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 2024
Kristin C. Flora, Franklin College
Mark Brandt, Michigan State University
Rosalyn D. Davis, Indiana University Kokomo
Thomas A. Wrobel, University of Michigan-Flint
Patrick J. Cushen, Murray State University
Russ Webster, Penn State Abington College
Tammy L. Sonnentag, Xavier University
Angela G. Pirlott, Saint Xavier University

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

Graduate Student Paper Award Winners for 2024
Mengdi Huang, Northwestern University
The Effect of Self-Concept Clarity on Decision-Making

Yiwen Zhong, Vanderbilt University
Effect of Active Engagement on Belief in Social Media Posts

Jeanine Sempler, Indiana University Bloomington
Perceived Masculinity as a Mechanism of the Race-Based Size Bias

Eleanor Joanne Junkins, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Not Like Everybody Else, But We’re the Same: Queer Meta-Science

Irene Xu, University of Notre Dame
Unreliability Across 36 Versions of the Emotional Dot Probe

Graduate Student Diversity Travel Award for 2024
Alicia Bowling, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities
Emily Brown, University of Colorado Boulder
Jonathan Doriscar, Northwestern University
Swanaya Gurjar, Cleveland State University
Chelsea Howd, Western Kentucky University 
Shruti Kinkel-Ram, Miami University
Ellen Knowles, University of South Dakota
Kellyann Navarre, Cleveland State University
Elisabeth Noland, Purdue University 
Melanie Reyes, St. Louis University
LaCount Togans, Miami University

MPA Excellence In Mentoring Award
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
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.