Adolf A. Berle and in the expansion of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1944. After the war, Berle served as Ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946. In October 1945, two days after the deposition of president Getulio Vargas, Berle pledged for the freedom of the Brazilian communists who were being incarcerated by the government since the beginning of the month. He then returned to his academic career at Columbia. Berle was a founding member of the New York State Liberal Party, a breakaway faction of the American Labor Party,
Jose Antonio Vargas given to an individual who for promotes Queer Studies in their work or activism. In 2017, Vargas received an honorary doctorate degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice. In 2018, the Mountain View Whisman school district voted to name a new elementary school after Vargas. In 2011, Vargas wrote an essay for "The New York Times Sunday Magazine" in which he revealed that he is an undocumented immigrant. He detailed how he came to discover this as a teenager and kept it hidden for almost 15 years, during which time he worked, paid taxes, and worried that his status