Irene Gerrish selected for 23-24 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program
Irene Gerrish, a rising second year PhD student, was one of eighteen spring program recipients.
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Margit Tavits receives Robert E. Lane Award for Voicing Politics
Margit Tavits and Efrén Pérez have been selected as the winners of the Robert E. Lane Award for their book Voicing Politics: How Language Shapes Public Opinion.
Department of Political Science hosts WUSTEPS, a new summer pipeline program
Department of Political Science hosts WUSTEPS, a new summer pipeline program.
TRIADS announces recipients of seed grant funding
Congratulations to David Carter, Dino Christenson, Matthew Gabel, Jacob Montgomery, and Betsy Sinclair on receiving seed grants from the Transdisciplinary Institute in Applied Data Sciences!
Noémi Neidorff pledges to establish endowed professorship in Arts & Sciences
Noémi Neidorff, a longtime benefactor of Washington University in St. Louis and other cultural and educational institutions locally and beyond, has made a $3 million pledge to the university to endow the new Bela Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship in Arts & Sciences.
Ben Noble received the Presidents and Executive Politics Award for Best Graduate Paper
"How Presidents Persuade Facts, Feelings, and the Language of Presidential Power" has been selected as the Presidents and Executive Politics Best Graduate Paper for 2023
Graduate Students place at the 28th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
Jeremy Siow and Ben Noble won first and second place in the social science category.
Jeremy Siow selected as a SEAREG Fellow
SEAREG (Southeast Asia Research Group) Fellows are selected annually in a competitive process for outstanding unpublished work on Southeast Asia.
Diana O’Brien Named Inaugural Recipient of Endowed Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship
Diana O'Brien, Professor of Political Science, has been named as the inaugural recipient of the newly established, endowed Kornitzer Distinguished Professorship.
Diana O'Brien won awards for "Representation and the Trade Roots of the Gender Wage Gap"
"Representation and the Trade Roots of the Gender Wage Gap" won the following awards: Southern Political Science Association 2023 Best Paper, SPSA's 2023 Marian Irish Award and the Midwest Political Science Association's 2023 Sophonisba Breckinridge Award.
William Nomikos won an Impact Grant from the Weidenbaum Center
"Peacebuilding amidst Information Warfare: How Disinformation Shapes Local Attitudes toward Peacebuilders in Conflict Settings" explores social media users’ exposure to disinformation in fragile and conflict-afflicted societies and how to shape their attitudes toward international peacebuilders This disinformation affects the prospects for peace, stability, and democratization.
Margit Tavits won the John Fell Oxford Award
“Voter ID in the UK – Eroding Democracy or Guaranteeing Electoral Integrity?”