UC Berkeley Political Science alumna Sydney Roberts (’24) has been selected as a Schwarzman Scholar, a prestigious award supporting graduate study in global affairs at Tsinghua University. Congratulations Sydney! Read more about her story here.
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UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Xiaobo Lü and Harvard-Yenching Institute Political Science Professor Changdong Zhang published Taxation and Governance in Contemporary China with Cambridge University Press. Congratulations Professors Lü and Zhang! Read article here.
UC Berkeley Political Science PhD candidate Margaret Kenney will serve as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center during the 2026–27 academic year and will join the University of Georgia as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2027. Congratulations Margaret!
UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Stephanie Zonszein-Strauss and coauthors published “Estimating Causal Effects in Experiments with Network Spillovers” in the Handbook of Computational Social Science, edited by Taha Yasseri. Congratulations Professor Zonszein-Strauss! Read article here.
UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Steve Vogel and UC Berkeley alumni Sunny Mulhotra coauthored “The Predistribution Solution,” published by the Roosevelt Institute in December 2025. Congratulations Professor Vogel and Sunny! Read article here.
UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Cecilia Mo and research fellow Katrina Kosec published “Shrinking Welfare in the United States Will Bring Political and Social Consequences” with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on January 8, 2026. Congratulations Professor Mo and Katrina Kosec! Read article here.
UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Cecilia Mo received a seed grant from Innovations for Poverty Action’s Human Trafficking Research Initiative to launch her project, “Conditional Access to Finance to Reduce Labor Exploitation: Artisanal Mining in Sierra Leone.” Congratulations Professor Mo! Learn more about the project here.
Political Science PhD candidate Rebekah Jones has accepted an Assistant Professor position at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Government and Policy, beginning Fall 2027. She will serve as a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Center for the Study of Democratic Politics during AY 2026–27. Congratulations Rebekah!
UC Berkeley Political Science Professor Susan Hyde and Columbia University Political Science Professor Elizabeth N. Saunders published “The Unconstrained Future of World Order” in International Organization (2025). Congratulations Professors Hyde and Saunders! Read article here.
Political Science PhD student Will Halm and collaborators published “Who Polices Which Boundaries? How Racial Self-Identification Affects External Classification” in the American Journal of Sociology (2025). Congratulations Will! Read article here.