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PhD Candidate Alex Avery Selected as American Association of University Women American Doctoral Fellow

7.31.26

The American Doctoral Fellowship is meant to offset scholars’ expenses during one year of their doctoral program and also deepens AAUW’s impact by accelerating diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia.

Ophelia Vedder Receives the Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Award

7.27.26

The Kenneth Sherrill Best Dissertation Prize is given by the Sexuality & Politics section and recognizes the best dissertation on sexuality and politics completed and successfully defended in the previous two calendar years.

PhD Candidate Alexis Jang Publishes New Article in Journal of Peace Research

7.20.26

The article looks at the relationship between women's portrayal as victims of war and public attitudes toward women's leadership capabilities.

Ophelia Vedder Receives Best Dissertation Prize from Women, Gender, and Politics Section of APSA

7.14.26

The Best Dissertation Prize is awarded for the best dissertation on women and politics completed and accepted in the previous year.

Diana O’Brien Co-Authors a New Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

7.13.26

The article examines how major climate patterns—including El Niño and the Indian Ocean Dipole—shape the risk of armed conflict around the world.

Shiran Victoria Shen Selected for the Stanford CASBS Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists

7.9.26

The Summer Institute in AI Methods for Social Scientists (AIMS) brings together scholars from across the social sciences for an intensive week of learning, practice, and collaboration in the ways to make use of AI methods in social science research.

Powering the next generation of policy-relevant graduate research

7.2.26

The Weidenbaum Center has awarded $45,000 for the upcoming academic year to support three exceptional PhD students in Political Science, Economics, and Sociology through the 2026-2027 Weidenbaum Graduate Fellowship.

Christopher Lucas Receives Special Honorable Mention for Best Information Technology & Politics Article Award

6.30.26

The Best Published Article Award recognizes the best scholarly article published about Information Technology and Politics.

Lucia Motolinia Receives Legislative Studies Emerging Scholar Award from APSA

6.19.26

The Emerging Scholar award is designed to recognize a scholar who is no more than 6 years from the year of their PhD who has informed the study of legislative politics through innovative and rigorous scholarship.

James Gibson Received the Warren E. Miller Prize from the APSA

6.16.26

The award, granted from the Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is given every 2-3 years for "an outstanding career of intellectual accomplishment and service to the profession in the EPOVB field."

Taylor Carlson Receives EPOVB Emerging Scholar Award

6.11.26

The award, granted from the APSA's Elections, Public Opinion, and Voting Behavior section, is presented to top scholars in the field who are within ten years of the PhD.

WashU Expert: Research explains Trump’s influence on primary contests

6.3.26 | The Source

Political Science faculty, and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dan Butler, says by opting out of the primaries, people give power to the leaders of the parties to pursue agendas that are not responsive to moderate voters' preferences.