The Barbara Sinclair Legacy Award is new LSS award designed to honor the work of a scholar or set of scholars who have contributed a lifetime of significant scholarship to the study of legislative politics. In the tradition of Professor Sinclair’s body of work, recipients of this award will have focused on individual legislative behavior, institutional rules, or the role of party in shaping legislative politics. This award is also intended to recognize scholars who employ a range of methods in their research.
Nomination can be made by any member of the Legislative Studies Section; nomination letters and a list of the candidate’s publications are due by March 1, 2024.
2023 Winner
Katherine Tate, Brown University
2023 Selection Committee:
Valeria Sinclair-Chapman (Chair), Purdue University | vsc@purdue.edu |
Wendy Smooth, The Ohio State University | smooth.1@osu.edu |
Kristina Miler, University of Maryland, College Park | kmiler@umd.edu |
2022 Winner
Lynda Powell, University of Rochester
2022 Selection Committee:
David Canon (Chair), University of Wisconsin, Madison | dcanon@polisci.wisc.edu |
Stella Rouse, University of Maryland, College Park | srouse@umd.edu |
Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, Rice University | schwindt@rice.edu |
2021 Winner
Kenneth Shepsle, Harvard University
2021 Selection Committee:
Wendy Schiller (Chair), Brown University | wendy_schiller@brown.edu |
Michelle Taylor-Robinson, Texas A&M University | m-taylor11@pols.tamu.edu |
Craig Volden, University of Virginia | cv4w@virginia.edu |
2020 Winner
Keith Krehbiel, Stanford University
2020 Selection Committee:
Gregory J. Wawro (Chair), Columbia University | gjw10@columbia.edu |
Diana Evans, Trinity College | diana.evans@trincoll.edu |
Scott H. Ainsworth University of Georgia | sainswor@uga.edu |
2019 Winners
John Aldrich, Duke University and David W. Rohde, Duke University
Selection Committee:
Tracy Sulkin (Chair), University of Illinois
John Wilkerson, University of Washington
Nate Monroe, University of California, Merced
2018 Winner
David Mayhew, Yale University
Selection Committee:
Gregory Koger (Chair), University of Miami
Sarah Binder, George Washington University and the Brookings Institute
Lynda Powell, University of Rochester