Noémi Neidorff, a longtime benefactor of Washington University in St. Louis and other cultural and educational institutions locally and beyond, has made a $3 million pledge to the university to endow the new Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences.
A new partnership between the Weidenbaum Center and Harvard University will give social scientists at WashU the opportunity to receive constructive, anonymous feedback on their research at any stage. The program aims to improve scholarship and speed its publication.
By analyzing social media content generated across the globe, political scientists seek to understand the current wave of populist rhetoric flooding the internet and its threats to democracies.
"How Presidents Persuade Facts, Feelings, and the Language of Presidential Power" has been selected as the Presidents and Executive Politics Best Graduate Paper for 2023
Jeremy Siow and Ben Noble won first and second place in the social science category.
SEAREG (Southeast Asia Research Group) Fellows are selected annually in a competitive process for outstanding unpublished work on Southeast Asia.
"Transdisciplinary team to study political instability, health outcomes"
Congratulations to Mike Olson, whose article “Franchise Expansion and Legislative Representation in the Early United States” (co-authored with Stephen Ansolabehere and Jaclyn Kaslovsky) was awarded the 2023 Kenneth A. Shepsle Prize for the best article in volume 3 of the Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy!
Diana O'Brien, Professor of Political Science, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the newly established, endowed Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship.
Dino Christenson's appointment to the rank of Full Professor with tenure has been approved by the Board of Trustees, the Provost, and the Chancellor.
Jacob Montgomery's appointment to the rank of Full Professor with tenure has been approved by the Board of Trustees, the Provost, and the Chancellor.
Research highlights gender bias persistence over centuries