Sheena Greitens’ (PhD graduate / Assistant Professor University of Missouri / Harvard Academy Fellow 2017-18) 2016 book, “Dictators and Their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence” is the co-winner (along with Jessica Stanton’s book (“Violence and Restraint in Civil War: Civilian Targeting in the Shadow of International Law”) of the 2017 International Studies Association’s…
Ranjit Lall PhD candidate has been awarded a Leamer-Rosenthal Prize for Open Social Science in the Emerging Researchers category
http://www.bitss.org/people/ranjit-lall/ 2017 Leamer-Rosenthal Prize Recipient — Emerging Researcher Ranjit Lall is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests are in the area of international political economy, with a focus on international institutions, global governance, financial regulation, and quantitative methods. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a…
The following Phd students were named as 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipients
The following Government Department Phd students were named as 2017-2018 APSA Minority Fellowship Program recipients. http://www.apsanet.org/mfp/2017_2018 Kaneesha Johnson Pamela Adaugo Nwakanma Shannon Parker…
Daniel Koss’s dissertation has been selected for the Walter Dean Burnham Best Dissertation Award of the section on History and Politics of the American Political Science Association
Daniel Koss’s dissertation, Where the Party Rules: Party-Based Authoritarianism and the Reach of the Chinese State has been selected for the Walter Dean Burnham Best Dissertation Award of the section on History and Politics of the American Political Science Association….
Yue “Iza” Ding’s dissertation has been selected for the Best Dissertation Award of the Section on Urban and Local Politics of the American Political Science Association
Yue “Iza” Ding’s dissertation, Invisible Sky, Visible State: Environmental Governance and Political Support in China, has been selected for the Best Dissertation Award of the Section on Urban and Local Politics of the American Political Science Association. …
PhD student, Jinyan Zang is a 2017 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship recipient
https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/jinyan-zang…
Ariel White, Noah Nathan and Julie Faller receive the 2016 Heinz Eulau Award for their article in APSR
http://www.politicalsciencenow.com/ariel-white-noah-nathan-and-julie-faller-receive-the-heinz-eulau-award-for-their-article-in-apsr/…