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2024 Lifetime Achievement Award honours two distinguished scholars

We are thrilled to announce that the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award has been jointly awarded to two exceptional scholars, each of whom has made a remarkable impact on our field as educators, mentors, and leaders.

Our Lifetime Achievement Award is presented biennially to a scholar who has made an outstanding contribution to European political science. In 2024, the winners are Myra Marx Ferree of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Richard S. Katz of Johns Hopkins University.  

Join us in celebrating their achievements by watching our short video featuring the winners, along with the jury chair David Farrell, a representative of Myra’s nominator, Silke Roth, and one of Richard’s nominators, Reuven Y. Hazan.

Our winners

Myra Marx Ferree

Myra is widely recognised for her exceptional intellectual generativity and long-term vision.

Myra Marx Ferree retired in 2019 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she was the Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology and a member of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department. She currently serves as a seminar co-chair for the Minda De Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University.

A 1976 graduate of Harvard’s PhD programme in social relations, she was awarded the 2024 Centennial Medal of this Graduate School. Her recent work focuses on the concept of demographic politics and the confluence of anti-immigration and anti-gender movements in Germany as well as more comparatively across both.

Her earlier work on the comparative discourses on abortion in Germany and the US, co-authored with William Gamson, Jürgen Gerhards and Dieter Rucht, has sadly become all too relevant again, as she noted in the Gender Policy Report blog and in Zeitscrift für Ideengeschichte.

Myra is a proud co-author with Lisa Wade of the best-selling textbook Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions (3rd edition, Norton 2023) and has also published a sociological self-reflection on class and gender in interaction in the 2024 introduction to sociology, Between Us: Healing Ourselves and Changing the World through Sociology.  She also continues to collaborate with Kathrin Zippel on projects comparing US, EU, and German strategies for increasing the proportion and status of women in higher education.

 

In her own words

I am amazed and grateful for this recognition. I have always treasured my colleagues at the ECPG and in a variety of German institutions and am touched by their support for my work as well. I’m especially happy to see how my former students and collaborators made efforts to tap into our joint networks so broadly and effectively, as it shows feminist politics at its best in both theory and practice.

Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison 

Richard S. Katz

Richard has been an advocate for international collaboration and intellectual exchange.

Richard S. Katz is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, where he served as graduate director (1985–1995 and 2003–2009) and department chair (2009–2015). 

Within ECPR, he was convenor of the Standing Group on Political Parties (1992–99) and a member of the Executive Committee (Treasurer, 2012–18; Vice Chair, 2015–18). His work has focused primarily on political parties, elections, and democratic theory in advanced industrial states. He was co-editor of the European Journal of Political Research and the EJPR Political Data Yearbook.

His most recent book is An Advanced Introduction to Party Politics (Edward Elgar, 2023).  Other books include A Theory of Parties and Electoral Systems (Johns Hopkins 1980, 2006), Democracy and Elections (Oxford 1997), Political Institutions in the United States (Oxford, 2007), Democracy and the Cartelization of Political Parties, with Peter Mair (Oxford 2018), Handbook of Party Politics, ed. with William Crotty (Sage 2006), The Challenges of Intra-Party Democracy, ed. with William P. Cross, (Oxford 2013), and The Personalization of Democratic Politics, ed. with William Cross and Scott Pruysers (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2018).

He has served as an affiant for the Attorney General of Canada and for the Attorney General of Ontario, and as chair of the Core Group of Experts on Political Party Regulation for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe.

 

In his own words

Given the list of previous recipients of this award, I was honoured simply to have been nominated.  

To actually have my name added to this distinguished list was a major, but delightful, surprise for which I am profoundly grateful.

Richard S. Katz, Johns Hopkins University 

Our jury

  • David Farrell, Outgoing ECPR Chair (2021–2024)
  • Kris Deschouwer, Former ECPR Chair (2018–2021)
  • Hans Asenbaum, 2022 Rising Star Winner
  • Patricia Correa, ECPR Official Representative, Aston University
  • Tanja Munro, ECPR Director

Read full laudations.


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21 June 2024
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