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Political Science Professor Tapped for Career Award

July 15, 2013

Political Science Professor Tapped for Career Award

Janet Box-Steffensmeier, the Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science and University Distinguished Scholar, has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Political Methodology Career Achievement Award by the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). This award recognizes an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the field of Political Methodology.

According to the citation, 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 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), 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 has served important leadership roles in the Society for Political Methodology including president (2005-2007) and vice president (2003-2005) of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and president of the Political Methodology Society (2005-2007). In 2008, she was selected by her peers as an Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology.

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 selected a Univeristy Distinguished Scholar 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.

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