The Honorable G. William and Ariadna Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law was selected as a recipient of the East Bay Chapter of the United Nations Association’s 19th Annual Global Citizen Awards. Chosen from over 100 nominees, the Miller Institute was recognized for its outstanding contributions to teaching, research, and advocacy. Professor Katerina Linos , Co-Faculty Director of the Miller Institute, was recognized...
Faculty Awards & Grants
It is with great pleasure we share that Associate Professor Aila Matanock has been selected as recipient of the 2023-2024 International Studies Associations Karl Deutsch award. More information about this and other ISA awards can be found HERE
Associate Professor Michaela Mattes has been awarded the 2024 Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award. Excellent mentorship has a transformative effect on the well-being, academic success, and overall experience of our graduate students, never more so than during these challenging times. It is something to be celebrated and acknowledged. Michaela Mattes has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to helping UC Berkeley graduate students to succeed academically, professionally...
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.
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...
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/.
Please join us in congratulating Professor Scott Straus for being named one of the 2023 Fellows for the American Academy of Political and Social Science (AAPSS). Professor Straus is one of six individuals chosen as a fellow this year from a select group of scholars and public servants. To read more about the AAPSS Fellows for 2023, click this link, https://www.aapss.org/news/2023-fellowships/.
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Professor Ron Hassner will receive the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association for his work on religion and IR at the upcoming ISA conference in Montreal, Canada, in March.
We're thrilled to celebrate Professor Gabe Lenz and graduate student Alia Braley's win of the Stanford's Strengthening Democracy Challenge. They, along with their team members Dhaval Adjodah, Hossien Rahnama, and Ales Pentland, came in first place in the completion in lowering anti-democratic attitudes in a massive online experiment. You can learn more about their work called "Correcting Overestimates of Opposing Partisans' Willingness to Break Democratic...