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Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Winners David Easton Award Recognizes a book that broadens the horizons of contemporary political science by engaging issues of philosophical significance in political life through any of a variety of approaches in the social sciences and humanities. 2011 Joseph M. Schwartz, Temple University “The Future of Democratic Equality: Rebuilding Social Solidarity in a Fragmented America” (Routledge, 2009) 2010 George Shulman, New York University “American Prophecy: Race and Redemption in American Political Culture” (University of Minnesota Press, 2008) HONORABLE MENTION: Robert Gooding-Williams, University of Chicago “In the Shadow of DuBois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America” (Harvard University Press, 2009) Marc Epprecht, Queens University, Canada “Heterosexual Aftrica? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS” (Ohio University Press/Swallow Press, 2008) 2009 Carol Gould, George Mason University “Globalizing Democracy (Cambridge University Press) HONORABLE MENTION: Brooke Ackerly, Vanderbilt University “Universal Human Rights in a World of Difference (Cambridge University Press) Steven Eric Bronner, Rutgers University “Reclaiming the Enlightenment (Columbia University Press) 2008 Charles Taylor, McGill University The Secular Age (Harvard University Press, 2007) 2007 Quentin Skinner, Cambridge University Press Visions of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2006) 2006 Henry S. Richardson, Georgetown University Democratic Autonomy: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy (Oxford University Press, 2003) 2005 Ira Katznelson, Columbia University Desolation and Enlightenment Political Knowledge After Total War, Totalitarianism and the Holocaust (Columbia University Press, 2003) 2004 Scott L. Althaus, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics: Opinion Surveys and the Will of the People (Cambridge University Press, 2003) 1

Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Winners 2003 Sheldon S. Wolin Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of Political and Theoretical Life (Princeton University Press, 2001) 2002 Nancy L. Rosenblum, Harvard University Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America (Princeton University Press, 1998) 2001 Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (Yale University Press, 1997) 2000 Jennifer Hochschild, Princeton University Facing up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1999) 1999 David Laitin, Stanford University Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad (Cornell University Press, 1998) 1998 Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University Making Democracy Work (Princeton University Press, 1993) 1997 Jurgen Habermas Between Facts and Norms (MIT Press 1996)

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Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Winners First Book Award Recognizes the best first book published by a scholar in the "early stages" of his or her career in the area of political theory or political philosophy. 2010 Jeffrey Edward Green, University of Pennsylvania The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship (Oxford University Press, 2009) HONORABLE MENTION: Mark B. Brown, California State University of Sacramento Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation (MIT Press 2009) Danielle Celermajer, University of Sydney The Sins of the Nation and the Ritual of Apologies (Cambridge University Press, 2009) 2009 Samantha Frost, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lessons from a Materialist Thinker (Stanford University Press) 2007 Bryan Garsten, Yale University Saving Persuasion: A Defense of Rhetoric and Judgment (Harvard University Press, 2006) 2006 Elisabeth Ellis, Texas A&M University Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (Yale University Press, 2005) Jennifer Pitts, Princeton University A Turn to Empire: Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton University Press, 2005) 2005 Corey Robin, CUNY Brooklyn Fear: The History of a Political Idea (Oxford University Press, 2004) 2004 Alan Keenan, Bryn Mawr College Democracy in Question: Democratic Openness in a Time of Political Closure (Stanford University Press, 2003) 2004 Patchen Markell, University of Chicago Bound by Recognition (Princeton University Press, 2003) 2003 Laura Janara, University of British Columbia Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy and Passion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America (State University of New York Press, 2002) 2002 Ayelet Shachar, University of Toronto Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women's Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001) Daniel Engster, University of Texas, San Antonio (Honorable Mention) Divine Sovereignty: The Origins of Modern State Power (Northern Illinois University Press, 2001) 2001 Sara Mononson, Northwestern University 3

Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Winners Plato's Democratic Entanglements (Princeton University Press, 2000) 2000 Alan Pattern, McGill University Hegel's Idea of Freedom (Oxford University Press, 1999) 1999 C. Bradley Thompson, Ashland University John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty (University of Kansas Press, 1998) 1999 Melissa Williams, University of Toronto Voice, Trust, and Memory (Princeton University Press, 1998) 1998 James Wood Bailey, Princeton University Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice (Oxford University Press, 1997) First Book Award (continued) 1997 Simone Chambers, University of Colorado Reasonable Democracy (Cornell University Press, 1996) 1994 Bonnie Honig, Harvard University Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics (Cornell University Press, 1993) 1993 Richard C. Sinopoli, University of California, Davis The Foundations of American Citizenship and Civic Virtue (Oxford University Press, 1992) 1992 Alan Houston, University of California, San Diego Algernon Sydney and the Republican Heritage in England and America (Princeton University Press, 1991) 1991 Stephen T. Leonard, University of North Carolina Political Theory in Political Practice (Princeton University Press, 1990) 1990 William Corlett, Bates University Community Without Unity: A Politics of Deridian Extravagance (Duke University Press) Best Paper Award For the best paper presented on a foundation panel at the APSA Annual Meeting. 2011 Farah Godrej, University of California, Riverside “Gandhi’s Body: Asceticism, Pain and Suffering in Environmental Political Discourse” 2010 Philip Michelbach, West Virginia University and Andrew Poe, University of California, San Diego “Renewing Democratic Authority: Hamlet’s Politics with (and against) Carl Schmitt” 2006 Patchen Markell, University of Chicago "The Insufficiency of Non-Domination" 2005 Samuel A. Chambers, University of Wales, Swansea "The Anteriority of the Present: Reading Sexuality in Six Feet Under" 2003 Leigh K. Jenco, University of Chicago 4

Foundations of Political Thought Section Award Winners "Representing a Noble Heart: Thoreau's Critique of Democracy" 2002 Roy Tsao, Georgetown University "Arendt and Athens: Rereading the Human Condition" 2002 Laurie Balfour, University of Virginia "The Argument of John Brown" 2001 Jennifer Pitts, Yale University "Legislator of the World? A Rereading of Bentham on India" 1999 Albert W. Dzur, University of Utah "Comprehensive Liberal Politics and the Fact of Pluralism" 1998 Kennan Ferguson, University of Hawaii "Communities of Meaning: Toward a Kantian Non-Universal Judgment" 1997 Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan "Republican Romance"

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