Congratulations to Professor Sarah Brierley! Her job market paper won the best graduate student paper award from the African Politics Conference Group.
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August 2017
Recipient of the Society for Political Methodology's Emerging Scholar Award
Congratulations to Professor Betsy Sinclair! She has been selected as the winner of the Society for Political Methodology's Emerging Scholar Award.
July 2017
Ph.D. Candidate Michelle Torres has won the Society for Political Methodology's Poster Award. Her poster was titled "Measuring Visiual Messages: Political Violence and Computer Vision."
June 2017
Congratulations to Professor Gary Miller and cowriter Andrew Whitford!
May 2017
Congratulations to all four of our job market candidates this year on finding positions!
April 2017
Sicorsky: Seven-year prison terms for protesters? Talk about overkill.
March 2017
Professor Clarissa Hayward's article "Responsibility and Ignorance: On Dismantling Structural Injustice" is in the April Issue of Journal of Politics.
Ph.D. candidate Dalston Ward has been selected for Honorable Mention for the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. Congratulations Dalston!
December 2016
November 2016
Congratulations to 1997 PhD graduate Andy Whitford! He is this year's recipient of the Herbert A. Simon Award for his significant contributions to the scientific study of the bureacracy.
August 2016
Professor Margit Tavits' book Clarity of Responsibility, Accountabilit
July 2016
In the department's ongoing efforts to create a larger presence in the area of International Relations, we are delighted to announce two hires--David Carter (Associate professor) and Deniz Aksoy (Assistant professor); they are presently at Princet
June 2016
Congratulations to Professor Andrew Reeves! His book, The Particularistic President, co-authored with Doug Kriner, has won the 2016 Richard E.
Congratulations to Professor Lee Epstein! She is being honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Law and Courts Section of APSA.
April 2016
Faculty member Brian Crisp and graduate student Betul Demirkaya’s manuscript entitled "The Role of Rules in Representation: Group Membership and Electoral Incentives” will be published in a forthcoming (2017) issue of BJPS.
Congratulations to Professor Jacob Montgomery! His work on survey research methods has earned him an NSF grant titled "Computerized Adaptive Testing for Survey Research."
March 2016
Professor Michael Bechtel will start July 1st, 2016 with the Political Science Department. He has been promoted to an Associate Professor. Welcome Professor Bechtel!
Congratulations to PhD Candidate Betul Demirkaya! She has been chosen as one of the winners of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence for 2015-2016.