Lee Sigelman has been awarded the 2008 Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for University Service by George Washington University. Kimberly Morgan has been named a Wilson Center Fellow for 2008-09 by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Steven Kelts has been selected as the 2007-08 recipient of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Excellence in Freshmen Advising Award. Henry Hale has been awarded the 2007 Leon Epstein Prize by APSA's Political Organizations and Parties Section for Why Not Parties in Russia? Lee Sigelman has been given the 2007 Frank Goodnow Award for service by the American Political Science Association. Emmanuel Teitelbaum has been named the 2007 recipient of the Gabriel Almond Award for the best dissertation in comparative politics.

 

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The George Washington University Political Science Department is a nationally recognized program with emphases in American Politics, Comparative Politics, and International Relations. Faculty and graduate student research is cutting edge and takes advantage of the Department's Washington location to leverage data and resources unique to this national and world capital.

The Department ranks among the top 20 in the country for articles published in the best peer-reviewed journals in the discipline and is recognized by both the National Research Council and U.S. News as one of the most rapidly improving doctoral programs in the country. To continue this momentum we seek outstanding scholars with active and promising research programs to join us each year. For this coming academic year (2008-2009) we are pleased to welcome Llewelyn Hughes (M.I.T.), Jai Kwan Jung (Cornell), and Harris Mylonas (Yale) to the faculty.

We also are pleased to announce that the following graduating seniors have been awarded prizes by the Department. The Joshua Evans III Prize: Colleen Fisher, Robert Misulich, and Jennifer Sabatello. The John Andrew Morgan Prize: Molly Carter and Rory Schneider. The H. C. Sachs Prize: Anthony Tysenn.

The Department’s doctoral students continue to do well in the academic job market and in fellowship competitions. Congratulations to Stephanie McNulty who will join the faculty at Franklin & Marshall College next fall. For a more complete list of recent GW graduate placement history, click here.