awards and honors

Ford School professor Luke Shaefer’s book, The Injustice of Place: Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America (Harper Collins, August 2023) is the recipient of the 2023 Richard A. Lester Book Award at Princeton University. Shaefer, the Hermann and...

Ford School undergraduate Neil Nakkash (BA '24) was honored with one of the 19th annual Central Campus Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Spirit Awards on January 27. Nakkash aspires to pursue a career in medicine and health policy. Kuvin Satyadev (BA...

Ford School PhD candidate Alvin Christian is the 2023 winner of the Peter Eckstein Prize for Interdisciplinary Research, an award that celebrates the value of interdisciplinary research in public policy. His research paper, “Restraining Orders,...

Dear friends, Our talented faculty and students continue to land awards and recognition for their accomplishments! In March, Earl Lewis, the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies, and...

Health economist Amanda Kowalski, a professor of economics and public policy at the University of Michigan and a faculty associate of the Population Studies Center and the Survey Research Center at the Institute for Social Research, received the...

Reilly is one of 175 college students recognized for their nonpartisan democratic engagement work in 2022. Today, the University of Michigan and the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge (ALL IN) announced that Ford School junior Rose Reilly (BA ‘24)...

Beatty Blunt, The Columbus Dispatch: "In the past couple of years, we have seen absolutely the importance of courts and judges. As a Black female judge, I am in a special position to share the things I learned from the bench with the community to...

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and EDUCAUSE are pleased to announce that economist Paul Courant, who has served in multiple roles at the University of Michigan, including provost and dean...

The Ford School is proud to announce that the Rackham Graduate School awarded Mandy Mitchell (MPP ‘22) with the Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) Award.  Mitchell served as the GSI for PubPol 580: Values & Ethics in Public Policy from...

The Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center at Howard University has awarded Ford School alum Cydney Gardner-Brown the 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship following a highly competitive nationwide selection process. The...

The University of Michigan is honoring faculty members Ford School associate dean H. Luke Shaefer and Marisa C. Eisenberg with presidential awards for public engagement, recognizing their contributions to significantly impact society and address the...

Stanford University named 16 Ford School faculty on their “Top 2% Scientists” list, representing the most-cited scientists with career and single-year impact in various disciplines. The faculty researchers join over 180,000 scientists...

The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) recently awarded Ben Green, assistant professor and postdoctoral scholar, the Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award. The award is for Green’s paper, “The Flaws of Policies Requiring Human Oversight of Government...

Recognizing her outstanding contributions to social insurance and related policy areas, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) has approved the election of Betsey Stevenson, professor of public policy and economics, to the Academy. She is...

The Center for the Education of Women (CEW+) will honor seven Ford School master’s students at the 2021 Center for the Education of Women Virtual Awards Celebration. The event celebrates students who have persevered, despite experiencing an...

Jane Furey, a joint PhD student in public policy and sociology at the Ford School of Public Policy, was recently awarded the Palmer O. Johnson Memorial Award for an outstanding article from the American Educational Research Association...

Professor Rick Hall has won the Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Public Policy Section at American Political Science Association (APSA). The section established the award “to recognize sustained efforts by a senior scholar to encourage and...

Ford School PhD candidate Shoshana Shapiro has received one of the highly-competitive grants for research in the social sciences from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy.  “The 678 applications we received in 2020 represented a wide range...

The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) recognized the Ford School of Public Policy's Student-Initiated Projects (SIPs) and Extended Research Projects (ERPs) with the Innovation Award for Professional Development...

Recent Ford School graduate Kalena Thomhave (MPP ‘21) is the 2021 winner of the Peter Eckstein Prize for Interdisciplinary Research for her comprehensive analysis of the challenges faced by the U.S. Unemployment Insurance (UI) system during the...

Submissions are now being accepted for the Ford School’s top award for student work, the Peter Eckstein Prize for Interdisciplinary Research and Policy Analysis. The award is given to a student or a group of students in any Ford School degree...

Ford School student Ryan Van Wie (MPP ‘20) and Jacob Walden (PhD candidate in political science) are the 2020 winners of the Peter Eckstein Prize for Interdisciplinary Research. The award celebrates the value of interdisciplinary research, which is...

Submissions are now being accepted for the Ford School’s top award for student work, the Peter Eckstein Prize for Interdisciplinary Research and Policy Analysis. The second annual Peter Eckstein Prize will be awarded later this spring to a Ford...

Paula Lantz, associate dean for academic affairs at the Ford School and a professor of public policy and health management policy at the University of Michigan, is one of 52 distinguished social insurance experts elected to the National Academy of...

The Sidney Hillman Foundation has selected $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, for the 2016 Hillman Prize for Book Journalism. The prize will be awarded on May 3 at the 66th annual Hillman Prize...