Political Science PhD candidate Sharik Laliwala has been awarded the APSA Religion and Politics Small Grants Award for his project “Political Demolition Cycle: Electoral Incentives and Muslim Housing Demolitions in Urban India.” The Religion & Politics section of the American Political Science Association supports small grants of up to approximately $2,500 for research that advances theoretical, empirical, and practical understanding of religion and politics. These...
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Political Science PhD candidate Sharik Laliwala has received a new NSF ACCESS-CI Allocation to support his project on digitizing India’s voter rolls using advanced supercomputing infrastructure. The ACCESS program provides researchers with computing and data resources to advance research and scholarship as part of the National Science Foundation’s cyberinfrastructure ecosystem. This new allocation is larger than his previous award and gives him expanded computational capacity...
Professors David Broockman and Paul Pierson have been recognized among the world’s leading political science scholars. Prof. Broockman ranked as the most-published scholar in top journals over the past five years, while Prof. Pierson is the third-most cited scholar globally, reflecting the widespread influence of their research. Congratulations! Read full story here .
Professor Steve Vogel published “ Toward an Interdisciplinary Political Economy of Wages ” in Politics & Society (online).
Professor Eric Schickler has published “ What Donald Trump Has Taught Us about American Political Institutions” in Political Science Quarterly (online).
Cecilia Mo and collaborators won a major research grant from I nnovations for Poverty Action's Peace & Recovery Initiative for work with the Ministry of Education in Ethiopia to explore the effect of national service programs on national identification and social cohesion.
Professor Marika Landau-Wells et al. 2025. “ Inclusionary and Exclusionary Preferences: A Test of Three Cognitive Mechanisms ,” Political Behavior (Online First).
Professor Desmond Jagmohan published a Letter to the Editor , “Berkeley Is Politically Diverse,” in the Washington Post , in response to an Op-Ed by Andrew Doyle.
Professor Steve Fish was interviewed on CNN (on Trump’s plan for Ukraine) here and on the Australian Broadcasting Company (on Trump’s G20 boycott) here .
Anna Closas i Casasampera and PhD Alum Samuel Chan . 2025. “ Grounding the Diasporic Turn in Political Theory: Meta-Commitment, Transnationalism, and Political Obligation ,” American Journal of Political Science (online).