Goldsmith Book Award, The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, 2008
Jeffrey Nordhaus Award for Excellent in Undergraduate Teaching in the College of Arts and Science, September 2005
Robert Birby Award for excellence in undergraduate teaching in Department of Political Science, May 2004.
Fellowship at Princeton’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics,2002-03.
The “Squirrel Award” as Vanderbilt University’s best male professor,selected by the student newspaper, The Vanderbilt Hustler
Invited Lecture, Washington University, February 2008
Invited Lecture, Franklin and Marshall College, February 2008
Invited Lecture, University of Kentucky, November 2007
Invited Lecture, University of Minnesota, November 2007
Invited Lecture, University of Illinois, October 2007
Invited Lecture, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City, May 2007
Invited Lecture, Arizona State University, March 2007
Invited Lecture, Bulen Symposium on American Politics, December 2006, Indianapolis, IN
Invited Lecture, CATO Institute, September 2006
Invited Presentation to APSA Short Course on History and Public Opinion, Philadelphia, September 2006
Invited Lecture, SMU, October 2005
Invited Lecture, Michigan State University, November 2004
Invited Lecture, University of Notre Dame, October 2004
Invited Lecture, Rhodes College, October 2004
Invited Lecture, University of Minnesota, January 2004
Invited Lecture, UCLA, October 2003
Invited Lecture, Walt Whitman Center for Democracy, April 2003
Invited Lecture, William and Mary College, March 2003
Invited Lecture, Columbia University, January 2003
Invited Lecture, Woodrow Wilson School, March 2002
Invited Lecture, Princeton University, April 2001
Invited Lecture, George Washington University, March 2001
The “Last Lecture Award” at Vanderbilt University. This award is made by undergraduates when they vote on who they want in the University to give the “last lecture” they would ever hear at Vanderbilt. It was delivered in December 2000.
Invited Lecture, Northwestern University, February 2000
Invited Lecture, Rutgers University, February 1999
Distinguished Alumni Lecture, Franklin and Marshall College, October 1998.
Panel dedicated to assessing the contributions of my book From Tea Leaves to Opinion Polls, Midwest Political Science Association, 1998.
Invited Lecture, Goteborg University, Sweden, May 1996.
Guest scholar at ZUMA, Mannheim Germany, May 1996.
Selected as the Department of Political Science's Outstanding Teacher for 1988-1989 at ASU.