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.
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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/
To read more about this and the 5 other UC Berkeley faculty members announced as new fellows of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, follow this link: https://news.berkeley.edu/2023/04/21/five-new-fellows-of-american-academy-of-arts-sciences/.
Hanna Fenichel Pitkin died at her home on May 6, 2023. She was Professor Emerita of Political Science at UC Berkeley, a world-renowned political theorist and extraordinary teacher and mentor. Pitkin was born in Berlin in 1931 to Jewish-German parents. Fleeing Nazi Germany first for Oslo and then Prague, the family emigrated to the United States in 1938, where they settled in Los Angeles. Pitkin...
We are delighted to share that Hua Hsu, a Political Science undergraduate alum from the Class of 1999, has won a 2023 Pulitzer Prize for his novel "Stay True." Hsu’s memoir recounts his experiences as an 18-year-old Berkeley undergraduate stepping into adulthood in the mid-1990s.To read more about his book and winning Pulitzer follow the link to the Berkeley News article here.
Please join us in congratulating PhD alum class of 1992 Beth Reingold for winning APSA Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Book Award for her book "“Representing Women: Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California." The Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Book Award is awarded every three years to a book on the subject of U.S. state politics or policy that stands as an enduring contribution...