Michael Dawson Receives the 2023 Charles E. Merriam Award

We are delighted to announce that Michael Dawson has received the 2023 Charles E. Merriam Award.  Professor Dawson’s path-breaking research includes signal analyses of U.S. government.  His multiple award-winning work Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics (Princeton 1995) and a related collection of articles, utilize election and survey data to demonstrate African Americans’ ongoing political disenfranchisement and resulting collective disillusionment with state institutions and U.S. society more generally.  Subsequent books and articles explored the role of radical black leftist politics in shaping U.S. government and the intersections of race and American civil society.  As co-founder and longtime editor of the DuBois Review, Professor Dawson has also vitally helped expand social science contributions to understanding the intricate interplay of race and governance, in both the U.S. and comparative government contexts.