Dr Matt York receives Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation Award

21 Oct 2021

Dr Matt York (past PhD student of the Department of Government and Politics) was awarded the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation Award by the American Political Studies Association Caucus for a New Political Science for 'an outstanding Political Science dissertation finished within the previous year of the APSA Meeting which exemplifies the commitment to use scholarship in the struggle for a better world'.

The award committee's citation reads: 

'Matt York’s dissertation, Imagining New Worlds: (R)evolutionary Love and Radical Social Transformation in the 21st Century, develops a remarkably rigorous and original account of love as an emancipatory political concept and praxis for social change. Imagining New Worlds makes an important contribution to theories of political, economic, and social transformation by employing participatory methods that bring the voices of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-racist activists to the fore of new political science research. As an outstanding example of scholar activism, York’s dissertation embodies the central pillar of the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation Award: a commitment to using scholarship in the struggle for a better world'.

The link to the website can be found here:  https://connect.apsanet.org/s27/executive-committee/new-political-science-dissertation-award/

Matt also secured a book contract with Manchester University Press to produce a book based on his PhD research. It is envisaged that it will published in late 2022 and the title is: Love and Revolution: A Politics for the Deep Commons.