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Student Awards

The Political Science Department gives four awards to outstanding graduating senior majors each spring. 

 

 

The C. H. Richards Award for Excellence in Political Science is given to the graduating senior who is deemed by a departmental committee to have excelled in both the study of politics and in departmental, campus and community service.
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The Jack D. Fleer Award for Excellence in Honors in Political Science is given to a graduating senior who has qualified for Honors and who is deemed by a departmental committee to have written the best senior seminar paper. fleer
The Carl Moses Excellence in Research Award honors an outstanding senior seminar paper. moses
The Jack D. and Martha H. Fleer Scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating senior. The need-based scholarship recipient will be selected by a departmental committee which gives special attention to meritorious performance in the major. fleer

In 2010 the  C.H. Richards Award for Excellence in Political Science went to Zahir Rahman. Zahir won a Fulbright scholarship to conduct research in Morocco in 2010-11. Nick Deuschle  was the winner of the Jack D. Fleer Award for Excellence in Honors for his seminar paper "What About the Prosecutor?: Federal Sentencing Practices in a Post-Booker World." Nick will teach English in China before entering the University of Chicago Law School in 2011. The Carl Moses Excellence in Research Award went to Megan Huber for her paper "Betrayal of the Innocents:  An Examination of Children and Peacekeeping." The Carl Moses Award was given for the first time in 2010. Megan was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and will teach English in Malaysia in 2010-11.

In 2009 the co-winners of the C.H. Richards Award were Kimberly Paschall and Matthew Triplett. Kimberly is now a first year law student at the University of Virginia.  Matt currently serves as a Provost’s Fellow at Wake Forest and plans to attend graduate school in political science. In 2009 the winner of the Jack D. Fleer Award for Excellence in Honors was Matthew Triplett for his paper entitled “Anti-Abortion Ballot Initiatives and Evangelical Voters in the 2008 Presidential Election.”