Thal, who received his Ph.D. in 2017, won the prize for his paper “Status Update: Social Media and the Economic Policy Preferences of Affluent Americans.”
Professor John Kastellec received the 2019 Best Journal Article Award by APSA's Law and Courts section for his paper “Judicial Federalism and Representation.”
Graduate student Horne won the award for his paper "The Causes of Mass-level Affective Polarization in Advanced Democracies," co-authored with Noam Gidron and James Adams.
Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs, publishes opinion piece in the New York Times, "Trump's Ignorant Comments about Japan Were Bad Even for Him."
Will Lowe, politics lecturer and senior research specialist, contributes to New York Times analysis entitled, "What Happened to America’s Political Center of Gravity?"
Wiedemann won APSA's Gabriel A. Almond award for the best dissertation in Comparative Politics and the Ernst B. Haas best dissertation award of the European Politics and Society section
Graduate student Rachael McLellan won the 2019 APSA Comparative Democratization Fieldwork Prize for her work on incumbent and opposition strategies in Tanzania.
Graduate student Naoki Egami won the 2019 Gosnell Prize for “Identification of Causal Diffusion Effects using Stationary Causal Directed Acyclic Graphs.”
Graduate student Pavielle Haines won the best dissertation award in ASPA's political psychology section for her dissertation "A Vote for Me Is a vote for America: Patriotic Appeals in Presidential
Graduate student Naijia Liu was awarded the John T. Williams Dissertation Prize for her dissertation prospectus, “Essays on Model Selection and Honest Inference."
Professor Yashar's book, "Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America," received APSA's best book award in the comparative democratization section.