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Foreign Affairs article by Ph.D student Yuri Zhukov Trouble in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea - The Coming Dash for Gas in Foreign Affairs
Stability amid revolution in China Ph.D student Daniel Koss http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/stability-amid-revolution/...
Matt Blackwell (PhD, June 2012) has been selected as this year's recipient of the GSAS Richard J. Herrnstein prize.  
Daniela Cammack awarded "Best Paper by a Graduate Student at the NPSA Conference & 2012 NPSA Women's Caucus Award for the Best Paper by a Woman Political Scientist Paper Title "Aristotle on the Virtue of the Multitude"
Government Graduate Students who will receive a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for Spring 2012.   Government Graduate Students who will receive a Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching for Spring 2012.   ECON   970:  Evan Schnidman GOV    10: Jonathan Bruno GOV    90hu: Cosette Creamer
The research of Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. candidate, was featured at the LA Times for her findings on the origins of Mexico's drug-related violence. Viridiana Rios, Ph.D. candidate, and Michele Coscia, Ph.D. (HKS) have created maps of Mexican drug cartels' territories using their own automatized search algorithm, bringing together political and computer science to inform security policy debates.
Catherine Lena Kelly, Ph.D. candidate, recently published "Senegal: What Will Turnover Bring? Catherine Lena Kelly, Ph.D. candidate, recently published "Senegal: What Will Turnover Bring?" in the Journal of Democracy 23:3 (July 2012), 121-131.  She also wrote a column for the SSRC's African Futures project, entitled "Did the June 23 Protests Change Senegal?"
2011-2012 PhD Recipients Congratulations to our 2011-12 PhD recipients:   Andrew Beath, Matthew Blackwell, Amy Catalinac, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Katherine Einstein, Masha Hedberg, Vessela Hristova, Sean Ingham, Matthew Landauer, Jennifer Larson, Siddharth Mohandas, Michael Nitsch, Kira Petersen, Jonathan...
A North Korean Corleone Sheena Chestnut Greitens, a PhD candidate within the Government Department, has written the article "A North Korean Corleone,"which appeared in the New York Times Sunday Review on March 3, 2012.  
The 2010-11 dissertation prizes were announced at the Department of Government Doctoral Cocktail Party on May 25 The Edward M. Chase Prize for the best dissertation on a subject relating to the promotion of world peace is awarded to Heidi Brockmann for her dissertation, "The Budget Paradox: Simultaneous Stability and Volatility in the Army's Budget."