Melissa Lee (external link), assistant professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University (external link)’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (external link), has received the American Political Science Association (external link)’s (APSA) 2016 Helen Dwight Reid Award (external link).

This prize is awarded annually for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of international relations, law and politics.  

Lee — whose research and teaching interests bridge the subfields of international relations and comparative politics — will receive her award at the APSA Annual Meeting this fall in Philadelphia.