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Congratulations

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

2013-2014 (awards announced since April 29, 2013)

Faculty

Dan Kapust Faculty Development Seminar organizer, Spring 2014, Institute for Research in the Humanities, for the seminar "Machiavelli at 500"
John Zumbrunnen Educational Innovation Grant, "Flipping and Blending PS 566: Contemporary American Political Thought," UW-Madison Office of the Provost

Graduate Students

Brian Robert Gingerich
Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellowship 2013-14
  Weaver Fellowship 2013, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Katelyn Jones Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, 2013-14
Kathleen Klaus Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship 2013-14, United States Institute of Peace
Jinjie Liu Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, 2013-14
Brianne Walsh Mercatus Center Adam Smith Fellowship 2013-14
 

2012-2013 Award Winners

The program from the Political Science 2013 Awards Reception

Faculty

John Ahlquist 2012 American Journal of Political Science Best Article Award, given by the Midwest Political Science Association. The award, for the best article published in the AJPS in 2012, the article, "Riding the Wave: World Trade and Factor-Based Models of Democratization," co-authored with Erik Wibbels of Duke University. 
Richard Avramenko ForeWord Reviews 2011 Book of the Year Award for Political Science, 3rd place, Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb (University of Notre Dame Press, 2011)
  Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Rikhil Bhavnani Royal Economic Society Prize for the best unsolicited paper published in The Economic Journal in 2012, for "Counting Chickens When They Hatch: Timing and the Effects of Aid on Growth," by Michael Clemens, Steven Radelet, Rikhil Bhavnani, and Samuel Bazzi.
David Canon Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow, 2013-2016
John Coleman Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Donald Downs Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom
Christina Ewig Flora Tristán Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, Peru Section, Second-Wave Neoliberalism: Gender, Race and Health Sector Reform in Peru (Penn State Press, 2010)
Helen Kinsella Sussex International Theory Prize, The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian (Cornell University Press, 2011)
  Lepgold Book Prize, Honorable Mention, The Image Before the Weapon: A Critical History of the Distinction between Combatant and Civilian, for the best book on international relations published in 2011
Keisha Lindsay Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity Fellowship, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW-Madison
  Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Noam Lupu Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award for "Party Brands in Crisis: Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America." Comparative Democratization Section of APSA

Gabriel Almond Award for dissertation, "Party Brands in Crisis: Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America." Comparative Politics, APSA
Melanie Manion Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor, UW-Madison Office of the Provost
  Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
  College of Letters & Science 2012-13 Faculty Advising Award, Graduate Students
Kenneth Mayer Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Donald Moynihan Herbert Simon Book Award, American Political Science Association, Public Adminsitration Section, awarded for a book that has had a significant influence in public administration scholarship over the past 3-5 years, for The Dynamics of Performance Management: Constructing Information and Reform (Georgetown University Press, 2008)
Ryan Owens Neal Tate Award, awarded for the outstanding judicial politics paper presented at the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, for "Minimizing Doctrinal Drift: The Role of Clarity in Protecting Supreme Court Opinions." Co-author Patrick Wohlfarth (University of Maryland)
Michael Schatzberg Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Nadav Shelef Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Margaret Peters Helen Dwight Reid Award for the best doctoral dissertation during the previous two years in the field of international relations, law and politics, American Political Science Association, "Open Trade, Closed Borders: Immigration Policy in the Era of Globalization"
Erica Simmons Co-winner of the LASA/Oxfam America 2013 Martin Diskin Dissertation Award of the Latin American Studies Association. The dissertation is titled "Markets, Movements, and Meanings: Subsistence Resources and Political Protest in Mexico and Bolivia."
Scott Straus Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Katherine Walsh Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
David Weimer President of the Society for Benefit-Cost Analysis for 2013
John Witte Excellence in Mentoring Award, American Political Science Association, Public Policy Section
SusanYackee H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award
John Zumbrunnen Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing

Graduate Students 

 

Casey Ehrlich
Social Science Research Council, Drugs, Security, and Democracy Fellowship
  Jennings Randolph Peace Scholarship, United States Institute of Peace
Valerie Hennings
Best Dissertation Honorable Mention, American Political Science Association, Women and Politics Research Section, "Civic Selves: Gender, Candidate Training Programs, and Envisioning Political Participation"
Ahmet Mert Kartal Honored Instructor Award, UW-Madison Division of Housing
Dimitri Kelly Campus-wide Teaching Assistant Award, UW-Madison
Brent Kyle Co-winner, Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize Scholarship
Brandon Lamson Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Rebecca LeMoine Co-winner, Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize Scholarship
Kyle Marquardt Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship
Lauren McCarthy
Edward S. Corwin Award for the best dissertation completed in this or the previous year in the field of public law, American Political Science Association, "Trafficking (In)Justice: Russian Law Enforcement's Response to Human Trafficking"
Clarence Moore National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
James Sieja Teaching Assistant Award, Department, Spring 2012
Mark Toukan Teaching Assistant Award, Department, Spring 2012
Se-Hyoung Yi L&S Teaching Fellow, College of Letters and Science
   

Undergraduate Students

 

Anthony Debruzzi University League-Mrs. Angelena Frensley Lenehan Sophomore Scholarship
Rebecca Hall UW-Madison political science major, Philanthropic Youth of Today Award, Association of Fundraising Professionals, Southeastern Wisconsin Chapter
Miles Kellerman Robert A. Kilmarx Award for the Best Paper on Military, Intelligence, or National Security Strategy, Center for the Study of the Presidency, for "The Drone Dilemma: Veto Players, Moral Hazard and Decision-Making"
Christophoer Kozak Earl D. Johnson Endowed Scholarship
Roseanne Lais William Jennings Bryan Award, UW-Madison Political Science Department,
for the best undergraduate thesis/paper,  "'An Irish Solution to an Irish Problem': 
Explaining Ireland's Conservative Abortion Policy and Placing it in the 
International Context"
Kirsten Moran Jane Goddard Scholarship
Lauren Nelson Florence Waste Pulver Scholarship 
Cody Ostensen Florence Waste Pulver Scholarship
Marshiella Pandji George Enfield Frazer Jr. Scholarship
Shahrose Rahman University League-Mrs. William F Allen Sophomore Scholarship
Jared Sandlin Mary Schreiber LeBlanc & Duwayne LeBlanc Scholarship
Pamela Selman Thomas W. Parker Scholarship 
Neha Suri Scholarship, College of Letters and Science
Johanna Sundberg University League Memorial Scholarship

2011-2012 Awards
2012 Awards List
The program from the Political Science 2012 Awards Reception
 
2010-2011 Awards
2011 Awards List
The program from the Political Science 2011 Award Reception