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Professor Nicholas Valentino and Colleagues Given Best Paper Award at National Convention

Nicholas Valentino, who joins the Government Department this year as the Hogg Professor of Community Affairs, is the winner of the 2006 American Political Science Association Award for the best paper presented in the Political Psychology Section at the discipline's annual convention. The paper, "Election Night's All Right For Fighting," was co-authored by Valentino and Vincent Hutchings, Krysha Gregorowicz, Eric Groenendyk, and Ted Brader. In August, the authors will be honored by the Political Psychology section at the American Political Science Association's annual meeting in Chicago.

Valentino, who is leaving the University of Michigan in order to take the Hogg Professorship, will also be affiliated with the Communication Studies Department in the College of Communication, and will be a Fellow of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Participation. Valentino is one of the nation's leading students of political communications and has done path-breaking work on political campaigns, negative ads, and racial cues in political advertising. He has been an innovator in the use of experimental methods in political science.