Abernathy, Scott

• Outstanding Faculty Partner Award, University of Minnesota Resilient Communities Project, 2019
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2010
• Grant-in-Aid of Research, Artistry, and Scholarship ($17,038), 2005
• University of Minnesota Faculty Summer Research Fellowship/McKnight Summer Fellowship ($5,000), 2004
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Center for Urban and Regional Affairs Research Grant, ($41,000), 2002-2003

Bell, Mark

• Center for Strategic and International Studies Project on Nuclear Issues Mid-Career Cadre, 2019-2022
• Amos Perlmutter Prize for the Most Outstanding Essay Submitted for Publication by Junior Faculty for the Journal of Strategic Studies, 2018.
• Bridging the Gap Policy Engagement Fellowship, 2018
• American Political Science Association Kenneth N. Waltz Award for the best dissertation in security studies, 2017

Caraway, Teri

• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, September 2004-May 2005

Collins, Kathleen

• McKnight Land-Grant Professor, 2007
• Carnegie Scholar Award (national award given by the Carnegie Corporation of New York for excellent and policy-relevant research), 2003

Creamer, Cosette

• Sakip Sabanci International Research Award, 2019
• Inaugural Lightning Scholar at Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, 2018-2019

Fazal, Tanisha

• Bridging the Gap Policy Engagement Fellowship, 2019-2020
• Best Book Award for Wars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict, International Law Section, International Studies Association, 2019
• Ignite Award for Online Achievement in Internations Studies, Online Media Caucus of the International Studies Association, 2018
• Carnegie Council for International Ethics Fellow, "The Living Legacy of the First World War," 2018
• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant for project on "Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War" ($40,000), 2017-2018
• Best Non-Student Paper Award, International Law Section, International Studies Association for "Rebels and Landmines: Why Do Armed Groups Commit to the Laws of War?" with Rita Konaev, 2017
• Best Book Award for State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation, Conflict Processes Section, American Political Science Association, 2008
• Helen Dwight Reid Award of the American Political Science Association for the Best Dissertation in International Relations, Law, and Politics, 2002

Federico, Christopher

• International Society of Political Psychology David O. Sears Book Award (with Christopher Johnston and Howard Lavine) for the book Open Versus Closed: Personality, Identity, and the Politics of Redistribution, 2018
• International Society for Justice Research Morton Deutsch Award, 2009
• International Society of Political Psychology Roberta Sigel Junior Scholar Paper Award, 2007
• International Society of Political Psychology Erik Erikson Award for Early Career Achievements, 2007

Freeman, John

• Life Time Achievement Award, Political Methodology Section, American Political Science Association, 2014
• Scholar of the College, Dean’s Medal, 2009
• Graduate Teaching Award, 2008
• Distinguished McKnight Professor, 1996-2001
• College of Liberal Arts Red Motley Teaching Award, 1992
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 1993
• Academy of Arts & Sciences

Goren, Paul

• College of Liberal Arts Red Motley Teaching Award, 2012

Hilbink, Lisa

• Fulbright Senior Research Grant for project, “Judging for Democracy? Spain in Comparative Perspective,“ January-May 2007, Madrid, Spain

Johnson, Timothy

• American Political Science Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 2018
• Institute for Humane Studies Grant, ($8,000), 2018
• College of Liberal Arts Career Readiness Faculty Fellow, 2017-2018
• National Science Foundation Grant, ($199,992), 2016
• Tate Award for Undergraduate Advising, 2012
• President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, University of Minnesota, 2010-2013
• Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association, 2009
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2008
• College of Liberal Arts Red Motley Teaching Award, 2007
• National Science Foundation Grant, ($53,922), 2006
• National Science Foundation Grant, ($226,181), 2003
• The American Judicature Society Award for the best paper on law and courts presented at the American, Midwest, Southern, Southwestern, or Western Political Sciences Associations, 2002

Karch, Andrew

• Arleen C. Carlson Chair, 2010

Kinsella, Helen M.

• Vilas Associate Award, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Eduication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016-2017
• Feminist Scholars' Fellowship, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2016
• Sussex International Theory Prize, The Centre for Advanced International Theory, University of Sussex for The Image Before the Weapon, 2012
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant: "Biopolitics: Life in Past and Present," 2011-2012
• Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in international relations, law, and politics, American Political Science Association, 2004

Krebs, Ron

• Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, 2017-2020
• Beverly and Richard Fink Professor in the Liberal Arts, 2015-present
• Awards for Narrative and the Making of US National Security (Cambridge UP, 2015)​
  • Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics, American Political Science Association, 2016
  • Giovanni Sartori Book Award, for the best book developing or applying qualitative methods, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section, American Political Science Association, 2016
  • Honorable Mention, Joseph S. Lepgold Book Prize, for an exceptional contribution to the study of international relations, Mortara Center for International Studies, Greorgetown University, 2016
  • Honorable Mention, Foreign Policy Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association, 2017
• Fulbright Senior Scholar Award (Israel), 2012
• McKnight Land-Grant Professor, 2006-2008

Lavine, Howard

• Joseph L. Bernd Best Journal of Politics Paper Award from the Southern Political Science Association for Racial Diversity and the Dynamics of Athoritarianism.
• Grant-in-Aid, University of Minnesota ($45,000), On The Psychological Underpinnings of Electoral Choice in Real Time: The 2016 Minnesota Multi-Investigator Panel Study
• David O. Sears Book Award (Sponsored by the International Society of Political Psychology) for The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012), 2013
• Robert E. Lane Book Award (Sponsored by the Political Psychology Section of the American Political Science Assosciation for The Ambivalent Partisan: How Critical Loyalty Promotes Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2012), 2013
• Arleen C. Carlson Chair, 2011
• Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award for Research Achievement (International Society of Political Psychology), 2004
• Joan Aldous Grant Diversity and Public Engagement Grant, ($5,000)

Luxon, Nancy

• Talle Faculty Research Award for "Staging the Political: Colonial Encounters in North Africa and France, 2017-2019
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant with Robert Nichols and Jean O'Brien: "The Politics of Land," 2017-2018
• University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Award: "Négritude and Radical Politics," 2017
• National Endowment for the Humanities- Enduring Questions Grant with Robert Nichols, 2016-2018
• University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Award: "Archives of Infamy," 2016
• University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Award, "Authorship and Representation," University of Minnesota, 2014
• University of MinnesotaImagine Fund Award, "Staging the Political," University of Minnesota, 2013
• Institute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 2009

Nichols, Robert

• TOME Open Access Monograph Initiative, 2019
• McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2017-2019
• Mellon Sawyer Seminar Grant with Nancy Luxon and Jean O'Brien: "The Politics of Land," 2017-2018
• National Endowment for the Humanities- Enduring Questions Grant with Nancy Luxon, 2016-2018
• Alexander von Humbolt Fellowship: Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, 2013-2015
• Fulbright Scholars Award: Columbia University, 2011-2012

Nimtz, August

• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2002
• College of Liberal Arts Red Motley Teaching Award, 1991

Pearson, Kathryn

• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2012

Rahn, Wendy

• 1999 Erik Erikson Award for Distinguished Early Career Achievement, International Society of Political Psychology
• 1999 Emerging Scholar Award, APSA Organized Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior

Samuels, David

• Distinguished McKnight Professor, 2012
• Benjamin Lippincott Professor, 2003
• McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, 2000