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Honors and Awards

Warren Miller Prize for the best article published in Political Analysis, 2008, for ``Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference'' by Daniel E. Ho, Kosuke Imai, Gary King, and Elizabeth Stuart.

Elected to the Nominating Committee for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Section on Social, Economic, and Political Sciences, 2/20-2007-2/22/2010.

Named in 2006 to ISIHighlyCited.com's list of the most highly cited researchers in the social sciences.

The McGraw-Hill Award for the best journal article on law and courts written by a political scientist and published during the previous calendar year for ``The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases'' by Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jeffrey A. Segal, 2006.

Law and Society Association Prize, Runner up, to ``recognize exceptional scholarship in the field of sociolegal studies for an article published in the previous two years,'' for ``The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases'' by Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jeffrey A. Segal, 2006.

Best Instructional Innovation in the Social Sciences or Social History, Honorable Mention, 2005 ICPSR Prize, for ``Publication, Publication,'' by Gary King.

Pi Sigma Alpha Award, for the best paper delivered at the previous year's MWPSA Conference, for ``The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases'' by Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jeffrey A. Segal, 2005.

Robert H. Durr Award, for ``the best paper applying quantitative methods to a substantive problem'' at the previous year's MWPSA Conference, for ``The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases'' by Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jeffrey A. Segal, 2005.

APSA Research Software Award, for The Virtual Data Center, by Micah Altman, Gary King, and Sidney Verba, http://TheData.org, 2005.

American Judicature Society Award, Honorable Mention, for the best paper presented at the previous year's meetings of the American, Midwest, Northeastern, Southern, Southwest, or Western Political Science Associations, for ``The Supreme Court During Crisis: How War Affects only Non-War Cases'' by Lee Epstein, Daniel E. Ho, Gary King, and Jeffrey A. Segal, 2005.

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2004, ``for distinguished and innovative development and application of statistical methods that have resolved fundamental questions in political science and international relations''.

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2004.

Elected Vice President, American Political Science Association, for 2003-2004.

Listed in American Political Scientists: A Dictionary (2002), giving the ``consensus group of 193 political scientists who have made the most important theoretical contributions'' to the discipline ``from its beginnings in the late-19th century to the present''.

ISI Emerging Research Front Article, for authoring an article cited more often in the fields of Psychiatry and Psychology than any other, October, 2002 (for Gary King, James Honaker, Anne Joseph, and Kenneth Scheve's ``Analyzing Incomplete Political Science Data: An Alternative Algorithm for Multiple Imputation,'' American Political Science Review).

Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Lecturer in Sociology and Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, 2002.

Vision Distinguished Lecturer, Florida State University, 2001.

Outstanding Statistical Application Award, for the outstanding application of statistics in any substantive field, for ``Not Asked and Not Answered: Multiple Imputation for Multiple Surveys,'' with Andrew Gelman and Chuanhai Liu, from the American Statistical Association, 2000.

The Gosnell Prize, for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference in the preceding year, for ``Improving Quantitative Studies of International Conflict: A Conjecture,'' with Nathaniel Beck and Langche Zeng, 1999.

The Okidata Best Research Software Award, for ``Clarify: Software for Interpreting and Presenting Statistical Results,'' with Michael Tomz and Jason Wittenberg, 1999, from the American Political Science Association.

The Okidata Best Research Web Site Award, for the Record of American Democracy project (see http://data.fas.harvard.edu/ROAD/) and the Harvard-MIT Data Center (see http://data.fas.harvard.edu), 1999, from the American Political Science Association.

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998.

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper (``A Statistical Model for Multiparty Electoral Data'' with Jonathan Katz) at the previous year's meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1998.

The Donald Campbell Award for the ``outstanding methodological innovator in public policy studies,'' from the Policy Studies Organization, 1997.

The Gosnell Prize, for the best work in political methodology presented at any political science conference in the preceding year, for the work published as A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data (Princeton University Press, 1997).

Elected President, Society for Political Methodology, 1997-1999.

The APSA Research Software Award for ``EzI: A(n Easy) Program for Ecological Inference'' (with Kenneth Benoit) from the American Political Science Association, Computer Section, 1997.

Alumnus of the Year, State University of New York at New Paltz Alumni Association, 1997.

The Heinz Eulau Award, for the best article published in the American Political Science Review, from the American Political Science Association, for ``Enhancing Democracy Through Legislative Redistricting,'' (with Andrew Gelman) Vol. 88, No. 3 (September, 1994): Pp. 541-559.

Guggenheim Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1994-1995.

Elected Vice President, Society for Political Methodology, 1995-1997.

Visiting Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University, Summer, 1994.

The APSA Research Software Award for ``COUNT: A Program for Estimating Event Count and Duration Regressions,'' from the American Political Science Association, Computer Section, 1994.

The Mills Award, for the ``outstanding contributor in the field of public policy under age 35,'' from the Policy Studies Organization, 1993.

Pi Sigma Alpha Award for the best paper (``Why Do U.S. Presidential Election Polls Vary So Much When the Vote is So Predictable?'' with Andrew Gelman) at the previous year's meetings of the Midwest Political Science Association, 1993.

The APSA Research Software Award for ``JudgeIt: A Program for Evaluating Electoral Systems and Redistricting Plans,'' (with Andrew Gelman), from the American Political Science Association, Computer Section, 1992.

Curriculum Development Challenge Award, ``Undergraduate Research Participation in Political Science,'' New York University, 1987.

Research Challenge Award, ``Public Opinion and Executive Behavior: Toward a New Presidency Research Agenda,'' New York University, 1986.

University Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983-84.



Gary King 2008-07-23