Awards

 

 

 

Awards

 

Awards in Political Science at the University of Iowa. This page serves as a clearinghouse for news of awards earned by members of the department, including grants and scholarships.

 

Faculty
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Alumni
Teaching Awards

 

 

Faculty

 

Tom Rice and Cary Covington received the inaugural Lane Davis Award for Honors Team Teaching in recognition of their pioneering work with the Iowa Policy Research Organization.

 

Tom Rice received the Student Award for Outstanding Honors Teaching. Students presented the award at the annual Honors Recognition Ceremony in April.

 

John Conybeare and Brian Lai will each be recognized with the 2008 International Studies Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in May. They are being honored for their willingness to devote their time and expertise to working individually with International Studies students.

 

Joel Barkan, Robert Mattes (University of Cape Town), and Shaheen Mozaffar (Bridgewater State University), were awarded the first of three $100,000 grants from DFID, the British foreign assistance agency, to support the African Legislatures Project (ALP), a comparative study of legislative development in 18 African countries. They also expect co-funding from the World Bank. ALP is based at the Centre for Social Science Research (CSSR) at the University of Cape Town where Joel has been a research fellow the past three years.

 

Fred Boehmke's paper "The Influence of Unobserved Factors on Position Timing and Content in the NAFTA Vote" was awarded the Miller Prize for 2007. The prize is given by the Society for Political Methodology for the best article appearing in Political Analysis in the previous calendar year.

 

Michael Lewis-Beck (with Eric Bélanger and Richard Nadeau) was awarded a SAS-International Institute of Forecasters grant, to “Improve the Forecasting of General Elections in the United Kingdom.”

 

Sara Mitchell has been named a Faculty Scholar for the years 2007-2010. These University awards are given to mid-career faculty to recognize scholarship that demonstrates exceptional promise. Mitchell will be released from half of her usual teaching, advising, and service for three years, allowing for concentration on research.

 

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Graduate Students

 

The University of Iowa Council on Teaching has selected Benjamin Darr as recipients of an Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for 2008-2009.

 

Charlotte Ridge was awarded the Jacob A. Swisher Prize in History or Political Science for her dissertation work on women in local government.

 

Daniel Bowen received the Seashore/Ballard Dissertation Year Fellowship by the Graduate College.

 

Two of our students, Benjamin Darr and Mark Nieman, were selected as 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Laurence Fairall Scholars, and Daniel Bowen was selected as a 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 Helen Fairall Scholar.

 

Zachary Greene received the T. Anne Cleary International Dissertation Research Fellowship that will allow him to travel to France for dissertation research.

 

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Undergraduate Students

 

The department held its annual Undergraduate Awards Reception in early May of 2009 to honor the following departmental scholarship award winners.

 

2009-2010 Donald Johnson Fellow: Leigh Maurer
2009-2010 Donald Johnson Scholar: Josh Anderson
2009-2010 Vernon & Georgia Bender Scholar: Brian Buh
2009-2010 James & Patti Murray Scholar: Darcy Hansen
2009-2010 Third House Sholar: Stacia Johns
2008-2009 Helen Fairall Scholars: Clay Baker, Lyndsey Kaufman, and Stephanie Crowley
2008-2009 Laurence Fairall Scholars: Mckenzie Hill, Nicholas Compton, Robert Pick, Alexander Ingham, Lauren Gannon, and Meredith DeBoom

 

photo 2009 awardees

 

Pictured here from left to right: Alexander Ingham, Lyndsey Kaufman, Cianna Logie, Stephanie Crowley, Meredith DeBoom, Stacia Johns, and Josh Anderson.

 

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