Department News and Announcements

• Congratulations to Fred Batista , who has received a Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) award to support his research on "Can Female Representation Reduce the Gender Gap in Political Knowledge?"
• Prof. James L. Ray is named emeritus and recognized for his longstanding contributions to the Political Science department.
• Congratulations to Prof. Efren Perez , whose paper "The Persistent Connection Between Language-of-Interview and Latino Political Opinion," written with Taeku Lee, has been accepted at Political Behavior. 
• Congratulations to Allison Archer, Oscar Castorena, and Carrie Roush for receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.
  
• Prof. Zeynep Somer-Topcu's paper, written with her previous undergraduate student, Michelle Zar, "European Parliamentary Elections and National Party Policy Change" is now forthcoming in Comparative Political Studies.
• Congratulations to Prof. Elizabeth Zechmeister , whose paper "Evaluating Political Leaders in Times of Terror and Economic Threat: The Conditioning Influence of Politician Partisanship", written with Jenn Merolla, was accepted at the Journal of Politics.
• Congratulations to Professors Cindy Kam and Elizabeth Zechmeister whose paper "Name Recognition and Candidate Support" was accepted at the American Journal of Political Science.
• Prof. Elizabeth Zechmeister has been awarded the Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching by the College of Arts and Science.
• Vanderbilt Law Prof., Carol Swain , is being honored with the William Bentley Bell Award from the Christian Legal Society. 

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