PhD student Zenobia Chan was named a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow by the U.S. Institute of Peace. She will be funded by Minerva Research Initiative to work on her dissertation

Leonard Wantchekon was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics from Laval University.

In a Modern War Institute article, Melissa Lee examines the ill-fated state building mission in Afghanistan.

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

“[T]he relative absence of the vice president’s voice on the administration’s ‘whole of government’ approach to protecting women’s abortion rights stands out.” In a piece published by The Hill, Lauren

Atul Kohli gave a German-language interview on the situation on Afghanistan in light of his recent book on imperialism in ProWOZ.

Andrew Reynolds and coauthor John Carey (Dartmouth) discuss how US decisions in Afghanistan negatively impacted its political fate in the Washington Post.

"The outcome of the referendum, in other words, rapidly transformed the Conservative Party’s position on the EU." Brian Schonfeld and Sam Winter-Levy have published a blog for The UK in

Microsoft has awarded $250,000 in funding to professor Jonathan Mummolo and a team of fellow social scientists to fund the development of a novel system to computationally analyze police body-worn

Just a few weeks shy of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the takeover is a significant blow to the American military members, and their families, who died fighting to prevent

The group won for their poster “Group Threat or Contact? The Effects of Local Immigration Primes on Policy Views.”

Two former Politics concentrators are vying for gold in the Tokyo Olympics. Eliza Stone '13, a fencer who will complete in the women's individual sabre event, represents Team USA. Rower

LaFleur Stephens-Dougan has won the 2021 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award from the International Society for Political Psychology for her book "Race to the Bottom: How

In a new paper, Brandice Canes-Wrone shows that moderates may have better chances of getting elected than extremists. She sat down with Not Another Politics Podcast to discus her findings.

President Biden has selected Amy Gutmann, professor emeritus (Politics & UCHV) and the president of the University of Pennsylvania, to serve as the next ambassador to Germany. Gutmann will be

Frances Lee and her co-author Jim Curry (Utah) have been awarded APSA’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for their book The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era.

White and his co-author Chryl Laird (Bowdoin College) have won the APSA prize for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs for their book "Steadfast Democrats: How Social

Stephens-Dougan's book Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics is the recipient of the 2021 Ralph J. Bunche Award from APSA.

For her senior thesis, politics major Maddie Pendolino ’21 conducted an online poll of 2,500 voters across the country to determine the events of 2020 and long-term policy issues that