Professor Christopher Blair
June 2, 2026
Assistant Professor Christopher Blair has been awarded one of five University preceptorships for the period from July 1, 2026 through June 30, 2029. Princeton offers a limited number of preceptorships
June 1, 2026
Professor Melissa Schwartzberg, in politics and the University Center for Human Values, specializes in political theory. Her appointment is effective July 1. Schwartzberg comes to Princeton from New York University
Featured left to right: Christian Baehr, Fiona Bare, and Vincent Heddesheimer.
May 28, 2026
Dr. Fiona Bare, recent graduate, and Christian Baehr and Vincent Heddesheimer, Ph.D. candidates at Princeton University, have published new research in the American Journal of Political Science titled “Climate exposure
May 20, 2026
Princeton University Department of Politics Class of 2026 ( Alphabetical Listing of Honors ) HIGHEST HONORS Wade Thomas Bednar Joshua Cigoianu Grace Coller Charles Zacharias Gardner Jr. Emma Jean Hermacinski
Professor George and Professor Londregan
May 11, 2026
John B. Londregan, Professor of Politics, and Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, have been appointed to the New Jersey Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Zach Gardner. Joe Silva, and Helena Drake
April 30, 2026
The Barry Scholarship began in 2019 and is awarded to the leading students of the U.S. in recognition of their dedication to the pursuit of truth. It provides full funding
Melissa Lane
April 22, 2026
Professor Melissa S. Lane is one of over 250 distinguished scholars elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2026. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The
Robert George and Cornel West
April 17, 2026
Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, and Cornel West, Class of 1943 Professor of Religion and African-American Studies emeritus , have been named Distinguished Scholars of Civil Discourse by
Robert George at the Library of Congress
April 9, 2026
On April 9, 2026, Robert George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence, delivered the 2026 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence at the Library of Congress. His lecture was entitled “Why Liberal Secularism
April 2, 2026
Assistant professor Yunhyae Kim, in politics, joins the faculty in July. Kim specializes in political theory and holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Seoul National University.
Professor Müller standing in bright room with arms crossed
March 30, 2026
Jan-Werner Müller, a renowned scholar in democratic theory and the history of political thought, has been named the Class of 1943 University Professor of Politics. University Professorships are Princeton’s highest
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March 26, 2026
The global economy is reeling from a series of shocks, including the wars in the Middle East and ongoing tariff negotiations between the U.S. and its trading partners. Layna Mosley
Rocio Titiunik
February 27, 2026
A recent paper published in the American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology examined the use of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention (NELI) program in England for children who were struggling with
Department of Politics
February 26, 2026
Article by Professor Elizabeth Nugent and Isabelle DeSisto featured on Good Authority website.
Melissa Lane
February 17, 2026
How do we rule for the good of the people? Available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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February 11, 2026
Rafaela Dancygier, with Sirus H. Dehdari (Stockholm University), David D. Laitin (Stanford University), Moritz Marbach (University College London), and Kåre Vernby (Stockholm University) win the American Journal of Political Science
Liz Nugent
January 31, 2026
A paper published in the Journal of Politics by Professor Elizabeth Nugent studies the effect that individuals exiled from their homeland exert on their home countries while abroad, focusing on
January 29, 2026
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
Marble statue of Plato
January 17, 2026
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 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