Professor Mendelberg talks to TIME Magazine about how men see interruption as a power move.

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

Politics Ph.D. student Hochan "Sonny" Kim won the 2020 David Roscoe Award for an Early-Career Essay on Science, Ethics, and Society. Kim coauthored the award-winning essay, "Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic

Listen to Professor Wasow discuss the August Race Riots on NPR's Fresh Air

On WalletHub, Professor Macedo weighs in on why low voter turnout persists among certain social groups.

Politics alumna Ritter ’19 is partnering with lecturer StevenKelts to provide education and mentoring to students who opted to take a gap year due to COVID-19, allowing them to continue

Ph.D. alums Kustov and Zhou both received honorable mentions for their respective dissertations in APSA's Migration and Citizenship section.

Professor Bass writes on the recently declassified Nixon White House tapes that reveal how his racism and misogyny led him to ignore the genocidal violence of the Pakistani military in

In the Washington Post blog Monkey Cage, Professor Pop-Eleches and co-authors share their survey results on Putin's popularity and what they may indicate about the upcoming election.

In this Vox article, co-authored with Jacob M. Grumbach, Frymer writes "The NBA strike is a big moment for athlete activism — and the labor movement in America."

Goyal, an incoming faculty member in comparative politics who will start as an assistant professor in the 2021-22 academic year, received APSA's Class and Inequality Section Kauffman Foundation Award for

Graduate students Foster and Chan's preconference paper “Polarization for Paralysis: How Authoritarian Regimes Weaponize Information to Shift Foreign Political Behaviors” received the Timothy E. Cook Best Graduate Student Paper Honorable

In the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, McConnaughy discusses the political resources and organizational skills employed by women to get the vote.

The Department is pleased to announce the arrival of five new faculty and the promotions of two faculty members.

"Sudan’s government seems to be shifting away from Islamic law. Not everyone supports these moves," writes Arab Barometer Project Director Robbins.

Dukeman, a graduate student in American politics, won an Inman Award from the University of Texas at Austin's Intelligence Studies Project for his paper "Crucibles of Crisis: The Creation of

Congratulations to Steve Monroe, who won the APSA MENA Politics Award for Best Dissertation, and Chantal Berman, who received an honorable mention.

Professor Wantchekon is building academic pipelines in Africa to universities in the United States that will take direct aim at the underrepresentation of Black and minority students in the field

Professor Guess and his co-researchers received the grant "to conduct a multi-wave nationally representative survey of COVID-19 beliefs and attitudes."