April 12, 2005

Professor Peter Gourevitch Wins Multiple Honors Including A Guggenheim Fellowship And The Chancellor's Award For Excellence

By Paula Cichocka

Peter Gourevitch, professor at the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at UCSD, has been offered highly prestigious fellowships, for the 2005-06 academic year from The Russell Sage Foundation, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey.

Gourevitch has also been named as the recipient of the 2004-05 UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Award for Excellence in Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Last November, Professor Gourevitch received a grant from the Panta Rhea Foundation to study corporate social responsibility and institutional investors, and, in the Fall of 2004 a grant from UC Pacific Rim Research Program for projects on corporate governance in the Pacific region.

Gourevitch, the founding dean of IR/PS, is a political scientist who specializes in international relations and comparative politics. His focus is on political economy with an emphasis on international trade and economic globalization, trade disputes, and regulatory systems.

Gourevitch will be a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation in New York and a Guggenheim Fellow. Gourevitch will decline the fellowship for the Institute for Advanced Study. All three awards are among the most highly coveted in the United States, awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship.

The UCSD Chancellor's Associates Faculty Award for excellence in research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences recognizes innovative work on domestic politics and national economic policy symbolized by Gourevitch’s classic book Politics in Hard Times: Comparative Responses to International Economic Crises on different national responses to the global depression of 1929, his newest volume Political Power and Corporate Control: the New Global Politics of Corporate Governance on political explanations of why key countries in the world choose very different systems of corporate governance, and his contributions in the founding of IR/PS.

"It is a great honor to receive these awards,” said Gourevitch. “I am thrilled to get them and to have a chance to work on my project.” Furthermore, Dean Peter Cowhey remarked, “It is rare for a faculty member to win so many prestigious awards in one year. This is a great honor for Professor Gourevitch and IR/PS”

Media Contacts: Paula Cichocka, (858) 534 1465