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February 3, 2023
Congratulations to Rory Truex for his promotion to Associate Professor of Politics and International Affairs, effective July 1st, 2023.
Rahin, Chan, and de los Reyes
December 21, 2022
Sixteen students, including three Politics majors, have been named Scholars in the Nation’s Service Initiative (SINSI), a program within the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), which funds both
Benjamin Bograd and Kate Gross-Whitaker
December 8, 2022
Benjamin Bograd and Kate Gross-Whitaker, along with three other Princeton seniors, are among 151 Schwarzman Scholars representing 36 countries and 121 universities.
Melissa Lane
December 8, 2022
Melissa Lane Lane was honored for her commitment to service and civic engagement.
Undergraduate Political Theory Workshop
November 22, 2022
The Politics Department was excited to host a one-day fall workshop for students considering graduate study in political theory on November 18, 2022. Participating students had the opportunity to discuss
Atul Kohli
November 3, 2022
Professor Atul Kohli's new book, Greed and Guns: Imperial Origins of the Developing World was just published by Cambridge University Press. His book can be found at Cambridge University Press.
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October 14, 2022
Princeton politics student, Zenobia Chan, was one of three conference participants to receive the 2022 Jimmy Carter Award for Best Paper on U.S.-China Relations and Chinese Foreign Policy for her
Leonard Wantchekon
September 28, 2022
"What Leonard brought, which we should all want, is history told in the right way from those who lived it as opposed to those who had an absolute desire to
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August 16, 2022
Howard L. Rosenthal, the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus, and professor of politics, emeritus, and an expert on formal and quantitative political analysis, died in San Francisco
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August 15, 2022
Newsweek dove into Arab Barometer’s report on public views of US-China competition in MENA on Wednesday August 10, 2022. Tom O’Connor, a Newsweek journalist who had covered AB's work on
Nugent Headshot
July 15, 2022
This award is given annually by the American Political Science Association for an untenured scholar who has produced scholarship of the highest quality on the subject of democracy.
Nugent Headshot
July 1, 2022
Nugent's book, After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition, received an honorable mention for the Luebbert Book Award. This award is given to the best book in comparative politics published
Killian B. Clarke
July 1, 2022
PhD alum and Georgetown assistant professor Killian Clarke received an honorable mention for this year’s Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy & Autocracy from
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June 30, 2022
Wiedemann's book Indebted Societies has won the 2022 Best Book on Class and Inequality by APSA’s Class and Inequality Section.
Carolyn Barnett
June 24, 2022
PhD alum Carolyn Barnett, incoming assistant professor at the University of Arizona, has received an honorable mention for best field work from the APSA Democracy and Autocracy section.
Delanyo Kpo
June 24, 2022
Dela Kpo, a PhD alum, has won the APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in African politics.