2023 Rockefeller College Award Winners
Department of Political Science
James Unger Memorial Undergraduate Award for an Outstanding Research Paper
Brianna Bace, Emily Lyons, Julia Sitors
A Country on Fire: An Investigation into the Rise of Right-Wing Extremist Violence in the United States
Martin Edelman Excellence in Teaching Award
Brian Greenhill
Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award
Shrijna Dixon
Outstanding Student Leadership
Benjamin Restaino
Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society
Avery Aguas
Ryan Aizer
Alexa Argueta
Fareena Aslam
Ata Baglam
Emily Berkemeyer
Kamulete Bwemere
Catherine Devaney
Allison Dooher
Raquel Egea
Sarah Finkelstein
Shane Gardner
Gabriel Girault
Amanda Gossin
Kevin Guerrero
Sean Hart
Owen Hebert
Neil Heriot
Danielle Kaminski
David Lackowitz
Jennifer Malave
Colin Mattera
Jalen Miller
Janelle Moe
Endia Nardi
Bruce Pandya
Emma Rennard
Biancamaria Scricco
Jack-Nelson Trombley
Luca Tzimas
Kirsten Warth
Phebe Zeiser
Political Science Outstanding Adjunct Instructor Award
Reyhan Topal
Political Science Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Connor Moran
Presidential Award for Undergraduate Research
Kylie Cooper, Razan Elsir
A Fault in Democracy: The Disenfranchisement of Voters: Why is there variation in felon disenfranchisement policy among states?
Luke Morello
Examining Possible Explanations for the Variations in Corporate Tax: Avoidance in the United States, Norway, Germany and South Africa
The Rockefeller College Capstone Paper Award
Amnah Dhailia
COVID-19 in Palestine: A Lockdown Within a Lockdown
The Rockefeller College Undergraduate Community Service Award
Brianna Bace
Valedictorians
Nadine Al Annabi
Brianna Bace
Sean Boylan
Department of Public Administration and Policy
Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
Yongjin Choi
Policy Side Effects: How do Policies become a Source of Public Problems
Distinguished Undergraduate Achievement in Public Policy and Management
Nathan Blank
Abigail Evans
Leslie Fuentes-Mejia
Eleftheria Katsani
Teuta Mujaj
Zachariah Onkaya-Budak
Teresa Pavia
Christopher Rezny
Alyssa Rounds
Diana Slobodian
Robert Silberman
Jacob Weissenburg
Erica Whitman
Alina Zulina
Outstanding Candidacy Paper Award
Montserrat Avila Acosta
The Role of Deprivation in Explaining Crime in Mexico
Outstanding Student Leadership
Mashaal Bhatti
Pi Alpha Alpha Honor Society
Mary Barthelme
Matthew Delaus
Patrick Dodson
Benjamin Hunter
Eleftheria Katsani
Sarah Krenicki
Alessandra Magazzino
Joanna Meyers
Kathleen Miller
Stefania Moss
Tallyn Owens
Alyssa Rounds
Isac Sergio
Timothy Sheldon
Erica Strand
Esther Sigal
Emily Towne
Erica Whitman
Amanda Wingle
Steve Jackson Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award
Arzana Myderrizi
First Penguin Undergraduate Research Award
Abigail Evans
Valedictorian
Abigail Evans
School of Criminal Justice
Bruce L. Davis Criminal Justice Scholarship
Tiana Hewitt
Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation
Andrew Thompson
Distinguished Professor David Bayley/Walter M. Francis Policing Award
Preston Cody Roberts
Distinguished Teaching Professor James Acker/Dr. Walter Francis Award
Cierra King
Donald J. Newman Award for Outstanding Achievement
Wenting Liu
Dr. Walter M. Francis Award for Excellence in Master’s Study
Morgan Madison
Michael Relosky
Shao-Yun Tsai
Eliot H. Lumbard Award for Academic Excellence
Guillermo Escaño
Frank Remington Award for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies
Beau Holladay
J. Edgar Hoover Foundation Leadership Scholarship
Juliette Kerzhner
Lt. John F. Finn Scholarship
Kierra Coffey
Steven DeBraccio ’10 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
Hilary Jackl
Rachel Novick
Valedictorian
Jillian Benedict