Jacobina Aman Award for best paper in CP ($500) — Cameron Macaskill: “Racial Capitalism and Blood Diamonds in Southern Africa" (Valdez) Jacobina Aman Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Gender and Sexual Politics ($500) — Kara Hooser: "Violence as Peace: Masculinities and Everyday Violence in Post-Conflict Spaces" (Valdez) Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper in IR ($500) — Haoming Xiong: “Modeling the Tributary System in Pre-Modern East Asia” (Braumoeller) Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper in Methodology ($500) — Seoeun Yang: “Images with Texts: Multimodal Framing Analysis of Online News Coverage on the European Refugee Crisis” (Cranmer) Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper presented at a conference ($500) — Soohyun Cho: “Protectionism Reconsidered: Economic Insecurity, Social Identity, and the Gender Gap in Trade Attitudes,” presented at ISA (Brooks) Francis R. Aumann Award for best published paper ($500) — Vlad Chlouba, Daniel Smith, and Seamus Wagner: “Early Statehood and Support for Autocratic Rule in Africa.” Comparative Political Studies. August 10, 2021 (Robinson) Honorable mention: John Harden, International Studies Quarterly. It is entitled “All the World’s a Stage: US Presidential Narcissism and International Conflict.” (Herrmann, Schweller) Francis R. Aumann Teaching Award ($500) — John Harden (Herrmann, Schweller, Kogan) Honorable Mention: Barbara Roth (Robinson) Francis R. Aumann Distinguished Service by a Graduate Student, $500 each: Kaitlin McClamrock, Ra'Phael Davis, Bear Brown William Jennings Bryan Prize for the best paper written in AP ($500) — Laura Moses: “Meaningful messaging: Sentiment in elite social media communication with the public on the COVID-19 pandemic” (Box-Steffensmeier) William Jennings Bryan Prize for best paper written in PT ($500) — Martin Armstrong: "Racism Despite Integration: Diversity for the Sake of Mission Effectiveness in the US Military” (Valdez) Henry R. Spencer Award for best dissertation ($500) — Jianzi He: "The Unspoken Rules Between the Central and Local Governments in China's Land Governance" (Kurtz) Honorable Mention: Linnea Turco (Wendt) The Madison Scott Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Race and Ethnic Politics ($500) — José Pérez: "White Skin, Which Mask? Anti-Blackness, Ontological (In)Security and Brazilian Diplomacy (Watson, Brooks) "Who is this development for?” Indigenous Lands, the Amazon, and Racial Capitalism in Brazil" (Valdez)
Departmental Awards for the 2020-2021 academic year
Francis R. Aumann Teaching Award ($1,000) — Alec Clott Francis R. Aumann Award for conference travel for best pre-conference presentation (up to $1,000) — Liwu Gan: "Assessing Fair Shares: A New Typology of International Responsibility" Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper presented at a conference ($500) — Kaitlin McClamrock Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper written in Political Methodology ($500) — Shared by Laura Moses: "Interest Actors: Recasting and Classification for Identifying Interests and Organizations on Twitter" and Jared Edgerton: "The ties that bind us: Social networks and suicide combatant Mobilization" William Jennings Bryan Prize for best paper written in American Politics ($500) — Laura Moses: "Interest Groups Informational Coalitions on Twitter" William Jennings Bryan Prize for best paper written in Political Theory ($500) — Bear Brown: "Democratic Harm or Healing? Distinguishing Anti-Elitism from Populism" Jacobina Aman Award for best paper written in Comparative Politics ($500) — Cameron Macaskill: "Postcolonial African Regional Integration" Jacobina Aman Award for best paper written in International Relations ($500) — Maryum Alam: "Delegates or trustees? Monitoring costs and indirect foreign policy" Henry R. Spencer Award for best dissertation ($1,000) — Mini Saraswati: “Climate Volatility and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa”
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