Department:

  • Hood Ahmed, John W. Kingdon Teaching Award (Tessler)

  • Loay Alarab, Matthew K. Smith Award (Idris)

  • Charlotte Boucher, Clark & Robin Chandler Graduate Award (Mickey)

  • Andy Buschmann, Vivian Sangunett Fellowship (Hicken)

  • Sujin Cha, Gerald R. Ford Fellowship (Osgood)

  • Mostafa El Sharkawy, Matthew K. Smith Award (Jones)

  • Cem Emrence, One-Term Research Fellowship (Dincecco)

  • Carlos Galina, Gerald R. Ford Fellowship (Shipan)

  • Nicolas Hernandez Florez, Gerald R. Ford Fellowship (Mickey)

  • Maya Khuzam, Gerald R. Ford Fellowship (Valentino)

  • Maria Lovetere, Gerald R. Ford Fellowship (Disch)

  • Qian Qian Ng, Matthew K. Smith Award (Temin)

  • Patrick Peralta, Matthew K. Smith Award (Slater)

  • Udoi Rateng, One-Term Research Fellowship (Pitcher)

  • Rebecca Savelsberg, Vivian Sangunett Fellowship (Nordås)

Rackham: 

  • Rachel Kulikoff, Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship (Shipan)

  • Maria Lovetere, Rackham Outstanding GSI Award (Disch)

  • Franshelly Martinez Ortiz, Rackham PACE Fellowship, and Rackham Doctoral Internship (Ostfeld)

  • Udoi Rateng, Rackham Graduate School Fellowship (Pitcher)

  • Katya Olson Shipyatsky, Rackham International Research Award (Idris)

  • Praneetha Vissapragada, Douglas W. Roblin Predoctoral Fellowship (Jones/Greer)

University:

  • Hood Ahmed, CPS Tessler Fellows Fund, and Democracy and Civic Empowerment Initiative Grant (Tessler)

  • Loay Alarab, Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Summer Fellowship for Graduate Students, and CMENAS Lois A. Aroian Middle Eastern and North African Studies Fellowship, and Anti-Racism Graduate Research Grant from Phillip J. Bowman Center (Idris)

  • Andy Buschmann, Organizational Studies Suzanne M. Jones OS Spirit Award (Hicken)

  • Tyler Chen, CPS Tessler Fellows Fund (Franzese)

  • Graham Diedrich, ISR Charles Cannell Fund in Survey Methodology Award (Bednar)

  • Jalal Fetrati, Emerging Democracies Graduate Student Grant, Center for Emerging Democracies (Slater)

  • Jay Hasper, Humanities Institute Graduate Student Fellowship (Idris/Wingrove)

  • Caroline Lindey, UROP Outstanding Mentorship Award (Fariss)

  • Karla Magaña, UROP Outstanding Research Mentor Award, and 2026 Early Career Scientist Workshop on Inequality Recipient, and Hanes Walton, Jr. Endowment for Graduate Study in Racial and Ethnic Politics (Hutchings/Shipan)

  • Qian Qian Ng, ISR Ronald F. Inglehart Scholarship Fund, and International Institute William A. and Shirley P. Yolles Graduate Fund for Research on Humanitarianism (Dincecco/Temin)

  • Jieun Oh, Roy Pierce Scholars Fund Award (Dincecco/Davis)

  • Katya Olson Shipyatsky, Fellowship for Doctoral Research in Museums, Museum Studies Program (Idris)

  • Jingyang Rui, Lieberthal-Rogel Center Research Fellowship (Dincecco)

  • Udoi Rateng, International Policy Center (IPC) Research Scholar Award from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (Pitcher)

  • Itsuki Umeyama, CPS Tessler Fellows Fund, and Summer Grant from the Center for Japanese Studies (Osgood)

  • Siwen Xiao, CPS Roy Pierce Scholars Fund (Slater)

  • Nian Zhan, LRCCS Summer Fellowship, and the International Institute CJS Summer Fellowship (Hong)

  • Zhen Zhang, Roy Pierce Scholars Fund Award (Dincecco)

External:

  • Tim Aravan, Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” Travel Award from the University of Konstanz, and Climate Social Science Network Seed Grant from Brown University (Beim) 

  • Andy Buschmann, Academy of Management Annual Meeting "Best Paper" by the International Management Division (Hicken)

  • Briana Garcia, APSA Diversity Fellowship (Brader/Valentino)

  • Maya Khuzam, APSA Section on Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Support Grant (Valentino)

  • Katya Olson Shipyatsky, Randolph and Elizabeth Braham Fellowship, Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Idris)

Alumni:

  • Ben Goehring, Rackham’s ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, and APSA Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize (Shipan)