Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (née Box) is an American political scientist and

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at the Ohio State University. Box-Steffensmeier graduated ''

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'' from Coe College in

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and political science and received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1993 with her dissertation ''Candidates, Contributors, and Campaign Strategy: It's About Time''. In 2008 she was made a Fellow of the

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and, received the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in 2013. In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She was elected President of the

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in 2019 and her biography was published in PS: Political Science and Politics. Box-Steffensmeier was named the Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science in 2003 at Ohio State University.

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