2023 Best NPSA Paper Awards

Best Faculty Paper Award
The Role of Local Government in Refugee Integration Policies: A Comparative Analysis
Rabia Karakaya Polat, Department of International Isik University
Yusuf Evirgen, Department of Political Science, Binghamton University.

Best Graduate Student Paper

Competing with Executive Aggrandizement? The Rise of the Personalization of Courts in Polarized Democracies

Mishella Romo Rivas, Princeton University

McWilliams Best Faculty Paper in Political Theory

Arendt, Kant, and the Critique of Teleology

Guido Parietti, MSU – James Madison College

McWilliams Best Graduate Student Paper in Political Theory

The Becoming of the Beautiful: Magnanimity in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics

Ethan Cutler, Boston College

Identity Issues Best Paper

Beyond Bars: Understanding the role of sexual orientation and gang affiliation in female incarceration

Amber Morris, Department of Political Science, Syracuse University