This award is given annually by the American Political Science Association for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy.

Nugent's book, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition, received an honorable mention for the Luebbert Book Award. This award is given to the best book in comparative politics published

PhD alum and Georgetown assistant professor Killian Clarke received an honorable mention for this year’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy from

Wiedemann'ss book Indebted Societies has won the 2022 Best Book on Class and Inequality by APSA’s Class and Inequality Section.

PhD alum Carolyn Barnett, incoming assistant professor at the University of Arizona, has received an honorable mention for best field work from the APSA Democracy and Autocracy section.

Dela Kpo, a PhD alum, has won the APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in African politics. This prize is awarded annually by the African Studies Association

Yashar is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. Her research and teaching is focused on the intersection of democracy and citizenship, ethnic politics and social movements

Politics PhD alum Chan is a co-winner of APSA's 2022 Leo Strauss Award for best dissertation in political philosophy. She is currently a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College

Wiedemann's book, Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies, has won the 2022 William Riker Award for the best book in political economy published in the past two years

PhD alum Michael Kistner, currently an assistant professor at the University of Houston, has won the Legislative Studies Carl Albert Dissertation Prize.

Tanushree Goyal, an incoming faculty member in comparative politics who will start as an assistant professor this fall, received the Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in

Saran Touré ’22 was awarded the inaugural Princeton University Library (PUL) Award for her thesis work on resource dependence in Africa. Her thesis was advised by Professor Leonard Wantchekon.

Politics PhD alum and postdoc Nathan Gibson won the George Edwards III Best Dissertation Award for “Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization." His dissertation committee included Brandice Canes-Wrone (chair), Charles

This cycle, an impressive five Politics concentrators were named Fulbright grantees. Three of the five–Scarlett McNulty, Rebecca Han, and Hanying Jiang–graduated last month. Recipients of Fulbright’s English Teaching Assistant award

Politics PhD alum Paul Baumgardner has won this year’s Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award from the Politics and History section of APSA for his dissertation, “Retrenchment Rivals: Critical Legal Studies

The George Kateb Preceptor Award is given annually to recognize the best graduate student preceptors in the Department of Politics. This year, students Ian Walling, Tiffany Simon, Sonya Chen, and

Melissa Lane, a political theorist specializing in ancient political thought, has been awarded the Department's annual teaching prize.

Bermeo is a professor of politics, emeritus, and a Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies senior scholar. She writes on the causes and consequences of political mobilization and regime

Elizabeth Nugent will join the Princeton University Department of Politics this fall as an assistant professor.