Spotlight on Scholars and Alumni

Rob Mickey (Cohort 13 – Berkeley/UCSF) was awarded the American Political Science Association's 2006 E. E. Schattschneider Prize for best dissertation in American politics for his research, "Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in America's Deep South, 1944-1972." Dr. Mickey is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan and is currently on leave while participating in the Program.

Naomi Murakawa (Cohort 13 – Berkeley/UCSF) was awarded the 2006 Dissertation Prize by the Law and Society Association and the 2006 Best Dissertation Award by the Race, Ethnicity and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association for her research, "Electing to Punish: Congress, Race, and the American Criminal Justice State," which examines the determinants of increasingly punitive federal crime policy. Dr. Murakawa is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington and is presently on leave while participating in the Program.

Jeb Barnes (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) received the 2007 Raubenheimer Award for Outstanding Junior Faculty, Campus Teaching Award from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California

Jeb Barnes (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) and Tom Burke (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF) coauthored “The Diffusion of Rights: From Rights on the Books to Organizational Rights Practices,” Law and Society Review (Fall 2006). Dr. Barnes is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California and Dr. Burke is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College.

Mark Sawyer (Cohort 10 – Berkeley/UCSF) received the 2007 Ralph J. Bunche Award from the American Political Science Association and also the W.E.B. DuBois Best Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists for his book, Racial Politics in Post-Revolutionary Cuba. Dr. Sawyer is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Adam Sheingate (Cohort 9 – Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Associate Professor of Political Science with tenure at Johns Hopkins University.

Christopher Bonastia (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF), has authored "The Historical Trajectory of Civil Rights Enforcement in Health Care," Journal of Policy History (2006). Dr. Bonastia is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Lehman College, The City University of New York.

Dino Falaschetti (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF) is spending fall 2007 as a National Fellow in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  In spring 2008, he will move to Florida State University, where he will be an Associate Professor in the College of Law.

Jonah Gelbach (Cohort 8 – Berkeley/UCSF) has moved to the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, where he is an Associate Professor of Economics.

Michele Berger (Cohort 7 – Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Curriculum in Women’s Studies at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is also an adjunct faculty member at UNC’s Department of Political Science.

Carol Caronna (Cohort 7 – Berkeley/UCSF) has authored "Turning Identity into Form: The Cause and Consequence for Kaiser Permanente of Becoming an HMO," in The Sociology of Entrepreneurship, part of the Research in the Sociology of Organizations series (Elsevier Press, 2007). Dr. Caronna is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice at Towson University.

Taeku Lee (Cohort 6 – Yale) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Political Science at the University of California – Berkeley, and has been appointed Director of the Center on the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at Berkeley.

Ted Gayer (Cohort 6 – Berkeley/UCSF) has taken a temporary leave of absence from his position as Associate Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Microeconomic Analysis in the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

David Pellow (Cohort 5 – Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California – San Diego. He is co-editor (with Ted Smith and David Sonnenfeld) of Challenging the Chip: Labor Rights and Environmental Justice in the Global Electronics Industry (Temple University Press, 2006).

John Wilkerson (Cohort 1 – Berkeley/UCSF) and co-authors Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner received the 2007 Best Instructional Political Science Web Site Award from the American Political Science Association for their website, “Policy Agendas Project” (http://www.policyagendas.org/). Dr. Wilkerson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington .

Kelly Devers (Cohort 1 – Berkeley/UCSF) has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Departments of Health Administration and Family Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University. She also has been appointed to the editorial board of Medical Care Research and Review and is a member of the editorial board of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety.