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Department News, Honors and Awards
2007 - 2008 Academic Year
Dr. B. Dan Wood
June 2008
Professor Dan Wood will receive the Founders Award from the Presidency Research Group section of the American Political Science Association for the best paper presented by a PhD-holding scholar at the 2007 annual meeting. The title of Dr. Wood’s paper is "Presidential Saber Rattling and the Economy." The award will be presented at the upcoming APSA Annual Meeting in Boston.
Dr. George Edwards
June 2008
Distinguished Professor George Edwards will receive the Presidency Research Section’s Career Service Award at the 2008 American Political Science Association annual meeting in late August. The award is given only during presidential election years to recognize career service to the study of the presidency.
Calli Diane Bailey
May 2008
Calli Diane Bailey received the Spring 2008 Bonnie Browne Award for the most academically outstanding graduating senior.
Kierra Freeman
May 2008
Kierra Freeman received the Woodrow Jones, Jr. Award for the best paper written by an undergraduate applying the scientific method to a question of substantive importance. Her paper “The Influence of Anti-Black Attitudes on Minority Support for Race-Conscious Policies” was written for POLS 309 in the Fall of 2007.
Julie Pham and Sol Fuentes Murillo
May 2008
Julie Pham and Sol Fuentes Murillo were chosen as winners of the John ALvis Memorial Scholarships for 2008-2009.
Dr. Kim Quaile Hill
May 2008
Professor Kim Quaile Hill was designated Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science, effective September 1, 2008.
Christopher Anderson
May 2008
Christopher Anderson was awarded a Warren E. Miller Scholarship to participate in the 2008 ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research at the University of Michigan.
Miwa Nakajo, Erica Socker, and Ling Zhu
Miwa Nakajo, Erica Socker, and Ling Zhu were awarded Clogg Scholarships to attend the 2008 Summer Methods workshops at ICPSR, University of Michigan.
McKinzie Craig
May 2008
McKinzie Craig was awarded the Janet Box-Stephensmeier award to attend the 2008 Summer Methods workshops at ICPSR, University of Michigan.
Daniel Betti
May 2008
Daniel Betti has been selected by the Glasscock Center as one of three Brown & Kruse Graduate Scholars for 2008-2009.
Mark Ramirez
April 2008
Mark Ramirez, Ph.D. candidate has been awarded a Ford Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for 2008-2009.
Dr. B. Dan Wood
April 2008
Professor B. Dan Wood has been named a Cornerstone Faculty Fellow of the College of Liberal Arts.
Dr. George Edwards
April 2008
Distinguished Professor George Edwards has been invited by President Elsa Murano to be the commencement speaker at the graduation ceremony on Friday, May 9, 2008 at 9AM.
Dr. Guy Whitten
April 2008
Dr. Guy Whitten has been named director of the European Union Center of Excellence (EUCE) at Texas A&M.
Jason Smith
February 2008
Jason Smith won the European Union Center for Excellence Travel Grant.
Laron Williams
February 2008
Laron Williams won the European Union Center for Excellence Travel Grant.
Cigdem Sirin
December 2007
Cigdem V. Sirin received the CLA dissertation award. The tile of her dissertation is "Public Support for Military Interventions Across Levels of Political Sophistication and Phases of Intervention."
Claudia Avellaneda
December 2007
Claudia Avellaneda received the 2007 Jones Award for her paper "Municipal Performance: Does Mayoral Quality Matter?"
Abbigail Lauren Blackburn
December 2007
Abbigail Lauren Blackburn received the Bonnie Browne Award for the fall semester 2007.
Ashley Ross and Jason Smith
December 2007
Ashley Ross and Jason Smith are the winners of the Sky David Memorial Scholarship.
Ashley Ross, dissertation title: "Democracy and the Provision of Public Goods"
Jason Smith, dissertation title "The Consequences of Anti Establishment Parties in Western Europe"
Sky David Memorial Scholarship was established to support dissertation field work expenses incurred outside the United States for a Ph.D. student in political science.
Dr. Kim Hill
November 14, 2007
Dr. Kim Quaile Hill was named the outstanding instructor of a Writing Intensive Course in a University-wide competition.
More 2007-2008 News (August-October 2007 (PDF)
2006~2007 News Archive (PDF)
2005~2006 News Archive (PDF)
2004~2005 News Archive (PDF)
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