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 […]

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. […]

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, 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, 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 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, […]

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 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 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 […]

PhD Candidate Ruoyu Li published a new article, titled “Testing as the Blindspot of Nuclear Nonuse” in Security Studies. The article reconceptualizes nuclear testing as a form of colonial use […]