John Jackson and Walter Mebane have been named members of the first class of Fellows of the Society for Political Methodology. Selection “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… Continue reading John Jackson and Walter Mebane named members of first class of Fellows of the Society for Political Methodology

Ted Brader has been awarded the 2009 Emerging Scholar Award for the Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior section of the American Political Science Association. The Emerging Scholar Award is awarded to the “top scholar in the field who is within 10 years or her or his Ph.D.”

Rob Franzese has been named Vice President of The Society for Political Methodology for the period 2009-2010. The Society for Political Methodology is the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association.

Mark Tessler has been named a Carnegie Scholar. His award from the Carnegie Corporation recognizes and supports “innovative individuals whose research will extend understanding of issues related to intellectual and policy developments in Islam and Muslim Communities.”

Rob Franzese has been named President of The Society for Political Methodology. The Society for Political Methodology is the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association. Congratulations, Rob!

Brian Min has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Gabriel Almond Award, given annually to the author of the best dissertation in Comparative Politics. Brian’s dissertation was titled “Democracy and Light: Public Service Provision in the Developing World,” and was co-chaired by Miriam Golden and Daniel Posner. Congratulations Brian!

Rob Franzese has just been awarded the Gosnell Prize for Excellent in Political Methodology! This award goes to the best paper in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year. Rob’s award-winning paper is “Modeling History-Dependent Network Coevolution” (co-authored with Jude Hays and Aya Kachi). Great work, Rob!

As the university continues to advance global engagement opportunities for its students and faculty, Provost Phil Hanlon and LSA Dean Terrence McDonald have announced that Mark Tessler will take on the full-time role of vice provost for international affairs. He has served for six years in this capacity part time while also directing the International… Continue reading Tessler, Kollman to Lead International Efforts in Revised Roles

The Arab Barometer has just received the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Data Set Award given by the APSA Comparative Politics Section. The Data Set Award is for a publicly available data set that has made an important contribution to the field of comparative politics.

Congratulations to Skip, whose book with Jamie Druckman, Don Green, and James Kuklinski, the “Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science”, won the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in 2011!