Richard Flathman, the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Political Science Emeritus and chair of the Political Science Department from 1979 to 1985, died on Sept. 6. He was 81. A letter from Beverly Wendland, James B. Knapp Dean: Dear Krieger School Faculty and Staff, It is with sadness that I tell you of the death […]

Congratulations!!   Nils is the winner of the Paul A. McCoy Award for the outstanding graduate student seminar paper in Political Science entitled “Fragile Legitimacy: The Rise and Decline of the EU’s ‘Sustainable Biofuel’ Policy”

Daisy defended her dissertation on May 14, 2015, entitled: “Bargaining Citizenship: Women’s Organizations, The State, and Marriage Migrants in South Korea.”

Congratulations to the 2014–2015 DTF winners Meghan Luhman, Christopher England, Tim Hanafin, Allen Stack, Ayako Hiramatsu, Casey McNeill, and Karyn Wang; and congratulations to the Dean’s Prize Freshman Seminar winners, Ryan Fried, G. W. Jones, Anatoli Ignatov, and Kellan Anfinson!

Nine Johns Hopkins University faculty authors will be featured on C-SPAN2‘s Book TV over the next several weekends, beginning with Lester Spence, an expert on race and politics, who will discuss his 2011 book Stare in the Darkness: The Limits of Hip-hop and Black Politics on Sunday at 1 p.m. EST and 10 p.m. PST. […]

Political science major Carrie Resnick is studying the campaigns of female gubernatorial candidates in Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Texas, and Wisconsin, focusing on the specific challenges these candidates for executive offices face and how women’s issues play in their campaigns.

Political science major Talene Bilazarian’s research evaluates the effectiveness of a counter-extremism initiative in the U.K. that engages with Muslim women to serve as partners in identifying radicalism. Click to read about it in Arts & Sciences Magazine.

Bayly Winder, a senior majoring in political science, received a Fulbright grant to Kuwait to study the diwaniyya, intellectual forums. Through visits to a variety of diwaniyyas and interviews with mostly college-aged Kuwaitis, he will research the ways in which this central sociocultural institution is evolving in light of social media and globalization. Winder, who […]