Call for Nominations: Murrary Edelman Career Achievement

The Murray Edelman career achievement award in political communication has shifted to a biennial award, and nominations for 2013 are now open. The committee (Lance Bennett, chair, Rosalee Clawson and Michael Delli Carpini) will consider nominations that are accompanied by a short statement of the nominee's contributions to our field. Nominations will be accepted until March 1, 2013. Please send all nominations to Lance Bennett: lbennett@uw.edu. 

Here are the past recipients of The Murray Edelman Distinguished Career Award

for lifetime contribution to the study of political communication.

2011 Diana Mutz, University of Pennsylvania

2009 Daniel Hallin, University of California, San Diego

2008 Michael X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania

2007 Marion Just, Wellesley College (Co-recipient)

            W. Russell Neuman, University of Michigan (Co-recipient)

2006 Robert Entman, George Washington University

2005 Jay Blumler and Michael Gurevitch

2004 Michael Schudson 

2003 W. Lance Bennett, University of Washington

2002 Thomas E. Patterson, Harvard University

2001 the late Steven Chaffee, University of California, Santa Barbara

2001 Jack McLeod, University of Wisconsin, Madison

2000 Roderick Hart, University of Texas

1999 Bernard C. Cohen, University of Wisconsin

1998 Shanto Iyengar, University of California, Los Angeles

1997 Ellen Mickiewicz, Duke University

1996 Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas, Austin (Co-recipient)

Donald Shaw, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Co-recipient)

1995 Kathleen Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania

1994 Kurt Lang and Gladys Lang, University of Washington

1993 Elihu Katz, Guttman Institute of Applied Social Research, Jerusalem, Israel

1992 Doris Graber, University of Illinois, Chicago