Leonard Wantchekon
September 28, 2022
"What Leonard brought, which we should all want, is history told in the right way from those who lived it as opposed to those who had an absolute desire to
Black and White Image of Howard Rosenthal
August 16, 2022
Howard L. Rosenthal, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of politics, emeritus, and an expert on formal and quantitative political analysis, died in San Francisco
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August 15, 2022
Newsweek dove into Arab Barometer’s report on public views of US-China competition in MENA on Wednesday August 10, 2022. Tom O’Connor, a Newsweek journalist who had covered AB's work on
Nugent Headshot
July 15, 2022
This award is given annually by the American Political Science Association for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy.
Nugent Headshot
July 1, 2022
Nugent's book, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition, received an honorable mention for the Luebbert Book Award. This award is given to the best book in comparative politics published
Killian B. Clarke
July 1, 2022
PhD alum and Georgetown assistant professor Killian Clarke received an honorable mention for this year’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy from
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June 30, 2022
Wiedemann's book Indebted Societies has won the 2022 Best Book on Class and Inequality by APSA’s Class and Inequality Section.
Carolyn Barnett
June 24, 2022
PhD alum Carolyn Barnett, incoming assistant professor at the University of Arizona, has received an honorable mention for best field work from the APSA Democracy and Autocracy section.
Delanyo Kpo
June 24, 2022
Dela Kpo, a PhD alum, has won the APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in African politics.
Yashar Headshot 2021
June 23, 2022
Yashar is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. Her research and teaching is focused on the intersection of democracy and citizenship, ethnic politics and social movements
Shuk Ying Chan
June 23, 2022
Politics PhD alum Chan is a co-winner of APSA's 2022 Leo Strauss Award for best dissertation in political philosophy.
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June 21, 2022
Wiedemann's book, Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies, has won the 2022 William Riker Award for the best book in political economy published in the past two years
Michael Kistner
June 13, 2022
PhD alum Michael Kistner, currently an assistant professor at the University of Houston, has won the Legislative Studies Carl Albert Dissertation Prize.
Goyal & Wang
June 7, 2022
Tanushree Goyal, an incoming faculty member in comparative politics who will start as an assistant professor this fall, received the Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in
Toure with Award
June 7, 2022
Saran Touré ’22 was awarded the inaugural Princeton University Library (PUL) Award for her thesis work on resource dependence in Africa. Her thesis was advised by Professor Leonard Wantchekon.
Nathan Gibson
June 6, 2022
Politics PhD alum and postdoc Nathan Gibson won the George Edwards III Best Dissertation Award for “Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization." His dissertation committee included Brandice Canes-Wrone (chair), Charles
'22-'23 Fulbrighters McNulty, Han, and Jiang
June 1, 2022
This cycle, an impressive five Politics concentrators were named Fulbright grantees. Three of the five–Scarlett McNulty, Rebecca Han, and Hanying Jiang–graduated last month. Recipients of Fulbright’s English Teaching Assistant award
Paul Baumgardner
May 26, 2022
Politics PhD alum Paul Baumgardner has won this year’s Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award from the Politics and History section of APSA for his dissertation, “Retrenchment Rivals: Critical Legal Studies
Kateb winners, 2022
May 13, 2022
The George Kateb Preceptor Award is given annually to recognize the best graduate student preceptors in the Department of Politics. This year, students Ian Walling, Tiffany Simon, Sonya Chen, and
Melissa Lane with Kelley Award
May 12, 2022
Melissa Lane, a political theorist specializing in ancient political thought, has been awarded the Department's annual teaching prize.