2025 Graduate Student Awards
| Award Name | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Best Dissertation in Race, Ethnicity/ or Migration and Politics | Reed Rasband: Redirecting Xenophobia: How New Migration Flows Improve Intergroup Relations in Immigration Destinations. |
| Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “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” | Jordan Rudinsky: A Government of Men: Responsible Government and the Rule of Law in the Progressive Era. Elizabeth Thom: Withering on the Vine: Political and Policy Lessons from Extractive Industry Decline in the United States. |
| Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace | Katherine Irajpanah: The Balance of Restraint: An Analysis of Warfighting Norms and Patterns in Global Conflict. |
| Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation upon a subject of political science | Madai Urteaga Quispe: Agrarian Developmentalism: The Politics of Development Strategies in Latin America. |
| Derek C Bok Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching of Undergraduates | Ben TerMaat |
2024 Graduate Student Awards
| Award Name | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Best Dissertation in Race, Ethnicity/ or Migration and Politics | Olivia Woldemikael: The Local Consequences of Migration Policies in Latin America, Africa, and North America. |
| Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “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” | Caterina Chiopris: Regional Inequalities and Spatial Integration: Essays on the Political Economy of Europe, 1629-2022 Dimitri Halikias: Slaves without Masters: The Feudal Imagination and the Critique of Impersonal Domination |
| Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace | Andi Zhou: The Causes and Consequences of Territorial Nationalism |
| Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation upon a subject of political science | Tyler Simko: Geographic Policy Evaluation in US State and Local Politics |
2023 Graduate Student Awards
| Award Name | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Sidney Verba Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching | Elizabeth Thom |
| Graduate Student Association Faculty Mentorship Award | Alisha Holland Kosuke Imai |
| Graduate Student Association Peer Diversity & Inclusion Award | Stephen Chaudoin |
| Graduate Student Association Peer Mentorship Award | Aaron Watanabe |
| Graduate Student Association Peer Diversity & inclusion Award | Angelo Dagonel |
| Best Dissertation in Race, Ethnicity/ or Migration and Politics | Briita van Staalduinen: Ethnic Inequality in the Welfare State |
| Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “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” | Justin Pottle: Democratic Inequality in the Misinformation Age Alice Xu: Segregation and the Spatial Externalities of Inequality: A Theory of Independence and Public Goods in Cities. |
| Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace | Naima Green-Riley: How to Win Friends and Influence People Overseas: The U.S., China, and the Microfoundations of Public Diplomacy |
| Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation upon a subject of political science | Kaneesha Johnson: The Punishing State: Punishment, Social Control, and Social Services in North Carolina |
2022 Graduate Student Awards
| Award Name | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Sidney Verba Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching | Julia Coyoli |
| Graduate Student Association Faculty Mentorship Award | Melani Cammett |
| Graduate Student Association Peer Mentorship Award | Chelsea Green |
| Best Dissertation in Gender and Politics | Pamela Nwakanma: Women, Power, and Networks: The Gendered Politics of Economic Empowerment |
| Best Dissertation in Race, Ethnicity/ or Migration and Politics | Matt Reichert: Who Built Nations in Eurasia? How Writers, Artists, and Professors Shaped Beliefs about National Identity |
| Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “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” | Leah Downey: Democratizing Money: A Political Theory of Policymaking Amy Lakeman: When Theology Responds: How Politics Shapes Religious Belief |
| Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace | Aytug Sasmaz: Electoral Weakness of Secular Parties in the Middle East and North Africa during the Post-Uprisings Era of the 2010s |
| Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for the best dissertation upon a subject of political science | Jacob Brown: Partisan Conversion and Activation: The Behavioral Consequences of Geographic Polarization |
2021 Graduate Student Awards
| Award Name | Recipient |
|---|---|
| Sidney Verba Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching | Amy Lakeman Matthew Reichert |
| Graduate Student Association Faculty Mentorship Award | Fran Hagopian Dan Carpenter |
| Graduate Student Association Peer Mentorship Award | Angie Bautista Chavez Kaneesha Johnson |