Awards & Accolades
Faculty Awards
Political Science Advisory Board Professor of the Year Award
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Teaching Award
University of Florida Teacher/Scholar Award
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentoring Award
Graduate Students Awards
Best Graduate Paper Award
- 2007 - Co-winner - Sean Walsh
Paper Title: "The Ghetto of Writing: A Genealogy of Fear in Ancient and Modern Political Thought"
Seminar: POS 6933, Modern Political Thought, in Spring 2007 (Professor
Dan O'Neill)
- 2007 - Co-winner - Jordan Ragusa
Paper Title: "Contextual and Institutional Explanations of Macro-Level Policy Change: 1951-2002"
Seminar: POS 6933, Maximum Likelihood Estimation, in Spring 2007 (Professor
Won-ho Park)
Presented at the 2008 Annual Meetings of the Southern Political Science Association.
Best Graduate Teacher Award (sponsored by Pearson Publishers)
- 2007 - Gary Boulware
Gary is presently teaching PAD 3003, Introduction to Public Administration.
James W. Button Memorial Award
- 2007 - Co-winner - Rebecca Guerra
- 2007 - Co-winner - Rachel Yff Yon
Undergraduate Students Awards
Best Undergraduate Thesis Award
- 2007 - Sara Meerow
Thesis Title: "The Effects of Natural Resource Dependence on Democracy and Conflict in Africa"
Faculty Supervisor: Professor
Staffan Lindberg.
- 2006 - Camille West
- 2005 - John Turner
- 2004 - Brian Janovitz
- 2003 - Mike Malecki
- 2002 - Joel Feldman
- 2001 - Michael Schwartz
Best Undergraduate Paper Award
- 2007 - Kelly Lenahan
Paper Title - "Did Caring About the American People Matter in 2004?"
Class: POS 3204, Political Behavior, in Fall 2007 (Professor
Michael Martinez)
- 2006 - Candace Sharrow
- 2005 - George Stoupas
- 2004 - Drew Shenkman
- 2003 - Devon Suprovici
- 2001 - Jasmine Babin
- 2000 - Jeff Corey
- 1999 - Nicole Pasricha
Barbara Noreen Roth Memorial Award
Walter G. "Skip" Campbell Leadership Award