Congratulations to Pete Erickson, Anton Shirikov, and Chagai Weiss for receiving the Department’s Best Dissertation Prizes! Lieutenant Colonel Pete Erickson received the Department’s Best Dissertation Prize in International Relations for his dissertation, “Inescapable: Polarization, Prestige, …
Graduate Student Award
Ph.D. Candidate Xinzhi Zhao selected by the College of Letters & Science as a Teaching Mentor
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Xinzhi Zhao on being selected by the College of Letters and Science as a Teaching Mentor! Selection of L&S Teaching Mentors is highly competitive and speaks to Xinzhi’s engagement and skills …
PhD student Natalie Jones-Kerwin awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Congratulations to PhD student Natalie Jones-Kerwin, who was awarded a 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). The NSF Graduate Research Fellow is a highly significant national accomplishment and places a student amongst …
Ph.D. Candidate Irène Tombo Awarded M. Crawford Young Research Award
As part of the Symposium in Memory of Professor M. Crawford Young on April 1st and 2nd, Ph.D. candidate Irène Tombo was announced as the recipient of the M. Crawford Young Research Award. The Award provides …
Department of Political Science TA Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022 Department of Political Science Teaching Assistant Awards – Rebecca Anderson, Valeriia Umanets, and Khasan Redjaboev!
2018-2019 Graduate Award – Katherine M. Robiadek
Spring 2019 Mellon-Wisconsin Fellowship
2018 Graduate Award – Molly Minden
“Legacies of Violence in Social Mobilization – Resistance to Dams in Guatemala” Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award.
2018 Graduate Award – David Greenwood-Sanchez
GMO Contestation in Mexico and Peru: Biodiversity and Global Agricultural Markets.” Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award.
2018 Graduate Award – David Greenwood-Sanchez
Fulbright-Hays DDRA award for dissertation research in Peru and Mexico.
2018 Graduate Award – Kaden Paulson-Smith
2018 Jordan Prize for the year’s best graduate paper on Africa: “(Re)creating the Nation through Marginalizing Nonnormative Gender and Sexuality: Contemporary Discourse from Tanzania (2011-2017),” awarded by the African Studies Program