Ainsley LeSure - Winner of the Cogut Institute Faculty Fellowship. The Cogut Institute for the Humanities sponsors semester-long fellowships for Brown University faculty members who are eligible for a semester sabbatical that they wish to extend to an academic year of leave.
Bonnie Honig
- Elected to the British Academy of Fellows in recognition of her contribution to the humanities and social sciences.
- Awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Leiden to celebrate their 450th anniversary.
- Winner of the 2025 Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award. This award recognizes excellence in scholarship to fund exceptional faculty research projects.
Corey Brettschneider - Winner of the American Bar Association's 2025 Silver Gavel Award for Media and the Arts. This award recognizes outstanding work that fosters the public’s understanding of law and the legal system.
Deva Woodly - Named Distinguished Research Fellow at the Kettering Foundation. Deva is one of three who were selected as part of a new initiative that is meant to support leading scholars, practitioners, and public intellectuals to produce timely, high-impact research that informs and advances inclusive democracy.
Donghyun Danny Choi - Winner of The Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship. The fellowship is awarded each year to regular untenured members of the faculty who have achieved a record of excellence in teaching and scholarship during their first years at Brown.
Eric Patashnik - Winner of the 2025 Outstanding Public Engagement Award, APSA's Health Politics and Policy Section. This award recognizes individuals who has been working to improve health and the healthcare system by actively engaging in politics and policy making.
Isabella Bellezza-Smull - Winner of the Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award. This award is an annual prize awarded by the Graduate School for superior achievements in research by students who are completing their Ph.Ds.
Juliet Hooker - Winner of the Best Book Award of the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of APSA with her new book, Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Katherine Tate - Winner of APSA’s 2025 Hanes Walton Jr. Career Award for lifetime of distinguished scholarship in the field of race and politics.
Manuel Moscoso Rojas - Winner of the 2025 Dissertation Prize by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Melvin Rogers - His book, The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 2023), is the winner of three awards.
- The Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association
- David Easton Award, The Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA
- Best book on American Political Thought published in 2023, American Political Thought section of APSA
Paul Testa - Winner of the 2024-2025 Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring
Peter Andreas - Winner of the 2024 Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association for the Study of Organized Crime.
Robert Blair
- Winner of APSA's 2025 Theda Skocpol Emerging Scholar Award recognizing up to ten years post-PhD whose work has made impactful empirical, theoretical, and/or methodological contributions to the study of comparative politics.
- Recognized by PS: Political Science and Politics to be among the Top 10 Political Science Scholars in North America by region, based on publications in leading political science journals.
Rose McDermott - Winner of the 2024 Harold Lasswell Award for Outstanding Scientific Accomplishments in Political Psychology for Distinguished Scientific Contribution in the field of Political Psychology
Sharon Krause - Winner of the Clay Morgan Award for the best book in Environmental Political Theory from the Western Political Science Association with her book, Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2023).
Susan Moffitt
- Winner of the 2025 Herbert Simon Award from the Midwest Political Science Association. The award is for a mid-career scholar who has made a significant contribution to the scientific study of bureaucracy.
- Winner of the President's Award for Excellence in Faculty Governance. This award recognizes members of faculty with a resolute commitment to serving Brown through faculty committee service ensuring Brown’s commitment to excellence through expertise and time sacrificed.