Ayelet Shachar, Honorary Professor and Director of the Leibniz Prize Research Group, “Transformations of Citizenship” at the Normative Orders Research Centre, Goethe University Frankfurt, has won the APSA Migration and Citizenship Section’s Career Achievement Award.
The award recognizes and celebrates career achievement through outstanding scholarly publication, teaching, professional service, and/or public scholarship that has advanced the understanding of migration and/or citizenship in political life.
“One of the most notable aspects of Shachar’s career is that she has managed to shift the scholarly paradigms we use to understand big questions about migration, citizenship and belonging,” states the award citation.
“Her considerable corpus of published work has influenced every corner of our field.”
The citation further highlights Shachar’s “rare talent for making truly original arguments about familiar subjects,” her “tireless investment in institution-building” and steadfast commitment to “nurturing of others’ careers and research.”
Professor Shachar is the youngest scholar to have earned this accolade.