Christoph Mikulaschek is the recipient of this year’s APSA Merze Tate Award for the best dissertation successfully defended during the previous two years in the field of international relations, law, and politics. It is entitled, “The Power of the Weak: How Informal Power-Sharing Shapes the Work of the United Nations Security Council.” http://www.politicalsciencenow.com/christoph-mikulaschek-2018-merze-tate-award-recipient/…
Volha Charnysh PhD graduate won the Best Dissertation award from the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, for “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland”
Volha Charnysh PhD graduate won the Best Dissertation award from the APSA Migration & Citizenship Section, for “Migration, Diversity, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland”…
Professor Matthew Blackwell, together with Avidit Acharya and Maya Sen, recently published Deep Roots
Professor Matthew Blackwell, together with Avidit Acharya and Maya Sen, recently published Deep Roots. How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics (Princeton, 2018). The book explores the lasting effects of slavery on contemporary political attitudes in the American South….
Professor Kenneth Shepsle has been named one of the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for 2018
Professor Kenneth Shepslehas been named one of the Walter Channing Cabot Fellows for 2018. Walter Channing Cabot Fellow fellowships are given annually to few faculty in recognition of their achievements and scholarly eminence in the fields of literature, history or art. The award reflects Professor Shepsle’s outstanding contributions to his field, including the publication of hisrecent…
Professor Jon Rogowski’s and Aaron Kaufman’s 2017 APSA conference paper “Interbranch Conflict, Unilateral Action, and the Presidency” is the recipient of APSA Section Presidential and Executive Politics’ 2018 Founders Best Paper Award
Professor Jon Rogowski’s and Aaron Kaufman’s 2017 APSA conference paper “Interbranch Conflict, Unilateral Action, and the Presidency” is the recipient of APSA Section Presidential and Executive Politics’ 2018 Founders Best Paper Award Honoring Dom Bonafede….
Sandel wins Asturias Award “The Harvard Gazette” article
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/06/michael-sandel-wins-astur… Political philosophy professor praised as “exemplary figure in the public use of reason in the search for truth”…
Professor Daniel Ziblatt is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Woodrow Wilson Award
Professor Daniel Ziblatt is the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s 2018 Woodrow Wilson Award, which is awarded annually for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs, for his book Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy…
The following dissertation prizes were announced at the department’s doctoral cocktail party on May 23
The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace was awarded to Madhav Khosla for his dissertation, “Modern Constitutionalism and the Indian Founding” The two Senator Charles Sumner Prizes for the best dissertations “from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic approach, dealing with any means…
Shanna Weitz: 2018 Derek C. Bok Award Citation
https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/stories/shanna-weitz-2018-derek-c-bok-award-citation…
Government Hoopes Prize Winners 2018
May 3, 2018 Marie Becker ’18, Sally Marsh ’18, Yousra Neberai ’18, and Caroline Tervo ’18 have won the Hoopes Thesis Prize. Congratulations! Marie Becker, “The United Space: Transnational Expert Networks and Cooperation in Space between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. during the Cold War” Sally Marsh, “How Manistee Flipped: Understanding the 2016 Trump and Clinton Campaigns…