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.
PhD Alumni Sheharyar Imran was awarded the 2025 Best Pre-PhD Paper Award from the ISA Theory Section for his paper, “Wastelanding and the Colonial Ecology of Racial Capitalism: An Indo-Atlantic […]
Professor Adam Sheingate’s research team recently launched the Election Spending Dashboard, which provides public access to millions of campaign finance records from 2020 through October. Congratulations, Adam!
In a coauthored article in Foreign Affairs, titled “Targeted Killings Won’t Destroy Hezbollah,” Professor Sarah Parkinson argues that Israel’s assassinations of Hezbollah officials will backfire, as they have in the […]