Professor Bear Braumoeller was one of seven Ohio State scientists inducted into the 2021 Class of Fellows for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The AAAS fellowship is regarded as one of the most prestigious honors a United States scientist can receive.

AAAS Fellows are elected by the AAAS Council annually.
As the AAAS fellowship process page details, "AAAS Fellows are a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines, from research, teaching, and technology, to administration in academia, industry and government, to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public."

Braumoeller was selected as an AAAS fellow "for distinguished contributions to the fields of political methodology, social science theory and applied policy analysis." (Emily Caldwell with Ohio State News).

PhD candidate Minseon Ku has been awarded a 2022 Charles Koch Foundation Foreign Policy Dissertation Grant of $5000. The Grant program focuses on "supporting scholarship that can help policymakers improve their foreign policy decisions."

Ku, who specializes in International Relations and Political Psychology, will use this grant to support her research for her dissertation, "Seeing is Believing: Summit Diplomacy and Public Perception of Security."  

Ku's dissertation uses process-tracing and survey experiments to "analyze and compare the narratives produced by the media, the leader, and the public surrounding four summits: South Korea-Japan summits in 1983 and 1984, US-Vietnam summit in 2000, and US-North Korea summit in 2018." 

Seven scholars in the February-March 2022 issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution are affiliated with the Department of Political Science. 

In the article, "Putting Terror in Its Place: An Experiment on Mitigating Fears of Terrorism among the American Public" all three authors are affiliated with the Department of Political Science. Coauthors Daniel Silverman '17 and Daniel Kent '20 are both PhD alums of the Department. The other coauthor, Christopher Gelpi, is a Professor of Political Science and serves as the  Director and Chair of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies.

Kathleen Powers '15 and Joshua D. Kertzer '13, both PhD alums, serve as two of the four coauthors of the article, "What’s Fair in International Politics? Equity, Equality, and Foreign Policy Attitudes." 

Eleonora Mattiacci '14, a PhD alum, is the lead author of "Atomic Ambiguity: Event Data Evidence on Nuclear Latency and International Cooperation."

Michael Reese '09, a PhD alum, is one of three coauthors for the article, "Does Insurgent Selective Punishment Deter Collaboration? Evidence from the Drone War in Pakistan."