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2014-2015 Undergraduate Catalog > Student Affairs > Awards > John W. Burgess Award in Political Science

John W. Burgess Award in Political Science

This award is given annually in honor of John W. Burgess who is widely acclaimed as the “father of American Political Science” and was a student at Cumberland University when the hostilities of the War Between the States interrupted his education in 1862. Dr. Burgess later founded the first Ph.D. program in political science at Columbia University in New York. This award is based on scholarship, leadership, and observed abilities of the student as demonstrated through his/her studies at Cumberland University.