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The Department of Political Science is proud to announce a $25,000 match for any gift made to their BuckeyeFunder campaign. Thanks to the generosity of Political Science Advisory Board members,…
Political Science Department Announces Two Faculty Searches
The Department of Political Science is seeking applications for two faculty positions beginning in Fall 2027…
According to the widely regarded Shanghai Ranking of World Universities, The Ohio State University's Political Science department is now #14 in the world! This is a sharp jump upward from #22 last…
Professor Christopher Gelpi was recently featured in The Lantern for his involvement with the Through the Guiding Eyes for the Blind Program.
Read the whole article here.
On August 24th, faculty, graduate students, and staff gathered to celebrate the start of the Autumn 2026 semester at the Department of Political Science's annual Welcome Back Reception. The event…
Distinguished University Professor Janet Box-Steffensmeier has been named the 2026 recipient of The Ohio State University's Pierre Agostini Prize, the institution's most…
The Ohio State University Mock Trial program is entering the new season with momentum after a year filled with national achievements, individual honors, and record-setting.
This spring, Ohio…
The Department of Political Science came together on May 6th for our second bake-off event. The competition featured 12 contestants from across the department—including staff, faculty, and…
On May 10, the Department of Political Science hosted its first PhD Graduate Breakfast, celebrating four of the department’s six Spring 2026 doctoral graduates. Faculty, staff, students, and…
The Department of Political Science celebrated the achievements of its graduating seniors during the annual Undergraduate Graduation Reception on May 9, recognizing exceptional…
Two Political Science graduate students, Laurie Georges and Cameron Macaskill, have been announced as recipients of the 2025-2026 Graduate Associate Teaching Awards (GATA)! This award is Ohio…
Gregory A. Caldeira, Distinguished University Professor and Dreher Chair in Political Communication and Policy Thinking in the Department of Political Science and a professor in…
A professor in the Department of Political Science and the Director of the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability, Michael Neblo recently testified…
Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Distinguished University Professor and Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, received a 2025 Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual…
Erin Lin, Associate Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the 2025 Giovanni Sartori Book Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her book, When the Bombs…
Amanda Robinson, Professor of Political Science, has been named the recipient of the American Political Science Association’s (APSA) David Collier Mid-Career Achievement Award for 2025.
On October 8th, the Department of Political Science gathered in the Derby Hall courtyard to celebrate the recent publications of two faculty members with "book cakes".
Professor Vladimir…
The Department of Political Science kicked off the new academic year with its annual Graduate Reception on Monday, August 25, at The Faculty Club’s Grand Lounge. The event brought together faculty…
The Department of Political Science is proud to announce that one of our students has received top national recognition for her outstanding undergraduate research.
Grace Orians was selected…
The Spring 2025 edition of Alger Magazine was recently published on Substack.
Alger Magazine is the official undergraduate, international affairs magazine sponsored by the Department of…
The Political Science Department celebrated its graduating Class of 2025 and this year’s Pi Sigma Alpha inductees with a spring reception at the Fawcett Center on May 3. Family, friends, faculty,…
As the academic year draws to a close, The Ohio State University Mock Trial Team is celebrating a standout season marked by historic wins and national recognition.
Earlier this year, the…
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Alexander Wendt on being elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! Members are leaders in the arts and sciences who have made…
Political Science Associate Professor Sara Watson has been named one of three OSU faculty members to receive the 2025 President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty Service. This award…
Political Science Associate Professor Erin Lin, who has been awarded the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Fellowship, was honored at a Fulbright recognition ceremony on Monday March 31…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 Ohio State University podcast, …
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…
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 Research…
On Saturday, September 14, 2024, President Biden announced that a cohort of Fulbright U.S. Student Study/Researchers have been selected as Fulbright-John Lewis Civil Rights Fellows in remarks made…
What are some of the responsibilities you take on as the Director of the Ohio Department of Insurance?
I run the department and the department regulates one of the largest…
Mock Trial at Ohio State recently participated in the American Mock Trial Association National Championship Tournament and achieved remarkable success.
Each year, the American Mock Trial…
On May 1st, the CATO Institute published a research brief titled, "Border Walls and Refugees.” This research brief is based on Christopher F. Gelpi, Nazli Avdan, and Andrew S. Rosenberg, “Where…
The Spring 2024 edition of Alger Magazine was recently published.
Alger Magazine is the official undergraduate international affairs magazine sponsored by the Department of Political Science…
Article By: Jeff Grabmeier
The 118th Congress passed fewer than 30 new laws in 2023, the least in decades. But that doesn’t necessarily mean U.S. representatives weren’t finding other ways…
Each spring, the College of Arts and Sciences’ Alumni Awards ceremony recognizes a distinguished few of our more than 215,000 living alumni whose accomplishments are tangible evidence of the…
Congratulations to our outstanding Pi Sigma Alpha Student Paper Competition winners: Andrew Wong, Garrett Ziperstein, and Riley Stanton!
Their remarkable papers have made a lasting…
We are delighted to announce that Associate Professor Benjamin McKean from our department has been awarded the prestigious Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP)…
The Omicron chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha invites all chapter members to submit a paper they have written for a Political Science course at The Ohio State University. This competition seeks to…
Danniyal Ahmed is a skilled state and federal policy attorney with a strong background in political science. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Ohio…
The Department of Political Science at Ohio State University invites applications, at the full or associate professor level, for the Andrei Baronov and Ratmir Timashev Chair in Data Analytics…
On Thursday, October 18th, Political Science Advisory Board Members spoke with roughly 50 undergraduate political science students and members of the Pre-Law Fraternity, Phi Alpha Delta. Andrew…
Alison Storsve joined the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament as Deputy U.S. Representative in August 2023. A Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State since 2003,…
Alexander Wendt, Professor of Political Science and Mershon Professor of International Security, is one of two joint winners, of the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for 2023. This prize…
Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Vernal Riffe Professor of Political Science, was recently honored as the winner of APSA's Frank J. Goodnow Award for 2023. The Goodnow Award honors service to the…
Our dear colleague, Bear Braumoeller, passed away this morning in Oslo after a sudden, brief illness.
Words cannot express our feelings of profound sadness.
As we know more, we will…
On March 20, PhD Candidate José Pérez had his coauthored article, "The intersectionality of health (in)security: Healthcare, disposable workers, and exposure within Brazil’s pandemic politics"…
PhD Candidate Kara Hooser was awarded the Graduate School's 2023 Graduate Associate Teaching Award, Ohio State's highest recognition of exceptional teaching provided by graduate students serving…
On Tuesday, February 7th, host of PBS’ (Public Broadcasting System) Open Mind, Alexander Heffner, joined students at Ohio State’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs to speak about …
PhD Candidate Kara Hooser was recently awarded a research grant from the small grants program of the Women, Gender, & Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA)…
As 2022 comes to a close, Ohio State’s Collegiate Council on World Affairs (CCWA) reflects on their organization’s many noteworthy experiences. Over the course of the year, CCWA has welcomed over…
On December 2nd, students from Internship Coordinator Troy Markham's course, PoliSci 4191, joined together to talk about their fall internships.
Many students worked in the Ohio House or…
Interview by Sara Werling-Waldron
Dr. Jaushieh (Joseph) Wu (PhD, 1989) currently serves as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan under President Tsai Ing-wen since February 2018. He…
On November 17, Ohio State's Center for Ethnic Studies announced the Autumn Student Travel and Research Grant recipients. The grants are intended to support students’ research activities,…
PhD candidate José Pérez has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship by the U.S. Department of Education, International and Foreign…
Story and image pulled from the Mershon Center's Mershon Memo Newsletter
In a ceremony in Jakarta in August, Mershon Center fellow and Professor Emeritus of Political Science …
On Friday, September 9th, members of the Department of Political Science gathered in the courtyard of Derby Hall to celebrate the book publications of 5 faculty members.
Professor Skyler…
PhD candidate Minseon Ku has been awarded a doctoral dissertation grant of $2500 from the USC Center on Public Diplomacy. This grant is "intended to recognize and support the work of emerging…
The Department of Political Science mourns the passing of longstanding courtesy professor Richard F. Hamilton (January 18, 1930-June 15, 2022). A sociologist of mass politics, Hamilton delighted…
This past March, Professor Eric MacGilvray was surprised during a faculty meeting with the announcement that he would receive the 2022 President and Provost's Award for Distinguished Faculty…
First year PhD student Franshelly M. Martínez-Ortiz was recently awarded a spring 2022 American Political Science Association (APSA) Diversity Fellowship.
According to the APSA website, …
On April 4, nine scholars joined together in Derby Hall to participate in a symposium entitled, "What States Do, Who States Are: Routines, Foreign Policy, and International Politics,” co-hosted by…
Professor Emeritus Paul Beck quoted in Cleveland.com, Gov. Mike DeWine finally gives his second state of the state address: Watch it live
Courtesy Faculty member, Professor Wendy…
Senior Josh Goetz was awarded 3rd place at the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on March 8th, 2022. Goetz placed in the Domestic and International Relations category, with a paper titled …
The Department of Political Science wants to showcase the outstanding recent accomplishments of individuals connected with the Department.
Ph.D. candidate José O Pérez recently had his article, "The Dilma Rousseff presidency: from motherly discourses to queer impeachment," published in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. …
Assistant Professor Erin Lin, along with Columbia University's Nikhar Gaikwad and Noah Zuker, were awarded the Best Paper Award for 2021 by the American Political Science Association's (APSA)…
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Erin Lin, was recently awarded a three year grant of $450,000 by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research's (AFOSR) Young Investigators Program. The…
On November 2, 2021 PhD candidate Seo Eun Yang won first place for her poster at the Transnational Data Analytics Institute's (TDAI) Fall Forum poster session. TDAI is an institute based at Ohio…
PhD Alum Melanye Price quoted in a New York Times article, What a $50 million donation did for one HBCU
Associate Professor Vladimir Kogan quoted in an article from USA Today, How…
We want to wish a huge congratulations to Bear Braumoeller, Professor in the Department of Political Science and head of the MESO Lab (Modeling Emergent Social Order), and the MESO Lab research…
PhD candidate Andrew (Andy) Goodhart was awarded two Predoctoral Fellowships from George Washington University and Johns Hopkins University for the 2021-2022 academic year.
Goodhart is one…
Fifth year PhD candidate Caleb Pomeroy was awarded the US-Asia Grand Strategy Predoctoral Fellowship at the University of Southern California's Korean Studies Institute for the 2021-2022 academic…
OSU Political Science Ph.D. student Kara Hooser has recently been awarded an APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant of $11,020. The Grant will fund fieldwork related to Hooser's…
The APSA Diversity Fellowship Program (formerly known as the APSA Minority Fellowship Program or MFP) is a fellowship competition for individuals from underrepresented backgrounds applying to or…
In March 2021, Jacob Chang and Anna Valerius—two undergraduate students majoring in Political Science—were elected President and Vice President of Undergraduate Student Government (USG) at Ohio…
Alan van Beek, a graduate student in the Department of Political Science, was recently awarded the 2020-2021 Graduate Associate Teaching Award from the Ohio State College of Arts…
To the Ohio State Political Science Department community:
This Tuesday, just minutes before Derek Chauvin was convicted of murder in the death of George Floyd, sixteen…
Ohio State University student Oseremhen “Ose” Arheghan has been awarded a 2021 Harry S. Truman Scholarship.
Arheghan, a third-year political science and Chinese major, is one of 62 students…
Recently, Associate Professor of Political Science Dr. Benjamin L. McKean was awarded the 2020-2021 Outstanding Teaching Award (OTA) from the Ohio State College of Arts and Sciences. The…
The Department of Political Science would like to acknowledge recent media pieces highlighting members of our world-renowned faculty (this list is not exhaustive). See the articles below for…
Dr. Erin Lin, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Ohio State inFACT faculty hire, had a write up of some of her recent publications in an article included in the
Carter G. Phillips (OSU Political Science, Class of 1973) is one of the most experienced Supreme Court and appellate lawyers in the country. Since joining Sidley Austin LLP (the law firm where he…
Join Ohio State political science experts tomorrow, February 9, 2021 at 4:00PM on Zoom for a conversation about civil-military relations in the United States.
Panel:
Gregory…
Dr. Jan Box-Steffensmeier, the Vernal G. Riffe Professor in Government and Politics in the Department of Political Science, was recently named a 2020 American Association for the…
On Monday, Nov. 19, 2020, the Ohio State University Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI) will hold a lecture commemorating the passing of Political Science and TDAI faculty member, Brice…
The Mock Trial team, an undergraduate student organization within the Department of Political Science, is well underway with its Fall 2020 season. Read the tournament-by-tournament update on their…
The Department of Political Science congratulates PhD student Andrew Goodhart for being awarded a Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship from the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) for their…
On Tuesday, October 20, from 4-5PM, there was a special event to mark the launch of Professor Ben McKean's new book, Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom -…
Dr. Jong Kun Choi, an alumnus of The Ohio State University Department of Political Science PhD program, was recently appointed as 1st Vice Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of South…
Recently, Associate Professor of Political Science Dr. Inés Valdez was awarded the 2020 Sussex International Theory Prize for her book Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice…
Recently, Department Chair, Distinguished University Scholar, Dreher Chair in Political Communication and Policy Thinking and Professor of Law Dr. Gregory A. Caldeira was given the 2020 Lifetime…
The 2020 edition of the Alger Magazine was recently published and can be viewed here.
The Alger Magazine is the official magazine of the Collegiate Council on World Affairs, one of the…
Benjamin W. Campbell received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University’s Department of Political Science in 2019, where he is a visiting fellow. He is currently a data scientist at CoverMyMeds…
Earlier this month, Professor Inés Valdez was selected to receive the 2019-2020 Diversity Enhancement Award. This award recognizes a faculty member from within The Ohio State…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio State University is pleased to announce that sixteen students have received Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards in for the 2020-2021 academic year from the…
Last month, OSU Political Science Ph.D. student Kara Hooser was awarded $1,000 for her research proposal: “Violence as Peace: A Gender Analysis of Everyday Peace Discourses in Bosnia.”
The…
Two graduate students in the Department of Political Science, Kaitlin McClamrock and Daniel Naftel, currently hold NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, which provide three years of financial support…
Last week, Dr. Jan Box-Steffensmeier was named a Distinguished University Professor by The Ohio State University Office of Academic Affairs. The Office of Academic Affairs awards the permanent,…
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Neblo, professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA), for being named a member…
Congratulations to Professor Josh Kertzer (Ph.D., Ohio State, Political Science; visiting professor of political science, 2019-2020, Ohio State; and associate professor of Government, Harvard…
Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Norrander (Ph.D. in Political Science, Ohio State, '82) for earning the 2020 Outstanding Professional Achievement award from the Midwest Women's Caucus for Political…
Assistant Professor of Political Science Erin Lin was recently the subject of a feature from the Ohio State University Office of International Affairs for her research on the impacts of unexploded…
On January 29, 2020, Chalkbeat.com posted an article about recent research conducted by Dr. Vladimir Kogan, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Political…
On January 15, 2020 Professor Emeritus Paul Beck was quoted in the Cleveland.com article "At long last, all Ohio legislative meetings will be publicly broadcast," written about the recent,…
In September 2019, Dr. Austin Carson, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and an Ohio State Department of Political Science alumnus ('13) was awarded…
On January 13th, 2020, Political Science Professor Bear Braumoeller was quoted in the Vox news article, "US-Iran crisis: 9 questions you were too embarrassed to ask," which provides answers to…
OSU faculty, students and staff in the Department of Political Science are mourning the loss of Brice Acree, who was an assistant professor in that department. Acree died Monday, November 11, in…
Second year Ose Arheghan was one of twenty-seven college-aged participants in the Cox State Department Seminar held October 2-5, 2019 by the State Department and the Una Chapman Cox Foundation…
The Department of Political Science is proud to announce that the Ohio State University senior Henry Wu has been named a 2020 Rhodes Scholar. The Rhodes Scholarship was founded in 1902, and…
The American Political Science Association: Southeast Asian Politics Group awarded their 2018 Best Paper Award to:
"Merit, Discrimination & Democratization—An Analysis of Promotion Patterns…
Two students from the Department of Political Science were awarded Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships for the summer 2019 semester and the 2019-20 academic year, out of 80…
Internship Spotlight -- 2019
Public Affairs Intern at the United States Embassy in Dublin, Ireland
This summer I was fortunate enough to intern with the Department of State…
The Department of Political Science will be hosting their inaugural Political Science Week from Nov 4th - Nov 7th. Events will be held throughout the week with the opportunity for students to…
Board of Trustee Action promoted Ines Valdez to associate professor on May 31, 2019.
Valdez, associate professor of Political Science and Director of the Latina/o Studies Program at…
Michael Neblo, Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Philosophy and Public Policy, was promoted to Professor in the Department of Political Science by Board of Trustee action on May 31,…
Helina Solomon, a third year World Politics major, recently spent May 2016 studying abroad in Brazil through the Global May program. Here she describes the program and reflects on her…
The Ohio State chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS) was recently named the 2015-16 Chapter of the Year at the national AHS Student Leadership Conference in Washington, D.C. Chapter…
Glorianna Flemming, a first year Political Science major, spent her spring break volunteering with Syrian and Iraqi refugees in a healthcare clinic in Amman, Jordan. Here, Glorianna describes…
On Tuesday, April 19, a small group of Ohio State University students met with two prominent experts to discuss the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear agreement with Iran. Jessica…
Two political science majors, Max Mauerman and Ben Schumann, recently traveled to Berlin, Germany to present their research at the International Association of Political Science Students (IAPSS)…
Three 2015 graduates of the Department of Political Science have been named recipients of Fulbright U.S. Student grants.
Ilhan Dahir, a political science and English double…
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Political science professor Alexander Thompson recently attended the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 21), held in Paris from November 30 - December 12, 2015. Here he discusses…
In Autumn 2016, the Department of Political Science will introduce a restructured Bachelor of Arts degree, with seven new specialization options. These new specializations will…
On January 5, two political science majors - freshman Spencer Dirrig and sophomore Kelly Harrop - were elected as delegates to represent Ohio's 12th Congressional District at the 2016 Democratic…
Ilhan Dahir (Political Science; English, 2015) has been named a 2016 Rhodes Scholar. The scholarship supports two years of graduate study at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Thirty…
Richard Herrmann, professor and chair of the Department of Political Science, has been named to serve a two-year term on Ohio State's Board of Trustees' Academic Affairs and Student Life Committee…
Matthew Hitt (PhD, ’14) has been selected as the winner of the American Political Science Association's 2015 Edward S. Corwin Award. The Corwin Award is awarded annually for the best doctoral…
As an incoming freshman majoring in political science, Kelly Harrop, has already begun making her mark in the political world. During this past summer, Kelly had the opportunity to work as a…
Erik Leiden, the Collegiate Council on World Affairs President and a fourth year political science major, had an amazing summer traveling the world and gaining invaluable experiences teaching…
“In June I began working as a Staff Assistant to Congressman Patrick J. Tiberi (OH-12) in his Washington, D.C. office. Congressman Tiberi, an OSU Alumnus, sits on the House Ways & Means Committee,…
Alexandra Mayorga, a recent political science graduate, will be starting graduate school this fall at Princeton University where she will focus further on the study of politics. As an…
For many political science majors interning or working at the White House has always been a dream. For our recent alumna, Andrea Blinkhorn, this dream came true. Ms. Blinkhorn had the amazing…
Erin McAuliffe, a fourth year political science major, has been nominated as a candidate for the 2014 Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship competitions. McAuliffe has had quite a successful career…
For the first time in Ohio State history, the Ohio State Mock Trial team qualified for the National Championship Tournament in Orlando, Florida. The purpose of the Undergraduate student Mock Trial…
The department would like to welcome Jan Pierskalla, a new faculty member in political science. Professor Pierskalla specializes in the study of comparative politics, in particular topics related…
The 2013-2014 school year marked the debut of the Sciences Po study abroad program through the Political Science Department. In the fall, Rebecca Izzi and Luke Fesko had the amazing opportunity of…
Alison Craig, a PhD candidate who studies American Politics, was recently award a prestigious 3 year NSF grant to complete her dissertation research. This grant recognizes and supports outstanding…
Each spring the Political Science Department holds an Undergraduate Spring Reception to honor the political science majors' outstanding achievements. The guest speaker for the 2014 event was Mr…
The 2013-2014 school year marks the third year in a row for Ohio State University’s Model African Union team to be invited to the national conference that took place in Washington, D.C. at Howard…
This has been a banner year for Collegiate Council on World Affairs – over the last two semesters, the organization has grown into one of the Ohio State University’s largest and most active…