Recent study ranks the Department 10th in country for research productivity.
Congratulations to Heather Ondercin, whose dissertation ("The Changing Social Definitions of Men and Women and Their Effect on the Partisan Gender Gap, 1953-2003") was recognized by the American Political Science Association's Women & Politics Research Section as the best dissertation on women & politics in 2007.
Congratulations to Jim Garand, who has been awarded an ATLAS grant for research on the topic, "Immigration, Public Opinion, and the American Multi-Ethnic Society". His is one of only eleven proposals selected for funding out of fifty-one submissions from universities across the state.
Dr. William Clark was named a United States Embassy Policy Specialist for 2007-2008 by the U.S. Department of State. The award will send him to the United States Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia for one month to help develop US policy position on the issue of corruption and public integrity issues in the Republic of Armenia.
Dr. Mark Gasiorowski is the only scholar in the nation to have three articles on the list of the 50 most cited articles ever published in Comparative Political Studies. His articles appear at number 10, number 11, and number 37.
Congratulations to Professor James Garand who was awarded this year's Distinguished Research Master. This premier university research award is the department's third - Professor Ellis Sandoz and the late Eugene Wittkopf are recipients as well.
Dr. Kevin Mulcahy was awarded an ATLAS grant. The grant was one of twelve in the state and allows Dr. Mulchay a full research year to finish the project.
He's our third ATLAS recepient in a row, following Dr. Mark Gasiorowski and Dr. Stacia Haynie.
Professor Kathleen Bratton was awarded a NSF grant to study the intersection of race, gender, and ethnicity in legislative politics.