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 […]

Robert Tucker, who founded the International Studies Program and the BA-MA Program with SAIS at Johns Hopkins, has passed away. Tucker was a prominent Realist, focusing on American diplomacy during […]

The Sheridan Libraries, in collaboration with the American Prison Writing Archive and the Peabody Institute, will host two In the Stacks concerts honoring the voices of incarcerated. The performance will […]

In a recent co-authored article in the Annual Review of Criminology, titled “Black Political Mobilization and the US Carceral State: How Tracing Community Struggles for Safety Changes the Policing Narrative,” […]

Professor Sebastián Mazzuca was promoted to Associate Professors with tenure. Congratulations, Sebastián!

Come join us every Thursday for the Political Science Seminar Series for Spring 2024, featuring external speakers, faculty and graduate student presentations, and more!

We are excited to announce the release of the Fall 2024 Political Science Department Newsletter! Read about our faculty and student achievements, events, and important updates.

Professor John Yasuda has joined the editorial board of the leading journal, Regulation and Governance. Congratulations, John!