Stephanie Zonszein won two APSA Best Article Awards for her research published in the American Journal of Political Science. She received the Best Article Award from the European Politics and Society Section for “Voted In, Standing Out: Public Response to Immigrants’ Political Accession” and co-won the Best Article Award from the Migration and Citizenship Section for “Turn On, Tune In, Turn Out: Ethnic Radio and...
Faculty Awards & Grants
Martha Wilfahrt won the Lijphart/Przeworski/Verba Award for her publicly available dataset on 19th-century African states, which has made an important contribution to comparative politics.
Di Wendy Wang received an American Cultures Engaged Scholarship (ACES) grant.
Congratulations to Professor Rebecca Perlman on receiving an Early Career Faculty Research Excellence Award from the University of California Office of the President.
Congratulations to Professors Thad Dunning and Susan Hyde , along with their collaborators, on receiving the 2026 Margaret Levi Award for the Advancement of Comparative Methodology on behalf of EGAP’s Metaketa Initiative.
Congratulations to Professor Emerita Wendy Brown on receiving the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for exceptional work by a living political theorist that remains significant at least 15 years after its original publication.
Professor Henry Brady’s research and career will be honored at two all-star APSA panels on Friday, September 4: “Model Behavior: Henry Brady, Political Models, and Political Science’s Future” and “Remembrances, Rants, and Roasts: Henry Brady’s Contributions to Political Science.”
Congratulations to Adjunct Professor Leo Arriola on receiving the G. Bingham Powell Graduate Mentoring Award for excellence in mentoring in Comparative Politics and the Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell Mentoring Award from the APSA Committee on the Status of Latinos y Latinas in the Profession.
The UC Berkeley Political Science Department is proud to celebrate Professor Hillel David Soifer and Professor Alison Post, who have each received 2026 Graduate Mentorship Awards. Professor Soifer was recognized with the Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of GSIs, while Professor Post received a Graduate Assembly Faculty Mentor Award. Notably, the Political Science Department is the only department at Berkeley with two faculty recognized this...
Desmond Jagmohan, Assistant Professor of Political Science, is the recipient of the 2026 UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of his exceptional commitment to teaching and student engagement.