Department Awards


Robert Alan Dahl Award (Outstanding Senior)

Robert A. Dahl graduated from the University of Washington in 1936 and went on to become one of the most distinguished political scientists of his generation. He earned a Ph.D. from Yale in 1940 and became a professor at Yale in 1946 and remained there until his retirement in 1986. He was elected president of the American Political Science Association (APSA) in 1966. Two of his books, Who Governs (1962) and Democracy and Its Critics (1990) received APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award as the Best Book of the Year in American Politics. In 1978 he received APSA’s first James Madison Award, given to a scholar whose career is deemed to have been preeminent. In 1982 he was honored by the University of Washington as Alumnas Summa Laude Dignatus.

2008 – Ambrogino Guisti
2007 – James Malone
2006 – Jennifer W. Howk
2005 – Eric Ndahayp Myukiyehe
2004 – Amy Nicole Ramsey
2003 – Elizabeth Aritzu Zamora
2002 – Stephanie McNees and Jasmine Weaver
2001 – Erik Daniel Pearson
2000 – Erik Mobrand
1999 – Theresa Ann Buckley and Carew Elizabeth Boulding
1998 – Alina Ann McLauchlan and Ralph Paul Stimers
1997 – Heather Deneen Dash and Steven Andrew Miller
1996 – Ian Michael Goodhew
1995 – Michael Philip Corcoro
1994 – Loren Brett Landau
1993 – Jocelyn Inger Peterson
1992 – Steven George Ojemann
1991 – Wendy Elizabeth Franz
1990 – James S. Philipp
1989 – Curtis Alan McGregor
1988 – Gail Marie Stone and Kayleen Jo Hildreth
1987 – Pauline Teresa Bains
1986 – Omid Ali Mantashi

 


Sharon Redeker Award (Outstanding Acheivement in Public Service)

Sharon Redeker served as the Department of Political Science’s Academic Services Director for 15 years and was an integral part of the UW campus for almost 30 years. During this time, Redeker developed the Department’s internship and volunteer service programs placing hundreds of students in public service positions. Her commitment to citizenship and public spirit remains at the core of our program.

The Redeker Award is granted each year to a graduating senior with outstanding achievement in the area of public service.

2007 – Nicholas Austin Fusso
2006 – Tsering Lhadon Dhongthog
2005 – Lindsay Danielle Scola
2004 – F. Lee Hinebaugh
2003 – Julianna P. Rigg

 


Graduate Student Teaching Award

2008 – Lawrence Cushnie
2007 – Julianna P. Rigg
2006 – Joshua Sapotichne
2005 – Adrian C. Sinkler
2004 – Talal S. Hattar
2003 – Turan Kayaoglu
2002 – Katherine E. Stenger
2001 – David J. Watkins and Yoshinori Nishizaki



Severyns-Ravenholt Lectureship

Inspired by the life and work of Washington native and department alumna Mrs. Marjorie Severyns Ravenholt, who developed a lifelong commitment to Asian affairs, the goal of the lectureship is to promote awareness of contemporary Asian polities, economies, and cultures among the citizens of the State of Washington.  The lectureship offers a unique opportunity to present the perspectives of speakers from a range of occupations, classes, nationalities, religions, genders, and statuses throughout Asia.


2006:    Anwar Ibrahim
    President, Anwar Ibrahim & Associates
    Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and former Minister of Finance

2004:    Zainah Anwar
    Executive Director, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia

2003:    Long Yongtu
    Secretary-General, Bo'Ao Forum for Asia
    Former Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the
    People's Republic of China
    Former Chief Trade Representative

2001:    Jose Ramos-Horta
    Nobel Peace Prize Winner

2000:    Frank Ching
    Senior Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review




Stuart A. Scheingold Award (for Best Graduate Student Paper in the Public Law Field)

Stuart A. Scheingold is an eminent scholar in the study of law and society. He has conducted pioneering research regarding the European Court of Justice, the politics of rights advocacy, political discourse about crime, and cause lawyering, among other topics. Scheingold contributed to a vibrant tradition of graduate and undergraduate education in the Political Science field of public law for over 30 years at the University of Washington. In honor of this legacy, the Scheingold Award is awarded annually to the best graduate student paper in the public law field.

2008 - Shauna Fisher - "It Takes (At Least) Two to Tango: Fighting with Words in the Conflict over Same-Sex Marriage"

2007 - Sooenn Park  - "The Human in the Making: Politics of Human Rights without Human Foundation"

2006 - Jennifer Fredette, "What Not to Wear: A Legal Mobilization Approach to Explaining Recent Rights Claiming in France"

2005 - Iza R. Hussin, "The Pursuit of the Perak Regalia: Law and the Making of the Colonial State"

2004 - Ceren Belge - "Friends of the Court: The Republican Alliance and Selective Activism of the Constitutional Court of Turkey"

2003 - Glenn D. Mackin - "Feminism and Paradigms of Law"

2002 - Claire E. Rasmussen

2001 - Scott E. Lemieux and Jeffrey R. Dudas, "Of Savages and Sovereigns: Tribal Self-Administration and the Legal Construction of Dependence"