Lee & Shapiro
August 18, 2021
Just a few weeks shy of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the takeover is a significant blow to the American military members, and their families, who died fighting to prevent
APSA Poster Winners - Tanika, Ali, Stephanie
August 5, 2021
The group won for their poster “Group Threat or Contact? The Effects of Local Immigration Primes on Policy Views.”
Eliza Stone & Tom George
July 27, 2021
Two former Politics concentrators are vying for gold in the Tokyo Olympics. Eliza Stone '13, a fencer who will complete in the women's individual sabre event, represents Team USA. Rower
Portrait of LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
July 13, 2021
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan has won the 2021 David O. Sears Best Book on Mass Politics Award from the International Society for Political Psychology for her book "Race to the Bottom: How
brandice canes-wrone headshot
July 12, 2021
In a new paper, Brandice Canes-Wrone shows that moderates may have better chances of getting elected than extremists. She sat down with Not Another Politics Podcast to discus her findings.
Amy Gutmann Headshot
July 6, 2021
President Biden has selected Amy Gutmann, professor emeritus (Politics & UCHV) and the president of the University of Pennsylvania, to serve as the next ambassador to Germany. Gutmann will be
frances lee headshot
June 29, 2021
Frances Lee and her co-author Jim Curry (Utah) have been awarded APSA’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award for their book The Limits of Party: Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era.
Ismail White
June 29, 2021
White and his co-author Chryl Laird (Bowdoin College) have won the APSA prize for the best book on government, politics, or international affairs for their book "Steadfast Democrats: How Social
Portrait of LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
June 29, 2021
Stephens-Dougan's book Race to the Bottom: How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics is the recipient of the 2021 Ralph J. Bunche Award from APSA.
Maddie Pendolino
June 16, 2021
For her senior thesis, politics major Maddie Pendolino ’21 conducted an online poll of 2,500 voters across the country to determine the events of 2020 and long-term policy issues that
Amaney A. Jamal
June 14, 2021
Amaney Jamal, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics and director of the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, has been named dean of the Princeton School of
Photo of Ryan Dukeman
June 14, 2021
Politics PhD candidate Ryan Dukeman has been named one of 15 National Security & Foreign Policy LGBTQ New Voices by Out in National Security and the New America foundation for
Portrait of Professor Melissa Lee
June 10, 2021
Melissa Lee's article, “Literacy and State–Society Interactions in Nineteenth-Century France?," has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Best Article Prize Award by The APSA European Politics and Society
Elizabeth Tsurkov outside
June 4, 2021
In an article for the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, PhD candidate Elizabeth Tsurkov draws on political science and political psychology literature to explain last week's elections in Syria.
Sarah Staszak
June 4, 2021
Sarah Staszak's article, “Privatizing Employment Law: The Expansion of Mandatory Arbitration in the Workplace,” published in Studies in American Political Development, has won the award for best journal article published
Fumika Mizuno Headshot
June 2, 2021
As Fumika Mizuno worked on her senior thesis project, she reflected on its deeper meaning. “I'm currently in the process of naturalization to become a U.S. citizen,” she told us
Madeleine Marr headshot
June 1, 2021
Despite a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic, remote learning, and the standard stress of college, 72 Politics seniors completed theses. Some designed and conducted surveys. Others poured over digital archival research. A
Chaya Crowder
May 28, 2021
Dr. Crowder, an assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University, has been awarded an honorable mention for the 2021 Best Dissertation Award from the APSA's Women, Gender, and Politics Research Section
Nick Carnes Headshot
May 26, 2021
Nicholas Carnes, who completed his PhD in 2011 at Princeton, has received the NSF’s Alan Waterman Award, the government’s highest honor for an early career scientist. Nick is the first
Andrew Proctor Headshot
May 25, 2021
Politics alum Andrew Proctor has been selected as the 2021 winner of the American Political Science Association’s Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award for “Coming Out to Vote: LGBT Mobilization in