Sophie Li, who is concentrating in Politics and pursuing a certificate in Journalism at Princeton, has won the Rhodes Scholarship. Li will undertake an M.Sc. in Refugee and Forced Migration
Professor Frances Lee, along with Professor James M. Curry (University of Utah), authors an article about the tendency of divided governments to over-perform in the New York Times.
In a Washington Post Monkey Cage piece, Princeton Ph.D. student Will Horne joins Noam Gidron and James Adams to discuss levels of affective polarization across the world.
Professor Melissa Lee appeared on the Irregular Warfare podcast, sponsored by West Point and Princeton's Empirical Studies of Conflict Project, with Retired Lt. General Ken Tovo to talk about unconventional
Professor Whittington writes about Judge Amy Coney Barrett's views about court precedent and how they might affect Roe v. Wade in a New York Times opinion article.
The Department of Politics supports its Ph.D. students and recent alumni as they search for positions within and outside academia. On our job placement page you'll find more information about
Politics Ph.D. student Hochan "Sonny" Kim won the 2020 David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society. Kim coauthored the award-winning essay, "Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic
Politics alumna Ritter ’19 is partnering with lecturer StevenKelts to provide education and mentoring to students who opted to take a gap year due to COVID-19, allowing them to continue
Professor Bass writes on the recently declassified Nixon White House tapes that reveal how his racism and misogyny led him to ignore the genocidal violence of the Pakistani military in
In the Washington Post blog Monkey Cage, Professor Pop-Eleches and co-authors share their survey results on Putin's popularity and what they may indicate about the upcoming election.
In this Vox article, co-authored with Jacob M. Grumbach, Frymer writes "The NBA strike is a big moment for athlete activism — and the labor movement in America."
Goyal, an incoming faculty member in comparative politics who will start as an assistant professor in the 2021-22 academic year, received APSA's Class and Inequality Section Kauffman Foundation Award for
Graduate students Foster and Chan's preconference paper “Polarization for Paralysis: How Authoritarian Regimes Weaponize Information to Shift Foreign Political Behaviors” received the Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Honorable
