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October 20, 2009
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Aili Tripp to serve as leader of an Africa Workshop at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
Aili Tripp was selected by APSA to serve as co-leader of an Africa Workshop in collaboration with the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, from 19 July to 6 August 2010. The proposal to co-lead the workshop was submitted by Gretchen Bauer (UW-Madison Polisci Ph.D., now at the University of Delaware) and Aili Tripp in collaboration with Josephine Ahikire (Makerere University, Uganda) and Shireen Hassim (University of Witswatersrand, South Africa). The workshop is entitled ¿Global Perspectives on Politics and Gender¿ and will involve 20 postdoctoral fellows from around Africa. This is the third of three APSA Africa workshops supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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October 2, 2009
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Dennis Dresang awarded the Women's Philanthropy Council "Champion Award" for 2009
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September 22, 2009
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Courtney Hillebrecht recieves National Science Foundation Grant
Courtney Hillebrecht is awarded the National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant for Law and Social Sciences.
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August 24, 2009
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Dan Walters is Winner of Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition
Dan Walters is named winner of Richard D. Cudahy Writing Competition on Regulatory and Administrative Law. Sponsored by the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy.
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August 10, 2009
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Zach Oberfield receives 2009 Leonard D. White Award
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.
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July 28, 2009
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Charles Franklin and Liane Kosaki are awarded the 2009 Lasting Contribution Award
Hearty congratulations to Charles and Liane 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.
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July 3, 2009
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Charles Franklin is named Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology
Congratulations to Charles Franklin, who has been named a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology. This honor acknowledges individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the field. Specifically, "selection to the position of Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology honors individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the development of political methodology, and whose methodological work has had a major international impact on subsequent scholarship in the field, in the discipline more broadly, and where appropriate in other areas." The award will be given at the 2009 APSA annual meeting.
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May 29, 2009
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Alumni and friends: Please join the UW Political Science Career Contact Network and be a resource to our majors.
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April 27, 2009
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Timothy Werner receives Herfurth Award for Outstanding Research in Social Studies
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.
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April 21, 2009
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Emily Sellars is awarded the National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
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March 9, 2009
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Jon Pevehouse wins Vilas Associate Award, UW Graduate School
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March 9, 2009
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Amber Wichowsky and Donald P. Moynihan win Joe Wholey Award
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.
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March 5, 2009
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Ed Friedman wins Hilldale Award for Social Studies Divison, 2008-09
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February 23, 2009
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Jon Pevehouse wins the D. B. Hardeman Prize
Jon Pevehouse wins the D.
B. Hardeman Prize, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, given for "the most
important book on a congressional topic," for While Dangers Gather:
Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers, co-authored with William
G. Howell.
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February 20, 2009
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Valerie Hennings is awarded the 2008 Carrie Chapman Catt Prize for Research on Women and Politics
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February 16, 2009
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Scott Gehlbach receives the Lyons Family Faculty Fellow Award
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February 16, 2009
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Rick Avramenko receives the Institute for Research in the Humanities Faculty Fellow for 2009-10
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February 4, 2009
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Emeritus Professor Clara Penniman dies at age of 94.
Wisconsin State Journal Article: (2/2/09)
Clara Penniman, 94, a ground-breaking
University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist and scholar of
public finance, died Friday of pneumonia in Madison.
Penniman was the first female chairwoman of the UW-Madison political
science department, serving from 1963-1966, when all the political
science faculty were men. She also founded the Center for the Study of
Public Policy and Administration at UW-Madison, the precursor of
today’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.
In
1959, she served on the Governor’s Tax Impact Study Committee and on
the governor’s committee on the University of Wisconsin System merger
in 1972.
Diverted from attending college by family finances, Penniman started
at what is now UW-Madison in 1947 at age 33. She received her
bachelor’s and master’s degrees at UW-Madison, and her doctorate from
the University of Minnesota. Retired since 1984, Penniman was a
longtime West Side Madison resident who moved to Oakwood Village in her
later years.
Paula White, who co-authored a 1999 book with Penniman, "Madison, An
Administration History of Wisconsin’s Capital City 1929-79," said she’d
kept in regular contact. "She had more capacity and alertness and
memory than most friends half her age," White said. "All through her
retirement, even with her small frame and arthritis, she was always
holding up and reading the latest thick, heavy hard-cover history or
political science book, and she was a marvel at storytelling about her
travels around the world."
Obituary:
Clara Penniman, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of
Wisconsin at Madison, died on January 30, 2009. Ms. Penniman was born
on April 5, 1914, in Steger, Illinois, to Alethea B. and Rae E.
Penniman. She graduated from high school in Lancaster, Wisconsin. After
working for a number of years, including for the Wisconsin State
Employment Service and War Manpower Commission, Ms. Penniman earned her
B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In
1954, she received a PhD degree in political science from the
University of Minnesota. Ms. Penniman taught political science on the
faculty of the University of Wisconsin at Madison from 1953 to 1984,
where she held the Oscar Rennebohm Chair for Public Administration for
the last ten years. She was the first woman to chair that University's
Department of Political Science, which she did from 1963 to 1966. She
served on a dozen or more university faculty committees, including the
prestigious University Committee, which she chaired in 1973-1974. She
represented the University of Wisconsin, Madison on the State's Merger
Implementation Study Committee, which recommended the new structure of
Wisconsin's university system. She also served on various other State
committees. Ms. Penniman received numerous awards, beginning with
election to Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi as an undergraduate. She
received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the University of
Minnesota Alumni Association in 1978 and the University of Wisconsin
Alumni Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1981. Ms. Penniman
was elected president of the Midwest Political Science Association in
1965; she served as vice president of the American Political Science
Association in 1971-1972; and, she was elected as a fellow of the
American Academy of Public Administration in 1974. Ms. Penniman was
active with the North Central Association of Universities and Colleges,
where she reviewed accreditation of colleges and universities both on
visiting committees and on a review panel. She participated in the
League of Women Voters of Madison, serving as its president from
1956-1958, and she served for a number of years on the state board of
the Wisconsin League of Women Voters. Ms. Penniman published several
books and articles, primarily in the fields of tax administration and
public administration. Her parents and her brother, Howard, predeceased
her. She is survived by her sister-in-law; three nieces; two nephews;
21 grandnieces and grandnephews; and 12 great-grandnieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, gifts may be made at the University of Wisconsin's
Foundation for the Political Science Department. A Memorial Service
will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday February 7, 2009, at the Chapel
Oakwood Apartments, 6209 Mineral Point Road.
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February 2, 2009
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Jon Pevehouse wins 2009 Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association
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."
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January 19, 2009
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Professor Aili Tripp is awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award
Professor Aili Tripp is awarded the Kellett Mid-Career Award by the University of Wisconsin Graduate School.
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