The Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, Bolivia's longest established university, has awarded an honorary degree to LUISS Provost in Charge of Research, Leonardo Morlino.
This award recognizes "the entirety of his work in the democratization process, and in particular for his research on the quality of democracy in Latin American and Europe, for which he has received numerous international awards."
In honor of these contrbutions, Brazilian Association of Political Science and the Mexican Association of Poltical Science named Professor Merlino Guillermo O'Donnell Professor for 2015. The Professorship was established to memorialize one of the most influential experts of Latin American of the most recent decades and is annually awarded to a scholar who has made an exceptional contribution to knowledge of the region's politics. In the first week of June, Professor Morlino spoke at conferences in Belo Horizonte and Rio de Janeiro to launch his appointment.
For Professor Morlino, this was only the most recent in a series of awards. In 2012 Professor Morlino received an honorary degree from Peru's Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in addition to an award from the Cilean Association of Political Science for his work on democracy. In 2011 he received an honorary degree in Bucarest, as he did in 2010 in Buenos Aires, where he was also awarded honorary citizenship. From 2009 until 2012, he was the first Italian to be elected to the Board of the International Political Science Association.
