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Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (Ohio State University)
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We are pleased to announce that Janet M.Box-Steffensmeier has been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Political Methodology Career Achievement Award. This award recognizes an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the field of Political Methodology. Previous award winners include Chris Achen, Nathaniel Beck, Henry Brady, John Jackson, Gary King, and James Stimson.
Professor Box-Steffensmeier has published 5 books, 12 book chapters, and more than 40 articles in highly ranked journals including the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Political Analysis, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. She is the recipient of more than 1.5 million dollars in external grant funds. She is currently the Vernal Riffe Chair of Political Science at Ohio State University. Her research makes important contributions to the subfield of political methodology and political science more broadly.
Professor Box-Steffensmeier is one of the top political methodologists in the country working on time series analysis, publishing path-breaking research on error correction models, fractional integration, and ARFIMA models. She has made important contributions to several significant debates in American politics in her time series research, including macro-partisanship, the gender gap, elections and representation, and campaigns. She is also a leading methodologist on event history models. Her book, Event History Modeling: A Guide for Social Scientists, published by Cambridge University Press in 2004, has amassed over 900 citations in Google Scholar. She has published several other important articles on this topic as well, including such landmark publications as "Time is of the Essence: Event History Models in Political Science" (AJPS 1997), "Duration Models and Proportional Hazards in Political Science" (AJPS 2001), and "Durations Models for Repeated Events" (JOP 2002). Her work on statistics and methodology has significantly advanced our understanding of how to appropriately model political data over time and space.
Professor Box-Steffensmeier has served important leadership roles in the Society for Political Methodology including President (2005-2007) and Vice President (2003-2005) of the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA) and President of the Political Methodology Society (2005-2007). She was selected by her peers as an Inaugural Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology (2008). She won the Gosnell Prize for the Best Paper in Political Methodology in 1994 and 2002. She founded the Visions in Methodology organization to mentor women in the field of political methodology. She was recognized by the ICPSR Summer Program through a scholarship in her name.
She currently serves as an associate editor for the Society's journal, Political Analysis, and served previously as an associate editor of the American Journal of Political Science (2006-2009).