Dr. Alison Post

Biography

Alison Post is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She currently serves as Co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies program. Her research examines urban politics with themes including environmental policy and regulation, business-government relations, and the political economy of infrastructure. Post collaborates with engineers, urban planners, and public health scholars, focusing on research related to natural resource management and 'smart city' technology adoption, primarily in Latin America, India, and the United States. She is the author of 'Foreign Domestic Investment in Argentina: Politics of Privatized Infrastructure' (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and has published articles in numerous scholarly journals including the 'Annual Review of Political Science' and 'Governance'. She has received several awards, including the Clarence Stone Scholar award from the Urban Politics Section of the American Political Science Association and U.C. Berkeley's Carol D. Soc award for mentoring graduate students. Her doctoral dissertation received the 2009 William Anderson award from the American Political Science Association. Post has served as a Marshall Scholar and a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University and has held research positions in Argentina and Santiago.

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