Come join us every Thursday for the Political Science Seminar Series for Fall 2024, featuring external speakers, faculty and graduate student presentations, and more.
News & Announcements Archive
PhD Candidate Ronay Bakan named Spotlight Scholar by APSA Interpreted Methodologies and Methods
PhD Candidate Ronay Bakan was selected as one of three 2024-2025 Spotlight Scholars for the American Political Science Association’s Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Related Group. The Spotlight Scholars program highlights […]
Pizza and Politics: Department hosts talks for undergraduates featuring influential practitioners
Political Science has teamed up with the Center for Social Concern and the Agora Institute to put on a series of talks with practitioners and academics entitled Pizza and Politics. […]
Professor Consuelo Amat discusses the path to democracy in Venezuela
In a co-authored article on the United States Institute of Peace, Professor Consuelo Amat analyzes the fate of democracy in Venezuela, highlighting nonviolent action as possible key to its future.
Professor Inés Valdez’s book wins honorable mention in Sussex International Theory Prize
Professor Inés Valdez’s book, Democracy and Empire: Labor, Nature, and the Reproduction of Capitalism (CUP 2023) has earned honourable mention in the 2024 Sussez International Theory Prize. The Sussex International […]
Professor Daniel Schlozman analyzes the troubled politics of the Democratic Party
Professor Daniel Schlozman, in a co-authored analysis with Professor Sam Rosenfeld (Colgate University), discusses the problems the Democrats are facing in The New York Review.
PhD Alumna Nanxi Zeng wins APSA Political Economy Best Dissertation Prize
PhD Alumna Nanzi Zeng was awarded the 2024 Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in political economy completed in the previous two years. Nanxi defended her dissertation, […]
Professor Steven Teles discusses the decrease of conservative faculty in the academia
In a recent essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Professor Steven Teles analyzes the causes and potential solutions to the decrease in conservative professors in the academia.
PhD Alumna Sabrina Axster wins Honorable Mention for APSA Migration & Citizenship Best Dissertation Prize
PhD Alumna Sabrina Axster was awarded Honorable Mention for the 2024 APSA Migration & Citizenship Section Best Dissertation Prize for her dissertation, “Making Migrant Illegality: Vagrancy, Indentured Labor, and the Policing […]
Professor Richard S. Katz awarded Lifetime Achievement Award from European Consortium for Political Research
Professor Richard Katz was jointly awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR). The award is presented biennially to a scholar who has made […]