Brown University political scientist Prerna Singh has been awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal, one of Germany’s premier scientific honors, for her research on the development of welfare states and her ongoing book project on vaccination hesitancy.
The award, endowed with 80,000 euros, will support Singh’s latest project on vaccination skepticism, which she is pursuing with colleagues at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and the Robert Koch Institute. Singh, a professor of political science and international studies, is the author of “How Solidarity Works for Welfare: Subnationalism and Social Development in India” (2015), widely recognized as a leading contribution to research on the role of solidarity in shaping social welfare policies.
The Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation will present the award Dec. 2 in Berlin. The medal, funded by Germany’s Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, is awarded annually to up to two researchers whose interdisciplinary work bridges the boundaries of the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.