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Three Political Science graduate students receive competitive DCF award
Monday, April 15, 2024
Congratulations to our graduate students Jason Hartwig, Audrey Jaquiss, and Chloe Ricks on being awarded the highly competitive Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the 2024-2025 academic year.
Daniel M. Smith publishes research on legacies of wartime destruction
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Professor Daniel M. Smith has published a new article in The Journal of Politics on the long-term socioeconomic legacies of the 1945 firebombing of Tokyo in World War II. A companion blog post in … Read More
Daniel M. Smith contributes to new volume on Historical Political Economy (HPE)
Thursday, February 8, 2024
Professor Daniel M. Smith has published a chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy.
Nic Dias quoted in the New York Times!
Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Joint ASC-PSCI Ph.D. student Nic Dias had his work and thoughts quoted in the November 15th edition of the New York Times by Tom Edsall in an opinion piece entitled "Overturning Roe Changed Everything. Overturning Affirmative Action Did Not."
Read the entire article and Nic's insightful… Read More
Prof. Rudy Sil Writes Short Essay for Penn Almanac
Wednesday, November 1, 2023
Penn Almanac just published a short essay penned by Professor Rudy Sil on teaching "Controversial Topics in the Classroom." While focusing on how to teach a meaningful course on Russian Politics, the essay also provides insightful advice on how to approach any sensitive topic, all the more… Read More
New Publication
Monday, October 16, 2023
Matt Levendusky has published an opinion piece in the New York Times: "Trump Is Excited About These Three Things" in which he notes that the 2024 Presidential elections "will look much like 2020 and 2016."
Read the full article… Read More
Daniel M. Smith wins Lawrence Longley Award
Monday, October 9, 2023
Professor Daniel M. Smith won the 2023 Lawrence Longley Award for his recent research (co-authored with Shusei Eshima), “Just a Number? Voter Evaluations of Age in Candidate Choice Experiments,” published in The Journal of Politics (… Read More
Brendan O'Leary wins PSAI Farrell Book Prize!
Thursday, October 5, 2023
O'Leary's book, Making Sense of a United Ireland, has been chosen as the winner of the PSAI Farrell Book Prize for 2023. Congratulations!
Ph.D. Candidate Mikhail Strokan featured in PennToday
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Mikhail Strokan was featured in the August edition of PennToday in an article entitled "Resisting the resource curse". Read the full article here.
Congratulations to our Recent Graduates!
Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Congratulations to the fourteen Ph.D. candidates who successfully defended and deposited their theses last Academic Year. We wish them the best of luck in all their future endeavors!