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Kenneth Shepsle Wins William H. Riker Prize

December 4, 2023
Faculty Associate (emeritus) Kenneth Shepsle, George D. Markham Research Professor of Government at Harvard University, is the recipient of the William H. Riker Prize for Political Science. The award honors a social scientist in recognition of a body of research that exemplifies and advances the scientific study of politics in the spirit of William Riker. Shepsle received the prize for “advancing the scientific study of politics through research in the formal political theory of structure-induced equilibria, agenda setting and committees, and parliamentary institutions.”

Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way Win Juan Linz Best Book Prize

November 29, 2023
Faculty Associate Steven Levitsky, David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies at Harvard University, is the recipient (along with coauthor Lucan Way) of the 2023 Juan Linz Best Book Prize, Democracy & Autocracy section of the American Political Science Association, for the book Revolution and Dictatorship: The Violent Origins of Durable Authoritarianism (Princeton University Press). The book was also shortlisted for the 2023 Lionel Gelber Prize, a literary award for the world’s best nonfiction book in English on foreign affairs that seeks to deepen public debate on significant international issues.

Adriana Chira Wins James A. Rawley Prize

November 27, 2023
Former Postdoctoral Fellow Adriana Chira, now associate professor of Atlantic World history at Emory University, is the recipient of the 2023 James A. Rawley Prize for the book Patchwork Freedoms: Law, Slavery, and Race beyond Cuba’s Plantations (Cambridge University Press). The prize, awarded annually since 1998 through the American Historical Association, recognizes outstanding historical writing that explores aspects of integration of Atlantic worlds before the twentieth century. 

Student Eleanor Wikstrom Wins Rhodes Scholarship

November 20, 2023
Undergraduate Associate Eleanor Villafranca Wikstrom, from the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard College, is one of ten Harvard students named Rhodes Scholars this year. Created in 1902 through the will of Cecil Rhodes, Rhodes Scholarships cover all expenses for two or three years of study at Oxford. Wikstrom’s research focuses on the twentieth-century US system of English-only education in the Philippines as a form of epistemic colonialism. At Oxford, she will pursue studies in imperial and global history and in US history.

Marc Melitz Wins Onassis Prize 2023 in International Trade

November 1, 2023
Faculty Associate Marc Melitz, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University, is one of three world-leading academics to win the 2023 Onassis Prize in International Trade. Established in 1978 by Aristotle Onassis’s hand-written will, the Onassis Prizes recognize outstanding individuals and organizations across the fields of finance, international trade, and shipping—the three fields representing the areas in which Onassis himself excelled.

Victor Chu Wins Global Citizen Award from Atlantic Council

October 16, 2023
Advisory Committee Member Victor L.L. Chu, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, First Eastern Investment Group, received the 2023 Distinguished Service Award from the Atlantic Council. Held annually during the United Nations General Assembly week in New York, the Global Citizen Awards recognizes a vast array of global citizens, ranging from heads of state to world-renowned artists. Chu was among a distinguished group of honorees that included Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. 

Daniel Agbiboa Wins Two APSA Awards

September 18, 2023
Faculty Associate Daniel Agbiboa, assistant professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University, is the recipient of two 2023 awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA): the Clarence Stone Scholar Award for “making a significant contribution to the study of urban politics” (Urban and Local Politics Section) and the Politics & Gender Best Article Award (Women, Gender & Politics Section) for the article, “Out of the Shadows: The Women Countering Insurgency in Nigeria” published in Politics & Gender.... Read more about Daniel Agbiboa Wins Two APSA Awards

Four Faculty Associates Win Salata Institute Grants

September 12, 2023
The Salata Institute Seed Grant Program, launched this year at Harvard University to enable new interdisciplinary research in climate and sustainability, announced its first cohort of awards. Among the recipients are Faculty Associates Mina Cikara and Dustin Tingley for a project that focuses on communicating the benefits of climate action; Faculty Associate Rema Hanna for a project on studying electricity subsidies and consumption in a developing world; and former Center Director Michèle Lamont for a project on recognizing Indigenous claims for environmental justice. 

Welcome Message from Director Melani Cammett

August 21, 2023

Melani Cammett

Welcome to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University! 

We support pathbreaking research across the social sciences on the most important questions facing societies around the world. We leverage our deep pool of experts to bring their research to bear on complex global issues, and to translate that research into accessible and actionable knowledge.... Read more about Welcome Message from Director Melani Cammett

Ping-hsiu Alice Lin Receives IACS Dissertation Prize

August 8, 2023
Academy Scholar Ping-hsiu Alice Lin is the recipient of a dissertation prize from the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society for her dissertation titled, “Precious Economies: Gems and Value-Making in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Borderlands.” Lin’s research focuses on movement, labor, and associated practices that transform rough minerals into precious stones in the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands. 

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. 
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