The Department of Political Science and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University seek nominations and applications of interest to appoint three or more distinguished scholars to establish a cluster of excellence in research and teaching on the challenges of contemporary democracy. We are especially interested in colleagues with an established record […]

This news was sent by Dean Wendland: June 5, 2018 Dear Krieger School Faculty and Staff, I write to share the sad news that Joel Grossman, Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Academy Professor, died on June 2, 2018, after a brief struggle with cancer. He was 81. A renowned scholar of courts and the […]

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Aronson Assistant Professor Sarah Parkinson and sophomore Anna Gordon, who also writes for the JHU Newsletter, had their piece “How the Houthis Became “Shi’a”” published in the Middle East Research and Information Project.

JHU Berman Institute for Bioethics Exploration of Practical Ethics Research Grant The Ethics of Preparedness in Humanitarian Disasters Principal Investigator: Sarah E. Parkinson, Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Co-Investigator: Meaghan Charlton, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences […]

Dr. Vesla Weaver Vesla Mae Weaver (Phd, Harvard, Government and Social Policy) is the Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of Political Science and Sociology at Johns Hopkins University and a 2016-17 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. Weaver is broadly interested in understanding racial inequality in the United States, how state policies shape citizenship, and the political causes and […]

Congratulations to Zach Reyna who is the recipient of the Foundations of Political Theory Best Paper Award. The award, given by the Foundations of Political Theory Section of APSA, recognizes the best paper presented on a Foundations panel at the previous year’s APSA Annual Meeting.

Congratulations to Sally Lawton on being named a Norton Long Scholar by the Urban Politics Section of APSA. The Norton Long Young Scholars Award is given to individuals completing their PhD (or within 3 years of earning their degree) who have submitted a paper proposal to the 2017 APSA meeting.

Congratulations to Dr. Mathew Kocher on winning the 2017 Heinz I. Eulau Award from the APSA for the best article published in Perspectives on Politics in 2016. The article is entitled, “Lines of Demarcation: Causation, Design-Based Inference, and Historical Research” (co-authored with Nuno Monteiro)