# Of Note ## expand\_more ![Close-up of one yellow flower against a background of green leaves with a yellow W overlaid.](/sites/g/files/omnuum8891/files/styles/hwp_1_1__960x960_scale/public/wcfia/files/of_note_header-spring2024-800x225px.png?itok=AHakABZ_) ## Dustin Tingley Wins American Energy Book Award Faculty Associate **Dustin Tingley**, professor of government at Harvard University, is the recipient of a 2023 Energy Award for “Best Book, The Energy Market Economy” for proposing credible market-based solutions in support of an energy transition in his book, *Uncertain Futures: How to Unlock the Climate Impasse* (Cambridge University Press). Each year, the American Energy Society spotlights the most extraordinary contributions to energy and sustainability in the categories people, media, technology, innovations, markets, the arts, and more. ## Jayita Sarkar Wins Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize Former Visiting Scholar **Jayita Sarkar**, associate professor of global history of inequalities at the University of Glasgow’s School of Social and Political Sciences, is the recipient of the 2024 Bernard S. Cohn Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies. The prize is awarded to the most original and innovative first books on South Asia. Sarkar’s book, *Ploughshares and Swords: India's Nuclear Program in the Global Cold War* (Cornell University Press), also has received an honorable mention for the Global Development Studies Book Award offered by the International Studies Association. ## Ellen Nye Wins Herman E. Krooss Prize Academy Scholar **Ellen Nye**, who holds a PhD from the Department of History at Yale University, is the winner of the Herman E. Krooss Prize for Best Dissertation in Business History for her dissertation titled “Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670–1720.” The prize was offered by the Business History Conference, a scholarly organization devoted to encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching about business history and about the environment in which businesses operate. ## Akshay Mangla Receives WJM Mackenzie Book Prize Former Faculty Associate **Akshay Mangla**, associate professor of international business at Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford, is the recipient of the 2024 WJM Mackenze Book Prize for his book, *Making Bureaucracy Work: Norms, Education and Public Service Delivery in Rural India* (Cambridge University Press). The prize, given out since 1987, is awarded by the Political Studies Association. The award recognizes the best book published in the field of political studies and is honored for its ability to make a major contribution to the field and inspire debates in and beyond the field. ## Daniel Aldrich Wins Outstanding Teaching Award Former Graduate Student Associate and Postdoctoral Fellow **Daniel Aldrich**, professor of political science at Northeastern University, is one of four recipients of the 2023–24 Outstanding Teaching Awards at Northeastern University’s College of Social Sciences and Humanities. The award praises Aldrich, an instructor at Northeastern for the past seven years, for consistently demonstrating a passion and enthusiasm for teaching and a willingness to go the extra mile in and out of the classroom. ## Ya-Wen Lei Wins Axiom Business Book Award Faculty Associate **Ya-Wen Lei,** professor of sociology at Harvard University, is the bronze winner in the International Business / Globalization section of the Axiom Business Book Awards for her book, *The Gilded Cage: Technology, Development, and State Capitalism in China* (Princeton University Press). The awards are intended to bring recognition to exemplary business books and their authors. ## Christina Davis Recognized for Two Awards Faculty Associate **Christina Davis**, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics at Harvard University, received the Foreign Minister's Commendation in an award ceremony at the Consulate-General of Japan in Boston. Consul General Suzuki presented the award to Davis for her work in promoting Japanese studies in the United States as well as teaching young leaders who will lead Japan's next generation. Davis also received the Society for Women in International Political Economy (SWIPE) Award for mentoring women in the field of international political economy, from the International Studies Association. ## Alisha Holland Wins Lemann Brazil Research Fund Award Faculty Associate **Alisha Holland**, associate professor of government at Harvard University, is the recipient of a 2024 Lemann Brazil Research Fund award for a project titled “The Contracting State: How Private Contractors Affect Public Policy and Political Parties in Brazil.” The funding award is given by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs at Harvard University. Established in 2016 by a generous gift from the Lemann Foundation, the Lemann Brazil Research Fund “supports Brazil-related research in all areas related to education, as well as research in any other disciplinary area undertaken with a Brazilian colleague.” ## Lawrence D. Bobo Assumes American Institutes for Research Board Leadership Position Faculty Associate **Lawrence D. Bobo**, dean of the Division of Social Science and W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, is the new chair of the American Institutes for Research (AIR) Board of Directors. The organization is one of the world’s oldest and largest behavioral and social science institutions, where Bobo has been a member since 1997. He most recently served as vice chair, and is now the first African American to chair the board. ## Multiple Weatherhead Affiliates Chosen for Motsepe Presidential Research Fund Award Seven projects have been selected as the 2024 awardees for the Motsepe Presidential Research Accelerator Fund for Africa, distributed by the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the Harvard University Center for African Studies. Many of the awardees are Weatherhead Center affiliates, including Faculty Associates **Daniel Agbiboa** (for “Towards a Cocoa Producer-Focused Climate Policy in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana”), **Kevin Croke** (for “Service Delivery Redesign for Maternal and Newborn Health in Kakamega County, Kenya”), **Gareth Doherty** (for “Holy Places and Shaded Spaces: Imagining a Role for Religious Spaces in Climate Change Adaptation across Four African Cities”), **Doris Sommer** and former Graduate Student Associate **Tom Osborn** (for “Expanding Mental Health Interventions for Kenyan Youth: Scaling Up the Pre-Texts Arts-Literacy Intervention”), and **Lucie White** (for “A University of Ghana/Harvard Law School Agricultural Justice Clinic: Challenge and Opportunity”). ## Rosie Bsheer Wins Mendelsohn Award Faculty Associate **Rosie Bsheer**, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of History at Harvard University, is a recipient of the 2023–2024 Everett Mendelsohn Excellence in Mentoring Award, presented annually to one or more Harvard faculty members on the basis of nominations from Harvard Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) students. This year was the twenty-fifth anniversary of the award, where “a selection committee reviews nominations from GSAS students in order to highlight for the entire Harvard community faculty members who provide excellent and exceptional mentorship to graduate students.” ## Two Faculty Associates Secure Funding for Climate Research The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability at Harvard University recently announced seed grant awards for research projects on climate and sustainability. Faculty Associate **Hannah Teicher**, assistant professor of urban planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, received the award for her project titled “Adaptive Climate Migration: A Case Study of Resettlement from the Solomon Islands to Canada.” Faculty Associate **Michael McElroy**, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, received the award for his project titled “International Workshop on Climate-Resilient Development in Southeast Asia.” ## Kim Lane Scheppele Wins Guggenheim Fellowships Advisory Committee Member **Kim Lane Scheppele**, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University, received a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship and joins a class of 188 Fellows in fifty-two fields. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation offers fellowships to “exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.” ## Two Affiliates Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences Faculty Associate **Pol Antràs**, Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard University, has been elected to the 2024 class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The organization was founded in 1780 “to help a young nation face its challenges through shared purpose, knowledge, and ideas.” The 250 members elected this year are recognized for their excellence and invited to uphold the organization’s mission of engaging across disciplines and divides. Also in this year’s class is former Faculty Associate **Alexandra (Sasha) Killewald**, professor of sociology and the Robert F. Schoeni Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. See also:- [ Centerpiece: Spring 2024 ](/newsletter-issues/centerpiece-spring-2024)