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  • The University Center for Human Values is sponsoring the new Project in the History of Political Thought which will provide a venue for Princeton students and faculty from different disciplines to discuss both substantive and methodological issues in the history of political thought. Headed by Department of Politics Professor Jan-Werner Müller, the project also seeks to build bridges to Comparative Politics, Comparative Constitutional Law and Area Studies. The first event is a workshop on Comparative Political Thought, to be held October 16 & 17. More information can be found at: http://uchv.princeton.edu/lectures_seminars/political_thought/
  • Doctoral recipient Tom Clark has been given the Carl Albert Award for Best Dissertation in Legislative Studies from the APSA Legislative Studies Section, for his dissertation, "The Politics of Judicial Independence: Court-curbing and the Separation of Powers."
  • Professor Jan-Werner Müller  has been elected Fellow of Britain's Royal Historical Society. Fellowships are awarded to those who have made "an original contribution to historical scholarship in the form of significant published work."

  • Professor John Kastellec has won the CQ Press Award, for the best paper on law and courts written by a graduate student, for his paper on “Collegial and Hierarchical Politics on the US Courts of Appeals." The award is administered by the Law and Courts section of the APSA.

  • Rachel Riedl (Northwestern, Princeton Ph.D.) has won the Honorable Mention for the Juan Linz Best Dissertation Prize from the APSA Comparative Democratization Section for her dissertation, "Institutions in New Democracies: Variations in African Political Party Systems."
  • Tom Clark (Emory; Princeton Ph.D.) and Ben Lauderdale (Princeton A.B.D.) have won the Best Conference Paper Award from the APSA Law and Courts Section for their paper, "Locating Supreme Court Opinions in Doctrine Space."

  • Sarah Chartock (Cornell; Princeton Ph.D.) has won the Best Dissertation Award from the APSA Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section for her dissertation, "Ethnodevelopment in Latin America: Political Competition and the Making of Ethnically-Targeted Participatory Policy in Ecuador, Peru and Guatemala, 1985-2005."

  • Professor Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • The Department of Politics Distinguished Lecture Series presents Henry Brady, the University of California, Berkeley's Class of 1941 Monroe Deutsch Professor of Political Science and Public Policy. The talk is entitled "Political Cleavages, Spatial Metaphors, and the Study of Political Dynamics and Representation in the United States, Canada, and the Soviet Union". 12:00PM on March 25, 2009 in the Friend Center Convocation Room (FC 113). Lunch will be provided.
  • Robert George, Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, received the Presidential Citizens Medal at a ceremony at the White House on Dec. 10. The medal, awarded in recognition of exemplary deeds of service to the nation, is one of the highest honors a president can confer on a civilian.

  • Markus Prior, Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Policy, has received the Goldsmith Book Prize for the best book on press, politics, and public policy. The award is given annually by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University, and honors his book Post-Broadcast Democracy: How Media Choice Increases Inequality in Political Involvement and Polarizes Elections.