Political Science | Johns Hopkins University

June 5, 2023

Colonel Joe Becker is filling a critical gap as the Defense Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City.

Colonel, U.S. Army, Joe Becker, former Political Science Department PhD student, assigned to the Department of State, filling a critical gap as the Defense Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City. See Joe in footage from an interview for a Defense Attaché Service recruiting and promotional video. https://youtu.be/CHxgwyiX3HA

May 29, 2023

Justice for All?

Political scientist and sociologist Vesla Weaver is spending her career listening to and researching the voices of a sizable group of people whose experience of democracy, citizenship, and government is completely different from that of those not living under police surveillance.

April 25, 2023

Vesla Weaver quoted in Arts & Sciences Weekly

“[W]hen you go through them one by one by one, they raise complex and genuine questions like ‘What is the meaning of punishment?’ and ‘What is freedom?'” —Vesla Mae Weaver, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, on the more than 3,300 first-person narratives of the American Prison Writing Archive, which describes life and...

The Department of Political Science

Explore JHU

Inside the Krieger School

Student & Faculty Resources

Across Campus

The Department of Political Science

Global Dimensions

Explore the Department

Faculty

PhD in Political Science

Major in Political Science

News & Announcements

Colonel Joe Becker is filling a critical gap as the Defense Attaché for the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait City.

Justice for All?

Vesla Weaver quoted in Arts & Sciences Weekly