Professor Daniel N. Posner, Department of Political Science, is the subject of the YRL Faculty Exhibit for the month of October 2007. The YRL faculty exhibit is a monthly showcase highlighting recent exceptional achievement by UCLA North-campus faculty.
 
Daniel N. Posner is the recipient of two major awards of recognition for his book, Institutions and Ethnic Politics in Africa (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
 
The 2006 Gregory M. Luebbert Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association (APSA) Organized Section in Comparative Politics, honors Posner for the best book in comparative politics published in the previous two years. The book also won the prize for best African politics book, awarded by the African Politics Conference Group at the 2006 African Studies Association annual meeting. In addition, it was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2006.
 
Posner's research focuses on the broad areas of ethnic politics, political change, and the political economy of development in Africa. His paper The Political Salience of Cultural Difference won the 2004 Sage Paper Award for best paper in comparative politics presented at the 2003 APSA annual meeting. His Harvard University dissertation, The Institutional Origins of Ethnic Politics in Zambia, won the 1999 Gabriel Almond Award, given by APSA for the best doctoral dissertation in comparative politics in the previous two years. He has been a National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as well as a Carnegie Scholar.
 
Posner directs the UCLA Global Fellows Program. He has served as organizer of the UCLA Comparative Politics Workshop and is a founding member of the inter-institutional Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes. He co-founded and organizes the Working Group in African Political Economy, a forum for West Coast-based faculty and advanced graduate students in political science and economics who combine in-depth field research in Africa with training in political economy methods. He serves on the faculty advisory committee of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center and is a member of the advisory board of the Minorities at Risk Project. Early in 2007 he was invited to teach at the Afrobarometer Summer School in Cape Town, South Africa.
 
A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Politics, 2005-07, Posner is currently co-editor of the American Political Science Review.
 
Hearty Congratulations!