Professor Marika Landau-Wells et al. 2025. “ Inclusionary and Exclusionary Preferences: A Test of Three Cognitive Mechanisms ,” Political Behavior (Online First).
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Professor Desmond Jagmohan published a Letter to the Editor , “Berkeley Is Politically Diverse,” in the Washington Post , in response to an Op-Ed by Andrew Doyle.
Professor Steve Fish was interviewed on CNN (on Trump’s plan for Ukraine) here and on the Australian Broadcasting Company (on Trump’s G20 boycott) here .
Anna Closas i Casasampera and PhD Alum Samuel Chan . 2025. “ Grounding the Diasporic Turn in Political Theory: Meta-Commitment, Transnationalism, and Political Obligation ,” American Journal of Political Science (online).
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.
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.