Ph.D. candidate Julia Raven has been selected for the prestigious 2025–2026 APSA Congressional Fellowship Program. Sponsored by the American Political Science Association, this highly competitive program offers scholars the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in the legislative process by working directly in a congressional office in Washington, D.C. Congratulations, Julia!
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...
We are excited to announce that UC Berkeley Political Science Ph.D. candidate Ishana Ratan, along with co-authors Professor Alison Post, UCB Political Science alumna Tanu Kumar, and recent Berkeley graduate M.S. Sheth, have just been awarded the Paul Sabatier award for the best paper on science, technology and environmental politics at the 2022 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting. This is for their paper, "When...
In late September, the Carter Center hosted the Seventh Annual Young Scholars Forum on U.S.-China Relations. First hosted by the Carter Center and its partners at Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2014, the forum invites young scholars including doctoral candidates and assistant professors to present their research on U.S.-China relations and Chinese foreign policy. We are pleased to share that our PhD candidate, Philip Rogers (along...
Please join us in congratulating graduate students Julia Raven and Oren Samet in being awarded the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Dissertation Fellowship. Julia received the fellowship for her proposal entitled “Constrained Militaries: The durability of colonial military institutions” and Oren received it for his proposal entitled “Challenging Autocrats Abroad: Opposition Parties on the International Stage.” The award comes with $25,000 to put...
Please join us in congratulating Jay Varellas in receiving a new grant from the Economic Security Project's Anti-Monopoly Fund. Jay serves as the principle investigator o this grant. For more details follow this link, https://www.economicsecurityproject.org/antimonopoly/grantees/.
We are pleased to announce that Adan Martinez, a fourth year graduate student, has been awarded a Fulbright to conduct dissertation research in Brazil. Please join us in congratulating Adan on receiving this prestigious award.
Please join us in congratulating two of our graduate students who were recognized by The Program on Governance and Local Development (GLD) Adan Martinez was awarded the GLD's Short-Term Grant for his project: Brazilian Subnational Everyday Health and Pandemic Politics. Catlan Reardon was chosen as one of GLD's 2022 Fellows. Let's celebrate their wonderful achievement.