I am extremely pleased to announce that, with the full support of the
Fellows Nominating Committee (Jeff Gill (chair), Keith Poole, W. Phillips
Shively) and the previously inducted Fellows, Michael D. Ward of Duke
University is the 2012 addition to the SPM Fellows.
In addition to recognizing a body of work, becoming a Fellow means joining
the Society's governing board. When we established this status, we
determined that "Selection to the position of Fellow of the Society for
Political Methodology honors individuals who have made outstanding scholarly
contributions to the development of political methodology, and whose
methodological work has had a major international impact on subsequent
scholarship in the field, in the discipline more broadly, and where
appropriate in other areas." In Dr. Ward, we are adding a scholar of such
high distinction to the ranks of Fellows of The Society for Political
Methodology.
Dr. Ward is a Professor of Political Science at Duke University where he is
also an affiliate of the Duke Network Analysis Center. His contributions
span methodology and international relations with sophisticated treatment of
data and new contributions to model specification. It is impossible to
fully describe the extent of his work since it includes over 100 articles
and more than 10 books or special issues, but recent methodological work has
included: introducing Bayesian ensembles to the discipline, improving
statistical prediction, dependencies in network analysis, spatial processes,
political geography, and multilevel modeling. Professor Ward's honors
include the Warren Miller Award and The Karl Wolfgang Deutsch Award. His
funding history is legendary, and he has trained some of the brightest young
scholars in political methodology. Furthermore, Mike is that rare kind of
political scientist that does top tier research, published in the top
journals of discipline, that also matters to policy makers in government.
Finally, Dr. Ward has represented the best of political science and
political methodology to international audiences through extended visiting
positions in Germany and France, as well as publications in French journals.
Please join the Fellows Nominating Committee, the previously inducted
Fellows, and me in congratulating Michael!
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Robert (Rob) J. Franzese, Jr.
Professor, Department of Political Science,
Research Professor, Center for Political Studies, I.S.R.,
The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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