Honors & Awards

Recent Award Recipients

November 11, 2024

Elect Your New Chair and Your New Treasurer!

We invite you to vote for the positions of Chair/Chair Elect and Treasurer. Please view the candidate statements below and cast your vote here: https://udenver.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_damk32tyZnPjBsy

October 24, 2024

CfP: African Judges Preventing and Responding to Political Attacks Workshop

A workshop on the role of African judges in preventing political attacks will be held at Queen Mary University on February 26, 2025. Submit your proposal by November 15, 2024

September 7, 2024

Lindsey Pruett wins the APCG Best Graduate Student Paper

The award committee has decided to award the APCG-African Affairs Best Graduate Student Award to Lindsey Pruett for her paper “Resisting the Blood Tax: Capacity, Railroads and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa.”

September 7, 2024

Nikolaos Frantzeskakis wins the Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award

Nikolaos Frantzeskakis wins the Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled "Speaking of Home: Local Representation and Re-Election in Africa"

September 7, 2024

Workshop Opportunity: The Research Presentation as Storytelling

This workshop takes place over two days: September 12 - 13 at the University of Minnesota. Both sessions meet from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM CST. Lunch will be provided. Virtual attendance is possible.

Past Award Recipients

Workshop Opportunity: The Research Presentation as Storytelling

This workshop takes place over two days: September 12 - 13 at the University of Minnesota. Both sessions meet from 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM CST. Lunch will be provided. Virtual attendance is possible.

Tribute to Nicolas van de Walle

With deep sadness, we share that our esteemed colleague, Nicolas van de Walle (Cornell University), passed away on July 15, 2024. Nic was one of the most highly regarded and accomplished members of our community. In addition to leaving a legacy in the field of African politics, Nic will be remembered as a kind, generous, and dedicated person.

APSA 2024: Attend the APCG events

Please note the following APCG events taking place at the APSA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, September 5-8. We hope to see many of you there!

APCG Online Colloquium on August 7 2024: Longing for Strongman Rule in Nigeria

Our next APCG Online Colloquium will be held on August 7 at 10:30 am EDT. It will feature work by Chris Akor (The University of Alabama) entitled “Longing for Strongman Rule in Nigeria.” The full paper abstract is below. Our discussants will be Josef Woldense and Boniface Dulani. Please sign-up here: https://forms.gle/XZXNXr8Z3rue3Mqy9

APCG Online Colloquium on July 2nd 2024: Barriers to Democratic Consolidation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Focusing on Ghana, Kenya, and Zambia

APCG Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award 2022

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

APCG Best Article Award 2022

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-African Affairs Best Graduate Student Paper Award 2022

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

APCG Best Dissertation 2022

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

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/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 Best Article 2022

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