Department News and Announcements

• Congratulations to Prof. Efrén Pérez who received the Lucius Barker Award at MPSA for his paper "Black Ice? Race and the Political Psychology of Implicit Bias" The award is presented for the best conference paper on a topic investigating race and ethnicity and honoring the spirit and work of Professor Barker.
• Prof. Zeynep Somer-Topcu received the MPSA award for the best article appearing in the American Journal of Political Science in 2011 for the paper "Is Anybody Listening? Evidence That Voters Do Not Respond to European Parties' Policy Statements During Elections." This paper is co-authored with James Adams and Lawrence Ezrow.
• Prof. Liz Zechmeister , Daniel Montalvo, and Jenn Merolla—received an award for their paper "Terrorism and Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean." It was awarded the best paper award by the International Relations Award Committee of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA). Congratulations!
• Prof. James Booth will be one of the keynote speakers at this year's Historical Justice and Memory Conference in Melbourne, Australia. 

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