CPS Research Professor Arthur “Skip” Lupia has won a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship and will use the award to complete a book on political knowledge and civic engagement. The 2007 Fellowship winners include 189 artists, scholars, and scientists selected from almost 2,800 applicants for awards totaling $7,600,000. Decisions are based on recommendations from hundreds of expert… Continue reading Lupia Wins 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship

Congratulations to Mike Traugott, who this last weekend received the 2010 AAPOR award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. The award, by the American Association of Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) is the Association’s higher honor, in recognition of lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution to the field of public opinion research.

Nancy Burns has been re-appointed Director of the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR). A political scientist who has studied the reasons for gender differences in political participation, she was the first woman named to lead an ISR Center.

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!