Abernathy, Scott

• 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

• Amos Perlmutter Prize for the Most Outstanding Essay Submitted for Publication by Junior Faculty for the Journal of Strategic Studies, 2018.

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

Duvall, Raymond

• Outstanding Contributions to Post-Baccalaureate, Graduate, and Professional Education, University of Minnesota, 2000
• Academy of Distinguished Teachers, University of Minnesota, member, 1999-present
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 1988
• CLA/Red Motley Teaching Award, 1988

Fazal, Tanisha

• Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Grant for project on "Military Medicine and the Changing Costs of War" ($40,000), August 2017-June 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

• Winner, 2007 Erik H. Erikson Early Career Award, International Society of Political Psychology

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
• CLA/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

• CLA/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
• Tate Award for Undergraduate Advising, 2012
• President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, University of Minnesota, 2012-2013
• President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, University of Minnesota, 2011-2012
• President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, University of Minnesota, 2010-2011
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2008
• CLA/Red Motley Teaching Award, 2007

Karch, Andrew

• Arleen C. Carlson Chair, 2010

Kelliher, Daniel

• CLA/Red Motley Teaching Award, 2011
• Best Director of Graduate Studies, 2006
• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2001
• Tate Award for Undergraduate Advising, 2000

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

• Imagine Fund Award, Authorship and Representation, University of Minnesota, Spring 2014
• Imagine Fund Award, Staging the Political, University of Minnesota, Spring 2013

Miller, Joanne

• University of Minnesota, Single Semester Leave, Fall 2017
• University of Minnesota, Outstanding Advising and Mentoring Award, 2017; awarded by the Council of Graduate Students
• University of Minnesota, Grant in Aid ($36,000) for "Are Consiracy Theories for (Political) Losers?" September 2016
• University of Minnesota, Grand Challenges Exploratory Research Grant ($55,000) for "Understanding Barriers to Health Equity," with Sarah Gollust, co-Principal Investigator, Fall 2016
• Best Paper Award for the best paper delivered on an Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior panel at the 2015 APSA annual meeting. Paper: "Macrointerest: The Public as Attentive Gods of Vengeance but Lazy Gods of Reward (with Apologies to V.O. Key)" (with David A.M. Peterson, Kyle L. Saunders, and Scott McClurg), 2016
• Paul Lazarsfeld Award for the best paper delivered on a Political Communication panel at the 2014 APSA annual meeting. Paper: "Conspiracy Endorsement as Motivated Reasoning: The Moderating Roles of Political Knowledge and Trust" (with Kyle L. Saunders and Christina E. Farhart), 2015.

Nimtz, August

• Horace T. Morse-Minnesota Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, University of Minnesota, 2002
• CLA/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

Ron, James

• Harold Stassen Chair, 2011

Samuels, David

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

Tronto, Joan

• Scholar of the College, 2013
• Senior Fulbright Lecturer, Bologna, Italy; February-June 2007