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.
Andy Guess standing in a hallway
February 24, 2022
Guess and a team of researchers found that the power of fact-checking seems to fade over time.
Portrait of LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
February 21, 2022
“There is an element that taps into people’s insecurities, real or imagined, in terms of whether another group is doing better, what does this mean for me, what does it
Professor Markus Prior
February 1, 2022
“Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest” uses data from three decades in four Western democracies to explain political interest. Markus Prior sat down with B. Rose Huber to preview the
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January 26, 2022
Layna Mosley will serve as the next co-editor-in-chief of International Organization, a journal covering the field of international affairs, beginning July 1, 2022.
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January 21, 2022
PhD student Will Freeman and co-author Paul J. Angelo discuss the demographic shifts redefining governments in Latin America.
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November 22, 2021
Wafa Zaka, who is concentrating in Politics and pursuing a certificate in the history and practice of diplomacy, has won the Rhodes Scholarship. Zaka will pursue an MSt in Global
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November 19, 2021
Iaryczower's is one of ten interdisciplinary research projects that have won funding from Princeton University’s Schmidt DataX Fund with the goal of spreading and deepening the use of artificial intelligence
Killian B. Clarke
October 29, 2021
In a New York Times opinion article, Politics alum Killian Clarke and his coauthor Mai Hassan argue that "all is not lost" in Sudan despite an unsettling, on-going coup.
Patricia Kirkland
October 28, 2021
Patricia Kirkland's findings were published in the Urban Affairs Reviews.
Professor Melissa S. Lane
October 27, 2021
Melissa Lane sat down with the Future Hindsight podcast to talk about the history of a particularly important and consequential idea in the history of political thought: the social contract.
Zenobia Chan
October 8, 2021
PhD student Zenobia Chan was named a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellow by the U.S. Institute of Peace. She will be funded by Minerva Research Initiative to work on her dissertation
Leonard Wantchekon
October 5, 2021
Leonard Wantchekon was awarded an honorary doctorate in economics from Laval University.
Portrait of Professor Melissa Lee
October 5, 2021
In a Modern War Institute article, Melissa Lee examines the ill-fated state building mission in Afghanistan.
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September 22, 2021
The Department of Politics supports its Ph.D. students and recent alumni as they search for positions within and outside academia. On our job placement page you'll find more information about
Portrait of Lauren Wright
September 17, 2021
“[T]he relative absence of the vice president’s voice on the administration’s ‘whole of government’ approach to protecting women’s abortion rights stands out.” In a piece published by The Hill, Lauren
Atul Kohli
September 15, 2021
Atul Kohli gave a German-language interview on the situation on Afghanistan in light of his recent book on imperialism in ProWOZ.
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August 26, 2021
"The outcome of the referendum, in other words, rapidly transformed the Conservative Party’s position on the EU." Brian Schonfeld and Sam Winter-Levy have published a blog for The UK in
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August 26, 2021
Microsoft has awarded $250,000 in funding to professor Jonathan Mummolo and a team of fellow social scientists to fund the development of a novel system to computationally analyze police body-worn