MPA Award Winners

This page is dedicated to those faculty scholars who were awarded, in the most recent year, Fellow Status or to graduate students who were awarded the Graduate Student Paper Awards or the Graduate Student Diversity Travel Awards. It also maintains a list of all prior winners of the Excellence in Mentoring Award and the Excellence in Service Awards given by MPA.

MPA Fellows for 2025
Randy McCarthy, Northern Illinois University
Jordan R. Wagge, Avila University
KatieAnn Skogsberg, Centre College
Peter J. Pierre, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Andrew Luttrell, Ball State University
Paige Lloyd, University of Denver
Jonathan J. Hammersley, Western Illinois University
Beth Ann Rice, Slippery Rock University
Vrinda Kalia, Miami University
Verena Graupmann, DePaul University
Marcellus M. Merritt, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

For a full list of Fellows, see our Fellows Page.

Graduate Student Paper Award Winners for 2025
Malak Elmessiry, Northwestern University
Gabriella Avila Patro, Queen’s University
Marianne Chirica, Indiana University
Courtney Moore, The Ohio State University
Grace Edmonds, The Ohio State University
Mary Katz, University of Illinois

Graduate Student Diversity Travel Award for 2025
Marcus Antu, University of Missouri- Columbia
Nishka Gupta, Cleveland State University
Hellen Kyler, Indiana University
Minju Lee, Michigan State University
Mingjia (Sherlock) Liu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sarah Osaro, University of Iowa
Alex Sánchez, Ball State University
Zoe Schultz, Saint Louis University
Hailey Shangin, University of Michigan
Zhixu (Rick) Yang, Purdue University

MPA Excellence In Mentoring Award
2025 – Galen Dodenhausen, Northwestern University
2024 – Ed de St. Aubin, Marquette University
2023 – Keith Jones, Central College
2022 – Jennifer Wiley, University of Illinois at Chicago

For a description of this award, see our MPA Excellence in Mentoring Award page.

MPA Excellence in Service Award
2025 – Allen McConnell, Miami University
2024 – Duane Wegener, The Ohio State University
2023 – Donal Carlston, Purdue University

For a description of this award, see our MPA Excellence in Service Award page.