An impressive number of Political Science Department faculty members at The New School for Social Research received highly prestigious awards this academic year.

Nancy Fraser, Henry A. and Louise Loeb Professor of Political and Social Science received the esteemed Chaire Blaise Pascal (CBP) fellowship. Awarded jointly by the French state and the Ile de France region to only five preeminent international scholars each year, CBP chairs are highly distinguished research fellowships and past recipients have include two Nobel Prize winners. She will hold the chair for 12 months over the next two years, during which time Fraser will work on a book titled Abnormal Justice.

Victoria Hattam, received the Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association for her book, In the Shadow of Race: Jews, Latinos and Immigrant Politics in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2007). The Ralph Bunche prize is awarded annually for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.

The New School’s Mala Htun and Laurel Weldon of Purdue University received the Best Paper Award from the women and politics group for their article, “When and Why do Governments Promote Women's Rights? Toward a Comparative Politics of States and Sex Equality.” They presented during the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago. The paper described the theoretical framework and concepts for a study of gender-equality policy in 71 countries.

Andreas Kalyvas, received the first Polity Prize, for his paper “The Republic of the Moderns: Thomas Paine and James Madison’s Novel Liberalism,” which he co-authored with Ira Katznelson in volume 38 of the journal Polity, published in 2006. Kalyvas received the prize at the 40th annual Northeastern Political Science Association meeting in Philadelphia. Polity is published by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the Northeastern Political Science Association.

Timothy Pachirat, received the 2007 Sage Award for his paper "Ethnography from Below? Reflections from an Industrialized Slaughterhouse on Perspective, Power, and the Ethnographic Voice," at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago. The Sage Paper Award is given to the best paper developing or applying qualitative methods. The award honors Sara and George McCune, who founded and sustained Sage Publications as a leading publisher of social science methodology.

Sanjay Ruparelia received a Visiting Fellowship at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research topic is “Divided We Govern: Federal Coalition Politics in India in Comparative Perspective” Since 1983, the Kellogg Institute has offered Visiting Fellowships designed to promote interdisciplinary international research.

Aristide Zolberg, University in Exile Professor Emeritus of Political Science, received the 2008 Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ENMISA) at the association’s annual convention in San Francisco.