Portrait of Mirabella Smith
April 13, 2023
“Mirabella Smith combines preternatural theoretical sophistication with an enthusiasm for building inclusive learning communities, making them the prototype of the kind of scholar and teacher whom the future academy will
Prof. Tali Mendelberg
April 7, 2023
Tali Mendelberg was appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise.
William Wen
April 4, 2023
Politics Ph.D. student, William Wen, was selected to receive the Graduate School Teaching Award for his work as an assistant-in-instruction.
Arthur Spirling
March 30, 2023
Spirling, a scholar in political methodology, will join Politics as a full professor in 2023-2024.
Rory Truex headshot
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.
Young woman in dark dress
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
Black and White Image of Howard Rosenthal
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
Arab Barometer logo
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.