News to celebrate:

• Sarah Daniel won a Reinhard Bendix/Allan Sharlin Fellowship to support her dissertation research.

• Johnathan Guy accepted an Assistant Professor position at Georgia Tech, starting Fall 2026.

• Sharik Laliwala won an NSF ACCESS grant to create usable datasets from India’s publicly-available voter rolls. Sharik also won a John Simpson Research Fellowship and a Global Democracy Commons grant to support his dissertation research.

• Isabella Montini and Alison Post’s working paper, “Pork Politics and Municipality Size: Evidence from Brazil” was discussed in one of the major Brazilian newspapers (Folha de S.Paolo) here and summarized in this Factiva piece.

• Isabella Montini won an APSA-NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant.

• Alison Post et al., “How Do Cyber-Risks Vary across Smart City Technologies?” Journal of Urban Technology, online.

• Chloe Prendergast won a John Simpson Research Fellowship in International and Area Studies.

• Ishana Ratan, Alison Post, et al. “Which Local Governments Adapt New Technology First? Agency Size and Organizational Champions for Open Transit Data,” Urban Affairs Review, online.