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Shiran Victoria Shen Receives 2025 World Citizen Prize in Environmental Performance

9.17.25

The award recognizes research that assesses pathways to achieve measurable but as-yet unrealized gains in overall environmental performance, in particular to reduce consumption and waste.

Matthew Ribar Receives Best Graduate Student Paper Award from the African Politics Conference Group

9.16.25

The article, part of his PhD dissertation, looks at why formal land titles are so rare in sub-Saharan Africa.

Daniel Butler Receives NSF Grant for State Politics Project

9.15.25

The project looks to create a first of its kind database of US governor State of the State addresses.

PhD Candidate Rex Weiye Deng Receives APSA Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant

9.5.25

The grant provides support to enhance and improve the conduct of doctoral dissertation research in political science.

Multiple Political Science Faculty Receive Awards from American Political Science Association

8.4.25

The awards will be presented at the APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Vancouver this September.

Weidenbaum Center Invests $135,000 to Advance Graduate Research in Policy-Relevant Fields

7.16.25 | Weidenbaum Center

The fellowships were bestowed on four different grad students across Arts & Sciences including two PhD students from Political Science.

Writing his own story

7.10.25 | WashU Magazine

CJ Harrington, AB '17 double major in Political Science and Leadership and Strategic Management, is taking lessons learned at WashU to bet on himself and build a life — and a career — from the ground up.

Class Acts: Andrew Rudolph

7.9.25 | The Source

Class Acts: Amelia Letson

7.9.25 | The Source

Professor Taylor Carlson and PhD Alum Benjamin Noble Awarded Best Paper in Political Behavior

5.29.25

The award recognizes the best paper published in the journal, Political Behavior, in 2024.

Peng Peng Awarded the 2025 Lee J. Alston Prize for Best Article in Journal of Historical Political Economy

5.9.25

The Lee J. Alston Prize is given out annually for the best article in the previous year’s volume of the journal.

Lucia Motolinia Receives Early Career Award from Midwest Political Science Association Women’s Caucus

4.10.25

The award recognizes a female (pre-tenure) faculty member based upon her research accomplishments and contribution to the discipline.