Awards and Prizes
Congratulations to ourfaculty, recent graduates and current students who have received recognition for their outstanding work this past year!
2007-2008 Award Winners
Barry Burden: Hamel Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science.
David Canon: Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award.
Mark Copelovitch: Kellogg/Notre Dame Award for the best paper in comparative politics presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting in 2007. The paper, co-written with David Singer, is "Financial Regulation, Monetary Policy, and Inflation in the Industrialized World."
Ed Friedman: Chancellors Distinguished Teaching Award.
Ken Goldstein: Kellett Mid-Career Award, University of Wisconsin Graduate School
Byron Shafer (with Richard Johnston), Best Book Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, APSA, for The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006).
V.O. Key Prize of the Southern Political Science Association for the outstanding book of the year on southern politics, The End of Southern Exceptionalism: Class, Race, and Partisan Change in the Postwar South.
Scott Straus: Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2007 for The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda.
Honorable Mention, Melville Herskovits Award, African Studies Association, given for the most important book on African studies published in the previous year, for The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda.
Scott Straus: Vilas Associate Award, UW Graduate School
Aili Tripp: Hamel Faculty Fellow, University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science.
Susan Yackee: Emerging Scholar Award, Political Organizations and Parties Section, APSA, given to a scholar within seven years of the Ph.D. whose career to date demonstrates unusual promise.
Susan Yackee (with Jason Yackee): Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award, Midwest Political Science Association 2007, “Is Agency Rulemaking ‘Ossified’? Testing Congressional, Presidential, and Judicial Procedural Constraints from 1983 to 2006.”
Liane Kosaki: L&S Academic Staff Advising Award.
Tim Bagshaw: L&S Teaching Fellow.
Jen Ziemke: Innovation in Teaching Award, a campus-wide TA award.
Alice Kang: Hyde Dissertation Research Award from the Women's Studies Research Center at UW-Madison in April 2008
2007 Departmental Undergraduate Awards:
- Emily Spangenberg, William Jennings Bryan Award, best term paper written in a political science course (including theses), “The Impact of International Justice on Domestic Policy: Evaluating the Effects of Transnational Human Rights Networks in Argentina and Chile.” Senior honors thesis, advisor Scott Straus.
- Ben Pasquale, Elaine Davis Prize, “to a senior political science major in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. The recipient will also have demonstrated scholarship and leadership in campus and/or community affairs and demonstrated intellectual ability and curiosity, good citizenship, and an appreciation of the world outside her or himself.”
- Erika Lopez-Tapia, Vera Elliot Scholarship
- Andrew Gordon, Phillip Schemel Award (scholarship)
2006-2007 Award Winners
Gwynn Thomas (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2005), Elsa Chaney Award, best paper on gender at the Latin American Studies Association International Congress, September 2007, for "What No Tie? Political Campaigns, Gender and Redefining Political Leadership in Chile."
Michael Franz, who has been awarded the 2007 E. E. Schattschneider Award for the best doctoral dissertation submitted in calendar years 2005 and 2006 in the field of American government and politics.
Alice Kang, who has been awarded the 2007 Alice Paul Dissertation Prospectus Award for the best dissertation proposal in the field of women and politics.
Stephane Lavertu, who has been awarded a 2007 L&S Teaching Assistant Fellowship.
Erika Franklin Fowler, who has been named a 2007 Graduate Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.
Brandon Kendhammer
Winner of the second annual departmental Hovland Journal Article Prize Scholarship for the best article submitted to a major political science journal between September 1, 2005 - September 1, 2006
Travis Nelson
2006 UW-Madison Capstone Ph.D. Teaching Award
2006 Named a Graduate fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science