Faculty in the News

Traci Burch won the E. E. Schattschneider Award for best dissertation in the field of American politics from the APSA in 2009. She has also won the 2008 APSA Urban Politics Section award for her dissertation, "Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy." She has also won the William Anderson Award from the APSA for best dissertation in American Politics in 2008.

Theodore Christov was named Affiliate of the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities for 2009-10.

Victoria DeFrancesco Soto is a guest political commentator on CNN en espanol for American Politics. She did election analysis and commentary for this program.

In March 2009 Professor DeFrancesco was invited to be a co-author on a Special Report by the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute and The National Coalition for Black Civic Participation. The report is entitled, "The Emerging Power of Ethnic/Racial Minorities in Congressional Elections" She has presented the results at the National Conference in Chicago. 

James Druckman, Martin Kifer and Michael Parkin won the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper ( “The Content of U.S. Congressional Campaigns."),presented at the 2008 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. The paper is forthcoming in APSR.

Brian Hanson won the Outstanding Adviser Award (2007-08) from the Center for Student Involvement. He also has just won the WCAS Community Building Award for 2008-09.

Ian Hurd's book, After Anarchy, recently won the 2008 Myres McDougal prize of the Society of Policy Scientists.

Richard Iton won the Ralph Bunche Award for best book on ethnic and cultural pluralism from the APSA in 2009.

Ken Janda won the Frank J. Goodnow Award for "distinguished service" to the discipline from the APSA in 2009.

The award is named after the first president of the APSA and is meant "to honor service to the community of teachers, researchers, and public servants who daily toil in the many fields of politics."

James Mahoney won the "Best Article Award" from the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research section of APSA. (July 2009)

Rachel Riedl received honorable mention for the Juan Linz Prize for best dissertation in comparative democratization from the APSA in 2009.