Ishana Ratan, Alison Post, et al. “ Which Local Governments Adapt New Technology First? Agency Size and Organizational Champions for Open Transit Data,” Urban Affairs Review, online.
News
Chloe Prendergast won a John Simpson Research Fellowship in International and Area Studies.
Sharik Laliwala won an NSF ACCESS grant to create usable datasets from India’s publicly-available voter rolls. Sharik also won a John Simpson Research Fellowship and a Global Democracy Commons grant to support his dissertation research.
Marika Landau-Wells won the Robert O. Keohane award for the best article published in 2024 by an untenured scholar in International Organization for her article, “Building from the Brain: Advancing the Study of Threat Perception in International Relations,” which, by the way, was featured in this newsletter. Marika’s work was further highlighted in this neat Berkeley News piece.
Anna Callis received an honorable mention for the Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award from APSA’s Democracy and Autocracy section.
Isabella Montini and Alison Post’s working paper, “ Pork Politics and Municipality Size: Evidence from Brazil” was discussed in one of the major Brazilian newspapers (Folha de S.Paolo) here and summarized in this Factiva piece.
Kirk Bansak’s Challenge Lab course on building bridges between democracy and technology had t his nice write-up. A Political Science student in the class (Kiara Shriqui) won the MVP in the class and then scored the People’s Choice Award in a broader competition with other Challenge Lab Classes.
Alison Post et al., “ How Do Cyber-Risks Vary across Smart City Technologies?” Journal of Urban Technology, online.
Johnathan Guy accepted an Assistant Professor position at Georgia Tech, starting Fall 2026.
Steve Fish was featured in this LawBusiness Insider podcast.