Congratulations to Margit Tavits, the Dr. William Taussig Professor in Arts and Sciences, who will receive the 2023 Arts & Sciences Faculty Leadership Award to recognize the exceptional service she has given to Arts & Sciences and Washington University throughout the years.

This month, Betsy Sinclair begins her term as Chair of Political Science and Clarissa Hayward begins as Associate Chair.

Congratulations to Taylor Carlson for winning with 2023 PolNet Best Book Award for "What Goes Without Saying: Navigating Political Discussion in America", co-authored with Jaime Settle of the College of William and Mary!

The award honors achievement in promoting understanding of the U.S. Congress and legislative politics.

Irene Gerrish, a rising second year PhD student, was one of eighteen spring program recipients. 

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.

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, 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.

"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

Jeremy Siow and Ben Noble won first and second place in the social science category.

SEAREG (Southeast Asia Research Group) Fellows are selected annually in a competitive process for outstanding unpublished work on Southeast Asia.