Congratulations to our faculty, recent graduates and current students who have received recognition for their outstanding work this past year!

2009-2010 Award Winners

Courtney Hillebrecht: National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (Law and Social Sciences).

Dennis Dresang: Awarded the Women's Philanthropy Council "Champion Award" for 2009. Award to be presented by Chancellor Biddy Martin on October 28, 2009.

Stéphane Lavertu: Mildred Potter Hovland Award, for "Group Conflict, Political Uncertainty, and Executive Discretion."  The Hovland Award is for the best paper submitted to or published in a journal by a graduate student in the last year.

Michael Pisapia: Leon Epstein Prize in American and British Politics, for "The Authority of Women in the Political Development of Public Education in the American States, 1860-1930." The Epstein Award goes, in alternating years, to the best undergraduate or graduate work reflecting Leon's high standards and approach to studying politics.

 

2008-2009 Award Winners

Congratulations to Zach Oberfield, who is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association's Leonard D. White Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public administration. Zach's dissertation is titled "Becoming the Man: How Street-Level Bureaucrats Develop Their Workplace Identities and Views." The award will be given at this year's APSA meeting in Toronto

Congratulations to Charles Franklin and Liane Kosaki for winning the 2009 Lasting Contribution Award of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association! This award is given annually for a book or journal article, ten years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts. The award this year honors "Republican Schoolmaster: The U.S. Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and Abortion," co-authored by Charles and Liane and published in the American Political Science Review in 1989. The award will be presented at this year's APSA meeting in Toronto.

Dan Walters: Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. Sponored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.

Charles Franklin: Included in New York Time's 8th Annual Year in Ideas for Pollster.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/magazine/14ideas-section3-t-004.html?scp=1&sq=Pollster.com&st=cse

Jon Pevehouse: 2009 Karl Deutsch Award, International Studies Association, given "annually to a scholar in IR under age 40, or within ten years of defending his or her dissertation, who is judged to have made, through a body of publications, the most significant contribution to the study of International Relations and Peace Research."

Rick Avramenko: Institute for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2009-10, UW-Madison.

Scott Gehlbach: Lyons Family Faculty Fellow Award, College of Letters and Science.

Ken Goldstein: UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award.

Valerie Hennings: 2008 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, Catt Center for Women & Politics at Iowa State University.

Scott Straus: UW-Madison Distinguished Teaching Award.

Edward Friedman: Hilldale Award for the Social Studies Division, 2008-09.

Jon Pevehouse: Vilas Associate Award, UW Graduate School

Amber Wichowsky and Donald P. Moynihan: Joe Wholey Award, American Society for Public Administration, for the best article on performance management in 2008. For "Measuring How Administration Shapes Citizenship: A Policy Feedback Perspective on Performance Management," Public Administration Review 68(5): 908-920.

Brandon Kendhammer: College of Letters and Science Teaching Fellow, 2009-10

Saemyi Park: Myung-In Talented Student Scholarship, Sookmyung Women's University, South Korea.

Emily Sellars: National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship

Timothy Werner: Genevieve Gorst Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in Social Studies, UW-Madison, for "Congressmen of the Silent South: The Persistence of Southern Racial Liberals, 1949-1964," Journal of Politics 71, 1 (2009): 70-81

Donald Downs: Honored Instructor, Chadbourne Residential College, UW-Madison.

Ken Goldstein: Honored Instructor, Chadbourne Residential College, UW-Madison.

Timo Weishaupt: Haas Award for Best Dissertation in European Politics, European Politics and Society Section, American Political Science Association, 2009.

Meina Cai: Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, 2009-10

Meina Cai: National Science Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Michael Schatzberg: International Institute Faculty Contribution Grant, UW International Institute and Division of International Studies, in recognition of outstanding service to African Studies.

2007-2008 Award Winners

Barry Burden: Hamel Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science.

David Canon: Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award.

Mark Copelovitch: Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for the best paper in comparative politics presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting in 2007. The paper, co-written with David Singer, is "Financial Regulation, Monetary Policy, and Inflation in the Industrialized World."

Ed Friedman: Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award.

Ken Goldstein: Kellett Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin Graduate School

Byron Shafer (with Richard Johnston), Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, APSA, for The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006).
V.O. Key Prize of the Southern Political Science Association for the outstanding book of the year on southern politics, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South.

Scott Straus: Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 for The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda.
Honorable Mention, Melville Herskovits Award, African Studies Association, given for the most important book on African studies published in the previous year, for The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda.

Scott Straus: Vilas Associate Award, UW Graduate School

Aili Tripp: Hamel Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship 2008, Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, 2007-12, Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics, 2007, Feminist Scholars Fellowship 2007-2008

Susan Yackee: Emerging Scholar Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, APSA, given to a scholar within seven years of the Ph.D. whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.

Susan Yackee (with Jason Yackee): Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award, Midwest Political Science Association 2007, "Is Agency Rulemaking 'Ossified'? Testing Congressional, Presidential, and Judicial Procedural Constraints from 1983 to 2006."

Liane Kosaki: L&S Academic Staff Advising Award.

Tim Bagshaw: L&S Teaching Fellow.

Jen Ziemke: Innovation in Teaching Award, a campus-wide TA award.

Alice Kang: Hyde Dissertation Research Award from the Women's Studies Research Center at UW-Madison in April 2008

Jon C. Pevehouse and William G. Howell: Richard E. Neustadt Award for Best Book on the Presidency, APSA Presidency Research Group, September 2008. For While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers (Princeton University Press, 2007).

Dhavan Shah: Lynne Rienner Publishers Best Paper Award for 2008, recognizing the best scholarly article published about information technology and politics in the previous year, APSA Information Technology and Politics organized section, for Dhavan V. Shah, Jaeho Cho, Seungahn Nah, Melissa R. Gotlieb, Hyunseo Hwang, Nam-Jin Lee, Rosanne M. Scholl, and Douglas M. McLeod, "Campaign Ads, Online Messaging, and Participation: Extending the Communication Mediation Model, Journal of Communication 57, 4 (2007): 676-703.

David Weimer: Named a Fellow-Elect of the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Inauguration ceremony November 20 in Washington, D.C. NAPA was chartered by Congress in 1967 to provide objective practical advice based on systematic research and expert analysis to help solve administrative issues confronting federal, state, and local public agencies. NAPA Fellows include both academic researchers and distinguished practitioners. 

Tim Werner: Hovland Journal Article Prize, for "Congressmen of the Silent South: The Persistence of Southern Racial Liberals, 1949-1964," forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.

Jennifer Brick: Best Student Paper, American Institute for Afghanistan Studies, 2008.

Aili Tripp:  Hamel Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars fellowship 2008, Fulbright Senior Specialist Award, 2007-12, Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women for Politics, 2007, Feminist Scholars Fellowship 2007-2008.

2007 Departmental Undergraduate Awards:

• Emily Spangenberg, William Jennings Bryan Award, best term paper written in a political science course (including theses), "The Impact of International Justice on Domestic Policy: Evaluating the Effects of Transnational Human Rights Networks in Argentina and Chile." Senior honors thesis, advisor Scott Straus.
• Ben Pasquale, Elaine Davis Prize, "to a senior political science major in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. The recipient will also have demonstrated scholarship and leadership in campus and/or community affairs and demonstrated intellectual ability and curiosity, good citizenship, and an appreciation of the world outside her or himself."
• Erika Lopez-Tapia, Vera Elliot Scholarship
• Andrew Gordon, Phillip Schemel Award (scholarship)

2006-2007 Award Winners

Gwynn Thomas (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005), Elsa Chaney Award, best paper on gender at the Latin American Studies Association International Congress, September 2007, for "What No Tie? Political Campaigns, Gender and Redefining Political Leadership in Chile."

Michael Franz, who has been awarded the 2007 E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation submitted in calendar years 2005 and 2006 in the field of American government and politics.

Alice Kang, who has been awarded the 2007 Alice Paul Dissertation Prospectus Award for the best dissertation proposal in the field of women and politics.

Stephane Lavertu, who has been awarded a 2007 L&S Teaching Assistant Fellowship.

Erika Franklin Fowler, who has been named a 2007 Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Brandon Kendhammer
Winner of the second annual departmental Hovland Journal Article Prize Scholarship for the best article submitted to a major political science journal between September 1, 2005 - September 1, 2006

Travis Nelson
2006 UW-Madison Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award
2006 Named a Graduate fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science