Yashar Headshot 2021
June 23, 2022
Yashar is the Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs. Her research and teaching is focused on the intersection of democracy and citizenship, ethnic politics and social movements
Shuk Ying Chan
June 23, 2022
Politics PhD alum Chan is a co-winner of APSA's 2022 Leo Strauss Award for best dissertation in political philosophy.
andreas wiedemann headshot
June 21, 2022
Wiedemann's book, Indebted Societies: Credit and Welfare in Rich Democracies, has won the 2022 William Riker Award for the best book in political economy published in the past two years
Michael Kistner
June 13, 2022
PhD alum Michael Kistner, currently an assistant professor at the University of Houston, has won the Legislative Studies Carl Albert Dissertation Prize.
Goyal & Wang
June 7, 2022
Tanushree Goyal, an incoming faculty member in comparative politics who will start as an assistant professor this fall, received the Mancur Olson Best Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in
Toure with Award
June 7, 2022
Saran Touré ’22 was awarded the inaugural Princeton University Library (PUL) Award for her thesis work on resource dependence in Africa. Her thesis was advised by Professor Leonard Wantchekon.
Nathan Gibson
June 6, 2022
Politics PhD alum and postdoc Nathan Gibson won the George Edwards III Best Dissertation Award for “Presidential Use of Centralization and Politicization." His dissertation committee included Brandice Canes-Wrone (chair), Charles
'22-'23 Fulbrighters McNulty, Han, and Jiang
June 1, 2022
This cycle, an impressive five Politics concentrators were named Fulbright grantees. Three of the five–Scarlett McNulty, Rebecca Han, and Hanying Jiang–graduated last month. Recipients of Fulbright’s English Teaching Assistant award
Paul Baumgardner
May 26, 2022
Politics PhD alum Paul Baumgardner has won this year’s Walter Dean Burnham Dissertation Award from the Politics and History section of APSA for his dissertation, “Retrenchment Rivals: Critical Legal Studies
Kateb winners, 2022
May 13, 2022
The George Kateb Preceptor Award is given annually to recognize the best graduate student preceptors in the Department of Politics. This year, students Ian Walling, Tiffany Simon, Sonya Chen, and
Melissa Lane with Kelley Award
May 12, 2022
Melissa Lane, a political theorist specializing in ancient political thought, has been awarded the Department's annual teaching prize.
Bermeo
May 12, 2022
Bermeo is a professor of politics, emeritus, and a Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies senior scholar. She writes on the causes and consequences of political mobilization and regime
Nugent Headshot
May 2, 2022
Elizabeth Nugent will join the Princeton University Department of Politics this fall as an assistant professor.
Leonard Wantchekon
April 25, 2022
The Kuznets Mini-Conference on Political Distortions and Economic Development highlights current work on themes relevant to the Kuznets lecture, and Leonard Wantchekon delivered this year's lecture on “Political Distortions and
R. Douglass Arnold Headshot
April 19, 2022
R. Douglas Arnold sat down with the Princeton Policy Podcast team to discuss his book “Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized Age."
Romo Rivas
April 18, 2022
Politics PhD student Mishella Romo Rivas has been selected as an American Political Science Association Diversity Fellow for the spring 2022 cycle.
Michael Kistner
April 6, 2022
The award committee for the Christopher Z. Mooney Best Dissertation Prize has selected Michael's dissertation, “Fundraising for the Caucus: Money, Party Politics, and Policymaking in American Legislatures” as the best
Student winners Labouisse
March 31, 2022
Politics concentrator Fernanda Romo Herrera Ibarrola is one of five seniors awarded the Labouisse Prize for international civic engagement projects in 2022. She will work in the Corner Institute, a
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
March 4, 2022
Stephens joined Will Bunch and Christopher Nicholas to discuss President Biden's State of Union address on NPR.