Liz Gerber Appointed Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy
September 1, 2012
Liz Gerber has been appointed as the Jack L. Walker, Jr. Professor of Public Policy, a collegiate professorship. This is one of the highest honors that the university can bestow on a faculty member. Congratulations, Liz!
Arthur Lupia nominated as President-Elect of MPSA
April 1, 2012
Skip Lupia has been nominated President-Elect of Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), effective April, 2012. This is great news. Congratulations, Skip!
Mike Traugott elected President of MAPOR
November 1, 2011
Mike Traugott was elected president of Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research (MAPOR) in November, 2011.
Brian Min receives Gabriel Almond Award
July 27, 2011
Brian Min has been selected as this year’s recipient of the Gabriel Almond Award, given annually to the author of the best dissertation in Comparative Politics. Brian’s dissertation was titled “Democracy and Light: Public Service Provision in the Developing World,” and was co-chaired by Miriam Golden and Daniel Posner. Congratulations…
Rob Franzese awarded Gosnell Prize for Excellence in Political Methodology
July 6, 2011
Rob Franzese has just been awarded the Gosnell Prize for Excellent in Political Methodology! This award goes to the best paper in political methodology presented at any political science conference during the preceding year. Rob’s award-winning paper is “Modeling History-Dependent Network Coevolution” (co-authored with Jude Hays and Aya Kachi). Great…
Jon Miller: Director, CPS International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy
April 6, 2011
The idea that a majority of voters don’t understand pressing issues like stem cell research and climate change strikes Jon Miller as simply wrong. Miller, a research scientist who joined ISR in August 2010, believes that scientific literacy is fundamental to a functioning democracy. “People ought to know what they’re…
Nancy Burns named president of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)
April 1, 2011
Congratulations to Nancy Burns, who in April 2011 was named predident of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA)!
Festschrift for Ron Inglehart
March 1, 2011
In March 2011, scholars gathered for conferences at both Irvine, California and Lueneberg, Germany to present chapters for a festschrift for Ron Inglehart. The conference was organized by Russell Dalton (University of California at Irvine) and Christian Welzel (University of Lueneburg, Germany). From the conferences will be produced a book…
Dan Brown on first project funded by U-M Social Sciences Annual Institute
February 10, 2011
Dan Brown and colleagues (Arun Agrawal, PI) have been awarded funding by the Social Sciences Annual Institute (SSAI), an initiative recently established at the University of Michigan. Their project, “Against Monosequentialism: Understanding Tradeoffs, Synergies, and Drives of Joint Social Outcomes,” will examine the intersection of social, ecological, and biophysical sciences…
Arthur Lupia’s book wins Robert E. Lane Award
January 1, 2011
Congratulations to Skip, whose book with Jamie Druckman, Don Green, and James Kuklinski, the “Cambridge Handbook of Experimental Political Science”, won the Robert E. Lane Award for the best book in political psychology published in 2011!