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- Robert Alan Dahl Award for Academic Excellence
- Daniel S. Lev Award for Best Honors Thesis
- Sharon Redeker Award for Outstanding Achievement in Public Service
- Graduate Student Teaching Award
- Graduate Student Paper Award - Best Paper Presented at a Conference
- Stuart A. Scheingold Award for Best Graduate Student Paper in the Public Law Field
- Philo S. Bennett Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper on Free Government
- Linden A. Mander Prize for Best Graduate Paper in International Relations
- Tarak Nath Das Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Comparative and International Politics
- Camden Hall Graduate Research Grant
- Ione E. Curtis Graduate Research Grant
- David J. Olson Graduate Research Grant
- Peter May Graduate Research Grant
- Bryan and Diane Jones Graduate Research Grant
- Kizhanatham Jagannathan Graduate Research Grant
- Alfred and Joanne Brainard Graduate Research Grant
- Richard B. Wesley Fellow Awards
- Nancy C.M. Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award in Feminist Theory
- Margaret Levi and Robert D. Kaplan Graduate Fellowship in Comparative Political Economy & Civic Engagement
- W. Lance Bennett Award for Student Work on the Topic of Democracy
Robert Alan Dahl Award for Academic Excellence
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.
2024 – Yingtong Chen
2023 – Cecileu Elliott
2022 – Estey Chen
2021 – Megan Baffaro
2020 – Kathryn Mason Karcher
2019 – Zhiqin Gao
2018 – Caleb Huffman
2017 – Anna Caroline Mikkelborg
2016 – Johnathan Tyler Mills
2015 – Daniel Robert Miller
2014 – Rutger Lukas Ceballos
2013 – Shelby Paige Woods
2012 – Mikhael Samsun Yitref
2011 – Alison Meriel Davis
2010 – Julia Abelev
2009 – Jay Paul Singh
2008 – Ambrogino Augustino Guisti
2007 – James A. Malone
2006 – Jennifer W. Howk
2005 – Eric Ndahayo Mvukiyehe
2004 – Amy Nicole Ramsey
2003 – Elizabeth Aritzu Zamora
2002 – Stephanie McNees and Jasmine Weaver
2001 – Eric Daniel Peterson
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
Daniel S. Lev Award for Best Honors Thesis
Daniel S. Lev was an eminent scholar in comparative politics and comparative legal systems, with a special expertise on law, politics and human rights in Southeast Asia. He taught with distinction in the graduate and undergraduate programs of the University of Washington Political Science departments for nearly 30 years. Lev developed the department Honors program into a model of intellectual inquiry that has been emulated across the UW campus and around the nation.
2024 – Trisha Binwade, "NPT's Framework for Peaceful Nuclear Energy Cooperation"
2023 – Caden Schepps, "Geo-politics on a Jersey: Sponsorship and its Soft Power Implications"
2022 – Vladimir Bejdo, "On the International Supervision of Militant Democracy: Political Party Bans and the European Court of Human Rights"
2021 – Ly Coffin, "Unintended Consequences in Afghanistan: An Analysis of Foreign Aid and Violence”
2020 – Sabrina Suen, "How the Rise of Local Identity Eroded Pan-Chinese Nationalism in Taiwan and Hong Kong"
2019 – Miguel A. Mariscal, "Demographics, Partisanship, & Competitiveness: Poll Closures in the Wake of Shelby"
2018 – Kalani Tissot - "Donors, Democracy, and Despair: An Analysis of Seattle’s Campaign Finance Reform"
– Yulenni Venegas - "Respeta mi Existencia o Espera Resistencia: Mobilization of the Latino Immigrant Community Under Threat of Deportation"
2017 – Tyler James Pichette, “Populism, Deindustrialization, and Resentment: The Political Economy of Trump & Brexit”
2016 – Lauren Ariella Mittman, “What is Past is Prologue: Compromised Minority Representation in the American South”
2015 – Deniz Ahmet Irgi, "Re-Imagining the 'American' Nation: A post-Racial Struggle to 'Race' Undocumented Students"
2014 – Morgan Faye Galloway, "Blackhawks and Human Rights: The Impact and Consequences of Short-term Incentives in Militarizing 'Plan Colombia'"
2013 – William Zachary Brenc, "Gimme Hope John: United States Foreign Policy Towards South Africa Under Kennedy and the Origins of Constructive Engagement"
– Griffin Thomas Smith, "A Sleepwalking Society: The American Dream in the Twentieth Century"
2012 – Chad Thomas Johnson, "The Effect of Locally Designated Job Access Reverse Commute Programs on Employment of the Poor in Los Angeles"
2011 – Sean A. Freeder, "Electoral Spending Shifts in a Post-Citizens United America"
– Jeffrey Jon Ostrove, "On the Normative Concept in an Anti-realist Sense"
2010 – Samuel Holden Garfield, "Politics in the University District Farmers' Market: Towards a Political Anthropology of Markets"
2009 – Ivan Panchenko, "Economic Reform in Ukraine and Estonia (1990-99): The Relationship between Political Continuity and Economic Reform in Two Post-Soviet Transition Economies"
2008 – Charlotte Skye Sanders, “Media, Militants and Elections: An Analysis of the Portrayal of Hamas in U.S. Print Media”
2007 – Christopher Dmitri Berk, “Politicizing the Prison”
– Robin H. Engle, "Public Financing and State Legislative Gender Diversity"
2006 – Jennifer W. Howk, "The Truly Socialist War on Terror: Revolution and
Redefinition in Post-Soviet Cuba" and Elizabeth Lyly Mai Harrington, "Young Russian Women and the Corporatization of the Individual"
2005 – Candace Lynn Faber, "Ghosts that Bear Arms: Nostalgia and Russian military involvement in the former Soviet states"
2004 – Tessa Victoria Capeloto, "Assessing the Instrumental Value of Assassination as a Means to Combat Terror: The Israeli Experience"
2003 – Sean Charles Kellogg, "Government Procurement in the Digital Era: Rethinking Property Rights Driven Innovation"
2002 – Susan Landes, "The Problem of the Ability-Line"
2001 – Lael Karen Weis, "Remembering Forgetfulness: An aesthetic re-reading of democratic politics"
– Jeffrey Keith Roberson, "Incremental removal of sanctions: two case studies in increased effectiveness of sanctions"
2000 – Erik Mobrand, "Foreign Aid and Embedded Liberalism: the case of US aid to Russia"
1999 – Aram Adam Meade, "The Post Authorities Dilemma: Can Nascent Democracies Find Justice For Past Political Crimes"
Sharon Redeker Award for Outstanding Achievement 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.
2024 – Elizabeth Bertram
2023 – Kaitlyn Laibe
2022 – Maha Sohail Alhomoud
2021 – Harkiran Singh
2020 – Tania Algebori
2019 – Jade J. Lauw
2018 – Alissa Mustre
2017 – Diana Betancourt
2016 – Daniel Keum & Samuel Miller Wright
2015 – Emily Erin Lake
2014 – Courtney Michelle Arrington
2013 – Janice Yuet Chun Leung
2012 – Elizabeth Ann Saurwein
2011 – Scott Brekke Davis
2010 – Martin Duglas Sepulveda
2009 – Helen Hoang Ho
2008 – Joseph Allen Stockton
2007 – Nicholas Austin Fusso
2006 – Tsering Lhadon Dhongthog
2005 – Lindsay Danielle Scola
2004 – F. Lee Hinebaugh
2003 – Julianna P. Rigg
Graduate Student Teaching Award
2024 – Ian Callison
2023 – Megan Erickson
2022 – Bree Bang-Jensen, Grace Reinke
2021 – (None)
2020 – Jonathan C. Beck
2019 – Chelsea Moore
2018 – Christianna Parr, Jennifer Driscoll
2017 – Emma T. Rodman, Nora Webb Williams, Xiao Ma
2016 – Vanessa E. Quince
2015 – Jared A. Stewart
2014 – Tania R. Melo
2013 – Joannie Tremblay-Boire
2012 – Josh C. Eastin
2011 – Jason F. Lambacher and Allison D. Rank
2010 – Andrew S. Cockrell
2009 – Deepa Bhandaru
2008 – Lawrence J. 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
Graduate Student Paper Award for Best Paper Presented at a Conference
2024 – Yulenni Venegas Lopez, "Representing the Real Latino Electorate: Far Right Latinas, Group Capture, and Alternate Visions of Latinidad"
2023 – Jana Foxe, “A Shock to the System? The Party System Implications of Europe’s Austerity Doctrine”
2022 – Brian Huang, “How to Despair the Climate: Against Eco-Optimism”
2021 – Zhaowen Guo, “Livestreaming Pollution: Information Provision and Civic Engagement in Authoritarian Regimes”
2020 – Will Gochberg, “The Social Costs of Titling Land: Evidence from Uganda"
2019 – David Lucas, "Community and the Capabilities Approach"
2018 – Calvin Garner, “Violence against the Media in Non-Democratic Regimes: Evidence from Russia”
2017 – Mathieu Dubeau, “Reclaiming Species-Being: Toward an Interspecies Historical Materialism”
2016 – Aaron S. Erlich, "Shaping Citizens' Expectations with Pre-Election Information: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment in the Country of Georgia"
2015 – Yu Sasaki, "Publishing Nations: Technology Acquisition and Language Standardization for European Ethnic Groups"
– Tyler Reny, "Mobilizing Immigration Attitudes: Context, Competition, and Contemporary Racial Appeals"
2014 – Hannah Walker and Kasra Oskooii, “Explaining Executive Discretion: A Mixed-Method Study of the Pardon Process in Washington State"
2013 – Nicholas R. Stramp, "Presidents Profiting From Disasters: Evidence of Presidential Distributive Politics"
2012 – Sijeong Lim, "Financial Market, Labor Market, and Welfare Policy Portfolio in the Developing World"
2011 – Heather N. Pool, "Mourning Emmett Till: Racial Violence and Political Change"
– Brad Epperly, "Political Competition and Judicial Empowerment in Non-Demmocracies"
2010 – Joshua Eastin, "Combat Eruptions: The Effects of Natural Disasters on Violent Civil Conflict"
2009 – Taedong Lee, "Global Cities and Climate Change"
2008 – Brian D. Greenhill, "International Socialization and the Diffusion of Human Rights Norms"
2007 – Adrian C. Sinkler - "Privatizing the Patrimony: State-Society Relations and the Demand for Private Rights in Rural Mexico"
2006 – Umut Aydin - "Competition and Cooperation: Subsidies in the US, Canada and the EU"
2005 – John Stephen Ahlquist - "Fiscal Policy and Capital Flows in the North and South"
2004 – Christian K. Breunig, "Distribution of Budget Changes in Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States"
2003 – Adam N. Luedtke - "European Integration, Public Opinion andImmigration Policy: Testing the Impact of National Identity"
2002 – Tamir M. Moustafa - "Law Versus the State: Credible Commitments and the Establishment of the Supreme Constitutional Court of Egypt"
2001 – Tracy E. Sulkin, “Legislators’ Responsiveness to Campaign Themes: Toward an Agenda-Based Model of Representation.”
– Benjamin B. Smith, “Collective Action With and Without Islam: Mobilizing the Bazaar in Iran”
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.
2024 – Waleed Salem, "A Theory of Judicial Agency in Autocratic Regimes"
2023 – Dennis Young, “Thoughtlessness in the Age of Homeland Security: Race, Surveillance, and Bureaucratic Violence in Immigration Enforcement"
2022 – (None)
2021 – (None)
2020 – Jonathan Beck, "Inequality and the Human Right to Tuition-Free Higher Education: Mobilizing Human Rights in the German Movement Against Tuition Fees"
2019 – Jeffrey Grove, "Judicial Settlement: Courts and Territorial Expansion in the Late 19th Century"
2017 – Chelsea Moore and Emma Rodman, “It Would Mean Little Absent Governmental Recognition: Dignity, Legal Personhood, and State Power in Obergefell v. Hodges"
2015 – Filiz Kahraman, "A New Era for Labor Activism? Claiming Trade Union Rights as Human Rights"
2014 – Laura E. Back, “The Neglected Subjects of Civil Rights: A School Desegregation Case Study”
2013 – Erin Adam, "Rights Discourses and Framing: Lesbian and Gay Anti-Discrimination Policy in Washington State"
– Betsy Cooper, "Rights Discourses and Framing: Lesbian and Gay Anti-Discrimination Policy in Washington State"
2012 – Kirstine Taylor, "Untimely Subjects: White Trash and the Politics of Racial Innocence in the Postwar South"
2011 – Seth W. Greenfest, "Jurisdiction-Granting: Legislative Capacity and Ideological Distance"
2010 – Christopher R. Heurlin, "Information and Legacies: Electoral Volatility in the Post Communist World"
2009 – Annie Menzel - "The SCHIP's "fetus option": An intimate geography of the global racial regime of citizenship."
2008 – Shauna F. 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"
Philo S. Bennett Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper on Free Government
Philo S. Bennett was an east coast industrialist and populist who died accidentally in 1903. According to his will, “I give and bequeath to Wm. J. Bryan of Lincoln the sum of $10,000, in trust, however, to pay to twenty-five colleges or universities, to be selected by him, the sum of four hundred dollars each, said sum to be invested by each college receiving the same and the annual proceeds used for a prize for the best essay discussing the principal [sic] of free government.” The University of Washington was one of the recipients. More here.
2024 – (None)
2023 – Sebastian Mayer, “Cheered On or Booed Off? The Public’s Reaction to Black Athlete Activism Online”
2022 – Kenya Amano, "Democracy and Macroprudential Policy"
2021 – Grace Reinke, “Social Reproduction as Political Resistance”
2020 – Beatrice Magistro,and Nicolas Wittstock, "Explaining the rise of anti-immigration parties: changes in preferences and issue salience after the 2015 refugee crisis in Italy"
2019 – Carolyn Dapper, "Chicago and Charlottesville: White Rioting and Ritual Violence in the Trump Era"
2017 – Stephanie K. Stanley, “Social Movements and Electoral Politics: The Effects of Political Organization on Political Strategy”
2016 – Andreu Casas Salleras and Nora Webb Williams, "Images that Matter: Online Protest and the Mobilizing Role of Pictures"
2015 – Seth A. Trenchard, "The Pleasure of Judgment and Its Use: Rethinking the Subject in Aesthetic Judgment"
2014 – Amanda B. Clayton
2013 – Deepa Bhandaru
2012 – James A. Chamberlain
2011 – Daniel P. Berliner
Linden A. Mander Prize for Best Graduate Paper in International Relations
Linden A. Mander (1897-1967) was a Professor of political science at the University of Washington and co-director of the Institute of International Affairs.
2024 – Kayla Morton, "Climate Change Beyond Emissions: An Analysis of Conference of Party Decisions, 1995-2022"
2023 – (None)
2022 – Ian Callison, "Delegation Against Deterrence: The impact of PGMs on ICC effectiveness"
2021 – Megan Erickson & Lucas Owen, “Blood Avocados: Trade Liberalization and Cartel Violence in Mexico”
2020 – Bree Bang-Jensen, "The Good News about Treaty Exit: Denunciation of Regressive Treaties"
2019 – Christiana Parr, "Leaders and Laggards: Environmental Treaty Ratification and Civil Society"
2016 – Christopher P. Colligan and Christopher Whyte, "Concordance in Digital Affairs: Cyber Threats and Threat Inflation in Civil Military Perspectives"
2015 – Daniel Yoo, "Financial Intermediaries, Capital Account Liberalization, and Financial Sector Reform in Latin America"
2014 – Meredith M. Loken
2013 – Eric J. Schwab
2012 – Mary Anne Madeira
Tarak Nath Das Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Comparative and International Politics
Tarak Nath Das was an Indian nationalist and civil rights advocate who received his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science in 1911. He and his wife, Mary Keatinge Morse, a founding member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, created a Foundation in 1935 that established endowments at a number of universities. More here.
2024 – (None)
2023 – Meagan Carmack, "Double Jeopardy and the Northern Spotted Owl: A New Challenge for the Endangered Species Act? "
2022 – Inhwan Ko, "Rural Opposition to Landscape Change from Solar Farms: Explaining the diffusion of local ordinances against solar farms in South Korea"
2021 – Rachel Castellano, “Opportunities and Obstacles: How Consulting Civil Society Organizations Can Affect Human Trafficking Policy”
2020 – J.P. Anderson, "Far from Ideal: Cross-national Comparison of Prison Disproportionalities"
– Ryan Goehrung, "The Price of Marriage and Women's Political Representation"
2019 – Rafeel Wasif, "Guilty by Donating: Understanding the Impact of 9/11 on Donations to Islamic NGOs"
2016 – Beatrice Magistro, "The Asymmetric Effects of the Eurozone Crisis on Support for Democracy"
2015 – Xiao Ma, "Term Limit and Authoritarian Power-Sharing: Theory and Evidence from China"
2014 – Andrew S. Cockrell
Camden Hall Graduate Research Grant
The Camden Hall Graduate Research Grant is awarded for expenses related to research on topics in American politics and constitutionalism, particularly issues related to equality and voting rights and to freedom of speech, thought, assembly, or religion. The funds are not limited to studies of constitutional law. Studies of politics that relate to constitutionalism in its broader political and social context are also eligible.
2021 - Brian Leung, Dennis Young
2020 - Grace Reinke
2018 - Emma Rodman
2017 - Sean Butorac
2016 - Andrew Casas, Nora Williams
Ione E. Curtis Graduate Research Grant
Ione E. Curtis was born in September 1915 in Dickinson, North Dakota. During World War II she served in the Women’s Army Corps. She received her M.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington in 1967. Upon graduation, Ms. Curtis worked as a claims representative for the Social Security Administration.
2023 - Anna Nguyen
2021 - Lucas Owen, Nicolas Wittstock
2020 - Dennis Young
2019 - Ellen Ahlness
2018 - Vanessa Quince
2017 - Vanessa Quince
2016 - Elizabeth Chrun
2015 - Emily Gade
David J. Olson Graduate Research Grant
The David J. Olson Graduate Research Grant is awared for expenses related to research on regional governments and subgovernments (e.g., state, regional, local) or research related to work or the politics of labor.
David Olson was a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He specialized in State and Local Politics and was instrumental in the development of the Washington State Legislative Internship Program. In 2005 he received the S. Sterling Munro Public Service Teaching Award and in 2007 was named the inaugural Distinguished Civic Educator Award by the Washington State Senate. In 2006 Olson was knighted by the King of Norway as knight of the first class, order of merit for contributions to US/Norway scholarly exchange relations.
2023 - Julia Wejchert
2022 - Rachel Castellano, Inhwan Ko
2021 - Zhaowen Guo
2020 - Jeffrey Grove
2019 - Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer
2018 - Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer, Jonathan Beck
2017 - Daniel Yoo, Anna Zelenz
2016 - Erin Adam, David Lopez
2015 - Erin Adam
Peter May Graduate Research Grant
The Peter May Graduate Research Grant provides two awards for expenses related to research in any field of political science.
Peter May was a Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. He specialized in Public Policy and was a recipient in 2014 of the APSA Public Policy Section’s Excellence in Mentoring Award and in 2012 of the University of Washington’s Marsha L. Landolt Distinguished Graduate Mentor Award.
2023 - Morgan Wack, Nicolas Wittstock
2022 - Ryan Goehrung
2021 - Inhwan Ko
2020 - Morgan Wack
2019 - Mathieu Dubeau
2018 - Wesley Zuidema
2017 - Meredith Loken
2016 - Crystal Pryor
2015 - Xiao Ma
2014 - Andrew Cockrell
Bryan and Diane Jones Graduate Research Grant
Bryan Jones was a Professor of Political Science, and Diane Jones was a Professor of Education at the University of Washington. Bryan directed the Center for American Politics and Public Policy and was a very popular graduate instructor.
2023 - Meagan Carmack
2021 - Rachel Castellano, Ryan Goehrung
2020 - Sebastian Mayer
2019 - Rafeel Wasif
2018 - Chelsea Moore
2015 - Hannah Walker
Kizhanatham Jagannathan Graduate Research Grant
Kizhanatham (Nathan) Jagannathan received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and went on to a distinguished professional career in the Washington D.C. area.
2023 - Ian Callison
2022 - Zhaowen Guo, Tao Lin
2021 - Christianna Parr
2020 - Nela Mrchkovska, Tan Zhao
2019 - Yusri Supiyan, Beatrice Magistro
2018 - William Gochberg, Stephen Winkler, Beatrice Magistro
Alfred and Joanne Brainard Graduate Research Grant
Alfred P. Brainard received his Ph.D in Political Science from the University of Washington in 1960. He was veteran of the Korean War and a career State Department officer who served as consul general in Zurich and senior U.S. diplomatic representative to Liechtenstein. More here.
2021 - Megan Erickson
2020 - Kenya Amano
2019 - Bree Bang-Jensen
2018 - Chris Colligan
Richard B. Wesley Graduate Fellow
Richard B Wesley completed his residency at the University of Washington and practiced pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine in Bremerton. After retiring, Dick returned to Seattle and attended the Access program at the University of Washington studying political science, economics, and communications.
International Relations
2023-24 - Jessica Sciarone
2022-23 - Ian Callison
2021-22 - Megan Erickson
2020-21 - Bree Bang-Jensen
2019-20 - Christopher Colligan
2018-19 - Christopher Colligan
2017-18 - Wesley Zuidema
2016-17 - Vanessa E. Quince
2015-16 - Meredith M. Loken
2014-15 - James A. Harmon, Jr.
2012-14 - Emily K. Gade
2011-12 - William L. d’Ambruoso
2010-11 - Joshua C. Eastin
Political Economy
2023-24 - Ramses Llobet
2022-23 - Zhaowen Guo, Nela Mrchkovska
2021-22 - Morgan Wack
2020-21 - Nicolas Wittstock
2019-20 - Bree Beng-Jensen
2018-19 - Kevin Aslett, Beatrice Magistro
2017-18 - Nora Webb Williams, Daniel Yoo
2014-15 - Xiao Ma
2013-14 - Amanda Clayton Dye
Comparative Politics
2023-24 - Ryan Goehrung
2022-23 - Tao Lin
2021-22 - Jihyeon Bae
2020-21 - Zhaowen Guo
2019-20 - Brian Leung
2018-19 - Kylie Clay
2017-18 - Meredith M. Loken
2016-17 - Xiao Ma
Environmental Politics and Governance (CEP)
2023-24 - Kayla Morton
2022-23 - Meagan Carmack
2021-22 - Inhwan Ko
2020-21 - Jeffrey Grove
2019-20 - Christianna Parr
2018-19 - Hanjie Wang
2017-18 - Mathieu Dubeau
2016-17 - William Gochberg
2015-16 - Elizabeth Chrun
2014-15 - Kylie Clay
Nancy C.M. Hartsock Endowed Graduate Student Award in Feminist Theory
This award honors Nancy Hartsock, a feminist political theorist who was a professor in the departments of Political Science and Women’s Studies (now known as Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies) at the University of Washington. The award recognizes graduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences who demonstrate through writing or research, excellent and noteworthy contributions to the field of feminist theory, with a preference that the funds shall be used to recognize extraordinary writing in feminist theory.
2024 - Saad Adnan Khan, Marielle Y. Marcaida
2023 - Christina Yuen Zi Chung (GWSS)
2022 - Clara Ribeiro (Geography)
2021 - Xin Peng (Cinema and Media Studies)
2017 - Jiwoon Lee (GWSS), Mediha P. Sorma (GWSS)
2013 - Kathleen Boyd (English)
Margaret Levi and Robert D. Kaplan Graduate Fellowship in Comparative Political Economy
Margaret Levi was a Professor and Robert D. Kaplan was a graduate of the department of Political Science. Professor Levi had a distinguished career specializing in Comparative Politics with numerous awards including the 2019 Johan Skytte Award, considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for political scientists. Robert Kaplan was recognized as our Distinguished Alumnus in 2004.
2023-24 - Tongtian Xiao, Zhaomin Li
2022-23 - Jana Foxe
2021-22 - Owen Lucas, Llobet Ramses
2020-21 - Megan Erickson, Rachel Castellano
2019-20 - Calvin Garner
2014-15 - Aaron Erlich
2013-14 - Kendra Dupuy
2012-13 - Sijeong Lim
2010-11 - Daniel Berliner
Margaret Levi and Robert D. Kaplan Graduate Fellowship in Civic Engagement
The Kaplan/Levi Graduate Fellowship to Promote Civic Engagement was created through the generosity of Robert D. Kaplan, Distinguished Alumnus of the UW Department of Political Science, and Margaret Levi, Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies in the UW Department of Political Science.
2020 - Chelsea Moore
W. Lance Bennett Award for Student Work on the Topic of Democracy
2023-2024 - Becca Peach