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

2011-2012 Award Winners

Faculty
John Ahlquist
2011 Michael Wallerstein Award, APSA.
David Canon
Fulbright Distinguished Chair, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Philip R. Certain Award for outstanding research, teaching, and service contributions. College of Letters and Science.
John Coleman
Jeffrey and Susanne Lyons Family Fellow, College of Letters and Science.
Kathryn Hendley
Fulbright Research Fellowship. Moscow, affiliated with the New Economic School.
Ed A. Hewett Fellowship, National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, affiliated with the US Embassy in Moscow.
Liane Kosaki Honored Instructor Award, UW Madison - Housing
Kenneth Mayer
Jerry J. and Mary M. Cotter Award for research contributions on state legislatures and Congress, College of Letters and Science.
Leon Epstein Faculty Fellow, UW Madison College of Letters and Science.
Honored Instructor Award, UW Madison - Housing
Ryan Owens
Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the 2011 Southern Political Science Association annual meeting.
Scott Straus Winnick Fellow, Committee on Conscience, U.S. Memorial Holocaust Museum
United States Institute for Peace Grant, 2010 Annual Competition.
Romnes Faculty Fellow, UW Madison - Graduate School
Aili Tripp First Runner-up, Best Book on African Politics Award, African Politics Conference Group, for Museveni's Uganda: Paradoxes of Power in a Hybrid Regime (Lynne Rienner, 2010).
Katherine Walsh Vilas Associate 2012-14, UW Madison - Graduate School.
David Weimer WARF Professorship, UW Madison - Graduate School.
John Witte 2011-12 Hilldale Award for Social Studies, UW Madison - Graduate School.
John Zumbrunnen
 Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, UW Madison.
   

Graduate Students
Ethan Alexander-Davey  International Studies Institute, Western Civilization Fellowship 2011-12.
Nicholas Barnes Early Excellence in Teaching Award, UW Madison College of Letters and Science.
Meina Cai An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowship 2012-13, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University
Deven Carlson
American Educational Research Association Dissertation Grant, National Science Foundation.
Barry Driscoll
2011 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
Kyle Hanniman 2011 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
Dimitry Kelly Department TA Award, spring 2011
Leon Epstein Prize in American and British Politics, for "Biased News and Political Participation."
Kathleen Klaus
2011 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant.
Shahirah Mahmood
American Association of University Women International Fellowship, 2011-2012.
Jeremy Menchik
2011 Graduate Student Paper Prize of the Indonesia and East Timor Studies of the Association of Asian Studies, for the "The Politics of Identity in Indonesia: Results from Campaign Advertisements" (co-author Colm Fox)
Sarah Niebler
with Carly Urban (Economics). Mildred Potter Hovland Journal Article Prize, for "Dollars on the Sidewalk: Should U.S. Presidential Candidates Advertise in Uncontested States?"
David Ohls
Department TA Award, spring 2011
Michael Pisapia
 William Anderson Award, APSA, for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state, or local politics completed in 2009 or 2010.

 

Undergraduate Students
Ellen Anevicius James A. Williams Scholarship and membership in National Military Intelligence Association, National Military Intelligence Foundation.
Emily Hendricks
Leon Epstein Award  (awarded every other year to an outstanding undergraduate paper/thesis on American or British politics), co-awardees: Heather Huhn
Heather Huhn  Leon Epstein Award (awarded every other year to an outstanding undergraduate paper/thesis on American or British politics), co-awardees: Emily Hendricks
Adam Thal  William Jennings Bryan Award (awarded to an outstanding undergraduate paper/thesis)
   


2010-2011 Award Winners

Faculty
David Canon Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
John Coleman Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Donald Downs Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Christina Ewig Vilas Associate Award, Graduate School, UW Madison
Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Globalization and the New Politics of Women's Rights, 2011-2012 academic year
Edward Friedman Distinguished Honors Faculty Award, College of Letters and Science Honors Program, 2011
Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Scott Gehlbach H.I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship Award, Graduate School, UW Madison
Jimmy Klausen Race, Ethnicity, & Indigeneity Fellow for 2011-12, Institute for Research in the Humanities, UW Madison
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, January-December 2012
Melanie Manion Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, 2010, UW Madison
Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Fall 2010
Benjamin Marquez Alph Phi Professor Recognition Award, UW-Madison Chapter
Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Jon Pevehouse Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Fall 2010
Howard Schweber Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Fall 2010
Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Leticia Bode & Dhavan Shah Top Three Faculty Paper, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2010. For Emily Vraga, Mitchell Bard, Leticia Bode, Jasun Carr, Stephanie Edgerly, Courtney Johnson, Young Mie Kim, and Dhavan Shah, "The Correspondent, the Combatant, and the Comic: How Moderator Style and Guest Civility Shape News Credibility."
Nadav Shelef Lyons Family Faculty Scholar
Scott Straus Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Aili Tripp Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, Globalization and the New Politics of Women's Rights, 2011-2012 academic year
Elected Vice-President of the African Studies Association, May 2010
Susan Yackee Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management's Poster Session Award for Excellent Research by New and Emerging Scholars, 2010, for "Regulatory Uncertainty and Rulemaking Deadlines" (with Stéphane Lavertu)
Vilas Associate Award, Graduate School, UW Madison
Michael Schatzberg & Katherine Cramer Walsh Each contributors of a chapter in Political Ethnography, ed. Edward Schatz, co-winner of the Giovanni Sartori Award for the best book in Qualitative Methods, APSA Qualitative and Multi-Methods Section. To be awarded at this year's APSA meeting.
Katherine Cramer Walsh Dr. Brenda Pfaehler Award of Excellence, UW Madison Office of Educational Oppurtunity, 2011
   

Graduate Students
Leticia Bode Department Teaching Assistant Award, fall 2010
Top Three Faculty Paper, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 2010. For "The Correspondent, the Combatant, and the Comic: How Moderator Style and Guest Civility Shape News Credibility."
Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research Fellows Student Paper Award 2010, for "Filmed in Front of a Live Studio Audience: Using Laughter to Offset Aggression in Political Entertainment Programming"
Mildred Potter Hovland Award, Department of Political Science, for "Facebooking It to the Polls: A Study in Online Social Networking, Social Capital, and Political Behavior."
Amnon Cavari APSA Presidency Research Group's Founders Award, for the best graduate student paper in 2009-10: "Presidential Rhetoric and the Economic Policy Image of the Parties." To be awarded at this year's APSA meeting.
George C. Edwards III Award for the best dissertation on the U.S. presidency completed in 2009 or 2010, APSA
Barry Driscoll Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Fellowship, 2011
Evgeny Finkel Program on Order, Conflict, and Violence Research Fellowships, Yale University
Courtney Hillebrecht 2010 Steven C. Poe Graduate Student Paper Award, Human Rights Section, International Studies Association, for "When Talk is Cheap: Understanding Compliance with International Human Rights Tribunals."
A. Mert Kartal Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Fall 2010
Dacil Q. Keo United States Institute for Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program Peace Scholar
Kathleen Klaus Graduate Student International Field Research Award, UW-Madison Division of International Studies
Dalton Lin 2011 Taiwan Ministry of Education Scholarship for Study Abroad
Shahirah Mahmood TATA Study Fellowship, International Institute, UW Madison
Jeremy Menchik Fellow at the Center for the Study of Democracy, Religion and Toleration, Columbia University.
Mildred Potter Hovland Award, Department of Political Science, for "Secularizing Shari'a: Islamic Law and Family Planning in Indonesia (1938-2005)."
Peter Nasuti IREX Individual Advanced Research Oppurtunities Grant for research in Georgia, 2011-2012
Jacob Neiheisel Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Sarah Niebler Comm B Teaching Assistant Fellow, UW Writing Across Program.
Tricia Olsen TATA Study Fellowship, International Institute, UW Madison
Jeffrey Paller Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2011
Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, Spring 2011
Ryan Powers National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, 2011
Taylor Price Scott Kloeck-Jensen pre-dissertation fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison
Kristin Vekasi Department Teaching Assistant Award, spring 2010
Stefani Veselinovic Department Teaching Assistant Award, spring 2010
Amber Wichowsky Carl Albert Dissertation Award, APSA Legislative Studies Section, 2011
   

Academic and Classified Staff
Deb McFarlane 5 Years
Marilyn Price 5 Years
Tammi Simpson 10 Years
   

Undergraduate Students
Asad Asad Elaine C. Davis Award
Kristina Dundas Joel Skornicka Public Service Award
Meghan Ford Judith Hicks Stiehm Scholarship
Emily Harrison Philip J. Schemel
Neil Jackson and James Stark Zaka and Amed Khan Scholarship
   

Undergraduate Major non-Department Awards and Honors
Steven Olikara Truman Scholarship and Udall Scholarship, 2011
Meyerhoff Undergraduate Excellence Award, UW Madison, 2011
Ayobami A. Olugbemiga Meyerhoff Undergraduate Excellence Award, UW Madison, 2011
   


2009-2010 Award Winners

Faculty
Richard Avramenko William H. Kiekhofer Distinguished Teaching Award, UW-Madison
Barry Burden Romnes Faculty Fellowship, Graduate School, UW-Madison
John Coleman Honored Instructor Award, Chadbourne Residential College, UW-Madison
Donald Downs Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, UW-Madison
Dennis Dresang Women's Philantrophy Council "Champion Award" for 2009
Christina Ewig & Aili Tripp Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar (with Myra Marx Ferree), Globalization and the New Politics of Women's Rights, 2011-2012 academic year.
Booth Fowler Distinguished Honors Faculty Award, College of Letter and Science Honors Program;
Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, UW-Madison
Charles Franklin Named a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology;
2009 Lasting Contribution Award of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association for "Republican Schoolmaster: The U.S. Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and Abortion" American Political Science Review, 1989;
Time Magazine's 50 Best Websites of 2009, for Pollster.com
Scott Gehlbach Honorable mention, AAASS Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies, Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States (2008)
Kathryn Hendley Kellet Mid-Career Award, Graduate School, UW-Madison
Liane Kosaki 2009 Lasting Contribution Award of the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association for "Republican Schoolmaster: The U.S. Supreme Court, Public Opinion, and Abortion," American Political Science Review, 1989.
Lisa Martin Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, UW-Madison
Michael Schatzberg International Institute Faculty Contribution Grant, UW International Institute and Division of International Studies, in recognition of outstanding service to African Studies
Howard Schweber Honored Instructor Award, UW Housing, UW-Madison
Scott Strauss Honored Instructor Award, Chadbourne Residential College, UW-Madison
Kathy Cramer Walsh 2010 Phi Betta Kappa Faculty Teaching Award, UW-Madison
   


Graduate Students
Dacil Q. Keo nited States Institute for Peace Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program Peace Scholar
Kathleen Klaus Graduate Student International Field Research Award, UW-Madison Division of International Studes
Shahirah Mahmood TATA Study Fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison
Tricia Olsen TATA Study Fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison
Adam Auerbach Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies Junior Fellowship;
National cience Foundation Dissertation Improvemetn Fellowship.
Taylor Price Scott Kloeck-Jenson pre-dissertation fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison
Peter Nasuti Scott Kloeck-Jenson pre-dissertation fellowship, International Institute, UW-Madison
Kristin Vekasi Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Kerry Ratigan National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Fellowship
Jess Clayton L&S Teaching Fellow 2010 (Alternate), College of Letters and Science
Naya Mukherji L&S Teaching Fellow 2010, College of Letters and Science; Honored Instructor Award, UW-Housing, UW-Madison
Mehreen Zahra-Malik Mosse Graduate Exchange Fellowship for academic year 2010-2011, UW-Madison
Valerie Hennings Teaching Assistant Award, College of Letters and Science
Courtney National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (Law and Social Sciences). Dennis Dresang: Awarded the Women's Philanthropy Council "Champion Award" for 2009. ward to be presented by Chancellor Biddy Martin on October 28, 2009
Stéphane Lavertu Mildred Potter Hovland Award, for "Grou 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 ofWomen in the Political Development of Public Education in the American States, 1860-1930." The Epstein Award goes, in alternating years, to thebest undergraduate or graduate work reflecting Leon's high standards and approach to studying politics


Classified Staff
Edward Kaul Classified Staff Years of Service Award, 1 year
Diane Mouraske Classified Staff ears of Service Award, 20 years
   

Undergraduate Students, Department Awards
Benjamin Brunner Elaine C. Davis Award
Colton Connor Judith Hicks Stiehm Award
Jonathan Gorman, Melissa Marcus Philip J. Schemel Award
Kevin Doyle Thomas L.W. Johnson Award
Steven Olikara, Ayobami lubemiga Charlene Barshefsky/Edward Cohen Award
Diana Maas, Jacob Vandelist Clara Penniman Award
Melissa Hanley, Benjamin Meyer William F. and Fayette G. Taylor Scholarship
Amjad Asad, Kseniya Vaynshtok Neha Suri Memorial Award
Emily Hendricks, Kari Krajewski, Jacob Markey, Kimberly Manecke, Scott Reid Robert Trice/Lockheed Martin Award
Ryan Jeffery, Abram Shandling Rose Family Undergraduate Research Fellowship
Hilary Sprangers Skornicka Public Service Award
   

Undergraduate Students, National Awards
Asad L. Asad Beineke Scholarship
Nicholas Lilios Truman Sholarship
Emily Duma, Steven Olikara Morris K. Udall Scholarship