Emens '25 is serving as the acting mayor in Jamesburg, N.J. Due to the nature of the transition, Emens called for a legal review of his own appointment.
Bass won the 2024 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal for "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia"
Frances Lee received the Richard F. Fenno, Jr., Award for Political Inquiry from the University of Rochester. Following the award presentation, Lee shared a lecture titled “A Case for Congress
Daniel A. Rosenberg Daneri received the APSA Dorothy Day Award for Outstanding Labor Research for his paper on Corporate Influence and NLRB appointments.
Gary Bass's book, Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, is on the longlist for the Baillee Gifford Prize in Non-Fiction and shortlisted
Tuñón's paper is titled, "Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires" (joint with Valentín Figueroa, conditionally accepted at The Journal of Politics)
Amaney Jamal, dean of SPIA, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, and professor of politics and international affairs, has been awarded the 2024 Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award.
The Kenneth Sherrill Prize is given for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science.