Recognitions

2008


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 - University of Washington, James A. Clowes Award for the Development of Learning Communities.

Matt Barreto and Gary Segura 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.

Aseem Prakash. Letter of Commendation for Teaching from Divisional Dean of Social Sciences, University of Washington.

2007

Chris Adolph - 2007-2009 Robert Woods Johnson Scholar in Health Policy

Lance Bennett - National Communication Association Lifetime Distinguished Scholar Award for Career Achievement in the Study of Human Communication

Peter May - Honorable Mention for UW Marsha Landolt Graduate Mentor Award

Michael McCann, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 2007-08 ($40,000)

Aseem Prakash. Letter of Commendation for Undergradaute Teaching from Divisional Dean, University of Washington

Jack Turner, Resident Fellowship, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, University of Virginia, Spring 2007

John Wilkerson, Ministerio de Educacion Y Ciencia Investigadore Extranjeros, (Government of Spain (2007-2008)

John Wilkerson, Best Educational Website, APSA Information and Technology section [Policy Agendas Project]

2006

Steve Hanson - Visiting Senior Scholar, Department of Politics and International Relations; Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University

Margaret Levi - Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar (2006-2007)

Jamie Mayerfeld, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2006-07

Michael McCann, Wadsworth Publishing Award, 2006, through the Law and Courts section of the American Political Science Association, "given annually for a book or journal article, 10 years or older, that has made a lasting impression on the field of law and courts," to Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization (U. of Chicago Press, 1994).

Naomi Murakawa, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Health Policy Research Program (2006-2008)

Naomi Murakawa, Simpson Center for the Humanities Award for Speaker Series, University of Washington

Naomi Murakawa, Letter of Commendation for Teaching from Divisional Dean, University of Washington

Naomi Murakawa, Best Dissertation Award, Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section, APSA

Naomi Murakawa, Dissertation Prize, Law and Society Association

2005

Chris Adolph - Mancur Olson Award for best dissertation in Political Economy

Chris Adolph - Charles Sumner Award, Harvard University

Bethany Albertson - Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Princeton University

Bethany Albertson - Honorable Mention, Seymour Sudman Student Paper Competition, AAPOR (with Adria Lawrence)

Bethany Albertson - Doolittle Harrison Fellowship, University of Chicago

Rachel Cicowski - National Pi Sigma Alpha (Political Science Honors Society) Best Chapter Award.  Faculty Advisor, University of Washington, Nu Chapter

Steve Hanson - Outstanding Undergraduate Mentor Award, University of Washington

Peter May - 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

Michael McCann, Gordon Hirabayashi Professorship for the Advancement of Citizenship at the University of Washington, 2001-2006, renewed in 2005 indefinitely

Chris Parker, Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Fellow, University of California, Berkeley/UC San Francisco (2005-2007)

Susan Whiting, Fellow, Public Intellectuals Program, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, 2005-07

2004

Luis Fraga - The Adalijiza Sosa-Riddell Award for Exemplary Mentoring of Latino/a Junior Faculty in Political Science, the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession

Steve Hanson - Distinguished Teaching Award, University of Washington
Margaret Levi - President, American Political Science Association (2004-2005)

Jamie Mayerfeld, University of Washington Simpson Center for the Humanities, Research Fellowship, 2004-05

Michael McCann, C. Herman Pritchett Prize for Best Book in 2004, awarded by the Law and Courts Section of the APSA, for Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (co-authored with William Haltom)

Michael McCann, Herbert Jacob Prize for Best Book in 2004, presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the Law & Society Association for Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis (co-authored with William Haltom)

Chris Parker, Best paper award, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics section, APSA