The award, granted from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is given every 2-3 years for "an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the EPOVB field."
The award, granted from the APSA's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is presented to top scholars in the field who are within ten years of the PhD.
Shen was selected as one of only 36 awardees selected from 172 applications from 94 member institutions.
Graduate student speaker Sejal Popat and undergraduate student speaker, Political Science graduate Mason Shaver, will address fellow graduates today at WashU’s 165th Commencement ceremony. Here, they look back on their journeys to and through WashU.
Meet three undergraduate political science majors making an impact in St. Louis, Washington, DC, and beyond.
The award, given by the American Association for Public Opinion Research, seeks to recognize influential books that have stimulated theoretical and scientific research in public opinion and/or influenced our understanding or application of survey research methodology.
The prestigious award provides Strawbridge a $200,000 research stipend for his project, "In the Thick of It: The Relationship Among Black People, Black Spaces, and Black Political Unity."
The Excellence in Teaching Award, formerly known as the Distinguished Teaching Award, was established to honor and publicly recognize an outstanding faculty member in Arts & Sciences for exceptional teaching. The award is determined by student nominations.
The award is given each year to "the best paper presented by a political scientist on women, gender and Black Politics at a national or regional Political Science conference in the past academic year."
The Humboldt Fellowship is the most prestigious research award for international researchers seeking to do research at German universities, and was created by the German government to "foster collaborations between German researchers and researchers located outside Germany."
The interview spotlights Shen's multi-award winning research on regulatory enforcement, her interdisciplinary integration of political science and environmental science, and her intellectual trajectory from Swarthmore to Stanford to here at WashU.