LaFleur Stephens-Dougan wins 2021 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award

LaFleur Stephens-Dougan has won the 2021 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award from the International Society for Political Psychology for her book "Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics."

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February 11, 2026

Rafaela Dancygier wins American Journal of Political Science Best Article Award

Rafaela Dancygier, with Sirus H. Dehdari (Stockholm University), David D. Laitin (Stanford University), Moritz Marbach (University College London), and Kåre Vernby (Stockholm University) win the American Journal of Political Science

January 29, 2026

Adam Bouyamourn wins Paper Competition

Politics postdoctoral researcher Adam Bouyamourn has won the American Statistical Association’s Survey Research Methods/Government Statistics/Social Statistics (SRMS/GSS/SSS) 2026 Student Paper Competition for his work entitled “Where to Experiment? Site Selection

January 17, 2026

Melissa Lane in Rolling Stone

Professor Lane was interviewed for a recent article in Rolling Stone regarding a request by administration at Texas A&M University to remove a text by Plato from a philosophy course