The Department of Political Science is delighted to share that the ECPR’s Standing Group on Regulatory Governance has decided to award Professor Emeritus David Vogel its lifetime award this year, in recognition of the many important and outstanding contributions he has made to the field. Please join us in congratulating Professor Vogel on this wonderful achievement.
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The Political Science Department with like to congratulate PhD alumni, Professor Jason Blakely (Class of 2013), for having the cover article in the August issue of Harper's Magazine. Professor Blakely's article, entitled "Doctor's Orders," is based on my 2020 book with Oxford University Press, We Built Reality. You can read the full article here, https://harpers.org/archive/2023/08/doctors-orders-jason-blakely/.
We'd liked to share multiple recent media appearances from our esteemed Professor Steve Fish. To view his features follow the links below. CNN: https://we.tl/t-58MoFAWcE5 and https://wetransfer.com/downloads/cd03cf74c93a1ba45a6351bfa417600320230624073743/1938ea BBC: https://wetransfer.com/downloads/456090d5b869289faef89bea935b26e620230625045006/99e23f Sky News Australia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ2-Hlp5PHQ
We are proud to share that PhD alumna Dr. Fiona Shen-Bayh's book, based on the dissertation, has won the APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowri First Book Award. That is her third award this awards season along with the Giovanni Sartori Best Book Award and the Juan Linz Best Book Prize in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy. Please join us in celebrating her wonderful achievements...
The department is happy to share that recent Ph.D. Nicholas Kuipers won the 2023 Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award from APSA’s Political Economy section. Please join us in congratulating Nicholas on this wonderful achievement. You can see him and the other 2023 award winners here, https://www.apsanet.org/STAFF/Staff-Page-dev/Membership-Workspace/Organized-Sections/Organized-Section-Awards/Organized-Section-Awards/Section-25#dissertation.
It is with great pleasure we share that Assistant Professor Martha Wilfahrt has been selected as recipient of the prestigious Hellman Fellowship in support of her research proposal titled Tropical Subjects: Ethnographies of Experimentation. The Hellman Fellowship was established by Mr. F. Warren Hellman, a distinguished alumnus and friend of Cal, and his late wife Chris Hellman to support early-career faculty who have shown evidence...
We are excited to announce that UC Berkeley Political Science Ph.D. candidate Ishana Ratan, along with co-authors Professor Alison Post, UCB Political Science alumna Tanu Kumar, and recent Berkeley graduate M.S. Sheth, have just been awarded the Paul Sabatier award for the best paper on science, technology and environmental politics at the 2022 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. This is for their paper, "When...
The Rodel Institute received a large volume of excellent book nominations. The following blog post features Professor Sarah Anzia's book titled " Local Interests: Politics, Policy, and Interest Groups in US City Governments" along with the 7 other nonfiction books published in 2022 that were selected as longlist finalists: https://www.rodelinstitute.org/edwards-book-award-longlist-announced/.
We would like to congratulate our alum Katie Beall for being chosen as the recipient for the Nuno P. Monteiro Award for the best dissertation in IR Theory. Her dissertation, “Trading Sovereignty for Self-Determination: Regional Organizations, Authority, and Human Rights,” was selected by committee review for this years award. We are please to share with fantastic news with our community.
New research co-authored by Professor Gabriel Lenz and Ph.D. candidate Alia Braley at UC Berkeley details the psychological processes that demagogues exploit to erode support for democracy — and shows a way to bridge the dangerous divide. (Photo illustration by Neil Freese). https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/05/22/berkeley-political-scientists-chart-a-promising-course-to-ease-toxic-polarization/