Awards

• Hall of Fame, Elizabeth Forward High School (Pennsylvania), 2005.
  
• Research Professorship, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, 2003-2004.
• University Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona, 2000. 
• The American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha Award for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, August 30, 2000.
  
• Honorable Mention, Outstanding Book Award of the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America  for The Lineaments of Wrath,  1999.
  
• Senior Fulbright Scholar, University College Cork, Ireland, 1999.
  
• Readers’ Favorite Books on Arizona, Arizona Humanities Council for Last Rampage, 1998.
  
• Mortar Board National Senior Honor Society Award (for teaching), University of Arizona, 1997-1998.
  
• Who’s Who in America (since 1988).
  
• Social and Behavioral Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Arizona, 1995-1996.
  
• Udall Fellowship, University of Arizona, 1993-1994,
  
• Research Professorship, Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, 1992-1993.
  
• Social and Behavioral Sciences Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Arizona, 1990-1991.
  
• Nominee, Pulitzer Prize (general nonfiction) for On Being Mad Or Merely Angry, 1990.
  
• Golden Key National Honor Society Award (for teaching and scholarship), University of Arizona, 1988-1989.
  
• “Best Professor,” Arizona Daily Wildcat, University of Arizona, April 6, 1989.
  
• Finalist, Five Star Faculty Teaching Award, University of Arizona, 1988-1989.
  
• “Best Books of the Southwest, 1988,” Arizona Daily Star for Last Rampage.
  
• The Burlington Northern Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Arizona, 1986-1987.
  
• Nominee, Five Star Faculty Teaching Award, University of Arizona (since 1983)
  
• Nominee, Pulitzer Prize (history) for American Assassins, 1982.
  
• Nominee, American Book Award (history) for American Assassins, 1982.
  
• “Notable Books of the Year,” New York Times Book Review for American Assassins, 1982.
  
• Dissertation Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Pennsylvania State University, 1967-1968.
  
• James Gillespie Blaine Prize (political science), Washington and Jefferson College, 1962.
  
• Matthew Brown Ringland Prize (social sciences), Washington and Jefferson College, 1962.
  
• National Defense Scholarship, Washington and Jefferson College, 1959-1962