U.S. News ranked Washington University in St. Louis' political science graduate program #26 in the country for their international relations sub-field.

Congratulations to Prof. Carly Wayne for being awarded the 2020 Walter Isard Award for Best Dissertation in Peace Science by the Peace Science Society (International) for her dissertation “Risk or Retribution: The Micro-foundations of State Responses to Terror.”

Professor Guillermo Rosas has received a grant from the McDonnell Academy to study the politics of Covid-related behaviors in Latin America.

Jacob Montgomery has been selected as the winner of the Society for Political Methodology's Emerging Scholar Award for his contributions to the field of political methodology in scholarship, service, and mentorship.

Congratulations to Jim Gibson for winning the APSA Law and Courts Section’s Lasting Contribution Award.

Congratulations to Professor Bill Lowry for winning the APSA Martha Derthick Best Book Award.

We are pleased to announce that Margit Tavits has been named the William Taussig Professor in Arts & Sciences. This endowed chair is in recognition of Margit’s standing as an outstanding and innovative international scholar. A formal installation ceremony will be held in the 2020-21 academic year.

Congratulations to PhD candidate Ryan Johnson! His paper, "The Role of Lane in Temperate and Tropical Agriculture" has been accepted for publication at Economica.

Taylor Carlson, an Assistant Professor starting in the department Fall of 2019 was awarded a dissertation prize.

Professor Margit Tavits is an incoming field editor for the Journal of Politics. She is in charge of comparative behavior manuscripts.

Congratulations to Professor Michael Bechtel, Kirk Bansak (Stanford), Professor Jens Hainmueller (Stanford), and Professor Yotam Margalit (Tel-Aviv)!  Their article "The Idealogical Basis of the Grexit Debate" has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Politics. 

In a recent study of research productivity that was published by the American Political Science Association, the department of political science at Washington University was ranked #2—just behind Columbia University and just ahead of Stanford University.