Melissa Lane is the only person ever to have delivered both the Carlyle Lectures and the Berlin Lectures at Oxford.

Lane's book, Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political, was named the winner of the 2024 Book Prize.

Professor Hye Young You's new book Hearings on the Hill: The Politics of Informing Congress (with Pamela Ban and Ju Yeon Park) was just published by Cambridge University Press.

Emens '25 is serving as the acting mayor in Jamesburg, N.J. Due to the nature of the transition, Emens called for a legal review of his own appointment.

Bass won the 2024 Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Arthur Ross Book Award Gold Medal for "Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia"

Frances Lee received the Richard F. Fenno, Jr., Award for Political Inquiry from the University of Rochester. Following the award presentation, Lee shared a lecture titled “A Case for Congress

George writes an opinion article about being conservative in a modern college campus

Rikio Inouye receives the Best Paper for the entire Foreign Policy Section from the American Political Science Association

Gary Bass's book, Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia, is on the longlist for the Baillee Gifford Prize in Non-Fiction and shortlisted

Chuck Cameron and John Kastellec's book, Making the Supreme Court: The Politics of Appointments, 1930-2020, wins the Richard E. Neustadt Book Award

The software is called Interflex which helps researchers flexibly test conditional hypotheses.

The award recognizes the best book on science, technology, and politics published in the last year.

Tuñón's paper is titled, "Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires" (joint with Valentín Figueroa, conditionally accepted at The Journal of Politics)

Amaney Jamal, dean of SPIA, the Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, and professor of politics and international affairs, has been awarded the 2024 Susanne Hoeber Rudolph Outstanding Scholar Award.

The E.E. Schattschneider Award is granted for the best dissertation in the field of American government.

The Kenneth Sherrill Prize is given for the best dissertation proposal for an empirical study of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT) topics in political science.

Kristopher Ramsay will serve as interim department chair of the Department of Politics, effective July 1, 2024.