Faculty Awards

Congratulations to the following faculty on their recent achievements!

Michael McCann awarded Guggenheim Fellowship.

Two UW professors are among 189 artists, scholars, and scientists chosen as Fellows by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi professor for the advancement of citizenship; and Ann Gale, associate professor of art, were selected from among 2,800 applicants for the prestigious fellowships.

McCann, a former chair of political science, is the founding director of both the interdisciplinary Comparative Law and Society Studies Center, and the undergraduate Law, Societies and Justice program. Two books he's authored or co-authored have won six major book awards from professional academic associations.

Among his present research projects is a study of the cultural backlash against rights claims of disadvantaged groups in the U.S, and especially its impact on public interest litigation related to issues of personal injury and health. McCann teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses on law and society topics, for which he received a University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988. His Guggenheim project is entitled "Public Interest Litigation and the Politics of Responsibility."

The Guggenheim Foundation offers fellowships to further the development of scholars and artists by assisting them to engage in research in any field of knowledge and creation in any of the arts, under the freest possible conditions. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment. This year's grants total $7,600,000.

Peter J. May received the American Society for Public Administration’s William E. Mosher and Fredrick C. Mosher award for best article by an academic in the 2005 volume of the Public Administration Review for an article entitled "“Regulation and Motivations: Examining Different Approaches."

Peter J. May received honorable mention for the 2007 University of Washington's Marsha Landolt Graduate Mentor Award.

Michael McCann wins the APSA Law and Courts' Wadsworth Award for his book, Rights at Work: Pay Equity and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (Chicago U Press, 1994). The Wadsworth Award is given annually for a book that in the last ten years has had the greatest influence on the field of public law.

Michael McCann won two annual best book awards -- the Pritchett Award from the Law & Courts section of APSA, and the Jacob Prize from the Law & Society Association -- this past year for his co-authored book, Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (Chicago).

Margaret Levi, Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies and former President of the American Political Science Association, has been named as the editor of the Annual Review of Political Science.

Chris Adolph won the American Political Science Association's Mancur Olson Award, which is given for the best dissertation completed and accepted in the previous two years in Political Economy.

David Olson received the UW 2005 S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award which is awarded to faculty who have demonstrated extraordinary leadership in community-based instruction, service learning as well as public service and community projects.

Steve Hanson received the UW 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award. This award is given to University faculty who show a mastery of their subject matter, extraordinary intellectual rigor and devotion to their teaching.