Selected Faculty Honors and Awards 2006-2007

Richard Betts was appointed Rajaratnam Professor of Strategic Studies and Research Fellow at the Institute of Defense and Strategic Studies in Singapore for August 2007.

Jean Cohen has been invited to give a series of four lectures at the Collège de France in May 2008.

Rodolfo de la Garza delivered the keynote address at Latinas y la Política Nacionál en EEUU, Centro Colón, Tenerife, España.

Michael Doyle presented the Tanner Lectures in Human Values at Princeton University in November 2006. He was listed as the sixteenth most cited author in the one hundred-year history of American Political Science Review.

Jon Elster received the 2006 Fridtjof Nansen Prize for Excellence in Research by the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Tanisha Fazal holds a grant from the Ford Foundation for a project titled "The U.S. Role in Changing Norms of War."

Page Fortna was named to the Board of International Organization.

Andrew Gelman delivered the Otis Dudley Duncan Honorary Lecture for the American Sociological Association in 2006. His paper (co-authored with David Park and Joseph Bafumi) “Bayesian Multilevel Estimation with Poststratification: State-Level Estimates from National Polls” received the Miller Prize for the best work appearing in Political Analysis in 2004. Professor Gelman holds grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

Shigeo Hirano was appointed to a visiting professorship in the University of Tokyo economics department in Summer 2006. He will be a Fellow of the Yale University Center for the Study of the Presidency in 2007-2008.

Robert Jervis received the triennial National Academy of Sciences award for the best contribution of social science to avoiding nuclear war.

David Johnston chairs the international Conference for the Study of Political Thought as well as the Governing Board of the Columbia University Society of Fellows.

Ira Katznelson delivered the 2007 Gaspar G. Bacon Lecture at Harvard University. He served as President of the American Political Science Association 2005-2006.

Robert Legvold was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Robert Lieberman received the Best Book on Public Policy Prize awarded by the Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for Shaping Race Policy: The United Sates in Comparative Perspective (Princeton UP, 2005). The book was the focus of a roundtable discussion at the 2006 Annual Meeting of APSA.

Manning Marable received an honorary doctorate and delivered the commencement address at John Jay College of the City University of New York in 2006. With Electronic Publishing at Columbia, he holds a grant from the Ford Foundation for the development of “Amistad Digital Resource for Teachers.”

Maria Victoria Murillo holds a grant from the National Science Foundation for a project titled “Collaborative Research: Patronage, Democracy, and the Public Sector: Estimating the Size and Structure of Patronage Networks.”

Thomas Pogge is a member of the Core Group in the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (Oslo), which was awarded Centre of Excellence status by the Norwegian government. He holds an Australian Research Council Discovery grant for his project “Just Rules for Incentivizing Pharmaceutical Research.”

Robert Shapiro was appointed Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation for the 2006-2007 academic year.

Charles Tilly received the Karl Deutsch Award in Comparative Politics from the International Political Science Association and the Sidney Hook Memorial Award from Phi Beta Kappa.

Michael Ting holds a National Science Foundation grant for a project titled "Approval Regulation."

Nadia Urbinati has been appointed Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Princeton University Center for Human Values for 2007-08.

Dorian Warren received the 2006 Paul Weiler Emerging Scholar Award from American Rights at Work.