May 17, 2021
Five of the up-and-coming scholars who constituted the 2020-2021 cohort of postdoctoral fellows are off to new academic positions in the United States, Europe, and Israel. While they were here, they took full advantage of the opportunity to research, write, and teach that the fellowship affords.
“The fellowship gave me the time to finish up a number of projects I had been working on during my PhD, as well as start some new ones,” says Jori Breslawski, a political scientist. “Some of the projects I am most excited about examine the factors behind armed groups behavior toward humanitarians. I have been conducting interviews with humanitarian practitioners who have worked in violent contexts, for which my colleagues at the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies have been a great help!” She also managed to write several articles, which are currently under review, and realized her goal of publishing more for the general public.
Kathleen Thelen, professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been honored with the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology. The Friedrich Schiedel-Stiftung, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Bavarian School of Public Policy at TUM award the prize annually to outstanding personalities who have contributed to the understanding of the mutual interactions between politics, society and technology. Thelen is the author of many important works on the regulation of new technologies and major technology companies.
Kathleen Thelen works in the field of comparative political economy, where she concentrates on the origins and evolution of political-economic institutions in rich democracies. In the past few years she has pursued an important research agenda on the governance of new technologies, in particular addressing the question of how large technology companies can be regulated. Her widely acclaimed publications in