2025 Award Winners

The PNP Division is pleased to announce our 2025 award winners. Congratulations to all and thank you to each committee member, chair, and sponsor.

Best Journal Article Award

“An Analysis of Micro-Scale Conflict in Collaborative Governance.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 34, no. 2 (April 2024): 316–30. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muad025

Nicola Ulibarri, University of California, Irvine

 

Best Journal Article Award Honorable Mentions

“Equity in Government Contracting: Analyzing the Performance of Small Disadvantaged Businesses.” Public Administration Review 84, no. 3 (May 2024): 484–99. https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.13704

Benjamin Brunjes, University of Washington
Evelyn Rodriguez-Plesa, University of Central Florida

and

“Burdens, Bribes, and Bureaucrats: The Political Economy of Petty Corruption and Administrative Burdens.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 34, no. 4 (October 2024): 481–97. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muae010

Fernando Nieto Morales, El Colegio de México
Rik Peeters, CIDE, Mexico
Gabriela Lotta, São Paulo School of Business Administration

 

Best Book Award

Volunteer Management: A Strategic Approach. Routledge, 2024.

Jessica Sowa, University of Delaware
Jaclyn Piatak, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

Best Book Award Honorable Mention

Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China. Oxford University Press, 2024.

Yan Long, University of California, Berkley

 

Best Dissertation Award

Public Employee Stereotypes: What are they? Do they matter?

Sheeling Neo, American University

 

Best Dissertation Award Honorable Mention

Evaluating Heavy-Handed and Collaborative Crime Control Policies in Jamaica: Impacts on Decision-making, Education, and Safety

Aubrey Stewart, Office of the Prime Minister, Jamaica

 

Best Conference Paper by a Public and Nonprofit Division Doctoral Student

"Revisiting Volunteering Research: A Systematic Literature Review"

Silvia Lässer, University of Bern

 

Charles H. Levine Award for Best Conference Paper in the Public and Nonprofit Division

"Money Silences 'Us': Financial Topics Erode Collective Identity in the German Parliament"

Robin Bachmann, Free University of Berlin

 

Best International/Comparative Conference Paper Award

"Selective Deinstitutionalization: Informal Institutional Adaptation in Maoist China"

Adam K. Frost, Copenhagen Business School 
Sandeep Pillai, Bocconi University

 

Best International/Comparative Conference Paper Award Runners Up

"From Self-Reflection to Reality: Unmasking the Dark Shadows of Stereotypical View on Volunteer Outcomes"

Muhammad Ali Hussain, NingboTech University
Qing Miao, Zhejiang University

and

"Beyond Cost Savings and Interchangeability: Towards a Value-Based Framework for the Contributions of Volunteers and Volunteering to Nonprofit Organizations"

Philine Van Overbeeke, University of Oxford
Lucas C.P.M. Meijs, Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University
Corinna Frey-Heger, Erasmus University Rotterdam

 

Top Reviewer Award
Bazillia Donaji Gutierrez, Marymount University
Nirved Kumar, Indian Institute of Management (IIM)
Carolin Langhauser, University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU)
Lei Liu, University of Exeter
Martin Mehrwald, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Kristen Jill Robinson, Marymount University
Shaldeen Somers, Ghent University
Nunzia Zecchillo, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Lukas Zumbrunn, University of St. Gallen

 

We look forward to celebrating with you in Copenhagen at AOM 2025!