Fall 2025 Department Newsletter is now available! Check out the latest faculty, student, and alumni achievements, profiles, and news!
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PhD Alumni Patrick Quirk featured in Arts & Sciences Magazine
In Arts & Sciences Magazine, Richard Byrne highlights the many rewarding careers outside of academia for Johns Hopkins PhD graduates. One example he highlights is Patrick Quirk, who received his […]
Professor Robert Lieberman Appears on CNN’s Smerconish Show
Professor Robert Lieberman appeared on CNN to talk with Michael Smerconish about the political labels of Socialism, Communism, and Democratic Socialism in light of democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani’s recent New York City mayoral victory and meeting with President Donald Trump.
Professor Daniel Schlozman Quoted in The Atlantic on the Crisis of Political Parties
In a recent article for the magazine The Atlantic, journalist Idrees Kahloon discusses the many problems that plague contemporary political parties that make them both unpopular with the public and ineffective at governing, creating current dangers of Right-wing populism. Kahloon quotes from Daniel Schlozman & Samuel Rosenfeld’s recent book The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics in particular to describe the weaknesses of the Democrat and Republican Party’s today as “hollow parties” that suffer from the disconnect between party operatives and the mass voting public. Check out the article here!
PhD Alumni Sabrina Axster Awarded OUP Early Career Research First Book Prize
Dr. Sabrina Axster was awarded the Oxford University Press Early Career Research First Book Prize for her book project Controlling Migrants: Vagrancy, Indentured Labor, and the Policing of Mobility in Germany. The Prize guarantees a fully open access publishing contract with OUP, in addition to publication in hardback. Congratulations, Dr. Axster!
Professor Hahrie Han Awarded MacArthur Genius Grant
The grant, given annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, gives out $800,000 over five years for outstanding researchers to advance their work. For more information, check out the complete story at the Johns Hopkins Hub. Congratulations, Professor Han!
PhD Alumni Sabrina Axster Publishes Article in International Studies Quarterly
In the article titled “Countermapping the Carceral Security State: Beyond the Imperial Boomerang”, Sabrina Axster and Ida Danewid provide a critique of the concept of imperial boomerang by countermapping the history of the carceral security state and its technologies of violence. Drawing on the racial capitalism and world-systems literatures, they argue that this countermapping effort leads to a new spatial imagination that views the core and periphery as intertwined with racial-colonial geographies.
Interview with Professor Nicolas Jabko on Preserving the Independence of the U.S. Federal Reserve
The interview covers Professor Jabko’s insights about the importance of the Federal Reserve’s independence, when its independence was last under attack, and what is exceptional now about current threats to the Federal Reserve’s independence. Check out the interview at the Hub!
Faculty members organize discussions about democracy in public library branches in Baltimore County
Professors Lester Spence, Adria Lawrence, Consuelo Amat, Adam Sheingate, and Matthew Kocher took part in the civic engagement initiative “How Do Democracies Survive?” over the 2025 summer. The initiative consisted of a three-part series of discussions, held in public library branches in Baltimore County – once at the library’s Pikesville branch, and once at Perry Hall.
Interview with Professor Jennifer Culbert by student Stephanie N.
International Studies major, Stephanie N., interviews Professor Jennifer Culbert for Hopkins Insider. The interview covers Professor Culbert’s trajectory at Johns Hopkins University as a teacher and researcher, as well as the features of the Political Science department.