Two Women Political Science Professors Win National Award for Book on United Nations

Susan Allen, professor of political science at the University of Mississippi, and Amy Yuen, chair of the political science department at Middlebury College, have received the 2024 Book Award from the American Council on United Nations Systems for their book Bargaining in the UN Security Council: Setting the Global Agenda (Oxford University Press, 2022).

The biennial honor is presented to a recently published book regarding the United Nations. Dr. Allen and Dr. Yuen’s award-winning book discusses the influences that lead the United Nations Security Council to prioritize and respond to international peace and security threats.

Dr. Allen joined the University of Mississippi faculty in 2008 as a professor in the department of political science. She focuses her research on international relations, conflict processes, and political methodology. Prior to her current role, she spent three years as an assistant professor at Texas Tech University.

Dr. Allen is graduate of Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina, where she double-majored in political science and international relations. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Yuen began her career at Middlebury College in Vermont in 2007 as an assistant professor of political science. Since then, she has risen to the rank of full professor and department chair. In her research, she uses game theoretic models and statistical methods to study strategic behavior in a wide range of international political phenomena. She has a particular focus on conflict between and within nations.

Dr. Yuen received her bachelor’s degree from Duke University and her Ph.D. from Emory University.