Awards
- Professor Hein Goemans, with coauthor Giacomo Chiozza, will be honored this year with the Lepgold Prize for their book "Leaders and International Conflict." The prize, awarded by Georgetown University, recognizes the best book on international relations published in the last year.
- Professor Matthew Blackwell is the recipient of the 2012 Richard J. Herrnstein Prize, awarded by Harvard University to recognize the dissertation that best exemplifies "excellent scholarship, originality and breadth of thought, and a commitment to intellectual independence." The Herrnstein Prize alternates each year between the social sciences and natural sciences. Professor Blackwell receives the prize for his dissertation "Essays in Political Methodology."
- John Aldrich, who received his PhD from Rochester and is now the Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science at Duke, has just been named President-elect of the American Political Science Association.
- Professor Maya Sen won the 2012 Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association.
- Professor G. Bingham Powell, Jr., was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree by Union College in June 2012.
- Brenton Kenkel, a Rochester PhD student, receives the 2012 Society for Political Methodology Poster Award for "Bounds for Logistic Regression Coefficients with Nonignorable Missing Outcomes." The award is for the best poster presented at the annual PolMeth Summer Meeting.
- Gary Hollibaugh, a Rochester PhD student, receives the 2011 MPSA Latino Caucus Award for "Neutral Competence or Incompetent Yes-Men? Beyond the Loyalty-Competence Tradeoff." The award is for the best paper presented by a Latino or Latina student at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
New Books
- Professor Richard Fenno has published The Challenge of Congressional Representation (Harvard University Press, 2013).
- Professors Kevin Clarke and David Primo, have published A Model Discipline: Political Science and the Logic of Representations (Oxford University Press, 2012).
- Professor Hein Goemans , with Giacomo Chiozza, has published Leaders and International Conflict (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Professor James Johnson , with Jack Knight, has published The Priority of Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2011).
- Professor Randall Stone has published Controlling Institutions: International Organizations and the Global Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
- Professor Gretchen Helmke, with Julio Rios-Figueroa, has published a co-edited volume, Courts in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2011).