Simon Gilhooley, assistant professor, political studies, Bard College, was awarded an ACLS Fellowship to work on the book The Compact: The Pro-Slavery Origins of the Modern US Constitution.

Susan E. Grogan, professor of political science, at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, received the Homer L. Dodge Award for Excellence in Teaching. This campus-wide honor is given every three years by the college.

Nancy J. Hirschmann, professor, political science, University of Pennsylvania, was awarded an ACLS Fellowship to work on the book Freedom, Power, and Disability.

John Ishiyama, University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Texas, has received the 2017 Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award. This honor recognizes 10 Texas educators for outstanding academic, scientific, and scholarly achievement and for dedication to the teaching profession.

Mary E. Stuckey, professor of communication arts and sciences, Penn State University, has been named a 2017 Distinguished Scholar by the National Communication Association (NCA).