Chancellor Andrew D. Martin, Professor Lee Epstein, & co-author Christina Boyd win APSA's Law & Court Lasting Contribution Award for their 2010 article, "Untangling the Causal Effects of Sex on Judging."
Professors Brian Crisp & Matt Gabel have been awarded a Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Equity Seed Grant to support their research, "Migration and Racial Representation in St. Louis County since 1970."
Undergraduate student, Helen Webley-Brown, wins Harriet K. Switzer Leadership Award. The award was created to recognize outstanding graduating senior women who have made a significant contribution to Washington University in St. Louis during their undergraduate years and have demonstrated exceptional potential for future leadership.
The State Politics & Policy Organized Section of the American Political Science Association has announced that the book Judging Inequality: State Supreme Courts and the Inequality Crisis by James L. Gibson and Michael J. Nelson (published by the Russell Sage Foundation, 2021) has been awarded the Virginia Gray Book Award, an annual award that recognizes the best political science books published on the subject of U.S. state politics or policy in the preceding three calendar years.
Graduate students in political science have recently seen remarkable outcomes on the academic job market, earning multiple interviews and offers and accepting excellent placements. One key to the success of the highly ranked graduate program is a team-based approach to mentoring and navigating the job market.
Congratulations to Professor Chris Lucas and his collaborator, Dean Knox (UPenn), for being awarded a grant through the Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics Program for their project, "Computational Methods for Speech Analysis."
Betsy Sinclair has been named as a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology! The position of Fellow “honors individuals who have made outstanding scholarly contributions to the development of political methodology, and whose methodological work has had a major international impact on subsequent scholarship in the field, in the discipline more broadly, and where appropriate in other areas.”
The International Society for Political Psychology has just announced that Jim Gibson has been awarded the highly prestigious Harold Lasswell Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Political Psychology! The award is bestowed on an individual deemed to have made a distinguished scientific contribution in the field of political psychology. Gibson’s contributions to political psychology are many, ranging from research on the psychology of institutional legitimacy to the psychology of truth and reconciliation and political tolerance, worldwide.
Congratulations to Andrew Reeves! He has been selected as this year’s recipient of the David Hadas Teaching Award, which was established by Pamela W. Hadas "to honor and publicly recognize an outstanding tenured faculty member in Arts & Sciences who demonstrates commitment and excellence in teaching first-year undergraduate students.”
Clarissa Rile Hayward, Professor of Political Science, will assume the role of Dean’s Fellow for Policies this fall. In this position, she will review, create, and advise on faculty policies – in particular, those related to faculty promotion and tenure. Her work in this area will help ensure that faculty in Arts & Sciences receive clear, consistent, and equitable guidance.
2020 PhD Graduate, David Miller, won APSA's President and Executive Politics George C. Edwards III Award for best dissertation in executive politics.
Congratulations to Professor Ted Enamorado for winning this PolMeth award!