Professor Isabela Mares has been award a Fellowship from the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) Berlin for the the 2025-2026 Academic Year.
Each year, the Wissenschaftskolleg invites about 40 Fellows and Short-term Fellows. The Wissenschaftskolleg seeks to compose a Fellow class that is greater than the sum of its individual members. To this end it invites outstanding researchers from all disciplines and all parts of the world to spend a research year in Berlin. Ideally, a Fellowship increases the probability of serendipitous discoveries through informal encounters with the other scholars and their projects. This goal is the guiding principle of the selection process.
Her work involves investigating how mainstream political parties can respond to and contain parliamentary disruption initiated by extremist parties by conducting a comparative historical analysis of political developments in France and Germany, from the Weimar Republic and the French Third and Fourth Republics to the present day and developing a typology of parliamentary defense strategies.