CGT News
October 1, 2009
Post-Doctoral Fellow Alison Post Receives William Anderson Award
Dr. Post is the 2009 recipient of the American Political Science Association's William Anderson Award for her dissertation, "Liquid Assets and Fluid Contracts: Explaining the Uneven Effects of Water and Sanitation Privatization." The Anderson award is given annually for the best dissertation in the general field of federalism or intergovernmental relations, state and local politics.
Alison Post studies comparative political economy, focusing on the politics of urban and regional development. In particular, her research examines the politics of regulating urban infrastructure investment in Latin America.
Post is Assistant Professor in the Global Metropolitan Studies program and Political Science Department at U.C. Berkeley. She served as a postdoctoral fellow with the Committee for Global Thought at Columbia University during the 2008-2009 academic year. She received her Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, and an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning from the London School of Economics and Political Science as a Marshall Scholar. She received her Bachelors degree in History from Stanford University.