Deborah Yashar awarded best book award

Professor Yashar's book, "Homicidal Ecologies: Illicit Economies and Complicit States in Latin America," received APSA's best book award in the comparative democratization section.

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January 29, 2026

Adam Bouyamourn wins Paper Competition

Politics postdoctoral researcher Adam Bouyamourn has won the American Statistical Association’s Survey Research Methods/Government Statistics/Social Statistics (SRMS/GSS/SSS) 2026 Student Paper Competition for his work entitled “Where to Experiment? Site Selection

January 17, 2026

Melissa Lane in Rolling Stone

Professor Lane was interviewed for a recent article in Rolling Stone regarding a request by administration at Texas A&M University to remove a text by Plato from a philosophy course

Jan-Werner Mueller accepting scroll from Academy representative

December 19, 2025

Jan-Werner Müller elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities

Jan-Werner Müller has been elected to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Humanities and officially joined the Academy this past week. The Academy looks back on a 325-year tradition