Guadalupe Tuñón, who received her Ph.D. in 2019 from the political science department at Berkeley, has won the Mancur Olson prize for best dissertation from the Political Economy section of the American Political Science Association 2020. Tuñón’s dissertation studies the causes and consequences of progressive religion, especially how alliances between progressive leaders in the Catholic Church and left parties have shaped national politics in Latin America. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and starting in fall 2020 will be an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University.
