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Dominic Pfister and Jared Rabinowitz win Graduate Teaching Awards
Two Political Science graduate students, Dominic Pfister and Jared Rabinowitz, have been announced as recipients of the 2024-2025 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards (GATA)! This award is Ohio…

Chandler L'Hommedieu Wins Graduate Student Award for Mentoring Excellence
Graduate student Chandler L'Hommedieu has been selected to receive the College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Student Award for Mentoring Excellence!
This award is given each year to an…

Undergraduate Grace Orians Selected to Present at Prestigious Pi Sigma Alpha National Student Research Conference
The Ohio State University Political Science Department is thrilled to announce that Grace Orians, an outstanding undergraduate student, has been selected to present her research at the 2025 Pi…

Professor Melinda Ritchie Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
The Ohio State University Political Science Department is proud to announce that Professor Melinda Ritchie has been awarded the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award.…

Mock Trial Qualifies for National Championship
Mock Trial at Ohio State has qualified for the American Mock Trial Association National Championship Tournament for the ninth year in a row! They now hold the fifth-longest qualification streak in…

Elan Kyser Places Third at Denman Undergraduate Research Forum
Political Science student Elan Kyser, working with Engineering student Haikal Rozaidi, placed third in the Business, Society, and International Relations category at this year's Denman…

Two Political Science Faculty Awarded Huber Faculty Fellow Award
Professors Vladimir Kogan and Jennifer Mitzen have been selected to win a Joan N. Huber Faculty Fellowship. This program recognizes scholars in the social and behavioral sciences for their work.…

Professor Janet Box-Steffensmeier Selected for a Barry Prize
Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science Janet Box-Steffensmeier has been selected to receive one of ten Barry Prizes from the American Academy of Sciences and Letters.
This prize honors…

Winter 2025 Edition of Alger Published
The Winter 2025 edition of Alger Magazine was recently published on Substack.
Alger Magazine is the official undergraduate, international affairs magazine sponsored by the Department of…