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April 18, 2019
Professors Andy Guess and Dean Knox have been awarded Dean for Research funding for innovative ideas in the social sciences.
April 17, 2019
Congratulations to Professor Frances Lee, who has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Harriet Kiwanuka
April 11, 2019
Harriet Kiwanuka, a 2015 politics alumna, has been awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. The fellowship will support her medical studies at Stanford University.
karen richardson
April 11, 2019
Karen Richardson, a 1993 politics alumna, has been named dean of admission at Princeton University.
Killian B. Clarke
April 10, 2019
Graduate student Killian Clarke was awarded the Procter Fellowship for the 2019-20 academic year.
students in normandy
April 9, 2019
2019 marks the 75th anniversary of D-Day, the day the Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to invade northern France. The invasion resulted in an Allied victory and
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March 20, 2019
Senior politics concentrator Aleksandar Vladicic was awarded a Gaither Junior Fellowship, which gives graduating seniors an opportunity to work as research assistants to scholars at the Carnegie Endowment.
February 12, 2019
Senior politics concentrator Jared Lockwood and juniors Micaela Keller, Hugo Myron and Gabriela Oseguera Serra were named to SINSI
February 11, 2019
Congratulations to graduate student Naijia Liu, a co-recipient of the Best Poster Award at the joint conference of the sixth annual Asian Political Methodology Meeting and the second annual meeting
Portrait of Greg Conti
January 16, 2019
Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain
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January 14, 2019
Professor Guess was the lead author of a report published in Science Advances, which found that older Americans shared fake news on Facebook more than others during the 2016 election.
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January 14, 2019
Berman and Zhou were awarded two-year postdoctoral fellowships at The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies.
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December 13, 2018
Congratulations to Professor Helen V. Milner, who was recently elected President of the International Studies Association for the 2020-2021 term.
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December 10, 2018
Fred Greenstein, professor of politics, emeritus, and one of the nation’s leading experts on the American presidency, died from complications from a form of Parkinson’s disease at home in Princeton
December 6, 2018
Macauley and Ninan, both senior concentrators in politics, were named Schwarzman Scholars. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua
michael wisner smiling
December 6, 2018
Wisner, a senior concentrator in politics with a specialization in international relations, has been named a 2019 Rangel Fellow.
george will headshot
November 26, 2018
Politics graduate alumnus George Will, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author, has been selected as the speaker for the University’s 2019 Baccalaureate ceremony.
Leonard Wantchekon
November 9, 2018
Congratulations to Professor Leonard Wantchekon, who was recently elected as a new Fellow of the Econometric Society for his contributions to economics.
Stephen Macedo
October 19, 2018
Professor Stephen Macedo, the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, was elected President of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, at
Image of three students in Emerging Scholars program
October 12, 2018
The Department of Politics created the Emerging Scholars in Political Science program to build bridges between undergraduate coursework and doctoral programs for promising young scholars from underrepresented backgrounds.