Department Awards
The following awards are available for graduate students in the department:
Andersen Award
Kristi Andersen Award to Support Attendance at IQMR (Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research).
Most Recent Winners (2020): Farrah Brown, Aaron Lattanzi, Nilesh Sinha
Previous Winners (2019): Ugur Altundal, Vinessa Buckland, Tae Hyun Lim, María Laura Veramendi García
Cohn Fund
The Cohn fund is used to reward the best application for external funding.
Most Recent Winner (2020): Ugur Altundal, María Laura Veramendi García
Previous Winner (2019): Jason Blessing
John D. Nagle Fund
The John D. Nagle fund is endowed to support grad students in political science who are conducting research abroad on issues related to political change and social injustice.
Most Recent Winner (2020): Bess Davis
Previous Winner (2019): Katharine Russell
Ketcham Award
The Ketcham Award is intended for students that study citizenship and public affairs whose work exhibits “commitment to open and just public life.”
Most Recent Winners (2019): Aykut Ozturk, Claire Sigsworth
Previous Winner (2017): Rachel MacMaster
Kissel Award
The Kissel Fund supports research and teaching on civil liberties, broadly defined. In some years, this will include awards to graduate students doing research in this area.
Most Recent Winners (2020): Claire Sigsworth, Nathan Carrington, Laura Jenkins, Nilesh Sinha
Previous Winners (2019): Brianna MacMahon, Nathaniel Carrington, Claire Sigsworth, Laura Jenkins
Koff Award
The Koff Award is for the best graduate student paper written each year on comparative politics.
Most Recent Winner (2020): Tae Hyun Lim
Previous Winner (2019): Dongshu Liu
Meiklejohn Award
The Meiklejohn Award is intended for students whose work exhibits “commitment to open and just public life."
Most Recent Winner (2020): Sefa Secen
Previous Winner (2019): Beatriz Rey
Stonecash Award
The Stonecash Award is for the best graduate student paper written this year on American politics or may provide an annual award for outstanding academic performance by a graduate student as judged by the Chair of the department or his/her designee.
Most Recent Winner (2020): Emma Dreher
Previous Winners (2018): Nathaniel Carrington, Dongshu Liu
Thorson Award
Stuart Thorson Award to Support Attendance at ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research).
Most Recent Winners (2020): Amr El Afifi, Kari Waters
Previous Winners (2019): Kyungwon Suh, Jiayi Zhang