2025 Percy Synar Award

January 28, 2025

ISSI Graduate Fellow Ángel Mendiola Ross is being awarded the Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowship from the Institute of Governmental Studies for their project “Suburban Dreams Deferred: Prison Proliferation in the Post-Civil Rights U.S." The Institute awards three Mike Synar Graduate Research Fellowships of $3,000 each to distinguished UC Berkeley graduate students who write their dissertations on an aspect of American politics, which may include comparative research across nations with the United States as a major case.