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The Frank Johnson Goodnow Award was created by the APSA Council in 1996 to honor service to the community of teachers, researchers, and public servants who daily toil in the many fields of politics.

Paul Sniderman and Judith H. Stiehm were honored with the 2008 Frank J. Goodnow Award for their significant contributions to the political science profession and the American Political Science Association at the 2008 Awards Ceremony, Thursday, August 28, in conjunction with the APSA Annual Meeting in Boston.

As a scholar and a mentor in the broadest sense of the term, Paul Sniderman has made valuable contributions to the development of political science and its community. He has endowed the discipline with new tools and provided the guidance to use them in order to craft sound and effective social science research.

From the numerous students for whom Dr. Sniderman served as a formal mentor to the countless other political scientists whose work and lives he affected, in even the most casual of interactions, the discipline as a whole owes a great debt to him as a guide. 

His generosity to the discipline is illustrated through his organization of the Multi-Investigator Studies on Attitude Formation and Change. This project provided dozens of scholars with access to the best available technology for conducting general population experiments. The Multi-Investigator Surveys served as the model for many future projects and ultimately the influence of his work has been felt throughout the community as a whole.

Dr. Sniderman's ideas and methods have helped spur advances in American electoral studies and contributed greatly to the field of Canadian Election Studies, as well as sparked new interest in experimental approaches throughout European political science.

His service to the Association includes terms as vice president, a member of the Council, the Centennial Campaign Executive Committee, the Administrative Committee, and the Ad Hoc Committee on Representation in Office. He also served as chair of the Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms on two separate occasions.

Dr. Sniderman has published approximately 43 articles, written 10 books and edited four, all spanning a wealth of topics.

For his scholarship he has received numerous awards, among them: the 2003 Ralph J. Bunche Award, the 1998 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, the 1994 Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award,  the 1992 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, the 1972 E.E. Schattschneider Award, and the 1972 Gabriel A. Almond Award, as well as many others.

Leader, advocate and pioneer, Judith H. Stiehm has worked unflaggingly to advance the representation of women within the profession; she was an early contributor to the national and comparative study of women’s role in political life; indeed she has been instrumental in the development of the subfield of women and politics itself.

As a founder, and later president, of the Women’s Caucus in Political Science and a founder of the Section of Women and Politics within the International Political Science Association, Dr. Stiehm took on a myriad of roles to expand new and enhance existing opportunities for women in political science. In recognition of her efforts on behalf of women in the profession she was named a “Mentor of Distinction” by the APSA Women’s Caucus in 1996.

Similarly, Dr. Stiehm has been affiliated with the National Council for Research on Women, and the National Women’s Studies Association. She chaired the University of Southern California’s Committee of the Status of Women and the Professional Development Committee of the Western Political Science Association which she subsequently served as President with distinction.

In 1981, Dr. Stiehm was part of the American Political Science Association’s Task Force on Women and American Government Task Force. Her service to the Association include Secretary of the APSA Council and chair of the Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee, as well as terms on the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award Committee; the Centennial Campaign Executive Committee; the APSA Council; the Nominating Committee; The Committee on Professional Ethics, Rights, and Freedoms; and the Recruitment and Placement Committee.

Dr. Stiehm has written six books, edited five, and published 24 book chapters and more than 25 articles. For her scholarship she received the APSA’s 1990 Victoria Schuck Award for the best book on women and politics. For her scholarship on the military she was awarded the U.S. Army Outstanding Civilian Service Medal in 1996.