoff, Portland State University
For Her Dissertation Completed at Washington State University:
False Alarm! The Measurement and Assessment of Political Cynicism
and the Consequences for Political Participation (To
see abstract, Click Here)
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICAL THEORY AWARD ($250)
To: Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside
Paper Title: Gandhi, Yogic Self-Control, and Food
Justice
LATINA/LATINO POLITICS ($250)
To: Andrea Silva, University of North Texas
Paper Title: Generation Justice: How Judges Immigration
Experience Affects Rulings on State Immigration Laws
PI SIGMA ALPHA AWARD ($500)
To: Angela X Ocampo, University of California, Los
Angeles
Paper Title: A Sense of Belonging: Habitual Voting
among Latinos
POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY BEST ARTICLE AWARD ($1000)
To: Inés Valdez, Ohio State University
For Her December 2016 PRQ Article: Punishment, Race
and the Organization of U.S. Immigration Exclusion
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