Political Science faculty regularly publish new books in their areas of expertise. They are also regularly featured by major press outlets for interviews, reviews, articles, and papers.
Our graduate students are actively engaged in all professional aspects of the field, publishing in top journals and winning prestigious awards, fellowships, and grants that fund both pre-dissertation and dissertation research. See more on the Graduate Student Publications and Awards webpage.
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A panel of CCAS faculty experts including Sarah Binder explored the economic stakes in the upcoming presidential election—and whether partisanship trumps pocketbooks for today’s voters.
Undergraduates Nataliya Layer, Lydia Miller, Liana Moldovanu and Anja Ree spent six weeks in Eastern Europe documenting the human toll of war through personal narratives.
The new Master of Science in Quantitative Social Sciences (MSQSS), which will be available in fall 2025 through the Political Science Department, crosses disciplines for a data-driven curriculum.