Graduate Administrator Susan Twarog and Mike Myers have won the 2008 Infinite Mile Award in the "Community Builder" and "Go-To Person" catergories, respectively.
Akshay Mangla has been awarded a 2008 NSEP Boren Fellowship for a year of research in India.
Gustavo Setrini has been awarded a Fulbright grant for study in Paraguay for the 2008-09 academic year.
Gustavo Setrini has received a summer internship grant from the MIT Project on Human Rights and Justice to pursue research on the Paraguayan peasant movement.
Kristin Fabbe won the award for best graduate student paper at the Association for the Study of Nationalities 2008 World Convention at Columbia University for her paper "Defining Minorities and Identities: Religious Categorization and State-Making Strategies in Greece and Turkey."
Professors Stephen Ansolabehere and Jim Snyder's new book, The End of Inequality: One Person, One Vote, and the Transformation of American Politics, has been published by W. W. Norton & Co.
Professor David Singer's article, "Monetary Institutions, Partisanship, and Inflation Targeting" (with Bumba Mukherjee) has been published in the latest issue of International Organization.
Professor David Singer received the 2008 Kellogg Award for best paper in comparative politics presented at last year's meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association.
Jonathan Rose has been selected to attend this summer's Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development and Globalization hosted by Joseph Stiglitz, Columbia University's Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) and University of Manchester's Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI).
Three students have been selected to receive Carroll L. Wilson awards: Gabi Kruks-Wisner, Akshay Mangla, and Jonas Nahm. The grant is for up to $6,000 awarded to graduate students, in any MIT department, who wish to pursue exciting and challenging research opportunities abroad.
Professor David Singer has been awarded a Visiting Scholar appointment at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for the 2008-9 academic year.
Paul Staniland has been selected as a 2008-9 predoctoral fellow in the International Security Program and Intrastate Conflict Program at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Caitlin Talmadge has been selected as a 2008-2009 Brookings Research Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies. She will work on her dissertation next academic year at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.
Professor Barry Posen was on NPR's "On Point" Tuesday, April 1, 2008, one of several guest commentators on the topic "Basra: Defining Moment?" Juan Cole, an SSP fellow, was also on this show. Click here to listen to the show.
Professor Stephen Van Evera was on Minnesota Public Radio's "Midday," Tuesday, April 1, 2008. The show was titled "Calm Returns to Iraq?" Click here to listen to the show.
Llewelyn Hughes and Paul Staniland have both been granted World Politics and Statecraft Fellowships from the Smith Richardson Foundation for dissertation research in 2008.
Professor Gabriel Lenz's article, "Reassessing the Role of Anxiety in Vote Choice" (with Jonathan Ladd), has been published in Political Psychology.
Watch Professor Stephen Ansolabehere's recent appearence on CNN talking about the 2008 election and the Clinton campaign's strategy.
Francisco Flores-Macias and Professor Chappell Lawson's article, "Effects of Interviewer Gender on Survey Responses: Findings from a Household Survey in Mexico," has just been published by the International Journal of Public Opinion Research.
Peter Krause received the Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace to attend the Middlebury College Arabic School this summer.
Professor Melissa Nobles' new book, The Politics of Official Apologies, has been published by Cambridge University Press.
Professors Stephen Ansolabehere and Charles Stewart have each been awarded major grants by the Pew Center and JEHT Foundation to study election administration in the U.S.; read the main press release here and read the complete list of projects here.
Professor Lily L. Tsai's new book, Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China, has been published in Cambridge University Press's Cambridge Studies on Comparative Politics.
Professor Richard Samuels' article, "'New Fighting Power!' Japan's Growing Maritime Capabilities and East Asian Security", and Professor Taylor Fravel's article, "Power Shifts and Escalation: Explaining China's Use of Force in Territorial Disputes", have been published in the latest issue of International Security.
Alumna Kelly M. Greenhill and Paul Staniland's article, "Ten Ways to Lose at Counterinsurgency" has been published in the December issue of Civil Wars.
Professor Barry Posen's article "The Case for Restraint" has been published in The American Interest.
Congratulations to Professor Andrea Campbell on her induction into the National Academy of Social Insurance.
Professor Adam Berinsky's article "Assuming the Costs of War: Events, Elites, and American Public Support for Military Conflict" has been published in the latest issue of Journal of Politics.
Alumna Rachel Gisselquist's project on African governance at Harvard is featured in a recent issue of The Economist.
Professor Andrea Campbell is featured in the latest Spectrum; the issue covers the impact of young faculty members at MIT.
Tech Talk recently profiled Stephanie Kaplan's research on the relationship between armed conflicts and terrorism (See page 5).
Also in Tech Talk (page 8), Middle East Education through Technology (MEET), co-founded by Anat Binur, sees its first student enroll in the class of 2011.
Paul Staniland's report, "The U.S., India, and the Gulf: Convergence or Divergence in a Post-Iraq World", from a Persian Gulf Initiative workshop, has been published on the CIS website.
We are sad to mark the passing of MIT alumnus and former professor Hayward Alker. Professor Alker taught at MIT from 1968 to 1995.
David Weinberg published an article on U.S. counterterrorism assistance to the Lebanese Armed Forces in the Lebanese newspaper, The Daily Star.
Boaz Atzili's dissertation, "Border Fixity: When Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors", has won the 2007 Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation in the field of international security. The award is given by the International Security and Arms Control Section of the American Political Science Association.
Vanda Felbab-Brown has won the APSA's 2007 Harold D. Laswell Award for the Best Dissertation in the Field of Public Policy! Her dissertation is entitled "Shooting Up: The Impact of Illicit Substances on Military Conflict."
Professor Stephen Ansolabehere has recently released results from a 2007 survey dealing with attitudes towards different energy sources, in particular nuclear energy, through The MIT Center for Advanced Nuclear Energy Systems.
Professor Stephen Van Evera has a new article in Middle East Policy entitled, "The War on Terror: Forgotten Lessons from WWII."
Chikako Ueki won the Lucian Pye Award for outstanding PhD thesis written in the department in the 2006-2007 academic year. Chikako's thesis, titled The Rise of "China Threat" Arguments, was supervised by Professor Barry Posen.
Congratulations to Professor Lily Tsai on winning the Sage Paper Award for the best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2006 American Political Science Association meeting. The title of the paper was "Informal Institutions, Accountability, and Public Goods Provision in Rural China".
Professor Lily Tsai's article, "Solidary Groups, Informal Accountability, and Local Public Goods Provision in Rural China" has been published in the May 2007 issue of the American Political Science Review.
Congratulations to Professors Stephen Ansolabehere and Jim Snyder for their election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Professor Stephen Van Evera has a new article in the MIT International Review entitled, "Iraq: Canary in a Coal Mine"
Professors Andrea Campbell and Kimberly Morgan were awarded a National Science Foundation grant for 2007-2009 for their study, "Do Policies Shape Mass Politics? The Impact of Medicare Reform on Senior Citizens' Attitudes and Political Participation."
Our Political Science Department website has been named one of the Top 300 Political Science Websites by the International Political Science Association. It is among 14 other websites in the Schools and Departments category. Good job, website!
Caitlin Talmadge and Michael Glosny have been selected as 2007-2008 fellows at Harvard's Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.
Christopher Lebron has been awarded a McWilliams Fellowship through University of Virginia's Miller Center for the 2007-2008 academic year. It supports dissertation completion.
Sarah Zukerman has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for 2007-2008 to Colombia to support her dissertation field work.
Alumnus David Miliband was named the United Kingdom's Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. He took a SM degree in February 1990 for his thesis; "Transitions from School to Work: Comparing Policies and Choosing Options for Vocational Education and Training."
Stephanie Kaplan has been selected as a 2007-2008 fellow at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START).
Kristin Fabbe has been awarded the NSEP Boren Graduate Fellowship for a year of research in Turkey.
Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch has accepted a fellowship for 2007-2008 with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. She also has an article in the June 2007 issue of Perspectives on Politics.
Austin Long and Llewelyn Hughes both have articles in the latest issue of International Security.
Sarah Zukerman has been awarded a Social Science Research Council dissertation research fellowship.
Professor Stephen Ansolabehere has an article on Slate.com entitled, "Ballot Bonanza: The first big survey of voter ID requirements and its surprising findings"
Greg Distelhorst received the Carroll L. Wilson Award to conduct research on the Internet and society in China this summer.
Kristin Fabbe has been awarded a fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey to spend the summer at Bogazici University in Istanbul.
Paul Staniland has been awarded a summer study grant from the MIT Center for International Studies and the Harvard Center for European Studies to conduct research on 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland.
Gustavo Setrini has been awarded a summer study grant from the MIT Center for International Studies to conduct research on the organic sugar industry in Paraguay.
Kelly Grieco received a Women in International Security (WIIS) Fellowship to participate in the WIIS/German Marshall Fund conference on "European Strategies and the German EU Presidency: The Way Ahead for Transatlantic Cooperation" in Berlin, Germany on April 26-27, 2007.
Congratulations to the Political Science Basketball Team for besting over 32 teams in an undefeated run to claim the IM championship title!
Clifford Bob, a Ph.D. graduate, has won the 2007 International Studies Best Book Award from the International Studies Association and a mention as a Top Book of 2006 by The Globalist online magazine for his book, Marketing of Rebellion.
Professor Roger Petersen's book Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe (2001) has been released in paperback.
Austin Long has authored a new book, On "Other War": Lessons from Five Decades of RAND Counterinsurgency Research.
Polimetrix, using survey work completed by the Public Opinion Research Training Lab (PORTL), and researchers at 30 universities, released results of the Cooperative Congressional Election Survey (CCES), designed to create a very large national survey for major 2006 elections at the Senate and Gubernatorial levels.
Scott Radnitz has accepted a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government. He has also won a postdoctoral followship at the Kennan Institute in Washington, DC for 2007-2008.
Neil Ruiz and his team, CentroMigrante, have won the Grand Prize of the MIT$100K Entrepreneurship Competition! CentroMigrante, Inc., combines developmental architecture with a self-help business model to offer a sustainable solution that provides clean, safe and affordable urban housing in the Philippines.
Joshua Rovner has won a Stanley Kaplan Postdoctoral Fellowship, a new program on foreign policy and international relations at Williams College.
Michael Glosny has published an article, "Heading toward a Win–Win Future? Recent Developments in China’s Policy toward Southeast Asia" (pdf) in Asian Security. He has also won a Predoctoral Fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government.
Vanda Felbab-Brown has won a Predoctoral Research Fellowship in Foreign Policy at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC for 2006-2007.
Daniel Barclay, Josh Geltman, and Ravi Gupta have received the Summer 2006 Jeffrey L. Pressman Awards, awarded to undergraduates for use during the summer to undertake a special project or internship in US government, politics or policy.
Vanda Felbab-Brown's op-ed, Hasty poppy eradication in Afghanistan can sow more problems has been published in the Christian Science Monitor (March 23, 2006).
Akshay Mangla is the 2006 Ithiel de Sola Poole Fellow. The fellowship is awarded annually to an outstanding first year PhD student.
Dan Breznitz has won second prize in the Sloan Industries Studies Dissertation Award for his dissertation, "Innovation and the State - Development Strategies for High Technology Industries in a World of Fragmented Production: Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan." He received his PhD from MIT in 2005.
Vanda Felbab-Brown's op-ed, Asia's role in the illicit trade of wildlife has been published in the Boston Globe (March 20, 2006).
Nichole Argo was interviewed on "Rethinking Religion and Terror," on Chicago Public Radio's Worldview. You can listen to the show here.
Neil Ruiz received a Predoctoral Research Fellowship at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC for 2006-2007. He will be based at the Brookings' new Center for Global Economy and Development.
Boaz Atzili has won a postdoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.
Professor Eugene Skolnikoff delivered the 4th Annual Amilcar Herrera Lecture: "Climate Change: A Political Quagmire?", in Maastricht, November 8, 2005.
Professors Andrea Campbell and Kimberly Morgan were awarded a Health Policy Investigators Award for 2006-2008 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for their study, "The Medicare Modernization Act of 2003: Ideologies, Interests, and Policy Feedbacks in the Contemporary Politics of Medicare". The first paper from this project is available here.
Professor Adam Berinsky's book, Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America (2004), has been released in paperback.