PO Alumna Valeriya Kamenova Receives Distinguished Teaching Award At Penn
Department of Political Science alumna Valeriya Kamenova (GRS ’21) has received the 2026 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti awarded 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship
Second-year graduate student Yasir Kuoti has been named as a 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program recipient for his work on sectarian and ethnic politics in Iraq. The APSA Diversity Fellowship is a competitive award that supports early-stage political science doctoral scholars (1st and 2nd years) whose research and scholarship looks at race, ethnicity, systemic racism, […]
Graduate Student Samuel Gerstle To Receive Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper
PO graduate student Sam Gerstle will receive the Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper. His work “Leaders, Legislators, and Bureaucrats in the Design of National Security Organizations” was presented at the 2025 ISA annual convention.
Professor Christine Slaughter Receives Ash Center Fellowship From Harvard Kennedy School
Professor Christine Slaughter has received a fellowship from the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She will be a research fellow in the Allen Lab, and her profile can be found here: https://ash.harvard.edu/people/christine-slaughter/
Professor Apekshya Prasai Wins Awards from American Political Science Association’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section and Women, Gender, and Politics Section
Professor Apekshya Prasai has won two prestigious awards from the American Political Science Association: Best Dissertation Award from the Women, Gender, and Politics Section, for her dissertation “Gendered Processes of Rebellion: Understanding Strategies for Organizing Violence.” Qualitative Evidence Award from the Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, her work with qualitative and multi-method research
Professor Taylor Boas Receives the 2025 Seligson Prize from the Center for Global Democracy
Professor Taylor Boas received the 2025 Seligson Prize for the article “Religion, Sexuality Politics, and the Transformation of Latin American Electorates”, co-authored with Amy Erica Smith (Iowa State) in in British Journal of Political Science, for best scholarship using LAPOP’s AmericasBarometer data.
Professor Max Palmer Receives 2025 Miller Prize for Best Work from Society for Political Methodology
Professor Max Palmer received the 2025 Miller Prize from the Society for Political Methodology for the article “A Partisan Solution to Partisan Gerrymandering: The Define–Combine Procedure”, co-authored with Ben Schneer (Harvard) and Kevin DeLuca (Yale) in Political Analysis in 2024.
Professor Christine Slaughter wins APSA Award
Professor Christine Slaughter’s paper “All Emotions Aren’t the Same: Intersectional Analysis of Women’s Political Action Based on Emotive Responses” (co-authored with Kennia L. Coronado, Camille Burge-Hicks, and Nadia E. Brown) was selected as one of two winners of the 2024 Best Paper on Intersectionality by the Women, Gender, and Politics Section of APSA!
Professor Jacob Brown awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Professor Jacob Brown has been awarded a $200,000 research stipend by the Carnegie Corporation of New York to study political segregation and political polarization. Press release: https://www.carnegie.org/news/articles/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-awards-fellowships-to-26-scholars-researching-political-polarization/
Graduate Student Chas Walker Receives Research Grant from Russell Sage Foundation
Graduate student Chas Walker received a dissertation research grant from the Russell Sage Foundation (RSF). This initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas.