Professor Sarah Parkinson recently published an article in Foreign Policy on the Star Wars series Andor and what it teaches us about rebellion.

PhD Candidate Ga Eun Cho has been awarded a Junior Fellowship at the International Center for Korean Studies, housed within the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University. […]

PhD Candidate Ronay Bakan was awarded the 2024 Kendra Koivu Paper Award from APSA’s Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section for her paper, titled, “Counterinsurgent Urbanism: Conflict in Ruins of a […]

PhD Candidate Alexandra Dildine was awarded the 2025 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS). The NISS supports doctoral work that promises to significantly advance their field […]

Spring 2025 Political Science Department Newsletter is now available! Check out latest faculty, student, and alumni achievements, profiles and news!

On May 1, the department honored the distinguished career of Professor Richard Katz, one of our longest-serving faculty members, who is retiring at the end of this academic year. The […]

PhD Candidate Ruoyu Li won the 2025 Edward Said Award,presented by the ISA Global Development Section and sponsored by Third World Quarterly. The award recognizes outstanding graduate-level scholarship in global […]

Professor Dawn Teele was named a 2025 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, one of the most prestigious honors in the social sciences and humanities. The Carnegie Fellowship recognizes scholars whose work addresses […]

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 […]