{"id":562132,"date":"2023-06-23T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=562132"},"modified":"2025-11-19T07:58:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T12:58:54","slug":"may-june-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-562132","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/may-june-2023-faculty-awards-accolades-562132\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors and awards showcase faculty achievements across disciplines"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professional organizations for political science, dance activism, liver transplantation, and more have recently recognized Rochester faculty.<\/h2>\n
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Know of a faculty member receiving an award or honor? Contact us<\/a>\u00a0so we can help share the news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

做厙勛圖<\/a>\u00a0faculty regularly earn regional, national, and international awards and honors for their professional contributions to research, scholarship, education, and community engagement.<\/p>\n

As part of an ongoing series, we\u2019re spotlighting their accomplishments.<\/p>\n

Scott Abramson wins American Political Science Association\u2019s outstanding article award<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Scott Abramson<\/a>, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science<\/a>, has won the Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics<\/a> for \u201cHistorical Border Changes, State Building, and Contemporary Trust in Europe<\/a>,\u201d published in the American Political Science Review<\/em>. The prize is given by the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article, coauthored with David Carter<\/a> \u201909 (PhD) at Washington University in St. Louis and Luwei Ying<\/a> at the University of California, Los Angeles, demonstrates that people who live in areas with more frequent historical border changes exhibit lower levels of political and social trust\u2014compared to people from neighboring locales without historical border changes.<\/p>\n

The APSA committee members were \u201cuniformly impressed with the way the article assembled and rigorously analyzed an array of historical and contemporary data to make an important theoretical contribution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abramson\u2019s work intersects at international relations and comparative politics, seeking to understand the causes of political order, the evolution of the international system, and the origins of the institutions that make up the modern territorial state. He\u2019s currently working on a series of papers that advance tools for preference elicitation in political science, including a project this summer that investigates voter bias when women run for public office.<\/p>\n