Professor Fredrick Harris received APSA's Ralph Bunche Award for the
best scholarly work in political science published in the previous
calendar year that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural
pluralism. Professor Harris was honored with co-authors Valeria
Sinclair-Chapman (University of Rochester), and Brian D. McKenzie
(Texas A&M) for Countervailing Forces in African-American Civic
Activism 1973-1994 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Click here to read about the book.
Professor Harris was also honored by APSA's Organized Section on
Politics and History. He received the 2007 Mary Parker Follett
Award for the best article published in politics and history in the
period 2005-2006. The award recognizes his article "It
Takes A Tragedyto Arouse Them: Collective Memory and Collective Action
during the Civil Rights Movement," which was published in Social
Movement Studies: Journal of Social, Cultural and Political Protest.
Georgia Kernell, a PhD candidate in the Department, received the
2007 POP Paper Award, presented by APSA's Organized Section on Political
Organizations and Parties. The award recognizes the best paper presented
on a POP panel at the preceding APSA Annual Meeting. Ms. Kernell
was honored for her paper titled "Candidate Selection and
Political Participation."
Professor Gregory Wawro, with co-author Eric Schickler (UC Berkeley),
received the APSA Legislative Studies Section's Richard J. Fenno Prize
for the best book in legislative studies published in 2006. Click here
to read more about Wawro and Schickler's Filibuster: Obstruction and
Lawmaking in the US Senate (Princeton University Press). In the
tradition of Professor Fenno's work, the prize is designed to honor
scholarship that is both theoetically and empirically strong. The prize
is dedicated to encouraging scholars to pursue new and different avenues
of research in order to find answers to previously unexplored questions
about the nature of politics.
Also, PhD candidate Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro was awarded the Latin
American Political Institutions Section prize for best paper presented
at the 2006 Latin American Studies Association Congress. Read her
paper, "The local connection: Local government performance and
satisfaction with democracy in Argentina," here.
