Prerna Singh Awarded Max Planck-Humboldt Medal

Former Academy Scholar and Faculty Associate Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs and Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University, was awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal for her research on the development of welfare states in the Global South—specifically her research on vaccine hesitancy in India and China. Every year, the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation give the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award to a researcher from abroad. The prize, according to their website, is funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, and is awarded alternately to research projects in natural and engineering sciences, life sciences, and the humanities, social sciences, and human sciences.