# Of Note ## expand\_more ![Image of spiral staircase](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/wcfia/files/ofnote_cropped_web.gif?itok=Ca9h8_YY) ## New Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs is pleased to announce the Hicham Alaoui Fellowship Fund, made possible by a generous gift from Advisory Committee member Prince Moulay **Hicham Ben Abdallah Alaoui** of Morocco. The fund will support postdoctoral research on the Middle East/North Africa region, with a particular focus on climate change, for three one-year terms. Postdoctoral fellows will be selected through the Weatherhead Scholars Program application process, with a yearly deadline of November 1 of the preceding academic year. ## Melani Cammett Appointed Honorary Professor to the Mitchell Institute Center Director **Melani Cammett**, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University, was appointed Honorary Professor to the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. The institute, housed at Queen’s University Belfast, awards this title to recognize and reward the contribution of individuals to teaching, research, and input through professional standing. ## Gbemisola Abiola Selected a Harvard Horizon Scholar Graduate Student Associate **Gbemisola Abiola** is one of nine graduate students selected as a 2023 Harvard Horizons Scholar. As part of Harvard’s PhD community, each scholar receives in-depth mentoring on how to present their work effectively, which prepares them for a campus-wide symposium in Sanders Theatre every spring. ## Marino Auffant Wins John McCain Dissertation Award Former Graduate Student Associate **Marino Auffant**, now a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University, won the 2023 John McCain Dissertation Award. The prize is awarded annually to up to two outstanding doctoral dissertations dealing with an aspect of transatlantic relations. Auffant was selected for his outstanding dissertation in the Department of History at Harvard University on the transformation of the world order during the 1970s due to the First Oil Shock. ## Victor Seow Wins John Whitney Hall Book Prize Faculty Associate **Victor Seow**, assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University, received the 2023 John Whitney Hall Book Prize for his recent book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (University of Chicago Press). Each year the prize is awarded at the Association for Asian Studies annual conference for an outstanding English-language book published on Japan during the previous year. ## Daniel Ziblatt Wins APSA Honorable Mention Award Faculty Associate **Daniel Ziblatt**, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard University, received a Best Article Honorable Mention Award from the American Journal of Political Science. Ziblatt won the award with coresearcher Aditya Dasgupta, assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Merced, for their 2022 article, “Capital Meets Democracy: The Impact of Franchise Extension on Sovereign Bond Markets.” ## Jayita Sarkar Wins Honorable Mention for ISS Book Award Former Visiting Scholar **Jayita Sarkar**, a senior lecturer in economic and social history at the University of Glasgow, received an honorable mention from the Global Development Section at the International Studies Association for her recent book, Ploughshares and Swords: India’s Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War (Cornell University Press). The awards are given to books with a scholarly concern with development and global justice working across a number of fields. ## Diane Davis Named Fellow at CIFAR Faculty Associate **Diane E. Davis**, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, has been named a Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR). She will codirect a research program titled "Humanity's Urban Future,” which will consider how we can successfully plan for an urban future—a pressing question given how closely tied future humans are to living in cities. ## Gabriela Soto Laveaga Receives Best Article Prize from LASA Faculty Associate **Gabriela Soto Laveaga**, Antonio Madero Professor for the Study of Mexico at Harvard University, won the Best Article in Social Sciences from the Mexico Section Awards 2023 from the Latin American Studies Association (LASA). Laveaga won the award for her article, “Beyond Borlaug's Shadow: Octavio Paz, Indian Farmers, and the Challenge of Narrating the Green Revolution,” published in Agricultural History in the fall of 2021. ## Five Faculty Associates Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Seventeen Harvard professors were elected to become members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2023, and five of them are Weatherhead Center Faculty Associates: **Amitabh Chandra** (HKS, HBS); **William C. Clark** (HKS); **Michèle Lamont** (Sociology, African American Studies); **Jacob Olupona** (HDS, African American Studies); and **Daniel Ziblatt** (Government). ## David Bloom Receives Taeuber Award Faculty Associate **David Bloom**, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, is the recipient of the 2023 Irene B. Taeuber Award. The Taeuber Award, given by the Population Association of America (PAA), recognizes “unusually original or important contributions to the scientific study of population and an accumulated record of exceptionally sound and innovative research.” Bloom, an economist and demographer, was recognized for his pioneering scientific contributions to the field of population studies. ## Robert Putnam Receives Talcott Parsons Prize Former Center Director **Robert D. Putnam**, Peter and Isabel Malkin Professor of Public Policy, Emeritus, at Harvard Kennedy School, is the recipient of the Talcott Parsons Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Sciences for distinguished and original contributions to the social sciences. First awarded in 1974, the Talcott Parsons Prize was established to honor the noted sociologist and former president of the Academy. Putnam is only the second political scientist to receive this award, after Robert Dahl of Yale University, in 1977. ## Three Faculty Associates Receive Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award Every year, the Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award is presented to one or more Harvard faculty members who provide excellent and exceptional mentorship to graduate students. Awards are given on the basis of nominations from students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. This year, three of the five faculty members are Faculty Associates at the Center: **Alisha C. Holland**, associate professor of government; **Mary D. Lewis**, Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History; and **Gautam Rao**, associate professor of economics. See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2023 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2023)