Awards & Honors
Fellow, National Academy of Public Administration
National National Academy of Public Administration · 2021Brownell-Whetten Award for Diversity and Inclusion
Department Duke · 2016Susan E. Tifft Undergraduate teaching and mentoring award
University Duke Sanford School of Public Policy · 2013One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2013
National Choice · 2013Chadwick F. Alger Prize
International International Studies Association · 2013Fellow
Other Bass Society, Duke University · 2012Fellow of the Bass Society of Excellence in Scholarship and Teaching
University Duke University · 2012First Place Winner of the ENMISA Graduate Paper Competition (later the Martin O. Heisler Award)
International The Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association · 2000Firestone Medal for Excellence in Research
University Stanford University · 1995In the News

Published March 5, 2024
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Published October 30, 2023
Leaders in Government, Business, Academia to Examine Results of CHIPS and Science Act

Published June 20, 2019
Sanford Dean Judith Kelley on Why Today's US Report on Trafficking Is Important

Published February 28, 2019
When Democracy Declines: Panel Explores the Challenges to Sustaining Freedom

Published October 31, 2018
International Election Observers Evaluating US Midterm Elections Will Face Limitations

Published November 2, 2016
Duke's Danish-American Expert on Elections Talks About Voting in the US for the First Time

Published July 29, 2015
New research: Who cares how the U.S. ranks nations' efforts on human trafficking?

Published April 30, 2015
‘Scorecard Diplomacy:’ Rating Nations on the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Published November 14, 2014
Judith Kelley, co-author: U.S. must maintain strong voice for trafficking victims