1. IPE Best Dissertation Award

      The International Studies Association's International Political Economy Section seeks to recognize the best
      dissertation completed and accepted in the previous two years (2009-2011 for the 2012) in the field of international
      political economy. A ten page summary of the dissertation along with the nomination letter from the dissertation
      committee chair/member should be emailed to the IPE Dissertation Award Committee latest by October 1, 2011. The IPE
      Best Dissertation Award Committee will short-list three dissertations and invite the submission of the full
      dissertations. The winner will be announced at the IPE section meeting in San Diego in April 2012 and will receive a
      framed certificate and check for $100.
      Please email your material to 

Thomas Oatley (Chair; toatley@email.unc.edu), 
Nathan Jensen (Member,njensen@wustl.edu),
Daniel Drezner (Member, daniel.drezner@tufts.edu), 
Hevina Dashwood (Member, hdashwood@brocku.ca), and 
Anke Schmidt-Felzmann (Member, a.schmidt-felzmann@maastrichtuniversity.nl).

2. IPE Best Graduate Student Paper Award

      The International Studies Association's International Political Economy Section seeks to recognize the best (sole
      authored) graduate paper presented at the previous (2011)ISA conference. To be eligible for the award, the paper must
      be presented on a panel sponsored or co-sponsored by the IPE section, and must be original (not published at the time
      of its presentation). Papers presented as posters are also eligible. Papers may be nominated by panel
      chairs/discussants or other conference participants, and by authors. The winner will be announced at the IPE section
      meeting in San Diego in April 2012 and will receive a framed certificate and check for $100.Please email the
      nomination letter and the paper to the Graduate Student Paper Awards committee by November 1, 2011 to 

Jeffrey A. Hart(Chair, hartj@indiana.edu), 
Abraham Newman (Member, aln24@georgetown.edu), 
Doris Fuch (Member, Doris.Fuchs@uni-muenster.de), 
Xun Cao (Member, caox@essex.ac.uk), 
Stefano Guzzini (Member,sgu@diis.dk), 
Robert Wolfe (Member, robert.wolfe@queensu.ca)


3. IPE Distinguished Senior Scholar Award

      The International Political Economy Distinguished Senior Scholar (DSS) Committee is pleased to announce that Professor
      Mary Ann Tetreault, Una Chapman Cox Distinguished Professor of International Affairs at Trinity  University (Texas),
      will be honored at the 2012 meeting as the IPE Distinguished Senior Scholar. The DSS Award committee was chaired by
      Professor Renee Marlin-Bennett (Johns Hopkins University). Professor Robert Denemark (University of Delaware) and
      Professor Phil Cerny (2011 DSS Award winner) served as members.

      Professor Tetreault is author, co-author or co-editor of 14 books and many articles, chapters and reports. Much of
      Tetreault's current research examines democracy in the Arab world. She co-edited Political Change in the Arab Gulf
      States: Stuck in Transition with Gwenn Okruhlik and Andrzej Kapiszewski (2011), and authored Stories of Democracy:
      Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait (2000).  She is highly respected for her research on the Arab world and
      oil in the global political economy.  She is the author of The Kuwait Petroleum Corporation and the Economics of the
      New World Order (1995), Revolution in the World Petroleum Market (1985), and The Organization of Arab Petroleum
      Exporting Countries (1981).  Tetreault served as co-editor of the IPE Yearbook from 1997 to 2003, and has organized
      volumes on various additional aspects of political economy.

      Professor Tetreault is also well-known for her scholarship on gender and on democracy.  Her books on gender and
      feminist approaches include two volumes on Feminist Approaches to Social Movements, Community, and Power co-edited
      with Robin L Teske in 2000 and 2003; At Home in the Nation? Gender, States, and Nationalism, with Sita Ranchod-Nilsson
      (2000) and she is sole editor of Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World (1994).  Her interest in
      pedagogy led her to co-author the innovative text World Politics as if People Mattered, with Ronnie Lipschutz.

      Professor Mary Ann Tetreault brings to IPE a deep knowledge of the Arab world and of the way in which the economy of
      oil and the political structures of the Arab states interact.  Further she brings culture, religion and gender to the
      fore in her analyses.  She is a prolific and insightful scholar, and we are pleased to recognize her as Distinguished
      Senior Scholar. At the 2012 ISA conference, the IPE section will organize a roundtable in her honor followed by a 
      reception which is sponsored by Lynne Rienner.


4. SWIPE Award

Originating in the early 1990s, the Society for Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) observed that many 
women in IPE did not have the close mentoring relationships that their male counterparts seemed to benefit from. Indeed, 
while research across disciplines has shown that mentoring can be key to higher publication rates and successfully achieving 
tenure, women tend to get less mentoring than men. To recognize excellent mentoring in their field, members created the SWIPE 
Mentor Award, presenting the first award to Robert Keohane in 1997.  The SWIPE Mentor Award pays tribute to women and men who 
have invested in the professional success of women in the IPE field. Recipients have included scholars, an academic press 
editor, and deans. In 2009, with the view that many of its original goals had been reached and that other organizations were 
addressing its concerns, SWIPE disbanded. The award is now administered by the International Political Economy Section.

Nominations must include the nominee's current c.v. and a letter (no more than 2 pages) describing how the nominee 
has mentored women in IPE. Nominations may come from any member of ISA and should be sent by e-mail to the Committee 
Chair Kathleen J. Hancock (khancock@mines.edu). The deadline for nominations is July 15, 2011.

The IPE Section Chair will announce the recipient's name at the IPE Section Business Meeting at the ISA Annual Convention.  
A special roundtable honoring the recipient will be held at the convention as part of the regular ISA program. The awardee 
will be given a plaque which will be presented at a special roundtable honoring the recipient.