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.