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Victor Seow Wins Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History

August 3, 2023
Faculty Associate Victor Seow, associate professor of the history of science at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2023 Michael H. Hunt Prize for International History for his book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press). The prize committee deemed Seow’s book “to be a highly original study emphasizing the centrality of energy extraction to questions of international politics, war, and diplomacy.” The award was presented at the annual SHAFR (Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations) Conference.

Melani Cammett Receives 2023 Star-Friedman Challenge Award

July 31, 2023
Center Director Melani Cammett is among the recipients of the Star-Friedman Challenge for Promising Scientific Research, an award given annually through an endowment at Harvard University. The award offers opportunities for eligible faculty to seek support for new work in their research programs within the life, physical, and social sciences. Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, received the award for her project, “Toleration: Living Together After Ethnic Conflict.” 

Daniel Carpenter and Theda Skocpol Win APSA Career Awards

July 27, 2023
Faculty Associates Daniel Carpenter and Theda Skocpol each received a career award at the annual APSA (American Political Science Association) meeting and exhibition. Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University, received the 2023 John Gaus Award for a career of exemplary scholarship in the joint tradition of political science and public administration. Theda Skocpol, Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology at Harvard University, received the 2023 James Madison Award for an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.

Michael Herzfeld Receives Honorary Doctorate

July 7, 2023
Faculty Associate (emeritus) Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Research Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, was awarded an honorary doctorate—the degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa—at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Herzfeld was given this honor as he is one of the most influential anthropologists of the past fifty years, whose credentials stretch across disciplines and comparative area studies.  

New 2023–2024 Cohort for Weatherhead Scholars Program

June 23, 2023
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the 2023–2024 scholars and fellows of the Weatherhead Scholars Program (WSP). The twenty-seven members of the cohort consist of ten postdoctoral researchers, seven visiting scholars, and ten practitioner fellows. They hail from across the globe and across disciplines, including peace and conflict specialists from Afghanistan, Ireland, and Nigeria; career diplomats from Canada, Korea, and Poland; and researchers of urban design, migration, and economics. This year we are particularly pleased to announce the inaugural Moulay Hicham Alaoui Postdoctoral Fellow, Asmaa Elgamal, whose work will focus on Morocco’s colonial regime and contemporary green development. Read more in the press release. 

David Bloom receives Taeuber Award

May 1, 2023
Faculty Associate David Bloom, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 2023 Irene B. Taeuber Award. The Taeuber Award, given by the Population Association of America (PAA), recognizes “unusually original or important contributions to the scientific study of population and an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and innovative research.” Bloom, an economist and demographer, was recognized for his pioneering scientific contributions to the field of population studies.

Five Faculty Associates Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 27, 2023
Seventeen Harvard professors were elected to become members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023, and five of them are Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates: Amitabh Chandra (HKS, HBS); William C. Clark (HKS); Michèle Lamont (Sociology, African American Studies); Jacob Olupona (HDS, African American Studies); and Daniel Ziblatt (Government).

Diane Davis Named Fellow at CIFAR

April 21, 2023
Faculty Associate Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has been named a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). She will codirect a research program titled "Humanity's Urban Future,” which will consider how we can successfully plan for an urban future—a pressing question given how closely tied future humans are to living in cities. 

Gabriela Soto Laveaga Receives Best Article Prize from LASA

April 10, 2023
Faculty Associate Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University, won the Best Article in Social Sciences from the Mexico Section Awards 2023 from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Laveaga won the award for her article, “Beyond Borlaug's Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the Green Revolution,” published in Agricultural History in the fall of 2021. 

Robert Putnam Receives Talcott Parsons Prize

April 7, 2023
Former Center Director Robert D. Putnam, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, at Harvard Kennedy School, is the recipient of the Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for distinguished and original contributions to the social sciences. First awarded in 1974, the Talcott Parsons Prize was established to honor the noted sociologist and former president of the Academy. Putnam is only the second political scientist to receive this award, after Robert Dahl of Yale University, in 1977.