Kathleen Thelen receives 2026 Gladys M Kammerer Award for “Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy”

Kathleen Thelen, Ford International Professor of Political Science and faculty director of MIT-Scandinavia, MIT-Germany, and MIT-Switzerland, received the 2026 Gladys M Kammerer Award from the American Political Science Association for “Attention, Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy."