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Students: Penniman Prize Recipients
The Clara Penniman Prize is awarded to the graduating student who has written the most outstanding paper while a graduate student in public affairs.
La Follette School faculty nominate the papers, which best demonstrate the writing and analytic skills the school emphasizes.
A specialist in taxation and public finance, Clara Penniman was the founder and director of the La Follette Schools predecessor, the Center for the Study of Public Policy and Administration. She was the first female chair of the University of Wisconsin-Madisons (then otherwise all male) political science department. She retired in 1984.
These La Follette School alumni have received the award:
- Joy Tapper, 1986
- Kevin Piper, 1987
- David Morrison, 1988
- John Elliott and Mary Burke, 1989
- Elise Jaffe and Barry Delin, 1993
- Leah Bailey, 1994
- Cody Rice, 1995
- Ryan Weeden, 1996
- Rachel Martin, 1997
- Sarah Archibald, 1998
- Tamarine Cornelius, 1999
- David Saikia, 2000
- Jeff Sachse, 2001
- Lucas Szylow, 2002
- Ian Crichton, 2003
- Kristin Marie Berg, 2004
- David Zanni, 2005
- Martha Kraetsch and Maureen Quinn, 2006
- Kristen Yarber Grill, 2007
- Andria Hayes-Birchler and Emily Engel (class of 2009), 2008