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.

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.

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 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.