Press Release
from Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Dara Kay Cohen Wins the American Political Science Association's 2014 Heinz I. Eulau Award

The Belfer Center is proud to announce that our own Dara Kay Cohen was the co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2014 Heinz I. Eulau Award for her article in the American Political Science Review, “Explaining Rape during Civil War: Cross National Evidence (1980–2009)”. The Heinz Eulau prize is awarded annually for the best article published in the American Political Science Review and for the best article published in Perspectives on Politics in the calendar year. The award committee included Edward D. Mansfield (University of Pennsylvania), Nathan Monroe (University of California at Merced) and Laura Stephenson (University of Western Ontario).

The award will be formally presented at the APSA Awards Ceremony and Luncheon at the annual APSA meeting  on Thursday, August 28, at 12:00 p.m.  The committee chair, Edward D. Mansfield, will present the award.  Please join us in congratulating Dr. Cohen.

Click here to read the award-winning article.