Department of Government

The Department of Government congratulates all of our faculty members and graduate students who have received awards and other recognition for their fine achievements in the past year!


*Ariel I. Ahram was awarded a Graduate School Dissertation Travel Grant in 2006

*Ariel I. Ahram was awarded a Social Science History Association Rockefeller Travel Grant in 2006

*Gregory Baldi was awarded a short-term research grant by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2006.

*Gregory Baldi was awarded a Pre-Dissertation Grant from the American Consortium on European Studies (ACES) in 2006.

*Andy Bennett was awarded the the Giovanni Sartori award for the best book on or using qualitative methods published in 2005 for his book Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences (co-authored with Alexander George).

*Aaron Boesenecker was awarded a one-year fellowship from the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Cologne, Germany) for fieldwork research during the 2006-2007 academic year.

*Brendan Geary was awarded the FLAS scholarship from CCAS at Georgetown to study Arabic for the summer 2007 at American University in Cairo.

*Brendan Geary was awarded the William V. O'Brien Fellowship from the Institute for International Law and Politics at Georgetown for the 2007-2008 academic year.

*Marc Howard as awarded the 2006 Alpha Sigma Nu National Jesuit Book Award, presented by the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, for his book The Weakness of Civil Society in Post-Communist Europe. (Cambridge University Press, 2003.)

*Marc Howard was awarded the 2006 Award for Best Paper Presented at the Previous APSA Annual Convention in the Comparative Democratization organization section.

*Micah Jensen was awarded the Emerging Scholar fellowship from The Urban Institute's Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy for Summer 2007.

*Matt Kroenig was awarded a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University.

*April Longley was awarded a Fulbright IIE grant to Yemen for 2005-2006.

*Jennifer Maruska was awarded the Fred Hartmann Award for best graduate student paper at ISA-Northeast

*Linda Merola was awarded the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award in the American Government field from the Department of Government for “Terror Threat Information and the Discourse of Legal Elites”.

*Krzysztof Pelc was awarded the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award in the International Relations field from the Department of Government for “Seeking Escape: The Use of Escape Clauses in International Trade Agreements”

*George Shambaugh is Co-PI with Drs. Richard Matthew and Roxanne Silver of UCI, on a $760,000 National Science Foundation Grant from its Division of Human Security and Social Dynamics, entitled ,"Societal Implications of Individual Differences in Response to Turbulence: The Case of Terrorism.

*Brian Smith will be a Humane Studies Fellow at the Institute for Humane Studies for the 2007-2008 academic year.

*Greg Weiner was awarded the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award in the Political Theory field from the Department of Government for “’To Try Experiments Merely Upon Philosophy’ Montesquieu, Hume and the Tenth Federalist”

*Jocelyn Weiner was awarded the 2007 Graduate Student Paper Award in the American Government field from the Department of Government for “The Israeli High Court of Justice: A Study of a Domestic Court in a Time of Conflict”