CALL FOR NOMINATIONS – August, 2007
Dear members of the Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Science,
Every year the Midwest Women’s Caucus bestows an Outstanding Professional Achievement Award on one of the many well-deserving women in our profession. I am writing to ask Caucus members to nominate candidates for the 2007-2008 award. This award recognizes a senior woman in the discipline who has made a substantial contribution to the scholarship of political science (not necessarily in the field of women and politics), who has made significant contributions to the profession and its associations, who has actively mentored women at her own institution or elsewhere, and who serves as a positive role model for women in the profession. Every year the Caucus organizes a panel in honor of the award recipient at the MPSA conference. The panel participants speak to the many contributions of the scholar to the profession and the discipline. Past recipients of this honor are listed below.
Nominations require a letter addressing the qualifications of the candidate with regard to this award and a vita (if possible). Please submit nominations via email to mls47@georgetown.edu by September 15th. A committee including Eileen Braman, Karen Beckwith, and Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott, will work with me to make the award determination. We hope to announce the recipient by the end of October.
Thank you in advance for your nominations.
Best regards,
Michele Swers, Georgetown University
Award Committee Chair, Midwest Women’s Caucus for Political Science
PREVIOUS AWARD WINNERS
1993-1994 Doris Graber
1994-1995 Jewell Prestage
1995-1996 Susan Welch
1996-1997 Arlene Saxonhouse
1997-1998 Diane Blair
1998-1999 Roberta Sigel
1999-2000 Peggy Conway
2000-2001 Betty Glad
2001-2002 Karen O’Connor
2002-2003 Virginia Sapiro
2003-2004 Catherine Rudder
2004-2005 Pippa Norris
2005-2006 Susan J. Carroll
2006-2007 Iris Marion Young
