Hanes Walton has received the 2008 Best Paper award from the American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), for the best paper appearing in the journal in the previous year. Professor Walton received the award for his paper with Tasha Philpot of the University of Texas at Austin, titled “One of Our Own: Black Female Candidates and the Voters Who Support Them” and appearing in the January 2007 issue of AJPS. The award was presented at the 2008 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), with additional information appearing on the MPSA website.