Ayelet Shachar wins career achievement award

Ayelet Shachar, Irving G. and Eleanor D. Tragen Professor at UC Berkeley Law and long-time faculty member at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto, received the 2024 American Political Science Association (APSA) Migration and Citizenship Section Career Achievement Award.

Shachar's pathbreaking scholarship on comparative citizenship and migration, multiculturalism, international human rights, and borders was the basis for her selection. A sampling of her award-winning books includes Multicultural Jurisdictions: Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights (Cambridge University Press, 2001); The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality (Harvard University Press, 2009); and The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility (Critical Power Series, Manchester University Press, 2020). Shachar is also the lead editor of the field-defining Oxford Handbook of Citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2017 & 2020). 

With her dual training in political theory and law, her public impact extends beyond scholarship. She is influential with policymakers in Canada and has consulted with the European Parliament, the World Bank, and nonprofit organizations. Moreover, Shachar's service to the academy was lauded at the award presentation. Leading scholars Rogers Smith, Sarah Song, Elizabeth Cohen, Moria Paz, Hiroshi Motomura, and Sara Wallace Goodman feted her at the APSA roundtable dedicated to her achievements. Collectively, they remarked on her generosity and "tireless investment" in institution-building, hosting other scholars in numerous convenings on citizenship and migration. Her efforts are geared toward cultivating scholarly development, as evident in her mentorship of junior scholars.

Professor Shachar is the youngest scholar to win the award. As such, we look forward to her continuing contributions in the next phase of her career!

MHC