Graduate Student Rebekah Jones Selected as Emerging Scholar by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation for her dissertation work on how decentralizhttps://www.hfg.org/hfg-welcomes-its-2025-emerging-scholars/ation undermines justice in US local governments.
Clara Bichalho has started the inaugural Tinker Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford University.
Hunter Rendleman was quoted on tax refunds in the New York Times.
Alison Post is featured in this Berkeley Letters and Sciences story about one of her recently published papers on cyber-risks in cities that use “smart” technologies.
Amy Lerman’s Possibility Lab announced an exciting new partnership with CalMatters (a nonprofit news organization) to create a Knowledge Hub that will connect state lawmakers, advocates and the public with cutting-edge research.
Steve Fish was interviewed on the BBC World News on NATO’s response to Russia’s violations of member countries’ airspaces.
Pradeep Chhibber, Pranav Gupta et al., “ Indian Election Data for Polling Stations and Villages: National Elections 2009-2019,” Scientific Data ( Nature), 12:1104 (2025).
Jennifer Bussell and Hillel Soifer are leading the organization of an Emerging Methodologists Workshop to foster a new generation of methodologists in qualitative and multi-method research. The call for proposals (for advanced grads, postdocs, and junior faculty from underrepresented groups) is here.
Scott Straus, “ Genocide and Enslavement,” Ethnic and Racial Studies (2025), online.
In alumni news, Rachel Bernhard won a 1.5 million dollar grant from the European Research Council for her multi-year research agenda on the role of complexity in politics.