Awards

Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement, University of Iowa Foundation, 2006-2007

Franklin D. Gilliam, Jr. (MA ’78, PhD ’83 political science) has been recognized with the University of Iowa Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement. A leading scholar on race in America, Gilliam is one of those rare political scientists whose sense of community responsibility has driven his academic career. His research has focused on Black political participation, evolving into an investigation of how the media portray minorities. Gilliam is associate vice chancellor for community partnerships, professor of political science, associate director of the Center for the Study of American Politics and Policy, and founding director of the Center for Communications and Community at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Distinguished Doctoral Alumni Award, Department of Political Science, 2006-2007

James Kuklinski, Department of Political Science Ph.D. 1975
The Matthew T. McClure Professor of Political Science at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

James Kuklinski works in the field of political psychology, focusing on citizen competence and the measurement of racial attitudes. Kuklinski is coeditor of the Cambridge University Press series in Political Psychology and Public Opinion. He has served on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, American Politics Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Political Behavior.

Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement, University of Iowa Foundation, 2005-2006

Shanto Iyengar, Department of Political Science M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1972

The Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement is given for significant accomplishments in business or professional life or for distinguished human service. Shanto Iyengar, Chandler Chair in Communication and director of the Political Communication Lab at Stanford University, is one of the world's leading scholars on the relationship between media and politics. He researches the nature of contemporary national and world politics. Iyengar earned his master's degree in 1971 and doctoral degree in 1972 from the UI.

 

Distinguished Alumni Award for Service, University of Iowa Foundation, 2005-2006

Greg Ganske, Department of Political Science M.A. 1972

The Distinguished Alumni Service Awards are to honor graduates who have provided commendable service to their nation, their communities and their UI family. Greg Ganske has served the State of Iowa as a noted reconstructive surgeon and a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1995 to 2003, he addressed issues such as health care reform, the cost of higher education and bioterrorism while representing Iowa's Fourth District. Ganske earned his bachelor's degree in 1972 and medical degree in 1976 from the UI.

 

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellows

2005: Shanto Iyengar
Department of Political Science M.A. 1971, Ph.D. 1972

Shanto Iyengar is the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and professor of political science at Stanford University. Arguably the world’s leading scholar on the relationship between the media and politics, he has won the American Political Science Association’s Murray Edelman Lifetime Career Award, as well as a host of other professional honors. He has published articles in all the major political science journals as well as in top tier journals in communication and psychology. He has authored or edited six books, including Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, which won Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize and has played a significant role in public debate. His work has found a wide audience by combining high standards of scholarship with pressing questions about the nature of contemporary politics.

 

2003: Terry Branstad

Former Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad, ’69 B.A. in political science, returned to campus on September 11 as one of the six College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Fellows, an award the college bestows on its most accomplished graduates. Terry Branstad gave a talk titled, "The Leadership Role of the Governor of Iowa in the Legislative Process," during his visit to campus. Branstad, of Des Moines, was named president and CEO of Des Moines University-Osteopathic Medical Center in August. He also serves as president of Branstad and Associates LC in West Des Moines. After earning a law degree at Drake University in Des Moines, he served as a member of the Iowa House of Representatives and as lieutenant governor before being elected to four consecutive terms as governor (1983-99). He served as chair of the National Governors Association (1989), the Republican Governors Association (1997) and the Education Commission of the States (1998). He has just completed a two-year term as chair of President Bush's Commission on Excellence in Special Education. The Alumni Fellows program began in 1999 with funds from the endowed Dean's Chair in the Liberal Arts and Sciences, which was created through a gift from the UI Alumni Association.

2002: D. Roderick Kiewiet

Kiewiet is Professor of Political Science at California Institute of Technology. Kiewiet, an Iowa native, earned his bachelor’s degree in Political Science at Iowa in 1974. He went directly into doctoral studies in the same field at Yale, completing his Ph.D. in 1980. The year before, he had joined the Cal Tech faculty, of which he now has been a member for 22 years.

Within Political Science circles, his research publications are read by every serious scholar in American Politics and by a growing number in Comparative Politics. His first book, which dealt with the effects of economics on elections, became the crucial point of departure for many who have gone on to do their own research in that area. And that has been something of a pattern: wherever Kiewiet’s wide-ranging intellectual interests take him, the resulting research publications seem to become launching pads for work by others.

Throughout his distinguished career in our discipline, Kiewiet has been a friend to the UI and our department.

To visit Kiewiet's web site, go to http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~drk/.

2001: James L. Gibson

Gibson is the Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government at Washington University in St. Louis. Since his graduate research some twenty years ago, Gibson's scholarly efforts have cut to the heart of critical questions about the process of justice and political behavior in nations around the world. Gibson earned his master's degree in 1973 and his Ph.D. degree in 1975 in political science. His dissertation research on judicial decision making in criminal courts set the stage for one career focus. Others have included the investigation of racial intolerance, shifting public support of the courts, and the role of local party organizations in American politics.

Gibson joined the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in 1975 and the University of Houston in 1986. During his 13-year tenure at Houston, Gibson earned two distinguished professorships. He has been at Washington University since 1999.

In collaboration with several Iowa faculty members, Gibson pioneered public-opinion research in Eastern Europe. In addition to an array of scholarly monographs, articles, and book chapters, Gibson also has created seven datasets that are archived and available to other scholars.

Gibson has maintained his ties to the university community by seeking out faculty members and students to encourage their work. He also returns to campus whenever possible to attend conferences.

To visit Gibson's web site, go to http://jameslgibson.wustl.edu/.

 

Distinguished Doctoral Alumni Award, Department of Political Science, 2000-2001

David W. Brady, M.A. 1967, Ph.D. 1970
Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Professor of Political Science and Leadership Values, Stanford University

Brady is an expert on the U.S. Congress and congressional decision making. His current research focuses on the political history of the U.S. Congress, the history of U.S. election results, and public policy processes in general. His recent publications include Revolving Gridlock: Politics and Policy from Carter to Clinton (Westview Press, 1999) and (with John Cogan and Doug Rivers); How the Republicans Captured the House: An Assessment of the 1994 Midterm Elections (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 1995) and The 1996 House Elections: Reaffirming the Conservative Trend (Hoover Essays in Public Policy, 1997). Brady is a former vice president of the American Political Science Association. In 1995 and 2000, he received the Congressional Quarterly Prize for the “best paper on a legislative topic.” In 1992 he received the Dinkelspiel Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from Stanford University. He also received the Richard F. Fenno Award of the American Political Science Association for the “best book on legislative studies” published in 1988–89. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

 

Distinguished Doctoral Alumni Award, Department of Political Science, 1999-2000

Frank Gilliam Jr., M.A. 1978, Ph.D. 1983
Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Communications and Community, UCLA

Gilliam studies racial and ethnic politics, the mass media, and electoral behavior. He is Founding Director of the Center for Communications and Community at UCLA and supervises its research about the influence of television news coverage and campaign advertising on people's understanding of race, crime, and politics. Professor Gilliam has published widely on minority politics, including articles in the American Political Science and the American Journal of Political Science, his 2001 book Farther to Go: Readings and Cases in African American Politics (Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace), and a forthcoming book with Shanto Iyengar on race, television news, and American politics (Princeton University Press). He has taught recently with former Vice President Al Gore at Columbia University, Fisk University, and Middle Tennessee State University. Professor Gilliam has served as the Research Director for the California Commission on the Status of African American Males and has consulted on a wide range of projects for groups like the Aspen Institute, the National Funding Collaborative for Violence Prevention, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the W.T. Grant Foundation, the Youth Law Center, the MacArthur Foundation, Children Now, Council on Foundations, National Governor's Association, and the Charles S. Benton Foundation. He makes frequent television and radio appearances.

 

Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Iowa Foundation

Marjorie "Mo" Mowlam, M.A. 1974, Ph.D. 1977
September 18, 1949 - August 19, 2005

After receiving her doctorate, Mowlam returned to her native England and became active in politics. She won election as a Labor Party Member of Parliament in 1983. From 1992 through 1997, she belonged to the party's "shadow cabinet" of top leaders, then became Secretary of State for Northern Ireland when Labor leader Tony Blair became Prime Minister. She is credited with playing a crucial role in the May 1998 Good Friday peace accord. A profile of Mowlam published in the Iowa Alumni Quarterly in Spring 1999 can be found at http://www.iowalum.com/daa/mowlam.html.

 

 

Frank Goodnow Award, American Political Science Association, 1998

Jewell Limar Prestage, Ph.D. 1954
Professor of Political Science, Prairie View A&M University

Prestage was the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in Political Science--only the first of her many distinctions. The Goodnow Award recognizes individuals who have made outstanding contributions to both the development of the political science profession and the building of the American Political Science Association (APSA).

Prestage's other honors include the Manning Dauer distinguished service award from the Southern Political Science Association, honorary degrees from Spelman College and Loyola University of Chicago and a University of Iowa Distinguished Alumni Award. Recently, the APSA established the Fenno-Prestage Endowment for Minority Opportunities, in recognition of Prestage's instrumental role in promoting minorities in the profession. In 2001, the Southwest Political Science Association established the Jewel L. Prestage prize for the best paper presented at its annual conference on Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Political Behavior.