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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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. 

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

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.” 

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. 

Faculty Associate Ellis Monk, associate professor of sociology at Harvard University, is one of the recipients of the 2022 New Innovator Awards. Part of the High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the award supports exceptionally creative early career investigators who propose innovative, high-impact projects in the biomedical, behavioral, or social sciences within the National Institute of Health mission. Monk received the award for his project, “The Optics of Health: Race Skin Tone Minority Health and Health Disparities in the US.” 

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

Former Graduate Student Associate Yeling Tan, now an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon, is the recipient of the 2022 Peter Katzenstein Book Prize for her book, Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order (Cornell University Press, 2021). The Katzenstein Prize, in honor of Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter, Jr. Professor of International Studies at Cornell University, recognizes an outstanding first book in international relations, comparative politics, or political economy.   

Faculty Associate Daniel Carpenter, Allie S. Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University, is the recipient of two book awards for his recent book, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). He won the 2022 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, given by the Politics and History Section of the American Political Science Association, which recognizes the best book in history and politics in the past two calendar years. He also won the 2022 James P. Hanlan Book Award, given by the New England Historical Association, which... Read more about Daniel Carpenter Wins Two 2022 Book Prizes

Faculty Associate Emma Rothschild, Jeremy and Jane Knowles Professor of History at Harvard University, is the recipient of the 2022 Leo Gershoy Award for her recent book, An Infinite History: The Story of a Family in France over Three Centuries (Princeton University Press, 2021). The prize, distributed by the American Historical Association, is awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding work published in English on any aspect of the fields of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century western European history. 

Faculty Associate Panagiotis Roilos, George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and professor of comparative literature at Harvard University, was recently elected president of the European Cultural Center of Delphi, a major cultural center in Europe, which functions under the auspices of—and in collaboration with—the European Council and the Greek Ministry of Culture. The mission of the Center is "to support exchanges of international cultural interest and to promote the common cultural values that unite the peoples of Europe through the advancement of scholarship on European culture... Read more about Panagiotis Roilos Appointed as President of the European Cultural Center of Delphi

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is a diverse community of over 400 students, staff, visiting scholars, and faculty who are dedicated to social science research. This diversity makes us strong, and we are committed to a set of community values that help shape our decisions both large and small. We invite you to read our values statement, a working document thoughtfully crafted by the new Standing Committee on Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (EDIB). 

Welcome to the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University! Our community of scholars researches complex international, transnational, global, and comparative topics at the frontier of the social sciences. We aim to support research on the most important questions facing societies across the globe. 

We are a large Center: our community spans twelve of Harvard’s fourteen schools and our affiliates include more than 200 Harvard faculty and over 150 graduate and undergraduate students, visiting scholars, fellows, and postdoctoral researchers. We offer our affiliates numerous opportunities to exchange ideas about their research as we maintain our tradition of theoretical and methodological pluralism.... Read more about Welcome Message from Acting Director Erez Manela