The David M. Howard Memorial Prize in American Politics recognizes outstanding achievement in graduate research in public policy, political behavior, or public opinion in the U.S. broadly understood.
Each year, IGS selects one UC Berkeley Ph.D. candidate (who is ABD) to receive the award, which includes a cash prize of $2,000.
Alexander Agadjanian is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include race and identity, political psychology, and political behavior, largely in the United States.
His core dissertation work centers on the intersection of politics and “racial fluidity,” which reconceptualizes racial identity as flexible and responsive to external factors. Focusing on rapidly growing groups with ambiguous positions in the racial hierarchy such as Hispanic and multiracial Americans, he explores changes in racial identification, how sociopolitical factors can shape this identity change, and what a bidirectional relationship between politics and racial identity means for how we understand group politics and American society.
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