2025 Award Recipients

Media Relations
Justin Marlowe, Research Professor and Director, Center for Municipal Finance, Harris School of Public Policy

Digital Communications
William Baude, Harry Kalven, Jr. Professor of Law

Op-ed Writing
Robert A. Pape, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threat

Early Career Communicator
Janelle R. Goodwill, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

Best Overall Communicator
Alison L. LaCroix, Robert Newton Reid Professor of Law

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2024 Award Recipients

Media Relations
Selwyn O. Rogers Jr., Dr. James E. Bowman Jr. Professor of Surgery

Digital Communications
John List, Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics

Op-ed Writing
Peggy Heffington, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor in History

Best Overall Communicator
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance

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2023 Award Recipients

Media Relations
Allison H. Bartlett, Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Digital Communications
Adam Cifu, Professor of Medicine

Op-ed Writing
John Mark Hansen, Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor in Political Science and the College

Best Overall Communicator
Konstantin Sonin, John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor, Harris School of Public Policy

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2021 Award Recipients

Media Relations
Aziz Huq, Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor of Law

Op-ed Writing
Daniel Johnson, Professor of Pediatrics

Digital Communications
Christopher Blattman, Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

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