The purpose of the Karl Deutsch award is to honor a prominent scholar engaged in the cross-disciplinary research of which Karl Deutsch was a master. The recipient presents the Karl Deutsch lecture or leads a special session at the IPSA World Congress. The award is made on the recommendation of the committee on awards. It is supported by the Karl Deutsch fund.

Karl Wolfgang Deutsch (1912-1992)

Born in Prague, Karl Deutsch immigrated to the United States in the late 1930's. He taught at the M.I.T., Yale and Harvard. He assumed the role of President of the IPSA from 1976-79. He was also president of the American Political Science Association and director of the International Institute of Comparative Social Research at the Science Center in Berlin.

Dr. Charles Tilly
Recipient of the Karl Deutsch Award in 2006
 
Charles Tilly's work focuses on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe since 1500. His most recently published books are Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States (co-edited with Michael Hanagan, Rowman & Littlefield, 1999), How Social Movements Matter (co-edited with Marco Giugni & Doug McAdam, University of Minnesota Press, 1999), Dynamics of Contention (co-authored with Doug McAdam & Sidney Tarrow, Cambridge University Press, 2001), and Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics (co-authored with Ronald Aminzade et al., Cambridge University Press, 2001). He has recently completed Stories, Identities, and Political Change (Rowman & Littlefield 2002), The Politics of Collective Violence (Cambridge University Press, scheduled for 2003), and Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (under review at Cambridge University Press). He is currently co-authoring Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History (Wadsworth). He is also helping run the Russian Academy of Sciences - National Academy of Sciences collaborative project on conflict in multi-ethnic societies.