Congratulations to Brian Charles on the publication of A Genealogy of Populism , published by Springer in 2026.
Grad Publications
Olivier Bergeron-Boutin’s co-authored research, published in Science Advances , was recently featured by Berkeley Letters & Science article .
Congratulations to PhD student Leonardo Di Bonaventura-Altuve on the publication of his article, “ How Does International Recognition of Governments Shape Post-Electoral Conflicts of Legitimacy? ” in Security Studies .
Associate Professor Kai Quek of the University of Hong Kong and UC Berkeley PhD candidate Jiaqian Ni have published their article, “Interstate Conciliation in the Shadow of Deep Historical Grievances,” online first in the Journal of Conflict Resolution (2026). Congratulations to Professor Kai and Jiaqian! Read article here.
UC Berkeley PhD candidate Britt Leake’s article, “Translating the Values of the French Revolution: Democracy and Islam in 19th-century Egyptian Political Thought,” is forthcoming in Comparative Political Theory. Congratulations, Britt!
PhD candidate Dane Thomas’s article, “Legitimacy and the Problem of the Administrative State,” appears in volume 51, no. 1 (2026) of Law & Social Inquiry . The essay was also featured on Legal History Blog . Congratulations Dane! Read the article here and the Legal History Blog feature here .
PhD candidate Anna Closas i Casasampera’s article, “Allocating Time in Asylum Systems: A Dilemma between Efficacy and Equal Treatment,” has been published online in Comparative Migration Studies . Congratulations Anna! Read article here .
Political Science PhD student Will Halm and collaborators published “Who Polices Which Boundaries? How Racial Self-Identification Affects External Classification” in the American Journal of Sociology (2025). Congratulations Will! Read article here.
Political Science PhD student Will Halm and coauthors published “Who Counts as a ‘Person of Color’? The Roles of Ancestry, Phenotype, Self-Identification, and Other Factors” in Socius (2025). Congratulations Will! Read article 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).