News & Announcements Archive

Professor Jane Bennett Awarded Lippincott Award from APSA

Professor Jane Bennett Awarded Lippincott Award from APSA

The Lippincott Award honors exceptional work by living political theorists that are still considered significant after a time span of at least fifteen years since the original publication. This award is for Bennett’s Vibrant Matter, published in 2010 by Duke University Press.

Professor Sarah Parkinson’s new article in Foreign Policy on ‘Star Wars: Andor’ and rebellion

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 Awarded Junior Fellowship at Seoul National University

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 wins APSA Qualitative and Multi-Method Research Section Paper Award

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 wins National Institute of Social Sciences Dissertation Grant

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

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

Celebrating the Career of Professor Richard Katz

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 wins ISA Global Studies section Edward Said Award

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 Named 2025 Carnegie Fellow

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 […]

Apply Now: 2025 Johns Hopkins Racial Politics Summer School

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 […]