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.
Professors Rafaela Dancygier and Amaney Jamal, along with graduate student Naoki Egami, found that there is more anti-immigrant violence in areas with a relative shortage of women.
