Janet Box-Steffensmeier, political science, was selected to receive the 2013 Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences, by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) Council. The award was initiated in 1993 to recognize individuals who have had a profound impact on social science research and infrastructure; it is named for Warren E. Miller, a founder of ICPSR and its first executive director..

Box-Steffensmeier is one of the top political methodologists in the country working on time series analysis, publishing path-breaking research on error correction models, fractional integration, and ARFIMA models. She has made important contributions to several significant debates in American politics in her time-series research; including macro-partisanship, the gender gap, elections and representation, and campaigns. She is also a leading methodologist on event history models.

Box-Steffensmeier has published five books, 12 book chapters, and more than 40 articles in highly ranked journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Her book, Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists, has amassed over 900 citations in Google Scholar. She has published several other important articles on this topic, including such landmark publications as Time is of the Essence: Event History Models in Political Science, Duration Models and Proportional Hazards in Political Science, and Durations Models for Repeated Events.

She currently serves as an associate editor for the Society for Political Methodology's journal, Political Analysis, and served previously as an associate editor of the American Journal of Political Science (2006-2009).

Box-Steffensmeier founded the Visions in Methodology (VIM) organization to mentor women in the field of political methodology. VIM serves to connect women in a field where they are under-represented by providing opportunities for scholarly progress, networking, and professional mentoring in research and teaching.

In 2013, Box-Steffensmeier received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Department of Political Science; in 2009, the department recognized her with its Distinguished Undergraduate Mentor Award. She was received the University Distinguished Scholar award in 2012 and  appointed as the faculty representative to the Academic Affairs and Student Life Committee of the Ohio State Board of Trustees in 2013.