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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…

Professor Erin Lin Featured on Voices of Excellence Podcast
Erin Lin, Associate Professor of Political Science, and author of When the Bombs Stopped: The Legacy of War in Rural Cambodia was recently featured on The…
Mock Trial at Ohio State are GAMTI Champions
Mock Trial at Ohio State placed first at the 2024 Great American Mock Trial Invitational (GAMTI), hosted by the University of Virginia, December 7-8, 2024. GAMTI is widely regarded as the most…

Lin receives 2024-2025 Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship
Erin Lin, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Faculty…