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.
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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. Click here for Naomi's full biography and to learn more about the award.- 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 an Associate and will be working on her project titled, “The Disempowered Executive: Reconsidering...
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 at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Thomas, a recipient of the Truman Fellowship for...
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. Read more about the Richard and Margaret Romano Professorial Scholar program.
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 Professor of Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington, where he also holds the Rabindranath...
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 reflecting the Supreme Court criteria as well as partisanship. Professor Cho spoke with Craig...
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...