Announcement of new Directors, UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies
May 12, 2021
It is with great pleasure that we announce Professor Susan Hyde and Associate Professor Daniel Sargent as the new directors of the UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies (IIS). Directors Hyde and Sargent’s appointment will begin on July 1, 2021.
Director Hyde is a well-respected expert on international election observation, election fraud, and democracy promotion. She is a Professor at the Department of Political Science and the Avice M. Saint Chair in Public Policy. She studies international influences on domestic politics, teaches courses on international relations and comparative politics, and is active in promoting policy-relevant research. Her research on election observation included serving on missions with several organizations in Afghanistan, Albania, Indonesia, Liberia, Nicaragua, Pakistan and Venezuela, and she has worked with the Carter Center, the National Democratic Institute, Democracy International, the International Republican Institute, and the International Foundation for Electoral Systems on democracy promotion issues and researching how democracy promoting organizations can evaluate the effects of their work.
She earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in 2006, was a professor at Yale University from 2006-2016, and held residential fellowships at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance. She was recognized with the Karl Deutch Award from the International Studies Association in 2018 and delivered the 2017 Linfield College commencement address, where she received her BA in 2000. From 2016-2018 she served a three year elected term as the Executive Director of the Evidence in Governance and Politics network. She currently serves on the editorial boards of International Organization, American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Experimental Political Science, and the Journal of Politics. In 2020-21, she served, together with Daniel Sargent, as interim director of IIS.
Director Sargent is as expert in U.S. foreign policy and the history of international relations. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, with a joint appointment at the Goldman School of Public Policy. His research has explored how states and decision makers adapt to long-term changes in their international environments, including the historical advance of globalization. He is presently interested in how the United States has strived, over the long arc of its history, to constitute and sustain international order, and he remains intrigued with how policymakers use historical and grand strategic concepts to inform the work of policymaking.
He earned a BA in History, with Double First‐Class Honors, at Cambridge University in 2001, an MA in History at Harvard University in 2003 and a Ph.D. in History at Harvard University in 2008. He has held pre-doctoral fellowships at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, both at Harvard. He was a Henry Chauncey Jr. ‘57 Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University from 2007–2008 and, in 2018-19, was the William C. Bark National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He joined the UC Berkeley Department of History in 2008 and has a joint appointment with the Goldman School of Public Policy since 2019. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award of the Division of Social Sciences at Berkeley. In 2017, he was recognized by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations with the Stuart L. Bernath Lecture Prize. In 2020-21, he served, together with Susan Hyde, as interim director of IIS.
We are very much looking forward to their continued leadership at IIS.
Randy Katz, Vice Chancellor for Research
Linda H. Rugg, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research