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Alison Post won the 2009 APSA William Anderson Award Allison Post is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association’s William Anderson Award for her dissertation, “Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization”, submitted by Nancy Rosenblum of Harvard...
Sheena Chestnut & Sabeel Rahman awarded APSA Wilson Carey McWilliams Prize Sheena Chestnut, Sabeel Rahman, "The Literary Public Sphere in Post- Authoritarian Transitions," presented at APSA 2008, awarded the annual  Politics, Literature, and Film section Wilson Carey McWilliams prize  for the best paper presented to the section.
Congratulations to our 2008-09 PhD Recipients! Congratulations to our 2008-09 PhD Recipients: Marcus Alexander, Lanhee Chen, Asif Efrat, Daniel Epstein, Jens Hainmueller, Philip Jones, Michael Kang, Yevgeniy Kirpichevsky, Joseph Kochanek, Alexander Liebman, Odette Lienau, Phillip Lipscy, Stanislav Markus, Joseph Mazor, Sean McGraw, Colin Moore...
The APSA Organized Section in Political Economy has selected Sonal Pandya's Dissertation The APSA Organized Section in Political Economy has selected Sonal Pandya's dissertation, "Trading Spaces: The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment Regulation," co-winner of the 2009 Mancur Olson Award.  Sonal received her PhD in March 2008.
Daniel Hopkins Daniel Hopkins (PhD 2007) won the 2008 APSA E.E. Schattschneider Award for his dissertation, “When Differences Divide: How National Influences and Local Demographics Shape Politics Between Ethnic Groups.” Daniel Hopkins has also won the Richard J. Herrnstein Prize awarded by the...
Traci Burch (PhD 2007) has won the 2008 APSA Urban Politics Section award and also the William Anderson Award from the APSA Traci Burch (PhD 2007) has won the 2008 APSA Urban Politics Section award for her dissertation, “Punishment and Participation: How Criminal Convictions Threaten American Democracy.” Traci Burch has also won the William Anderson Award from the APSA for best dissertation in...
Vesla Weaver (PhD 2007) selected as the winner of this year's APSA Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section Prize Vesla Weaver (PhD 2007) has been selected as the winner of this year's APSA Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section prize for her dissertation,  “Frontlash: Race and the Politics of Punishment.”
Lily Tsai (PhD, 2005) has been selected as the winner of the 2007-08 Dogan Award from the Society for Comparative Research Lily Tsai (PhD, 2005) has been selected as the winner of the 2007-08 Dogan Award from the Society for Comparative Research for her book, "Accountability without Democracy." (Cambridge University Press 2007)
The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace is awarded to Andrew Kennedy for his dissertation “Dreams Undeferred: Mao, Nehru, and the Strategic Choices of Rising Powers.”
The Senator Charles Sumner Prize for the Best Dissertation The Senator Charles Sumner Prize for the best dissertation “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace” is awarded to:   1. Katerina...