Summer 2003

GW Professor Named 2003 Carnegie Scholar

The Carnegie Corporation of New York has named Sarah Binder, associate professor of political science in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, a Carnegie Scholar for 2003. 

Binder, one of 13 emerging and recognized scholars at American universities and research institutions chosen through the highly competitive selection process, will receive up to $100,000 over the next two years to pursue research that expands the intellectual margins of the Carnegie Corporation’s program areas. 

“Sarah Binder’s selection as a Carnegie Scholar is an exciting and well-deserved honor that recognizes the quality of scholarship and creativity that she brings to her work,” says Donald R. Lehman, executive vice president for academic affairs. 

Binder’s research into the politics of federal judicial selection will assess the ways in which institutions, elections, and party politics combine to shape the selection and confirmation of judicial nominees.  

 “As the Carnegie Scholars program approaches its fourth year, the announcement of the new class of Carnegie Scholars underscores the importance of the role the creative intellectual plays in a democratic society,” says Vartan Gregorian, president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. “The support for research and scholarship has been a fundamental theme of the corporation’s work over the years and the scholars program each year helps men and women of vision to examine some of the most significant and critical questions facing the world today.” 

 

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