Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier

{{short description|American political scientist}}

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (née Box) is an American political scientist and Distinguished University Professor{{cite web|title=Janet Box-Steffensmeier Distinguished University Professor 2020|url=https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news-events/awards-recognition/distinguished-university-professor-2020-0|publisher=Ohio State University|accessdate=June 14, 2021|archive-date=June 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210614182055/https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news-events/awards-recognition/distinguished-university-professor-2020-0|url-status=dead}} at the Ohio State University.

Box-Steffensmeier graduated magna cum laude from Coe College in mathematics and political science and received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas in 1993 with her dissertation Candidates, Contributors, and Campaign Strategy: It's About Time.{{cite web|title=DISS 1993 B6908|url=http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/search~S2?/Xa%3A%28Steffensmeier%29&searchscope=2&SORT=D/Xa%3A%28Steffensmeier%29&searchscope=2&SORT=D&extended=0&SUBKEY=a%3A(Steffensmeier)/1%2C3%2C3%2CB/frameset&FF=Xa%3A%28Steffensmeier%29&searchscope=2&SORT=D&2%2C2%2C|website=UT Libraries|publisher=University of Texas|accessdate=February 19, 2018}}

In 2008 she was made a Fellow of the Society for Political Methodology and, received the Warren E. Miller Award for Meritorious Service to the Social Sciences from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in 2013. In 2017, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.{{cite web|title=Parthemos Lecture presented by Dr. Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier|url=http://spia.uga.edu/event/parthemos-lecture/|website=uga.edu|publisher=University of Georgia|accessdate=February 19, 2018}}{{cite web|title=Fellows of the Society for Political Methodology|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/membership/spm/about-us/fellows|website=Society for Political Methodology|publisher=Cambridge University Press|accessdate=February 19, 2018}} She was elected President of the American Political Science Association in 2019 and her biography was published in PS: Political Science and Politics.{{cite journal|title=Making (and Sometimes Taking) a Difference: the Dynamic Career of Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier|year=2020 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ps-political-science-and-politics/article/making-and-sometimes-taking-a-difference-the-dynamic-career-of-janet-m-boxsteffensmeier/FF72F95BB4E52035B71A742DA3B2BCFC|publisher=Cambridge Core|doi=10.1017/S1049096520001225 |accessdate=June 14, 2021 |last1=Sokhey |first1=Anand Edward |journal=PS: Political Science & Politics |volume=53 |issue=4 |pages=827–833 |s2cid=229013414 |doi-access=free }} Box-Steffensmeier was named the Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science in 2003 at Ohio State University.{{cite web|title=PRISM|url=https://polisci.osu.edu/research/prism|website=OSU Department of Political Science|publisher=Ohio State University|accessdate=February 19, 2018|archive-date=February 20, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180220212525/https://polisci.osu.edu/research/prism|url-status=dead}}