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Alumni, Faculty, and Students Awarded at 2017 APSA Annual Meeting

Tessler Wins Faculty Award

Lupia Wins President's Award

Shipan Wins 2018 Herbert Simon Award

Ostfeld Wins 2018 Lucius Barker Award

Fusaro Wins SSWR Award

Baer Wins Writing Prize

Strickland Wins Prize for Paper

Valentino and Zhirkov Win Best Paper

McAlister Wins for Methodology

Pitcher Wins Prize

Ang Wins Book Award

Ang Receives Book Award

Goldstein Wins Upper-Level Writing Prize

2019 Metrick Family Creativity and Collaboration in Curriculum Awardee: Mariah Zeisberg

2019 Tronstein Awardee: Rob Mickey

BIG 10 Voting Challenge Team Wins Award

Ocampo Receive's Dissertation Award

Ocampo Receives Dissertation Award

Alumnus Miler Receives Woodrow Wilson Award

King named to College Women of the Year

Chen Named One of Four "Defenders of Democracy"

Hassan & O'Mealia Win Best Article

Crosson Wins Best Conference Paper

Russell named Knight-Hennessy Scholar

Kitaevich is Outstanding GSI

Morrow, SSIP Distinguished Scholar

Alumnas Krupnikov Wins MPSA Award

PhD Candidate Yadon Wins Lucius Barker Award

Wayne Wins ISPP Dissertation Award

Disch Receives Curriculum Award

Alum Receives Federal Award

Professor Hutchings Wins Tronstein

Adi Sathi Recognized as "Twenty In Their 20s"

Potter Receives Two Book Awards

Moore Receives Award for Best Paper

Little Receives Writing Prize

Skip Lupia Receives 2021 Charles E. Merriam Award

2021 APSA Winners

Vincent Pinti To Receive 2021 James T. Neubacher Award

Mai Hassan Receives Bethwell A Ogot Book Prize

Political Science Majors Receive MLK Jr. Spirit Awards

Donald Kinder Receives Henry Russel Lectureship

Ragnhild Nordås wins MIDAS 2021 Reproducibility Challenge

Vincent Hutchings Receives Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award

Xalma Palomino Wins Harry S. Truman Scholarship

Vincent Hutchings Inducted into the National Academy of Sciences

Yuen Yuen Ang Featured on Freakonomics Radio

Chris Fariss Receives Award for Best Article in the American Journal of Political Science

Kevin Quinn Appointed Senior Fellow in the Society of Fellows

2022 APSA Award Winners

Carolyn Barnes Selected as 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar by the Russell Sage Foundation

Walter Mebane Chosen as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Guggenheim Fellowships go to Michigan Ph.Ds

Carly Wayne's New Book Garners Praise

Honors Program Alum a Finalist for Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships

Michigan Journal of Political Science

Anna Kirkland featured in Fall Issue of LSA Magazine

Political Science Student, Zachary Ackerman Elected to Ann Arbor's City Council

Anna Kirkland to Direct Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Lupia Comments on Climate

Hassan Adds to Kenya Conversation

Ang Notes China's Economic Improvisation

Davenport Speaks to Vox

Michigan Journal of Political Science is Live!

Heaney Adds to Free Speech Debate

Gerber Co-Authors Study on Refugee Economic Contribution

Gallagher Quoted on Elevation of Xi Jinping

Traugott Remarks on Trump as Negotiator

Zhukov and Kostyuk on Cyberattacks

LaVaque-Manty Using Game-Based Grading

Crabtree and Fariss Investigate Lawmaker Responsiveness

Chen Gives Testimony on Redistricting

Gallagher Pens Op-Ed on Xi Jinping

Student Spotlight: Chinbo Chong

Tessler Wins Tronstein Award

New Book on Hanes Walton, Jr

Wheat Wins Student of the Year

Davenport Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Davidson Awarded NSF Fellowship

Ang Named Carnegie Fellow

Christoff Accepts Award

Ichino on Democracy in Hungary

Dincecco Wins Best Book

Jefferson Quoted on Starbuck's Training

Lupia Headed to NSF

Gallagher on Trump, Trade, and China

Lupia on Republican Insurgents

Staff Enjoys Team Building

Markovits Honored

PhD Alum Remembered

Student Honored to Work in DC

2018 APSA Winners

Nathan's Study Cited

Fernandes on LBGTQ Ruling in India

Remembering Amanda Tillotson

Lupia Encouraging Common Ground

Campbell receives Order of the Rising Sun

Goldenberg on Importance of Young Voters

Giving Blueday 2018!

Page Book Shortlisted

Chamberlin on Lame-duck Efforts

Rabe Adds to Carbon Debate

Lowande's Insight on Diverse Congress

Campbell "Figuring out Japan"

Remembering Allen S. Whiting

Scott Page: Analysis on Wealth and College Admissions

Vincent Hutchings: Black Presidential Candidates Post-Obama

Alumni News: PhD Kathy Cramer Elected to the American Academy

Christian Davenport: Elected President of the Peace Science Society

Bednar's The Robust Federation selected as Best Book

Allen Hicken: On Thailand's Elections

Scott Page: New Distinguished University Professor

Noah Nathan: Electoral Politics and Africa's Urban Transition

Vincent Hutchings: Automatic and Same-day Voter Registration

Mary Gallagher: U.S. may restrict Chinese students coming to America

Professor Emeritus Lieberthal: on China, Hong Kong

Professor Valentino: On Impeachment

Professor Valentino: On Impeachment Public Opinion

Professor Pitcher: On Mozambique’s Elections

Professor Emeritus Michael Traugott: On Election Polling

Professor Emeritus Traugott: On Election Poll Results

Professor Jones: Democracy and Russia’s Resurgent Influence

The Japan Connection: Professor Emeritus John C. Campbell

The Japan Connection: Professor Emeritus John C. Campbell

Alumnus Allard Selected as RSF Visiting Scholar

Professor J. David Singer and the Correlates of War Project

Professor Ostfeld: "The New White Flight?"

Professor Disch: Ranked Choice Voting

Lowande Wins Two Awards

Professor Rabe: On Trump, California, and Climate Change

Professor Gallagher: On Coronavirus and China

Professor Lowande: On Police Militarization Data

Remembering Evans Young

Professor Inglehart: Coronavirus may trigger tribal instincts

Gallagher Appointed Director of International Institute

When COVID-19 meets centralized, personalized power

Kinane Awarded for Dissertation

Where is Presidential Power?

Bednar Selected as Distinguished Federalism Scholar

Race, Justice, and the Current Contention

Virtual CPRD Workshop: Current Contention in the US

Professor Emeritus receives Frank Goodnow Award

Professor Hall wins Barbara Sinclair Award

Strickland receives William Anderson Award

Vasselai awarded Horowitz Grant

Phoenix receives Ralph J. Bunche Award

Lupia Honored by Regents

Hutchings Honored for Social Impact

Mebane Appears in Connected

Xiang Receives Methodology Award

Jefferson Wins for Best Dissertation

Jardina Wins for Best Book

Beim Recognized by 'Law and Courts'

Crabtree Receives Dissertation Research Award

Remembering Carolina de Miguel Moyer

'Bending the Rules' Wins the Brownlow

Dissertation on Terror Wins Isard Award

Festschrift Honors Markovits

Chen Receives 'Combating Racism Grant'

LSA On Point Features Streeter & Davenport

Girgis Named 2021 Rhodes Scholar

Davenport Appointed Walgreen Professor

Remembering Ron Inglehart

"Pandemic didn't sink populism," Menon finds

Download Professor Chuck Shipan's new book for FREE!

Chloe Hale Named 2022 Wallenberg Fellow

Remembering Bear Braumoeller

Michigan Mock Trial Team Concludes Amazing Year

2 Political Science Professors Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

LSA Alumni Norman Ornstein And Thomas Mann Discuss The Gridlock In Washington D.C.

LSA Political Scientist Michael Traugott Says Mitt Romney Is Unlikely To Win In Michigan

LSA Political Scientist Vincent Hutchings Says Mitt Romney's Shift In Political Positions Is Typical For A Presidential Candidate After Winning The Nomination

LSA Professor Michael Traugott Says Democrats Will Defend The Affordable Care Act As Constitutional Social Policy

LSA Professor Vincent Hutchings Says Mitt Romney Has A Chance Of Winning Michigan In The Presidential Election

Political Science Graduate Student Pens Prize-Winning Paper

A Debate on the Emergency Financial Manager Law: Democracy, Expertise, and the Public Good in Financially Troubled Cities

Political Science Department Welcomes New Professor in Central Asian Politics

Political Science Students Present Research at Rackham Centennial Symposium

Professor Pamela Brandwein’s Red Republicanism Wins a Michigan Humanities Award

Six Graduate Students Win John W. Kingdon Award for Outstanding Teaching

Allison Dale-Riddle Wins Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship

Parinandi Wins the Jean Monnet Graduate Fellowship

Political Science Honors Graduates at 2012 Department Ceremonies

Andrei Markovits Honored with Major Prize

Arthur Lupia Elected Chair of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Social, Economic and Political Sciences

Poli Sci Basketball Team Wins 2nd Place in IM Finals

Chinese Politics at Michigan Welcomes a New Scholar

Political Science Grad Student Delivers Wallenberg Medal to Nobel Prize Winner in Burma

Dr. Jennet Kirkpatrick Wins 2012 Tronstein Award for Pedagogic Excellence

Professor James Morrow Named Rackham Distinguished Mentor

The Michigan Difference: Two Political Science Doctoral Students Win National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships

Who Bears the Responsibility of War? Professor Arlene Saxonhouse Explores in Presentation

Eight Political Science Graduate Students Win Rackham Centennial Fellowships

Rackham Centennial Profiles: Cali Ellis

Rackham Centennial Profiles: Kerri Nicoll

Rackham Centennial Profiles: Molly Reynolds

Rackham Centennial Profiles: Spencer Piston

Rackham Centennial Profiles: Tim Ryan

How Obama Won a Second Term

LSA Professor Michael Traugott Says Obama's Superior Ground Game And Romney's Shifting Positions Helped Obama Win Re-election

Political Science Department Hosts Promising Young Scholars

Political Science Graduate Student Conducts Fieldwork in Africa

Kristin Romelhardt Wins LSA Staff Spotlight Award

The American Political System at Its Nadir? Yes, and "It's Even Worse Than It Looks"

LSA Political Scientist Mary Gallagher Says Chinese Companies Have Not Kept Up With Workers' Expectations

LSA Political Scientist Vincent Hutchings Says Romney's 47 Percent Remarks Will Offend Some Voters

LSA Professor Michael Traugott Says An Improving Economy And Popular Support Will Help Obama In The Election

LSA Professor Michael Heaney Says Bill Clinton's Nominating Speech Will Give Obama A Boost In The Polls

LSA Professor Michael Traugott Says Hurricane Issac Coverage Could Lessen Romney's Chances To Define Himself To Voters

Professor Lisa Disch Earns LSA Excellence in Education Award

Rackham Centennial Profiles: Amy Krings

Political Science Undergraduates Contribute to "The Michigan Difference"

Professor Anna Gryzmala-Busse Featured in LSA Series on Voting

Rackham Centennial Lecture: What to Expect in the Upcoming Presidential Election

Translation Theme Semester Writing Contest Deadline November 26, 2012

Adam Seth Levine (Ph.D. ’10) Wins APSA’s E.E. Schattschneider Award

APSA Best Dissertation Award in Public Policy Goes to Jennifer Kavanagh (Ph.D. 2010)

Axelrod Wins 2011 Charles E. Merriam Award

David Magleby at Michigan as Visiting Scholar 2011-2012

Janna Bray wins 2011 Rackham International Research Award

Scott Page elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ford School Hosts Conference for Scholars in Political Networks

Franzese Wins 2011 Gosnell Prize

UM Professor Brian Min Wins 2011 Gabriel Almond Award for Best Dissertation in Comparative Politics

Inglehart Wins 2011 Skytte Prize

Political Science Honors Students Recognized at 2011 Graduation

Mary Gallagher Wins 2011 LSA Excellence in Education Award

New web site goes live!

Polisci Faculty Receive Thurnau Honors

U-M Alumnus Amit Ahuja honored

Political Science Faculty and Grad Students vs. Michigan Weather

Political Science Swim Team Wins Annual Intramural Co Rec Championship!

Professor Don Herzog receives Golden Apple award

Skytte Prize Ceremony Honors Tradition and Recent Achievements

Andrei Markovits receives 2015 University of Michigan Press Award

Department Chair, Nancy Burns awarded Martha Derthick Best Book Award

Pamela Brandwein delivers Leon Silverman Lecture at U.S. Supreme Court

Ted Brader receives 2015 APSA Doris Graber Book Award

Christian Davenport receives the Award for Engaged Scholarship

George Downs passed away on January 21st, 2015.

Vincent Hutchings featured in LSA Today's "New Congress: Middle Ground or Battleground?"

Katherine Bradley wins Leonard D. White Award

Two LSA Faculty Awarded First Andrew Carnegie Fellowships to Support the Social Sciences and Humanities

Angola Housing Bubble: Middle Class Residents Need Not Apply

Remembering Hanes Walton: "The Dean of Black Politics"

The Power of Political Protest

Arthur (Skip) Lupia is awarded the Ithiel de Sola Pool Award and Lectureship

Chris Skovron Wins Eldersveld Best Paper Award

Doctoral Student Jessica Steinberg Wins Rackham Outstanding GSI Award

Political Science Grad Student Wins NSF Research Fellowship

Professor Emeritus Dan Levine comments live on post-Chavez Venezuala

Professor Robert Axelrod Wins 2013 Johan Skytte Prize

Ella Gao Receives 2013 Best Dissertation Award in Urban Politics

James Morrow Selected by College to Receive a Collegiate Chair

Leela Fernandes is Awarded Collegiate Chair

Mike Aronoff Selected to Receive Prestigious Award

Nathan Kalmoe Receives Honorable Mention

LSA Political Scientist Charles Shipan Says Partisanship Could Affect The Future Of The Affordable Care Act

Professor Ron Inglehart at the Laboratory for Comparative Social Research Conference in Russia

Michigan PhD Alum Recognized by the American Society for Public Administration

Professor Andrei Markovits and UM Undergraduate Student Publishes Essay on the German Green Party

Professor Andrei Markovits Talks about Gender and Sports

Professor Emeritus Dan Levine comments in New York Times on New Pope

Rachel Potter Wins Best Paper Award

Three Political Science Undergraduates Win 2013 MLK Spirit Awards

UM PhD Alum Wins ASPA Book Award

Two Political Science Undergraduates Attend U.S. Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference

Anna Grzymala-Busse and Donald Kinder to be featured in the MPSA Empire Lecture Series this Spring.

Bob Axelrod Awarded a Jefferson Science Fellowship

John Jackson Receives Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award

Professor Christian Davenport Introduces New Initiative

Ron Inglehart Selected to Receive the Helen Dinerman Award

Daniel H. Levine talks Pope Francis and the Future of Religion in Latin America

Franzese selected as a new Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology

LaVaque-Manty Awarded 2014 CQ Press Award for Teaching Innovation

Mariah Zeisberg's Book Awarded the Richard E. Neustadt Prize

Professor Emeritus Daniel Levine Receives Special Honor

Professor Skip Lupia receives 2014 Individual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education

Robert Axelrod Awarded National Medal of Science

Department Events

African Politics Reading Group

American Institutions Group

Center for Political Studies

China Reading Group

Interdisciplinary Workshop in Comparative Politics (IWCP)

Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Quantitative Methods

Interdisciplinary Workshop American Politics

Political Economy Workshop

Political Scientists of Color

Political Theory Workshop

Rubin Speaker Series

Don Kinder Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Archived Events

PEW Series: Saumitra Jha (Stanford University)

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

CPW Series: Kathleen Thelen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Junior Faculty Speaker Series: Lant Pritchett (Harvard Kennedy School)

CPW Series: Steven Levitsky (Harvard University)

CPW Series: Xiaobo Lu (University of Texas - Austin)

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

Inequality Speaker Series: Nolan McCarty (Princeton)

PEW Series: Paul Poast (University of Chicago)

Inequality Speaker Series: Leslie McCall (Northwestern)

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

CPW Series: Mike Albertus (University of Chicago)

Political Communication Workshop

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

PEW Series: Allison Carnegie (Columbia University)

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

Inequality Speaker Series: Anna Harvey Lecture (NYU)

IWAP Series: Elizabeth Mann

PSOC and Women's Caucus

Political Communication Workshop

IWAP Series: Fabian Neuner

Emerging Scholars Conference

IWAP Series: Laurel Harbridge Lecture (Northwestern)

CPW Series: Ana Arjona (Northwestern University)

PEW Series: Filipe Campante (Harvard)

IWAP Series: James Strickland and Jesse Crosson

CPW Series: Sven-Oliver Proksch (McGill University)

IWAP Series: Chris Skovron

MOMES Lecture: Amaney Jamal (Princeton)

Inequality Speaker Series: Branko Milanovic Lecture (CUNY)

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

Professor Morrow's Inaugural Lecture

IWAP Series: Geoff Lorenz

CPW Series: Margaret Peters (Yale University)

IWAP Series: Bai Linh

Political Communication Workshop

Faculty Meeting (by invitation)

ISQM Series: Rebecca Morton (New York University)

The Role of Special Interests in American Politics

PEW: Dustin Tingley, Harvard, Title TBA

Kentaro Fukumoto, Gakushuin University (Tokyo) and Washington University-St. Louis. "A Natural Experiment of Political Ticket-Fixing and Budget Cycle"

PEW: Lisa Blaydes, Stanford, Title TBA

Ed Malesky, Duke University

George Tsebelis, "The Time Inconsistency of Long Constitutions: Evidence from Around the World"

Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago

Ibrahim Gunay (Economics), Title TBA

Alton Worthington

Joe Ornstein, Title TBA

Matthew Levendusky, UPenn

Yuen Yuen Ang Eldersveld Prize Talk: Does State Capacity Lead to Markets or Vice Versa?

Iain Osgood, Title TBA

CPW - Benjamin Smith, University of Florida

PEW: Josh Hausman, University of Michigan, Title TBA

PEW: Nico Ravanilla, Title TBA

PEW: Mark Dincecco, Title TBA

CPW - David Stasavage, NYU

PEW: Christina Kinane and Robert Mickey, Title TBA

Francisco Pedraza, Texas A&M University

PEW: Ugo Troiano (Economics), Title TBA

IWAP: Christina Kinane

IWAP: Chinnu Parinandi

IWAP: Andrew Feher

CPW - Rafaela Dancygier, Princeton

Harold Jacobson Lecture

ISQM: Mel Stephens, Economics, U of M, "Estimating the Impacts of Program Benefits: Using Instrumental Variables with Underreported and Imputed Data"

IWAP: Logan Casey

CPW - Karen Ferree, UCSD

ISQM: Simon Jackman, Political Science, Stanford University

PEW: Jason Davis, "Protection as a Committment Problem"

PEW: Maiko Heller

IWAP: Rob McGrath, RWJ Scholar

ISQM: Timothy J. Vogelsang, "How do Climate Models Compare with Reality Over the Tropics from 1958-2012? HAC-Robust Trend Comparisons Among Climate Series with Possible Intercept Shifts"

Anne Pitcher and Manny Teodoro (Texas A&M University)

PEW: Trevor Johnston: Weapons of the Marginalized: Authoritarian Bargaining, Economic Sabotage and Regime Survival

IWAP: Chris Skovron: Who’s a Good Candidate? How Party Gatekeepers Evaluate Potential Nominees

Faculty Meeting

Khalil Shikaki (Director, Palestine Center for Policy & Survey Research, Ramallah) "After the Spring: Measuring Transition to Democracy in the Arab World"

ISQM: Scott Page presents "Quantifying Complexity"

PEW: Amy Pond - Liberalization, Development, and Regime Change

ISQM - Alberto Abadie<br>(Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School)

Presidential Power in the United States: Emerging Research

ISQM - Jas Sekhon<br>(Political Science/Economics, University of California at Berkeley)

Department of Political Science Commencement Ceremony (By Invitation)

Political Science Honors Reception (By Invitation)

RIPS: Cristina Bodea<br>(Michigan State University)

Department Faculty Meeting (By Invitation)

RIPS: Krzysztof Pelc<br>(McGill University)

Misfit Politics: A Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Power and Politics

Miller Converse Lecture

RIPS: Kim Lane Scheppele<br>(Princeton University)

CPW: Vicky Murillo (Columbia)

RIPS: Martin S. Lederman<br>(Georgetown Law)

Department Faculty Meeting (By Invitation)

Dine and Declare: Political Science

RIPS: Maria Popova (McGill University)

RIPS: Ugo Troiano

Department Faculty Meeting (By Invitation)

RIPS: Jeff Stanton (Emory University)

CPW: Miriam Golden (UCLA)

CPW: Tarek Masoud<br>(Harvard Kennedy School)

ISQM - Gary King<br>(Department of Government, Harvard)

RIPS: Gary King (Harvard University)

Department Faculty Meeting (By Invitation)

Department Faculty Meeting (By Invitation)

Winter Gathering (By Invitation)

ISQM - Chuck Manski<br>(Economics, Northwestern)

Public Policy in an Uncertain World

IWAP - Richard Anderson<br>(University of Michigan)

ISQM - Thad Dunning<br>(Political Science, University of California at Berkeley)

Department Faculty Meeting (By Invitation)

IWAP - Hakeem Jefferson<br>(University of Michigan)

RIPS: Sarah Brooks<br>(The Ohio State University)

ISQM - Matt Taddy<br>(Statistics, University of Chicago)

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