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Recent Faculty Awards

Margaret Levi has been appointed a Commissioner of the World Justice Project of the American Bar Association. In this capacity, she will help coordinate the scholars' group with Robert Nelson, Director, American Bar Foundation.

Paul L. Brass was awarded 2008 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Emeritus Fellowship.These Fellowships are intended to support the scholarly activities of outstanding faculty members in the humanities and humanistic social sciences who, at the time of taking up the fellowships, will be officially retired but continue to be active and productive in their fields.

Matt Barreto received a grant of $220,000 from Pew Charitable Trusts to study the new Online Voter Registration system in Washington State. Washington is only the second state in the U.S. to allow online voter registration, and this study will assess the implementation and effectiveness of online registration.

Lance Bennett was awarded the University of Washington 2008 James A. Clowes Award for the Development of Learning Communities

Matt Barreto received a grant from the National Science Foundation for $750,000 to add a Latino oversample to the 2008 American National Election Study (ANES) and translate the survey into Spanish. The 2008 NES is currently in the field, and marks the first time ever it is available in Spanish and carries a Latino oversample.

Rachel Cichowski received the 2008 Best Book Award, American Political Science Association's European Politics and Society Section: The European Court and Civil Society (Cambridge University Press, 2007)

Luis Fraga has been appointed as the co-chair, with Terri Givens of the University of Texas at Austin, of the Task Force on Political Science in the 21st Century, appointed by President Dianne Pinderhughes, APSA.

Luis Fraga has been appointed by Governor Christine Gregoire to serve on the Washington New American Policy Council that will focus on providing guidance to the state as to how it can better integrate immigrants within our civic institutions.

Tony Gill received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association's Religion Section for the book The Political Origins of Regligious Liberty.