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.

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).

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.” 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

Faculty Associate Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, has been conferred the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon by the Government of Japan. She is honored for her contributions to the field of Japanese studies. The citation also commends Brinton’s observations and insightful arguments of Japanese society, including her research on labor markets and gender mainstreaming measures, which have had impact not only on Japanese scholars but also on policy makers and the broader public.

Faculty Associate Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield Professor of International Peace at Harvard University, received the 2022 Career Achievement Award at the annual conference hosted by the International Political Economy Society (IPES). Every year IPES provides an annual forum for scholars of international political economy to present their best new work in progress to an informed and critical scholarly audience. 

Former Visiting Fellow Zach Sell, now an assistant professor in the history of slavery at the University of Notre Dame, is the recipient of the 2022 Paul E. Lovejoy Prize for excellence and originality in a major work on any theme related to global slavery published in 2021. The Journal of Global Slavery jury unanimously decided to award the prize to Sell for his book, Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital (University of North Carolina Press, 2021). The Paul E. Lovejoy Prize is named after the esteemed slavery scholar and distinguished professor of African... Read more about Zach Sell Wins Paul E. Lovejoy Prize

Among the thirteen Harvard faculty members awarded 2022 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships for their outstanding publications are three Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates: Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government, for Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021); Serhii Plokhii, Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, for Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Norton, 2021); and Victor Seow, assistant professor of the history of science, for Carbon Technocracy:... Read more about Three Faculty Associates Awarded 2022 Walter Channing Cabot Fellowships

Associate Robert Paarlberg, Betty F. Johnson ‘44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Wellesley College, is one of the gold winners of the 2022 Nautilus Book Awards in the Green, Restorative Practices/Sustainability category, for his book, Resetting the Table: Straight Talk About the Food We Grow and Eat (Alfred A. Knopf, 2021). Nautilus Book Awards recognize books that promote spiritual growth, conscious living and sustainability, high-level wellness, and positive social change and social justice as they stimulate the imagination and inspire the reader to new possibilities for... Read more about Robert Paarberg Wins Nautilus Book Award