Congratulations to PhD candidate Rana McReynolds who will receive a Ruth B. Mandel Dissertation Research Award from the Center for American Women and Politics to support "the next generation of gender and politics researchers to yield progress for women in U.S. politics."

The International Studies Association has just announced that Professor Jeannette Money has been selected to receive the Ethnicity, Nationalism, & Migration Studies Distinguished Scholar Award.  Congratulations!

Graduate Students Alice Malmberg and Daniel Scates have published a paper with the Institute for Replication on "Flight to Safety: COVID-Induced Changes in the Intensity of Status Quo Preference and Voting Behavior: A Comment on Bisbee and Honig."  You can read it here.  

Mieke Miner is one of our advanced PhD students, and she has written a piece on "The Worrying Trend of Internet Shutdowns in India" for the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.  

On a per-person basis, our faculty has been the 6th most productive nationally and the top UC Political Science department according to this study in the journal PS: Political Science and Politics.  

We are happy to welcome Professor Sarah Song from UC Berkeley to give a talk on "Truth, Lies, and Freedom of Speech" on Friday, June 9 at 12:00 in 693 Kerr.

Congratulations to Professors Kinne and Tellez who have received a $1.35 million grant to study "Resurgent Powers, Nontraditional Threats, and Emerging Technologies: Deterrence in a Multi-level Network Framework."  Read an article about it here.  

We are happy to welcome Professor Cesi Cruz from UCLA to give a talk on "Campaigning Against Populism: Emotions and Information in Real Election Campaigns" in 693 Kerr today at 12:00.

Professor Mark Verbitsky won a prestigious UCD College of Letters & Science Teaching Award for his outstanding undergraduate teaching.  Congratulations!!

Congratulations to one of our undergraduate honors thesis writers -- Kiara Kunnes -- for receiving a UCD Library award for her honors thesis research on "Does the Nigerian Government’s Response to Violent Conflict Exacerbate Civilians’ Fear?"

Read about one of our top undergraduate students and an honors thesis writer, Quincy Kumfert, profiled by the College here!  

POL PhD Alex Mayer who is now Director of Postsecondary Education at MDRC was interviewed on the PBS News Hour about MDRC's randomized control trials aimed at improving community college student success.  Here's the link, with Alex joining at the 4:40 mark.  

With their coauthors, Professor Adams and recent UCD PhD Dave Bracken have won the Klingemann Prize for their American Political Science Review article on "Can’t We All Just Get Along? How Women MPs Can Ameliorate Affective Polarization in Western Publics."  Congrats!

In memory of our colleague Richard Sinopoli, Frank Lovett of Washington University will deliver the Sinopoli Memorial Lecture on "Milton and the Republican Politics of Paradise Lost."  

Date: Friday, May 5, 2023

Location: 693 Kerr Hall

Lunch will be provided.  

Professor Shugart was interviewed about ways to reform the U.S. electoral system on The Downballot podcast.  You can listen to it and read the transcript here.