The Department of Political Science provides training in American politics and law, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory.
The department's faculty has expertise on American and comparative politics, international relations, political theory, and more.
Our PhD program emphasizes training and experience in the research methods essential to developing new knowledge.
The undergraduate program offers a broad range of courses about politics and government at local, state, national, and international levels.
The Johns Hopkins Racial Politics Summer School (June 2-June 6 2025) The formal study of the relationship between the state and the market has long drawn the attention of scholars […]
Professor Inés Valdez has been awarded the 2025 T.V. Paul Best Book Award by the International Studies Association’s Global IR Section for her book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and […]
Professor Daniel Schlozman’s book, The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Princeton 2024), co-authored with Professor Sam Rosenfeld (Colgate University), was named a finalist for […]