Rochelle Terman received 2025 Dean’s Early Career Research Award

By Aubrey Christofersen

The 2025 winner of the Annual Dean’s Early Career Research Award has been announced as Assistant Professor Rochelle Terman of the Department of Political Science. Now in its third year, the award is supported through a fund created by an anonymous donor in 2022, and serves to recognize faculty who, at the time of renewal as assistant professor, show outstanding accomplishments and promising research.

“Rochelle exemplifies the research, teaching, and mentoring that help define our culture of excellence and uncompromising scholarship,” said Amanda Woodward, Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences and William S. Gray Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology. “I am delighted she can be recognized with this award and grateful to the generosity of the donor who made this possible.”

Rochelle Terman
Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science

Rochelle Terman’s research is specialized in international norms and human rights. Her first book, The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works–and When it Backfires, was published in 2023 with Princeton University Press. Terman has also produced work focused on gender, Islamophobia, and computational social science. She is a faculty affiliate with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Center for the Study of Gender & Sexuality, the Committee on International Relations, and the Program on Computational Social Science. 

Terman earned BA from the University of Chicago and PhD in Political Science with a designated emphasis in Gender & Women’s Studies from the University of California, Berkely. Prior to joining the University, she was a post-doc at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation.