This year’s Carolina de Miguel Moyer’s award honors Tommaso Pavone and Ana Catalano Weeks.
Tommaso Pavone has contributed to our understanding of the judicial and legal construction of Europe. Pavone (Princeton PhD ‘19) has delivered great scholarship and become a major referent in the field of EU Law and Politics. His work has been published in journals such as American Political Science Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Journal of European Public Policy, European Law Journal, and Law & Society. Pavone’s first book (The Ghostwriters: Lawyers and the Politics behind the Judicial Construction of Europe, CUP, 2022) is a tour-de-force, with all the ingredients of great scholarship. Pavone challenges the standard account of the Europeanization of law as resulting from the spontaneous mobilization of civil society litigants and national judges. Instead, he highlights the strategic mobilization of pro-European lawyers to motivate litigants and nudge judges into bringing cases to the European Court of Justice and thus advance the interpretation and application of European Law. Not surprisingly, this book has received several awards, including the Edward S. Corwin Award from the American Political Science Association. Coincidentally, Pavone currently holds a position as Assistant Professor in what turned out to be Carolina de Miguel’s last academic home, the department of Political Science at the University of Toronto.
Ana Catalano Weeks has made significant contributions to our understanding of gender dynamics in politics. Weeks (Harvard PhD ‘16) has quickly become a leading figure in the field of Politics and Gender, where Carolina also made some contributions. Her work has been published in prestigious journals such as the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Weeks’ contributions span three key areas. Her first book, Making Gender Salient: From Gender Quota Laws to Policy (CUP, 2022), offers an original examination of the consequences of gender quotas on the substantive representation of women. Additionally, she has explored the strategic reasons behind political parties’ voluntary adoption of gender quotas and has expanded this research to include corporate boards. Her second major area of research focuses on women in populist radical right parties. A third emerging research line investigates the political implications of the unequal distribution of mental load. This nascent, promising, and innovative research has significantly contributed to establishing Weeks as a prominent scholar in her field. Weeks’ work is characterized by its innovation, thoughtfulness, and robust argumentation. Two notable cross-cutting traits of her research are its multidisciplinary approach and the use of mixed methods. Indeed, her studies span political science, sociology, and gender studies, showcasing an impressive command of both qualitative and quantitative methods.
We look forward to what these two young scholars’ curious and creative minds will produce in coming years.
The award committee
- Laia Balcells Ventura (Chair, Georgetown University)
- Juan Diez Medrano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
- Robert Braun (UC Berkeley)
- Gema García Albacete (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
- Jordi Muñoz Mendoza (Universitat de Barcelona)
