Dr. Crosson Wins Two Emerging Scholar Awards!
The Department is delighted to announce that Dr. Jesse M. Crosson received TWO Emerging Scholar awards at the 2024 American Political Science Association Meetings in Philadelphia. He is the winner of the 2024 APSA Legislative Studies Section Emerging Scholar Award and the 2024 APSA Political Organizations and Parties Section Emerging Scholar Award. Congratulations Dr. Crosson!
These awards reflect his exciting research agenda at the intersection of parties, interest groups, and legislative representation. He recently published the article “Do Local Roots Impact Washington Behaviors? District Connections and Representation in the U.S. Congress” in Political Science’s flagship journal, the American Political Science Review, and has a forthcoming article in Quarterly Journal of Political Science on moderation and legislative effectiveness in Congress. ;
Other award winning research from Dr. Crosson includes his 2020 collaborative APSR article “Polarized Pluralism: Organizational Preferences and Biases in the American Pressure System” which won the 2019 Political Organizations and Parties section Best APSA Conference Paper. His 2020 collaborative article in Legislative Studies Quarterly, “Partisan Competition and Decline in Legislative Capacity among Congressional Offices” won Wiley’s Top Cited Article award twice, once in 2020-2021, and again in 2021-2022. The same paper was also named the Center for Effective Lawmaking’s “Best Publication for Effective Lawmaking” in 2022.
Dr. Crosson is co-Director of Purdue’s Program on American Institutional Renewal (PAIR), which brings together scholars, students, and practitioners interested in improving the workings of legislatures, courts, executive agencies, and other institutions.
Dr. Crosson is an Assistant Professor in Political Science at Purdue. He has previously been a visiting Research Scholar at Princeton's Center for the Study of Democratic Politics. He is currently an affiliate of the Center for Effective Lawmaking, sponsored by Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia, and serves on the Faculty Advisory Board for the Levin Center’s State Executive Oversight Academy.