Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley

Alison Post studies comparative political economy, focusing on the politics of urban and regional development.  In particular, her research examines the politics of regulating urban infrastructure and utilities investment in Latin America.  She has conducted field research in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and the United Kingdom.  Her doctoral dissertation, “Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization,” won the 2009 William Anderson award from the American Political Science Association for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism, intergovernmental relations, state or local politics.  She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Government from Harvard University and B.A. from Stanford University.  As a Marshall scholar, she also earned a M.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science.  She has served as a postdoctoral research scholar with the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, a Visiting Researcher at the Centro de Estudios de Estado y Sociedad in Buenos Aires and the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (E.C.L.A.C.) in Santiago, and as a Researcher at L.S.E. Urban Research in London.  Post joined the Political Science Department and Global Metropolitan Studies program in July of 2009.