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 View the Department of Politics Fall 2009 Newsletter.

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 5th Annual Politics Department Graduate Student Conference Thursday March 26, 2009.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Department of Politics News

Cabell Hall, University of Virginia The Department of Politics welcomes new faculty members Deborah Boucoyannis and Chris Lebron.

 Professor Eric Patashnik received the Louis Brownlow Book Award given by the National Academy of Public Administration for his book, Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008). Patashnik also recently received a Robert Wood Johnson grant to address a major health policy issue facing the United States. read more......

 Assistant Professor Vesla Weaver received APSA's Public Policy Section Award for the best paper at the 2008 annual meeting for "The Shifting Politics of Multiracialism"(co-authored with Jennifer Hochschild)

 Assistant Professor Sonal Pandya has been awarded the Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in Political Economy by the APSA's Organized Section on Political Economy. The section considered almost 100 submissions so this is truly an outstanding achievement.

 Professor Stephen White has received the All- University Teaching Award for 2008-2009

 Assistant Professor Todd Sechser has won the 2008 Walter Isard Award for the Best Disseration in Peace and Science which is given every two years. read more......

 Read about Assistant Professor Nick Winter's newest book, Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion.

 Read about Assistant Professor Melvin Rogers' newest book, The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality, and the Ethos of Democracy.

 

 

 

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