2017-09-27 - Dr. Matt Winters has been awarded a two-year monetary award from Equal Access International to support research into the effectiveness of the organization's USAID-funded countering-violent-extremism radio programming in Niger. The project is building on a relationship that was initially developed by Dr. Jake Bowers and Chris Grady. Congratulations, Matt!

2017-09-25 - Congratulations to political science alumna Morgan McClain-McKinney Limo (BA, '09; MA, '11) who is a recipient of the LAS Outstanding Young Alumni Award! Morgan currently serves as the program advisor for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Read more about...

2017-09-06 - Congratulations to the political science faculty and teaching assistants on the Spring 2017 list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent!   Jaeseok Cho, PS 280 (TA) Wendy...

2017-09-06 - Congratulations to John Vasquez who has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association. Congratulations to Dr. Vasquez on this well-deserved award!

2017-08-30 - Professor Avital Livny has been selected by the APSA Comparative Democratization Section as the winner of the 2017 Juan Linz Best Dissertation Award. Congratulations to Professor Livny on this recognition!

2017-08-18 - Congratulations to Professor Jake Bowers who has been selected as a research affiliate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University for the 2017-2018 academic year. In this non-residential fellowship position, Professor Bowers will have regular and ongoing interactions with the other fellows throughout the year....

2017-08-08 - In the series LAS@Work, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences shares different career paths of LAS alumni. The latest article features political science alumna Daissy Dominguez. Daissy Dominguez ('10) graduated with a degree in political science before going on to law school. One year after earning her JD, Dominguez opened her own law...

2017-08-01 - Congratulations to Avital Livny and Stephen Chaudoin who have been names 2017-2018 Linowes Fellows with through the Cline Center for Democracy. Professor Livny will continue her work with the Composition of Religious and Ethnic Groups project and Professor Chaudoin will be...

2017-07-24 - Congratulations to Dr. Jim Kuklinski for being awarded the American Political Science Association (APSA) Political Psychology Section’s 2017 Hazel Gaudet Erskine Political Psychology Career Achievement Award! Dr. Kuklinski was awarded this honor as a result of his substantial contributions to the discipline of Political Psychology over the course of his...

2017-07-21 - Congratulations to Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz for being awarded a grant from the Social and Behavioral Science Research Institute! Professor Ksiazkiewicz is part of an interdisciplinary research team led by Daniel Briley (Psychology) on the project, "Establishing an Illinois Twin Project." Click here to read more about the project.

2017-07-13 - We are pleased to announce that Collin Schumock (’17) has been awarded the 2017 Best Thesis Award for his thesis “Intraparty Factions and Interparty Polarization.” In his senior thesis Collin studied the equilibrium outcomes of different political games where parties are made up of factions. “I argue that these equilibria can be used to capture polarization and by manipulating the factions we...

2017-06-28 - What is the fusion rule and how does it impact elections in the United States? On the London School of Economics US Centre blog, PhD candidate Ben Kantack answers this question and more as it relates to New York elections. ...

2017-06-22 - Professor Damarys Canache studies the politics and public opinion in Venezuela. After a recent trip to Venezuela, she spoke with the News Bureau about the country's ongoing crisis. Professor Canache discusses the conditions in the country, the social protests and the impact the latest protests are having. Read the full story.  

2017-06-13 - John Coady ('74) has been named the president of the Illinois Judges Association. Judge Coady is a member of the Political Science Alumni Board of Visitors and is also the immediate past president of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association Board. Read the full story.

2017-05-26 - Professor Scott Althaus is studying the question of how news organizations can better report acts of terrorism. With his latest research Althaus and colleagues at universities in Europe will study how media coverage can avoid sensationalizing terror attacks. "We want to understand how journalists can more responsibly report on terror attacks that provide the democratic needs of citizens while...