James Gibson's article "African Americans’ Willingness to Extend Legitimacy to the Police: Connections to Identities and Experiences in the Post-George Floyd Era" is now available for open access from the Cambridge University Press.

Deniz Aksoy, Ted Enamorado, and Tony Yang's co-authored paper “Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Chinese Public Support for War” has been published in International Organization.

We are delighted to announce that Christina L. Boyd will join our faculty this fall as a professor with a joint appointment in the WashU School of Law.

We are sad to share that Scott McClurg, PhD alumnus '00, has passed after a 14-year battle with brain cancer. Our deepest condolences go out to his family and loved ones.

The Department of Political Science is eager to welcome Peng Peng as a postdoctoral scholar in Fall 2024.

The Department of Political Science has launched an International Relations Workshop model aiming to equip students with practical skills and collaborative feedback on their ongoing research.

"Do the Effects of Unpopular Supreme Court Rulings Linger? The Dobbs Decision Rescinding Abortion Rights" forthcoming in the American Political Science Review.

Andrew Strasberg's paper, "Who Tweets Populism When?", was chosen as the winner of the Pi Sigma Alpha Best Undergraduate Paper Award.

Congratulations to Keith Schnakenberg and Carly Wayne for being published in the American Political Science Review for “Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics."

Congratulations to David Carter, whose paper "Border Barriers and Illicit Trade Flows" has been accepted at International Studies Quarterly.

A new series of courses and workshops from the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences aims to bring the tools of effective data science to the WashU community – all for free.

Messi H. J. Lee, Jacob Montgomery, and Calvin Lai have published their latest research in PNAS Nexus: "America's Racial Framework of Superiority and Americanness Embedded in Natural Language."