Grad Awards & Grants

Recent PhD graduate, Anirvan Chowdhury has been awarded the 2024 Best Dissertation Award by four APSA sections: Political Economy, Religion and Politics, Political Communication, and Women, Gender, and Politics Research. He has recently joined the University of Louisville as an Assistant Professor, where he continues to contribute to the field of political science. For more information visit, Section 11 - American Political Science Association (APSA)

Recent PhD graduate Anna Callis has been honored with the 2024 Sage Best Paper Award by the American Political Science Association’s Comparative Politics section for her article When Economic Elites Support Democratization: Evidence from Argentina. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Inter-American Policy Research at Tulane University, Callis continues to make valuable contributions to the field of comparative politics. For more information visit...

The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the  Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) Awardees for 2024. The APSA DDRIG program provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science. Awards support basic research which is theoretically derived and empirically oriented. The following UC Berkeley PhD candidates have been awarded grants for the 2024 award cycle: Alyssa...