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Three Faculty Associates Receive Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award

April 5, 2023
Every year, the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award is presented to one or more Harvard faculty members who provide excellent and exceptional mentorship to graduate students. Awards are given on the basis of nominations from students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This year, three of the five faculty members are Faculty Associates at the Center: Alisha C. Holland, associate professor of government; Mary D. Lewis, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History; and Gautam Rao, associate professor of economics. 

Jayita Sarkar Wins Honorable Mention for ISS Book Award

April 5, 2023
Former Visiting Scholar Jayita Sarkar, a senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Glasgow, received an honorable mention from the Global Development Section at the International Studies Association for her recent book, Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press). The awards are given to books with a scholarly concern with development and global justice working across a number of fields. 

Daniel Ziblatt Wins APSA Honorable Mention Award

March 30, 2023
Faculty Associate Daniel Ziblatt, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, received a Best Article Honorable Mention Award from the American Journal of Political Science. Ziblatt won the award with coresearcher Aditya Dasgupta, assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Merced, for their 2022 article, “Capital Meets Democracy: The Impact of Franchise Extension on Sovereign Bond Markets.” 

Victor Seow Wins John Whitney Hall Book Prize

March 16, 2023
Faculty Associate Victor Seow, assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, received the 2023 John Whitney Hall Book Prize for his recent book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press). Each year the prize is awarded at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference for an outstanding English language book published on Japan during the previous year.

Melani Cammett Appointed Honorary Professor to the Mitchell Institute

March 2, 2023
Center Director Melani Cammett, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, was appointed Honorary Professor to the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. The institute, housed at Queen’s University Belfast, awards this title to recognize and reward the contribution of individuals to teaching, research, and input through professional standing. 

New Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund

March 1, 2023

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund, made possible by a generous gift from Advisory Committee member Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah Alaoui of Morocco. The fund will support postdoctoral research on the Middle East/North Africa region, with a particular focus on climate change, for three one-year terms. Postdoctoral fellows will be selected through the Weatherhead Scholars Program application process, with a yearly deadline of November 1 of the preceding academic year. 

Dr. Hicham Alaoui, a staunch defender of human rights, democratic reform, and social movements, founded the Hicham Alaoui Foundation in 2009, a nonprofit private foundation supporting social science research on the Arab world at leading global universities, among other initiatives. In 2016–2018, Dr. Alaoui participated in the Weatherhead Fellows Program (now the Weatherhead Scholars Program). He earned his PhD at the University of Oxford, specializing in religion and democracy in the Middle East.

Marino Auffant Wins John McCain Dissertation Award

February 6, 2023
Former Graduate Student Associate Marino Auffant, now a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, won the 2023 John McCain Dissertation Award. The prize is awarded annually to up to two outstanding doctoral dissertations dealing with an aspect of transatlantic relations. Auffant was selected for his outstanding dissertation in the Department of History at Harvard University on the transformation of the world order during the 1970s due to the First Oil Shock.

Gbemisola Abiola Selected a Harvard Horizon Scholar

January 18, 2023
Graduate Student Associate Gbemisola Abiola is one of nine graduate students selected as a 2023 Harvard Horizons Scholar. As part of Harvard’s PhD community, each scholar receives in-depth mentoring on how to present their work effectively, which prepares them for a campus-wide symposium in Sanders Theatre every spring. 

Pippa Norris Wins Warren E. Miller Prize

December 13, 2022
Faculty Associate Pippa Norris, Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at Harvard Kennedy School, has won the 2022 Warren E. Miller Prize from the American Political Science Association (APSA) Section on Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior. The award is presented every two or three years for an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the elections, public opinion, and voting behavior field. APSA lauded her three decades of service to Harvard Kennedy School and her broad intellectual interests, which she has investigated in... Read more about Pippa Norris Wins Warren E. Miller Prize

Paul Chang Wins ASA Section Award for Outstanding Published Article

December 1, 2022
Faculty Associate Paul Chang, associate professor of sociology at Harvard University, is a corecipient of the 2022 Outstanding Published Article Award from the Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section of the American Sociological Association for his article with Kangsan Lee, titled “The Structure of Protest Cycles: Inspiration and Bridging in South Korea’s Democracy Movement.”