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EQUITY AND INCLUSION FELLOWSHIP 2024: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Since 2016, APPAM has awarded the Equity and Inclusion Fellowship to encourage participation and recognize the important work being done by underrepresented undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals in the field of public policy. The fellowship supports the travel and participation of up to 40 graduate students, five undergraduate students, and five young professionals from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds at the APPAM Fall Research Conference. While at the conference, the fellowship recipients will have the opportunity to formally network with each other and with members of the Policy Council and the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. The goal of this fellowship program is to introduce recipients to the world of public policy and APPAM and to foster a lifelong affiliation and engagement with both.

Apply for the 2024 fellowship on our website, APPAM.org.

THE POLICY FIELD DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION AWARD

The Policy Field Distinguished Contribution Award was established in 2021 to honor persons who have made significant and long-term contributions to the development and growth of the field of public policy analysis and management. Such contributions can include (but are not limited to) critical or path-breaking research, core textbooks, substantial contribution to actual policymaking, significant contribution to APPAM as an organization, and significant contribution to JPAM. While not a lifetime achievement award, the purpose of this award is to recognize those who have sustained and contributed to our relatively young field over many years.

Nature of the award

The recipient will be honored at the Fall Research Conference and will receive a plaque.

Eligibility

To be considered for the award, the application should include a letter of nomination, CV, and contact information.

Nominating procedure

Nominations will open on APPAM.org in spring 2024.

THE DAVID N. KERSHAW AWARD

The David N. Kershaw Award and Prize was established to honor persons who, before the age of 40, have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy analysis and management. This award seeks to recognize original contributions to research-based knowledge that have advanced the design, implementation, and evaluation of public policies. Eligibility is not contingent on disciplinary background, policy focus, or academic credentials.

This prize is among the most prestigious and largest awards recognizing contributions to public policy and social science. Funding for the award comes from a memorial endowment established following the death of David N. Kershaw and managed by independent trustees.

Nature of the award

The 2024 Award and Prize will be presented prominently at APPAM's 2024 Annual Conference, which will be held in National Harbor, MD, November 21 to 23, 2024. The recipient will receive a cash prize of $20,000 at the Awards Reception & Presidential Address.

Eligibility

The precise age cut-off is turning 40 during the calendar year prior to the year of the award. For example, a 2024 nominee must have turned 40 during the year 2023.

Nominating procedure

Nominations will open on APPAM.org in spring 2024.

THE PETER H. ROSSI AWARD

The Peter H. Rossi award honors the lifetime achievements of Peter Rossi (1921–2006) by recognizing important contributions to the theory or practice of program evaluation. The award may be for a recent paper, publication, or for an entire body of work. The letter of nomination for 2020 (with the nominee's current address, e-mail address, and phone number) should detail the work's contributions to the field of evaluation and should include the paper or relevant parts of the body of work.

Nature of the award

Funding for the award comes from an endowment managed by the University System of Maryland Foundation, Inc.

Eligibility

The letter of nomination for 2024 (with the nominee's current address, email address, and phone number) should detail the work's contributions to the field of evaluation and should include the paper or relevant parts of the body of work.

Nominating procedure

Nominations will open on APPAM.org in spring 2024.

THE WILLIAM SPRIGGS MEMORIAL AWARD

Beginning in 2024, APPAM will award the William Spriggs Memorial Award to honor the life of the award namesake, a trailblazer in economics and labor policy. William Spriggs was chief economist of the AFL-CIO and a professor at Howard University before passing away in June 2023 at the age of 68. He dedicated his career to maximizing equity, fairness, and inclusion through social insurance and challenged his counterparts to rethink their beliefs about racial disparities. He called on economists, and the field of economics more broadly, to better understand how history and policy have shaped racial categories and to focus on studying big questions about the institutions that shape economic outcomes.

The William Spriggs Award was created to recognize other trailblazing academics and practitioners who have helped develop our understanding of racial discrimination in public policy, education, labor markets, academic disciplines, or society at large. Recipients of this award must have made sustained contributions in this area for a period of at least 20 years.

Nature of the award

The recipient will be awarded at the 2024 APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference this November in National Harbor, Maryland, and receive a $1,500 prize in the form of a check made out to the winner, up to $500 in travel funds supporting attendance at the APPAM Annual Fall Research Conference, and a plaque and recognition at the at the APPAM Membership & Awards Luncheon.

Eligibility

Eligibility is not contingent on disciplinary background, policy focus, or academic credentials.

Nominating procedure

The committee invites nominations through Wednesday, July 17, 2024. Visit APPAM.org for more information.

APPAM PHD DISSERTATION AWARD 2024: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Purpose of award

APPAM seeks to recognize emergent scholars in the field by presenting an award for the best PhD dissertation in public policy and management.

Nature of award

Winners receive a cash award in the amount of $1,500 in addition to a plaque, recognition at the annual APPAM Fall Research Conference, and publication of an abstract in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. A separate grant covering travel costs to the fall research conference also will be provided. The award winner and two honorable mentions will be given an opportunity to display posters of their dissertations during the conference.

Eligibility

Any dissertation that has been completed in the academic years 2022/2023 or 2023/2024 and granted a degree in that period is eligible for consideration. No dissertation that has been completed prior to May 1, 2022, will be accepted. No previously submitted dissertations will be considered. Dissertations from any discipline are eligible, as long as they deal substantively with public policy issues and are nominated by a faculty member of a public policy program who is an institutional member of APPAM. (The faculty member need not be the major advisor or supervisor of the student's dissertation, but he or she can nominate the dissertation based on the belief that it makes a strong contribution to policy analysis.)

Nominating procedure

Nominations must come from institutional members of APPAM (but not necessarily from the institution that granted the degree). Nominations can be submitted via APPAM.org beginning in spring 2024.

UPCOMING APPAM CONFERENCES

2024 Fall Research Conference

November 21–23, Gaylord, National Harbor, MD

2025 Fall Research Conference

November 13–15, Hyatt Regency, Seattle, WA

2026 Fall Research Conference

November 5–7, Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA

2027 Fall Research Conference

November 11–13, JW Marriott, Indianapolis, IN

2028 Fall Research Conference

November 9–11, Grand Hyatt & Marriott Metro Center, Washington, DC

For more information about these and other APPAM awards, programs, and activities, please visit APPAM.org.