NEPSA congratulates the winners of the best paper prizes for the 2025 Annual Meeting,

held at the Omni Mt. Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire:

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JOHN C. DONOVAN PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER WRITTEN BY A FACULTY MEMBER

Michael Catalano, University of Scranton
Allison Bugenis, Binghamton University (SUNY)
Hayley Munir, Illinois State University
"Safeguarding Presidential Policy through Appointments to the US Court of Appeals"

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ROBERT C. WOOD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER WRITTEN BY A GRADUATE STUDENT

Angie Jo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"From Crisis to Capacity: Federal Interventions and the Evolution of State Welfare Institution"

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WILSON CAREY McWILLIAMS PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER WRITTEN BY AN UNDERGRADUATE

Bee Mayberry, Mount Holyoke College
"Praise Jesus (And Trump): Language and Indoctrination Strategies Used by the Alt-Right and Christian Nationalists"

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The New England Political Science Association gratefully acknowledges

PI SIGMA ALPHA

as the sponsor of the graduate student and undergraduate paper prizes

and as the Founding Sponsor of the Wilson Carey McWilliams Prize