Fellowships and Awards
Department Awards
Each year, the Department of Political Science recognizes the achievments of its graduate students with two awards, the David Minar Prize and the R. Barry Farrell Prize for Teaching Excellence.
Awarded in memory of former department chair, David W. Minar, this prize honors outstanding advanced graduate students in Political Science. Judged annually by the department's faculty, the winner for the 2009-10 academic year was Olivier Henripin .
The R. Barry Farrell Prize for Teaching Excellence is awarded in recognition of exceptional contributions in the classroom by the department's teaching assistants. The winners are determined through a combination of faculty and undergraduate student evaluations. In the 2009-10 academic year, the prize was awarded to Mitchell Troup.
(Past winners are listed below)
University Fellowships and Awards
Current Political Science graduate students who have been awarded competitive university-wide fellowships are:
Jennifer Cyr - Minar Award for Outstanding Graduate Student (2008-2009)
Laura Ephraim - Dissertation Year Fellowship (2007-08)
"The New Politics of Science: Imagination, Method and Worldliness in Vico, Descartes and Dewey"
Laura Ephraim - Alumnae Dissertation Recognition Award (2007-08)
"Reconceiving the Relation between Science and Politics for Democratic Theory"
Carlos Freytes Frey - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship (2009), Farrell Prize for Teaching Excellence (2008-2009)
Florencia Guerzovich - Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship (2008-2009)
Demetra Kasimis - NU Alumnae Fellowship (2008-2009), named graduate affiliate by the Alice Kaplan Institute of Humanities (2007-2008)
Kendra Koivu - Weinberg Research and Dissertation Fellowship (2007-08)
"Protection for sale?: A Comparative Historical Study of Organized Crime"
Jacqueline R. McAllister - Weinberg College Outstanding Graduate Teacher Award, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (WCAS)(2008-2009), Farrell Prize for Teaching Excellence (2008-2009)
Andre Munro - Unterman Family Fellowship for the Paris Program in Critical Theory (2009-2010)
Juan Olmeda - Research Fellowship (2007-08)
"Disunited they stand? A fiscal theory of gubernatorial power and coordination strategies: Argentina, Mexico and Brazil from a comparative perspective"
Diego Rossello - Unterman Family Fellowship for the Paris Program in Critical Theory (2008-2009)
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Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies (BCICS) Graduate Student Summer Research Travel Grant Winners (Summer 2009)
Chris Day: "The Fates of Rebels" (Sudan)
Valerie Freeland: "Navigating Between International Norms and Domestic Security Needs" (Uganda)
Carlos Freytes Frey: "Risky Choices: The Political Economy of Debt and Taxation in Brazil and Argentina" (Brazil, Argentina)
Miklos Gosztonyi: "Patterns of State-Sponsored Violence in the Sudan" (Sudan)
Olivier Henripin: "Nationalist Propaganda and Bargaining Power Across the Taiwan Strait" (China, Taiwan)
Jacqueline R. McAllister: "Dancing on Knife's Edge: The Role of International Criminal Tribunals in Conflict" (Netherlands)
Khairunnisa Mohamedali: "Networks of Violence: Insurgent Tactics and Anti-Insurgent Strategy in Northern Uganda" (Uganda)
Larkin Terrie: "The Historical Origins of Good Governance in Chile" (Chile)
Jael A. Goldsmith Weil: "The Unraveling of Traditional Models of Welfare and the Strategic Use of Virtuous Discourse: Lula's Brazil and Bachelet's Chile" (Brazil, Chile)
Ariel Zellman: "Disputed Territoriality and Ethnohistorical Claims: Understanding Intractable Territorial Conflict in Israel, Serbia, and Armenia" (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Bosnia)
External Fellowships and Awards
The department strongly encourages its students to pursue external fellowships and awards, believing they not only assist students to achieve their research ambitions but also to demonstrate to potential employers the student's contributions to the academic community. Current graduate students who have held fellowships and awards outside the university are:
Toby Bolsen - National Science Foundation (NSF) Doctoral Dissertation Grant (2009-2010)
Chris Day - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2010)
Jesse Dillon Savage - Joan Rydon Travelling Scholarship in Government - University of Sydney (2008)
Miklos Gosztonyi - Fulbright Scholarship (2006-2008)
Cari Hennessy - Presidency Research Group’s Founders Award for the best paper presented by a graduate student at either the preceding year’s American Political Science Association (APSA) annual meeting or at any of the regional meetings (2008-2009)
Olivier Henripin - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2009-2011)
Olivier Henripin - Fonds Québécois de Recherche sur la Société et la Culture Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2009)
Sebastian Karcher - Social Science Research Council (SSRC) International Dissertation Research Fellowship; awarded for research in Argentina and Germany (2008-2009)
Demetra Kasimis - Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2009-2010)
Erin Kimball - United States Institute of Peace Fellowship (2007-2008)
Andre Munro - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada Doctoral Fellowship (2007-2010)
Department Awards - Past Winners
David Minar Prize
2008-2009 - Jennifer Cyr
2007-2008 - Larkin Terrie, Douglas Thompson (shared)
2006-2007 - Sebastian Karcher
2005-2006 - Laura Ephraim
2004-2005 - Julia Rabinovich, Crina Archer (shared)
2003-2004 - Lee Seymour
2002-2003 - Ato Kwamena Onoma
2001-2002 - Ella Myers
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R. Barry Farrell Prize for Teaching Excellence
2008-2009 - Jacqueline R. McAllister
2007-2008 - Jesse Dillon Savage, Marissa Brookes, Carlos Freytes Frey (shared)
2006-2007 - Ross Carroll, Julieta Suarez Cao, Erin Kimball (shared)
2005-2006 - Sean Burns, Kendra Koivu, Chris Swarat (shared)
2004-2005 - Claire Metelits, Catherine Paden (shared)
2003-2004 - Ramona Angelescu, David Tully (shared)
2002-2003 - Barbara Murphy
2001-2002 - Sarah Stucky