LSU Political Science Professor Receives 2025 Manning Dauer Award from the Southern Political Science Association

James C. Garand, the Emogene Pliner Distinguished Professor of Political Science in the LSU Department of Political Science, is the recipient of the 2025 Manning Dauer Award from the Southern Political Science Association (SPSA).

 

The Manning Dauer Award is a prestigious career award that recognizes “exceptional contributions to the political science profession.” Garand joins a list of prominent scholars and leaders in the political science discipline who have been recipients of the Dauer Award.

 

Garand has published more than 90 articles in scholarly journals over the course of his career, and has received numerous awards for his research and teaching work. In 2023 the SPSA established and endowed the James C. Garand Outstanding Mentor Award, and Professor Garand is also a recipient of the 2023 Excellence in Mentoring Award from the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.

 

He is an LSU Distinguished Research Master (2006), an LSU Rainmaker (2009), former President of the Southern Political Science Association (2004), former President of the State Politics Section of the American Political Science Association (1994-1995), and the recipient of several teaching awards at LSU. He is former editor of American Politics Research, one of the leading subfield journals in American politics, and he has served on the editorial boards for several prominent political science journals. He has mentored numerous students over the course of his career, including more than 35 former students who currently hold faculty and/or administrative appointments at colleges and universities around the country.