Awards - Stein Rokkan Award

The Stein Rokkan Award is one of the IPSA travel grants that the association began offering its members in the early 1990s. The purpose of the Stein Rokkan fellowships is to assist a small number of graduate students to attend the world congress by covering their basic travel and accommodation costs. The recipients receive financial assistance towards travel and subsistence. The awards are made on the recommendation of the Committee on Awards, and they are supported by the Stein Rokkan fund. The prize of 2012 is of US$1000 for basic travel and accommodation costs to the following World Congress of Political Science - Montreal, Canada 2014.

Stein Rokkan (1921-1979)

A promoter of social and political science, Stein Rokkan contributed greatly to the field of comparative politics, notably during his teaching years at Bergen University. He assumed the role of President of IPSA from 1970-73. He was also Vice-President of the International Sociological Association, Chairman of the European Consortium for Political Research (which he helped found), and President of the International Social Science Council.

Guidelines for applications

Applicants for the award are expected to submit:
1. a curriculum vitae,
2. a statement of the nature of the research project and an indication as to how it could benefit from participation in the congress;
3. a letter of reference from an academic familiar with the applicant’s work certifying his or her academic status and indicating his or her suitability for the award;
4. a representative sample of written work whose length should not be greater than a scientific journal article;
5. a statement indicating financial need in respect of the costs of attending the congress.

The following are the criteria for the award:
1. each candidate must be registered in a degree granting programme;
2. normally candidates must be at the doctoral level but in exceptional cases where qualifications and money allow students at master’s level may be considered;
3. candidates must demonstrate that their academic institutions and professors have bestowed on them high academic honour and esteem.

The committee on awards will assess candidates’ written work.

Nominations are to be sent:

By email: A PDF copy by email to the attention of Guy Lachapelle, the IPSA Secretary General,  to: madrid2012@ipsa.org

Or

By mail: A printed copy by mail (along with a PDF copy) to:

Guy Lachapelle
Secretary General
International Political Science Association (IPSA)
1590, av. Docteur-Penfield, bureau 331
Montréal (QC) H3G 1C5
Canada

Candidacies for the 23rd IPSA World Congress will be accepted from website launch date until June 1, 2012. 

Stein Rokkan Award Recipients

2009* (in Santiago)
Fernando Boidi, Maria (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Gorbak, Erika (Harvard University, USA)
Santana, Luciana (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)

2006 (in Fukuoka)
Ferreira Do Vale, Helder (Universidad de Barcelona, Spain)
Engstrom, Par (Mansfield College, United Kingdom)
Rozanova, Julia (University of Alberta, Canada)

2003 (in Durban)
Jacobs, Sean (South Africa)         
Lutz, Georg (Switzerland)         
Grant, Andrew (Canada)

2000 (in Québec City)
Hui, Tin-bor V. (Hong Kong)

1997 (in Seoul)
Najam, Adil (USA)               
Perron, Catherine (France)

1994 (in Berlin)
Dicklich, Susan (USA)
McGillivray, Fiona (USA)
Santiso, Javier (France)

1991 (in Buenos Aires)
Bolongaita, Emil O (USA)
Pivron, Anne (Mexico)
Xiao, Ren (UK)

1988 (in Washington DC)
Araujo, José (Columbia)
Doehler, Marian (Germany)
Fortin, Alfred (USA)
Katz, Yitzhak (Israel)
Nikolic, Vesna (Yugoslavia)
Saggar, Shamit (UK)
Zobel-Zubrzycka, Halina (Australia)

1985 (in Paris)
Bartholomew, Amy (Canada)
Aquero, Felipe (Chile)
Huning, Wang (China)
Zhao, Xiangyang (China)
Lu-Ziao-Bo (China)
Zhang Xiao-Wu (China)
Farahani, Hossain (Iran)
Jeong, Changik (Korea)
McKnight, Lee (USA)

1982 (in Rio de Janeiro)
Conteh, Musa Ballah (Côte d’Ivoire)
Gagnon, Alain (Canada)
MacDonald, Scott (USA)

* In 2009, the prize was also supported by a significant donation from the American Political Science Association.