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EPOVB is on Twitter/X! – EPOVB Award Winners
APSA’s organized section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior (EPOVB) promotes scholarly dialogue related to teaching and research on elections, electoral behavior, public opinion, voting turnout, and political participation, both within the United States and throughout the world.
EPOVB is one of the largest and most active sections in the American Political Science Association. The section (APSA Section 32) is the union of two divisions: Elections and Voting Behavior (Division 36) and Public Opinion (Division 37).
In addition to organizing dozens of interesting panels and presentations at the annual APSA meetings, our awards recognize superior research in our field by advanced, emerging, and graduate student scholars. Our official journal, Political Behavior, publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, public opinion, institutions, processes, and policies.
Become an EPOVB member! When joining APSA or renewing your membership, or at any other time, consider joining EPVOB. Want to be even more involved? Reach out to any member of our section officers to express an interest in getting involved in the section’s organization, activities, and leadership.
Graduate students – we welcome your participation! Join the section at a discounted rate ($0!). Apply for travel awards from the section. And attend our business meeting and reception at the annual convention.
Section Bylaws – our section’s bylaws can be found here.
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EPOVB EARLY-CAREER FELLOWSHIP
Now accepting applications for the 2026 EPOVB Early-Career Fellowship. The fellowship supports graduate students and junior scholars who are no more than two years post-Ph.D. Fellows will receive $500, mentorship from a scholar in the field, and the opportunity to present their work at the Spring 2027 EPOVB Conference.
Applicants should submit a short research proposal, a brief statement on the value of mentorship, a brief explanation of how the funds will be used, and a CV. Fellowship funds may be used for research-related expenses including data access, survey costs, travel, books, translation, membership fees, childcare, or other materials that support the fellow’s research.
Applications are due July 1, 2026 and more details on how to submit are here.
2026 Award Committees
The 2026 Award Committee Members can be found here.
EPOVB is on Twitter/X!
You can follow us @epovb and share news. We’d love to use social media to publicize work by our members and opportunities that are of interest.
Congratulations to EPOVB’s 2025 Award Winners!
We’re delighted to announce the winners of EPOVB’s Section Awards. Information about previous winners may be found here.
Warren E. Miller Prize
André Blais, University of Montreal; Awarded every two or three years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections, public opinion, and voting behavior field.
2025 Philip E. Converse Book Award
The Philip E. Converse Book Award goes to Ismail K. White and Chryl Laird for the book, Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior. The Converse Award recognizes the author(s) of an outstanding book published at least five years ago.
2025 Emerging Scholar Award
Tyler Reny (Claremont University) wins our Emerging Scholar Award, which is presented to top scholars in the field who are within ten years of the Ph.D.
2025 EPOVB Best Paper Award
The Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper delivered at one of the section’s panels at the previous year’s APSA. This year the award goes to Priyadarshi Amar, Sumitra Badrinathan, Simon Chauchard and Florian Sichart for the paper “Countering Misinformation Early: Evidence from a Classroom-based Field Experiment in India.”
2025 Best Article, Political Behavior
This year, the section’s Best Paper in Political Behavior Award is given to Benjamin S. Noble and Taylor N. Carlson for their article “CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them.”
2025 John Sullivan Graduate Student Paper Award
The John Sullivan Award, for the best paper presented by a graduate student at one of the section’s panels at the previous year’s APSA, goes to Sophie Mainz for the paper “Femonationalism and Citizens’ Preferences: A Multifactorial Survey Experiment.” |
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Officers
Chair:
Melissa Michelson, Menlo College
Vice-Chair:
Anja Neundorf, University of Glasgow
Treasurer:
Matthew Hayes, Washington University, St. Louis
Communications Director:
Lucia Lopez, NC State University
Executive Council:
Tanika Raychaudhuri, Rice University
Elizabeth Connors, University of South Carolina
Rodrigo Castro Cornejo, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Dave Peterson, Iowa State University
Mollie Cohen, Purdue University
Rongbo Jin, Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen
Division Chairs:
Elections and Voting: Michal Grahn, University of Uppsala
Public Opinion: Allison Archer, University of Houston
Editors of Political Behavior:
Chris Karpowitz, Brigham Young University
Jessica Preece, Brigham Young University |
