Nancy Yun Tang wins APSA dissertation prize

Aug. 5, 2024

Congratulations to LEGster and politics graduate student Nancy Yun Tang, who won the American Political Science Association's Kenneth Sherrill Prize for her dissertation "Making Autocracy Queer: A Dance in ‘Law’ Between LGBTQ Movements and Authoritarian States in China and Singapore.”

The Kenneth Sherrill Prize is awarded “for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science.” 

Nancy presented her work at a Law-Engaged Graduate Student (LEGS) seminar last fall.