Stephen Macedo
October 6, 2020
On WalletHub, Professor Macedo weighs in on why low voter turnout persists among certain social groups.
Kalos-Academy-Tigers
September 23, 2020
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
zhou and kustov
September 10, 2020
Ph.D. alums Kustov and Zhou both received honorable mentions for their respective dissertations in APSA's Migration and Citizenship section.
bass nixon op-ed
September 10, 2020
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
Grigo Pop-Eleches
September 10, 2020
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.
Portrait of Professor Paul Frymer
September 10, 2020
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."
Tanushree Goyal
September 8, 2020
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
foster zenobia
September 4, 2020
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
Corrine McConnaughy standing in front of a tree facing the camera
September 1, 2020
In the Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, McConnaughy discusses the political resources and organizational skills employed by women to get the vote.
fisher hall
September 1, 2020
The Department is pleased to announce the arrival of five new faculty and the promotions of two faculty members.
Michael Robbins
August 28, 2020
"Sudan’s government seems to be shifting away from Islamic law. Not everyone supports these moves," writes Arab Barometer Project Director Robbins.
Photo of Ryan Dukeman
August 28, 2020
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
nassau hall fall flag
August 24, 2020
Congratulations to Steve Monroe, who won the APSA MENA Politics Award for Best Dissertation, and Chantal Berman, who received an honorable mention.
Leonard Wantchekon
August 21, 2020
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
Andy Guess standing in a hallway
August 19, 2020
Professor Guess and his co-researchers received the grant "to conduct a multi-wave nationally representative survey of COVID-19 beliefs and attitudes."
Portrait of Professor Jake Shapiro
August 19, 2020
Professor Shapiro and his co-authors explore what tech companies can learn from defense-academia partnerships to promote long-term, independent research on influence operations.
Headshot of Aaron Friedberg
August 18, 2020
Professor Friedberg and Charles Boustany's research report is detailed in The Hill.
August 18, 2020
LaFleur Stephens-Dougan, Brandice Canes-Wrone and Lauren Wright weigh in on Kamala Harris as Biden's VP pick.
Portrait of LaFleur Stephens-Dougan
August 17, 2020
Professor Stephens-Dougan discusses the political implications of Kamala Harris as Biden's running mate.
myron headshot
August 11, 2020
Myron was a Class of 2020 politics concentrator