- 2018-03-15 - Congratulations to all of the faculty and teaching assistants on the Fall 2017 List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent. A special congratulations to the 26 instructors from the Department of Political Science who are on the list! Scott Althaus – PS 312 Kristin Bail – PS 240 (TA) Jaeseok...
2018-03-06 - For their latest book William Bernhard and Tracy Sulkin studied 20 years of data on the U.S. House of Representatives. They discovered five distinct legislative styles that describe the ways that members of Congress focus their time, effort and resources. The U of I News Bureau spoke with Dr....- 2018-02-23 - Samantha Frost is part of a multi-university team that just won a $138,000 Research Challenge Grant from the Humanities Without Walls consortium. Dr. Frost is a Project Coordinator for the project “Arendt on Earth: From the Archimedean...
- 2018-02-09 - Each year the College of LAS recognizes professors, teaching assistants and an advisor for excellence in educations and mentoring. We are excited to have two members of the Department of Political Science being recognized this year. ...
2018-02-01 - Congratulations to Political Science major, Naomi Kainuma. Naomi received the Illinois International Undergraduate Achievement Award. Naomi will complete her degree in Spring 2018 and will be working with the Peace Corps in Indonesia following graduation....- 2018-01-26 - Congratulations to Avital Livny and Gisela Sin on their appointments to the Center for Advanced Study! Dr. Livny was named a Fellow for 2018-2019. She will be pursuing her project titled, “Persistent Effects of Diversity for Politics and Economics: The Case of Ottoman Turkey.” Dr. Sin was named...
2017-11-20 - A big congratulations to senior Thomas Dowling who was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. He is one of only 32 students nationwide selected for the honor and is the first Rhodes Scholar from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1998. The Rhodes Scholarship allows for postgraduate study...
2017-11-16 - Congratulations to Dr. Tracy Sulkin who was named a Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar. The appointment recognizes Dr. Sulkin for her research achievements and her leadership role on campus....
2017-10-30 - Congratulations to Jake Bowers who has been selected by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies for a Faculty Award. Dr. Bowers was selected for his project "Latin American Political Methodology."
2017-10-02 - Political Science PhD alumnus Dr. Sumit Ganguly (’84) has been elected as a 2017 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Ganguly is currently a...
2017-09-29 - Political science professor Wendy Tam Cho is fascinated by the redistricting process. So much so that she and her research colleague Yan Liu developed an algorithm using the Blue Waters supercomputer, that generates billions of maps...
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...
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)....- 2017-09-06 - Congratulations to the political science faculty and teaching assistants on the Spring 2017 list of Teachers Ranked as Excellent! ...
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!