Affiliated faculty member Lisa García Bedolla received the 2013 Ralph Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association for her book, co-authored with Melissa R. Michelson, Mobilizing Inclusion: Transforming the Electorate through Get-Out-the-Vote Campaigns (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012). The Ralph Bunche Award is given annually for the best scholarly work in political science that explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism.