Department of Political Science

Message from the Chair

Phil Jos
Department Chair
Welcome to the Department of Political Science. Whether you are interested in American campaigns and elections or international human rights, global climate change or criminal justice, foreign policy or urban planning, Chinese politics or the politics of Africa, intelligence gathering or health policy, public opinion or revolutionary protest, local community groups or international development agencies, the Department of Political Science has the faculty, the courses, and the extracurricular programming for you. read more

Department Spotlight

April 6, 2012 -- William V. Moore Student Research Conference

The second annual William V. Moore Student Research Conference will run from 9 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. on Friday, April 6, in the Stern Student Center. The 27 student researchers will be divided into seven panels focusing on the following topics: American politics and participation, environmental sustainability, issues in contemporary feminism, comparative political transitions, public policy, global affairs, and grant funded research by undergraduates. View the full list of paper presentations here.