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Graduate Student Departmental Awards

Departmental Awards


2023-2024

Jacobina Aman Award for Best Paper in CP: Daniel Smith

Francis R. Aumann Award for Best Paper in IR: Zhiqin Gao, "Theorizing Contingency in World Politics"

Francis R. Aumann Award for Best Paper in Methodology: Chandler L'Hommedieu, "The Effect of Elite Sentiment on Public Opinion: Text-as-Data and Panel Studies"

Francis R. Aumann Award for Best Paper Presented at a Conference: Soyun Chang, "Who to Blame? Narrative of Blame Surrounding Diseases and the Mandate to Report"

Mathews and Gilkerson Teaching Award: José Pérez

Francis R. Aumann Distinguished Service by a Graduate Student: Katie Gouge

Francis R. Aumann Award for Best Paper in PT: Gabriel Gorre, "The Political and Social Meaning of Desire: Comparing Gandhi and Fanon" (McKean)

The Madison Scott Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Race and Ethnic Politics: Liuya Zhang, "Decoding the Global South: The Impact of Dual Ethnic Hierarchies on Foreign Public Opinion Toward the US and China"

Henry R. Spencer Award for Best Dissertation: Daniel Naftel, "Identifying the Effects of Policing on Voter Behavior"


2022-2023 

Jacobina Aman Award for best paper in CP: Karis Neufeld“State Capacity and Refugee Policy in the Sahel" (Robinson)

Jacobina Aman Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Gender and Sexual Politics: Taís Souza Carareto

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper in IR: Laurie Georges, “Internalization of International Orders by the Masses: Do Some Orders 'Resonate' More with the People?" (Braumoeller)

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper in Methodology: Laura Moses, “Capturing Communication: Information Theory Estimation for Unstructured Data Analysis" (Box-Steffensmeier)

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper presented at a conference: Cara Nix, “Social Influence and its Transition to the Legislative Arena" (Cranmer)

Francis R. Aumann Award for best published paper: Minseon Ku, “Between Routines and Agency" (Mitzen)

Francis R. Aumann Teaching Award: Kara Hooser (Mitzen)

Francis R. Aumann Distinguished Service by a Graduate Student:  José Pérez

William Jennings Bryan Prize for the best paper written in AP: Laura Moses, “Conceptualizing and Identifying Interest Actors" (Box-Steffensmeier)

William Jennings Bryan Prize for best paper written in PT: Euchan Jang, “The Inconvenient Truth of Minimalist Democracy" (Neblo)

The Madison Scott Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Race and Ethnic Politics: Daniel Naftel, “When Policing Mobilizes: Civic Responses to Anti-Gang Crackdowns" (Cranmer)

Henry R. Spencer Award for best dissertation: Caleb Pomeroy, “Three Essays on the Psychology of Power in World Politics" (Cranmer/Schweller)


2021-2022

Jacobina Aman Award for best paper in CP: Cameron Macaskill“Racial Capitalism and Blood Diamonds in Southern Africa" (Valdez)

Jacobina Aman Award for Best Graduate Student Paper on Gender and Sexual Politics: Kara Hooser, "Violence as Peace: Masculinities and Everyday Violence in Post-Conflict Spaces" (Valdez)

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper in IR: Haoming Xiong, “Modeling the Tributary System in Pre-Modern East Asia” (Braumoeller)

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper in Methodology: 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: 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: 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, “All the World’s a Stage: US Presidential Narcissism and International Conflict.” (Herrmann, Schweller)

Francis R. Aumann Teaching Award: John Harden (Herrmann, Schweller, Kogan)

Honorable Mention: Barbara Roth (Robinson)

Francis R. Aumann Distinguished Service by a Graduate Student: Kaitlin McClamrock, Ra'Phael DavisBear Brown

William Jennings Bryan Prize for the best paper written in AP: 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: Martin Armstrong, "Racism Despite Integration: Diversity for the Sake of Mission Effectiveness in the US Military” (Valdez)

Henry R. Spencer Award for best dissertation: 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: 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)


2020-2021

Francis R. Aumann Teaching Award: Alec Clott

Francis R. Aumann Award for conference travel for best pre-conference presentation: Liwu Gan, "Assessing Fair Shares: A New Typology of International Responsibility"

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper presented at a conference: Kaitlin McClamrock

Francis R. Aumann Award for best paper written in Political Methodology: 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: Laura Moses, "Interest Groups Informational Coalitions on Twitter"

William Jennings Bryan Prize for best paper written in Political Theory: Bear Brown, "Democratic Harm or Healing? Distinguishing Anti-Elitism from Populism"

Jacobina Aman Award for best paper written in Comparative Politics: Cameron Macaskill"Postcolonial African Regional Integration"

Jacobina Aman Award for best paper written in International Relations: Maryum Alam"Delegates or trustees? Monitoring costs and indirect foreign policy"

Henry R. Spencer Award for best dissertation: Mini Saraswati, “Climate Volatility and Conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa”