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Penn State’s Political Science Department offers world-class scholarship, small class sizes,
lots of faculty attention, and more...
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- Andrew Boutton wins Best Graduate Student Paper award from the International Security Studies Section of International Studies Association.
- Casey Crisman-Cox, a 2011 graduate, won the best undergraduate paper award at the 2011 Midwest Political Science Association meetings for his senior year thesis research entitled "Terrorism, Democracies, and Partisanship: Interactions Between Government and Intrastate Terrorist Groups."
- The interdisciplinary academic Center for American Political Responsiveness was founded in 2011.
- Joseph Wright was named the initial recipient of the Jeffrey and Sharon Hyde / Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professorship.
- Lee Ann Banaszak receives grant from the Spencer Foundation for a project on “Learning Protest: Youth Attitudes toward Protest as Civic Action in a Cross-national Perspective.”
- Shaun Bevan, with Will Jennings, wins 2011 Best Comparative Policy Paper Award from the Public Policy Section of the American Political Science Association.
- Matthew Wilson and Mark Shadden are both awarded three year NSF Graduate Research Fellowships.
- Political Science Students visit Pentagon, discuss defense careers
- Political Science hosts 2011 student-alumni banquet, gives two alumni awards
- Luke Keele (American Politics and Methodology), Xun Cao (International Relations and Environmental Politics), and Peter Hatemi (American Politics and Political Psychology) join Penn State in Fall, 2011.
- QUASSI hosts 2011 new faces conference on April 30
- Doug Rice wins the 2010 Best Graduate Student paper from the American Political Science Association Law and Courts section.
- Jon Moody and Eitan Tzelgov receive NSF dissertation awards
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- Professor Joseph Wright wins the College’s Roy Buck Award for the best paper published in 2010 by an untenured faculty member.
- David Myers receives the College of the Liberal Arts award for Outstanding Teaching.
- Eric Plutzer and Michael Berkman receive the "Distinction in the Social Sciences" award from the College of the Liberal Arts.
- Marie Hojnacki's co-authored book "Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why" is selected for the 2010 Epstein best book award from the Political Organizations and Parties section of APSA.
- Professor Zaryab Iqbal publishes book, War and the Health of Nations on Stanford University Press.
- Prof. Scott Bennett becomes 2009-2010 President of the Peace Science Society (term started November 21, 2009)
- Faculty publications
since 2000
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