International Studies Association Honors Rice Professor

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International Studies Association Honors Rice Professor

Associate professor of political science T.
Clifton Morgan received the Karl W. Deutsch Award at the
International Studies Association’s 1995 annual meeting in Chicago
on Feb. 26.

The award recognizes a scholar under the age of 40 who is judged
to have made, through a series of publications, the most significant
contribution to this field of study.

Morgan is the first professor from Rice to receive the award.
This recognition puts Morgan in an elite class in his field of
expertise, said Bob Stein, chair of Rice’s political science
department.

“Professor Morgan strongly emulates the intellectual tradition
fostered by Karl Deutsch,” said award committee chair Richard
Merritt, a professor at the University of Illinois. “[Morgan’s]
scholarly productivity has been immense, but more to the point, he
publishes solid, innovative work that helps the profession advance.”

The Deutsch Award was established in 1981 to commemorate the
work of Deutsch, who is considered one of the century’s leading
scholars in the field of international relations. The award is
intended to honor the field’s most outstanding young scholar.

Morgan’s research involves the application of formal
mathematical models and statistical analysis to the study of
international conflict. His most recent publication is Untying the
Knot of War (University of Michigan Press, 1994).

Morgan is in his eighth year at Rice. He received his doctorate
from the University of Texas–Austin in 1986. He was an assistant
professor of political science at Florida State University before
coming to Rice. He was a national fellow at the Hoover Institution
at Stanford University in 1989 and 1990.

Rice University is an independent, coeducational, nonsectarian
private university dedicated to undergraduate teaching and graduate
studies, research and professional training in selected disciplines.
It has an undergraduate student population of 2,584, a graduate and
professional student population of 1,489 and a full-time faculty of
448.

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