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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 Randall…
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…