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Honors and Awards

Publications

Conference Presentations

HONORS & AWARDS

• National & Regional Honors and Awards
  • 2008
    • Seven Political Science majors have been inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honorary society.  Please join us in congratulating Katie Ballard ('09), Jonathan Ernest ('09), Lauren Smith ('08), Beth Hershey ('08), Lizzie Jennings ('08), Will Massengill ('08), and Erik Ruediger ('09).
  • 2007
    • Nadia Aziz ('09) was awarded a Summer Research Diversity Fellowship in Law and Social Science for Undergraduate Students at the American Bar Foundation in Chicago.  Nadia worked in conjunction with one of the resident research faculty at ABF for two months this summer conducting empirical research on some aspect of law and legal institutions.
    • The 4th Annual Kathryn Williams Ervin Mock Trial was held in the Georgia Superior Courthouse, Toccoa, GA, with the Hon. Judge Cornwell presiding.  The winning prosecution team members were Elizabeth Morrow ('08), Harold Hughes (POSC & ECON '08), and Jarrett Lewis ('07).
    • Heath Burgess ('08) was named "Outstanding Delegate" representing Greece of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization at the American South Model United Nations in New Orleans in February, 2007.  In doing so, he bested students from Auburn, LSU, and UCF, among other universities.  Two other delegates, Callie Roth ('08) and Seth Vining ('07), received “Honorable Mentions.”
• Clemson College of Business and Behavioral Science Awards
  • Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research—presented to a senior who has completed the most meritorious research project of the year. 
    • 2008 Recipient - Will Massengill ('08)
    • 2006 Recipient - Jessica Hart ('06)
    • 2005 Recipient - Richard Beaulieu ('05)
    • 2004 Recipient - Courtenay Ryals ('04)
  • Award for the Outstanding Senior in the Social Sciences—presented to the senior from the Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology Departments is judged to be superior in terms of GPR, professional activities, and potential for future contributions within his or her field of study.
    • 2007 Recipient - Tarin Holcomb ('07)
• Clemson POSC Department Awards
  • James F. Byrnes Award—award in American Government; given to the outstanding graduating senior in Political Science.
    • 2008 Recipient - Lauren Edwards ('08)
    • 2007 Recipient - Tarin Holcomb ('07)
    • 2006 Recipient - Jessica Hart ('06)
    • 2005 Recipient - Megan Gajewski and Richard Beaulieu ('05)
    • 2004 Recipient - Teah Frederick ('04)
  • Matt Locke Faculty Award for Excellence—presented to the graduating senior whose accomplishments, in the opinion of the faculty of the Department of Political Science, merit special recognition.
    • 2008 Recipient - Elizabeth Morrow ('08)
    • 2007 Recipient - Melissa Hughes ('07)
    • 2006 Recipient - Sarah Deibler and Lindsay Green-Barber ('06)
    • 2005 Recipient - Carla Cagle and Catherine Runion ('05)
    • 2004 Recipient - Jon DuRant ('04)
  • Jack Tuttle-Pi Sigma Alpha Service Award—presented to a graduating senior in honor of the late Professor Jack Tuttle and in recognition of the ideals of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honorary Society, which are to “stimulate productive scholarship and intelligent interest in the subject of government.”
    • 2008 Recipient - Will Massengill ('08)
    • 2007 Recipient - Sara Mascola ('07)
    • 2006 Recipient - Kyle Kelly ('06)
    • 2005 Recipient - George Holman ('05)
    • 2004 Recipient - Courtenay Ryals ('04)

PUBLICATIONS

• Lauren Edwards Smith ('08) is co-author (with Laura R. Olson and Jeffrey A. Fine) of "Substantive Religious Representation in the US Senate: Voting Alignment with the Family Research Council" which is forthcoming at Political Research Quarterly.
• Katherine Brackett, Richard Baker, Kean Witzeman, and Parke Espy, political science students who participated in the 2006 Tambov Provincial Politics Program, with Professor Matt Crosston have had their work published in:  PRO NUNC: Contemporary Political Processes. Volume 5. Dialogues on Politics: Materials from the Russian-American Seminars on Political Science and International Relations, Tambov State University-Clemson University. 2005-2006. Co-editors: M.D. Crosston, V.V. Romanov, D.G. Seltzer. Tambov State University Press. 2006. 197pp. ISBN: 5-89016-258-6

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• 2008 Midwest Political Science Association conference
  • Nadia Aziz ('09) presented a paper titled "Arab American Interests in Congress: Ethnicity, Constituency, and 9/11" in Chicago, IL - April, 2008.
  • Will Massengill ('09) presented a paper titled "Economies of Size in Florida: School District Size and Student Achievement" in Chicago, IL - April 2008
• 2007 Midwest Political Science Association conference
  • Nadia Aziz ('09) presented a paper titled "Arab American Representation in Congress" at the 2007 Midwest Political Science Association Conference in Chicago, IL - April 2007.