IGS is pleased to recognize our graduate students who will receive their PhDs in Political Science on May 14. All five have landed prestigious position in academia.

• Devin Caughey, Assistant Professor of Political Science, MIT
• Katie Galloway, Lecturer, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley
• Alex Theodoridis, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Merced
• Abby Wood, Assistant Professor of Law, USC School of Law
• John Hanley, Distinguished Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

New Gardner Fellow Zarko Perovic ('12) is featured in the recent edition of the Berkeleyan along with the other finalists for the University Medal. Read more about Zarko in the Berkeleyan and learn about the Gardner Fellowship on the program page. Congratulations Zarko!

Round two of the Berkeley-British Columbia Symposium co-sponsored by IGS took place last month in Vancouver. More than 30 international scholars and experts gathered at the University of British Columbia to analyze the impact of trade, border security, energy development and immigration on North American policy priorities. Read more about it here.

Please join us Friday, May 18 at noon in the IGS library (109 Moses Hall), for a special session of the Research Workshop on American Politics with authors Thomas Mann and Norm Ornstein. As always lunch will be served.
Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institution, have observed Washington politics for more than 40 years — and they're acclaimed for their carefully nonpartisan positions.
Now, they say, Congress is more dysfunctional than it has been since the Civil War, and they know who to blame.
"One of the two major parties, the Republican Party, has become an insurgent outlier — ideologically extreme; contemptuous of the inherited social and economic policy regime; scornful of compromise; unpersuaded by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition," they write in their new book, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism.
Books will be on sale at the event. To read more about their findings in advance please see their Washington Post editorial introducing the book, or check out the excerpt available from NPR.