ISA Awards

About our Awards


ISA offers several awards given to recognize outstanding scholarly contributions to the field of international studies. These awards have different committees, nominating procedures and submission deadlines. They recognize outstanding papers, books, achievement, and service awards.

Required ISA Membership: All awardees must be members of ISA within two weeks of the award being given, and must remain current through disbursement (typically a month following event). Committees may confirm membership status of participants by contacting ISA Headquarters. 

Conflict of Interest Policy: As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency and ethical conduct, we would like to remind all members of the International Studies Association (ISA) about our Conflict of Interest Policy, particularly in the context of awards.

Key Dates for Giving Awards

May 1, 2025

Make sure your award pages look correct on this site! Check committee information, general information, nomination details especially deadlines.

July 1, 2025

Distinguished Scholar Panels: If a panel at the Annual Convention should be linked with your award, be sure to coordinate with the section/caucus chair to submit the Distinguished Scholar Panel (submit here).

July 15, 2025

New awards: Any new awards must be submitted to ISA headquarters by July 15th to ensure there is time to create an award page, send out a call, and get recipient information back to headquarters for the November 1 deadline. Please note that if you are submitting a new award that has a convention program component, please make sure you submit it early enough to meet other deadline dates. 

November 1, 2025

Please complete the form below by this date with the recipient(s) full name and their contact information in order to ensure being listed in the program award pages. Also, if applicable provide the full title of the book/paper you would like to add to the certificate/plaque.

December 1, 2025

If your award is given out at the Leadership Recognition & Award Ceremony, we need a paragraph about why the recipient was selected no later than this date.

Failure to meet deadlines of information to ISA can result in either us not being able to produce your award or your award being ineligible for presentation at our Business Meeting & Award Ceremony.

 

New Award?

Did your Section, Region or Caucus create a new award? Log in to your ISA account and then please register it with us right away so that we can help publicize and track it...

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