Janet Box-Steffensmeier

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (née Box) is an American political scientist and Distinguished University Professor at the Ohio State University.

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. She was elected President of the American Political Science Association in 2019 and her biography was published in PS: Political Science and Politics. Box-Steffensmeier was named the Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science in 2003 at Ohio State University.