Press Releases Archive | Political Science

Jan 4, 2023 - Professor Scott Gehlbach Receives Named Professorship
Nov 2, 2022 - Professor Chiara Cordelli Awarded 2022 Elizabeth D. Rockwell Prize
Sep 9, 2022 - Professor Chiara Cordelli Awarded the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science
Jul 14, 2022 - Professor Paul Staniland Wins 2022 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize
Jun 27, 2022 - Professor Paul Staniland Wins Best Book Award From APSA
Jun 17, 2022 - Professor William Howell Wins Best Article in Formal Theory Award From APSA
Jun 16, 2022 - Professor Mike Albertus Receives Honorable Mention Best Book Award From APSA
May 19, 2022 - UChicago Press Awards Top Honor to Lisa Wedeen for ‘Authoritarian Apprehensions’
May 9, 2022 - Best Article Prize Awarded to Professor Scott Gehlbach and Co-Authors
May 6, 2022 - Professor Susan Stokes Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Apr 8, 2022 - Staniland receives Karl Deutsch Award from the International Studies Association
Nov 4, 2021 - The Department of Political Science and the Harris School of Public Policy launch new joint Ph.D. Program in Political Economy
Oct 25, 2021 - Cathy J. Cohen Receives the 2021 Hanes Walton, Jr. Career Award
Oct 1, 2021 - Congratulations to Margaret Brower for winning the inaugural Georgiana Simpson Research Award!!
Sep 24, 2021 - Congratulations to Lisa Wedeen for her Award for Concept Analysis in Political Science!!
Sep 24, 2021 - Congratulations to James Robinson for being named a Fellow of the Econometric Society!!
Sep 24, 2021 - Congratulations to Chiara Cordelli for winning ECPR Political Theory Prize!
Jun 24, 2021 - Congratulations to Austin Carson! His book Secrets in Global Governance, with Allison Carnegie has been selected as the winner of this year’s Best Book Award from APSA’s International Collaboration Section!
May 28, 2021 - Congratulations to Lucas Pinheiro (PhD 2019)! He is a recipient of a 2021 Claire Swogger Award for Exemplary Classroom Teaching!
May 21, 2021 - Congratulations to Monika Nalepa on receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring!
May 3, 2021 - Congratulations to Natasha Piano (PhD 2020)! She is a winner of this year's Saller Dissertation Prize.
Apr 28, 2021 - Congratulations to Susan Stokes! She has been named a 2021 Carnegie Fellow for her project on democratic erosion.
Jan 19, 2021 - The Department of Political Science is delighted to announce that Professor Jon Rogowski will be joining the Department beginning July 2021!
Jan 4, 2021 - Congratulations to Adom Getachew! Her book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination has has been named winner of the Melville J. Herskovits Prize from the African Studies Association!
Nov 17, 2020 - Congratulations to Jim Wilson! His book, Democratic Equality, has been awarded honorable mention from The Order of the Coif!
Oct 15, 2020 - Congratulations to Paul Poast! His book, Arguing about Alliances was just selected as the co-winner of the Lepgold Book prize for the best book in international relations
Sep 3, 2020 - Congratulations to Adom Getachew! Her book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination has has been named winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize from the Politics & History Section of the APSA!
Jul 13, 2020 - Congratulations to Tejas Parasher (PhD 2019)! For his dissertation, Self-Rule and the State in Indian Political Thought, 1880-1950, he is a co-winner of the APSA Leo Strauss Best Dissertation Award!
Jun 24, 2020 - Congratulations to John Mearsheimer! He has received the 2020 James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA)!
Jun 20, 2020 - Congratulations to William Sewell! He has been awarded the inaugural Ibn Khaldun Award for Distinguished Scholarship!
Jun 12, 2020 - Congratulations to Adom Getachew! Her book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination has won the W.E.B. DuBois Distinguished Book Award!
Jun 12, 2020 - Congratulations to Sana Jaffrey (PhD 2019)! She is a co-winner of the APSA Democracy and Autocracy Section's Best Field Work Award!
Jun 9, 2020 - Congratulations to Lisa Wedeen! Her book Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria, has won APSA’s Middle East and North Africa Politics Section's best book in MENA politics!
Jun 9, 2020 - Congratulations to Lucas Pinheiro (PhD '19)! Pinheiro's dissertation "Factories of Modernity: Labor, Aesthetics, and the Racial Politics of Historical Capital" has won the Stephen E. Bronner Dissertation Award from the Caucus for a New Political Science!
Jun 9, 2020 - Congratulations to Eric Oliver on receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring!
Jun 5, 2020 - Congratulations to Adom Getachew! Her book, Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination has won ISA's Theory Best Book Award!
Jun 5, 2020 - Congratulations to Sue Stokes! Her book (with Erdem Aytac), Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests has won the David O. Sears Best Book Award!
Jun 4, 2020 - Congratulations to Lisa Wedeen! Her book Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgment, and Mourning in Syria, was selected as the winner of the Charles Taylor Book Award!
May 12, 2020 - Congratulations to Cathy Cohen! She's been named an Andrew Carnegie Fellow, honored for research on important and enduring issues confronting our society
Apr 28, 2020 - Congratulations to William Howell! He has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Mar 3, 2020 - Congratulations to Ruth Bloch Rubin! Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the U.S. Congress was selected as the 31st recipient of the D.B. Hardeman Prize by the LBJ Foundation.
Mar 3, 2020 - Congratulations to Susan Stokes! Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests, with Erdem Aytaç, has been awarded the ISPP David O. Sears Book Award.
Dec 31, 2019 - Congratulations to Cathy Cohen! She has been named the David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science and the College
Dec 20, 2019 - Congratulations to Paul Poast! His article with Tanisha Fazal, "War is Not Over," was named by Foreign Affairs as one of their "Best of 2019"
Sep 4, 2019 - Congratulations to Austin Carson! His book, Secret Wars, has received the Georgetown University Lepgold Prize, as the best book on international relations published in 2018.
Aug 29, 2019 - Congratulations to Scott Gehlbach! His recent APSR article has been awarded the Michael Wallerstein Award and the European Politics and Society Best Article Award, honorable mention.
Jul 1, 2019 - Lt Col Sean Morrow (ABD) shows President Trump the DMZ
Jun 24, 2019 - Congratulations to Nara Park (PhD '17)! Park's dissertation "The Nature of Japanese Governance: Seikai-Tensin (政界転身)’s Political Success in Postwar Japan, 1947-2014" won the 2019 Carl Albert Dissertation Award from the APSA Legislative Studies Section!
Jun 19, 2019 - Congratulations to Austin Carson! His article “The Spotlight’s Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order” has received Honorable Mention for Best Article from APSA Section 19 International Security for 2018!
Jun 18, 2019 - Congratulations to Austin Carson! His article “The Spotlight’s Harsh Glare: Rethinking Publicity and International Order” has won the 2018 Robert O. Keohane award for the best article published by an untenured scholar in International Organization
Jun 13, 2019 - Congratulations to Chad Levinson (PhD '17)! Levinson’s dissertation “Moral Subsidy: The Origins of Influential Extra-Governmental Organizations in US National Security Politics” won the 2019 APSA Leonard D. White Best Dissertation Award!
Jun 13, 2019 - Congratulations to Yeonju Lee (PhD '18)! Her dissertation “Democracy Without Redistribution: The Sense of Injustice, Perceived Inequality, and Preferences for Redistribution in East Asia” won the 2019 HCEO Dissertation Prize!
Jun 3, 2019 - Congratulations to Jennifer Pitts on receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring
May 13, 2019 - The Department of Political Science is delighted to announce that Professor Scott Gehlbach will be joining the Department beginning July 2019
Apr 23, 2019 - Congratulations to Ben Lessing! He's been named a Carnegie Fellow, honored for research on pressing issues
Feb 26, 2019 - The Department of Political Science is delighted to announce that Patricia Posey, Andrew McCall, and Zhaotian Luo will be joining the Department in July 2019
Jan 25, 2019 - Congratulations to Ben Lessing! His book, Making Peace in Drug Wars, has been selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018
Nov 19, 2018 - Congratulations to Cathy Cohen! The Russell Sage Foundation has appointed her to its board of trustees. The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences
Oct 30, 2018 - Congratulations to Martha Nussbaum! She is the 2018 recipient of the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture!
Sep 6, 2018 - Congratulations to Paul Poast! His article "Why Do States Build Walls?" (with David Carter) was awarded the Bruce Russett Award for the best paper published in Journal of Conflict Resolution during 2017
Jul 9, 2018 - Congratulations to Ruth Bloch Rubin! She is the 2018 recipient of the Alan Rosenthal Prize for her book, Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the US Congress
Jul 3, 2018 - Chandler James named as a 2018-2019 APSA Minority Fellowship Program Fellow
Jun 21, 2018 - June Gordon Marks Patinkin receives degree-74 years later
Jun 11, 2018 - APSA Organized Section on Women and Politics Research Best Dissertation Award to Amanda Blair
Jun 1, 2018 - Susan Stokes has been named the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor
May 22, 2018 - John Mark Hansen named Deputy Dean and Executive Director of Master’s Programs for the Division
May 16, 2018 - 2018 Saller Dissertation Prize awarded to Emma Stone Mackinnon
May 4, 2018 - Professor Emeritus Bernard Silberman, who wrote extensively on the Japanese government, passed away on April 28. He was 87.
Apr 18, 2018 - Congratulations to Cathy Cohen! She has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Apr 17, 2018 - Congratulations to John Brehm on receiving a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching!
Apr 6, 2018 - Will Howell Study shows power of imagery in improving perceptions of president
Feb 20, 2018 - According to a recent Foreign Policy poll, International Relations at the University of Chicago now ranks 5th nationwide among PhD programs
Feb 13, 2018 - Adom Getachew, Jennifer Pitts, Tejas Parasher, and Nazmul Sultan are among the recipients of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society’s 2018-19 collaborative research projects
Feb 7, 2018 - CSPAN video of CPOST/IOP panel on A Safer or a More Dangerous World? Nuclear Weapons in Today’s Global Community
Feb 7, 2018 - Benjamin Lessing and Monika Nalepa announced as new faculty fellows at CISSR
Feb 7, 2018 - Congratulations to Robert Gulotty and Ben Lessing. They are Social Science Research Center seed grant recipients
Jan 17, 2018 - Robert Pape's testimony before Congress
Jan 16, 2018 - Congratulations to Mike Albertus! His new book, Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy, has just been released.
Jan 12, 2018 - Robert Pape to testify before Congress on January 17, 2018
Jan 9, 2018 - Paul Staniland and coauthor Vipin Narang in Security Studies
Jan 8, 2018 - Political Scientists to Speak on Nuclear Weapons and International Relations
Jan 3, 2018 - Will Howell on IVY.com
Dec 15, 2017 - IVY Ideas Night: Will Howell on The Future of U.S. Democracy
Dec 14, 2017 - Michael Dawson’s project invited to collaborate with SSRC Scholarly Borderlands
Dec 13, 2017 - Paul Poast on Quantitative Analysis in IR
Nov 21, 2017 - Austin Carson is the 2018 recipient of ISA’s Best Security Article Award
Nov 15, 2017 - Cathy Cohen’s essay “Punks, Bulldaggers and Welfare Queens” 20 Years Later
Nov 8, 2017 - John Mearsheimer to give Henry L. Stimson Lectures at Yale.
Nov 7, 2017 - Robert Pape receives a $3.4 million grant from the Minerva Research Initiative
Oct 17, 2017 - Michael Dawson is the inaugural recipient of the Hanes Walton Career Award.
Oct 17, 2017 - John Patty and Maggie Penn have joined as co-editors of Cambridge University Press's book series, "Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions."
Oct 17, 2017 - Mike Albertus’s Autocracy and Redistribution won the 2017 LASA Bryce Wood Book Award for the best book on Latin America in the social sciences and humanities.
Oct 17, 2017 - At the 2017 APSA meetings, John Patty was awarded the Herbert A. Simon book award for Learning While Governing (University of Chicago Press, 2012), which he co-authored with Sean Gailmard.
Oct 17, 2017 - Chiara Cordelli’s article “Justice as Fairness and Relational Resources” was included in the Philosopher’s Annual, which compiles the ten best articles published in all of philosophy each year.
Oct 17, 2017 - Chiara Cordelli received the Review of Politics Award for best paper in political theory presented at MPSA in 2016.
Oct 17, 2017 - Monika Nalepa won a National Science Foundation grant, which begins in 2017.
Oct 17, 2017 - John McCormick won a National Endowment of the Humanities grant for 2017-18.
Oct 17, 2017 - Alysia Mann Carey won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
Oct 17, 2017 - Ramzy Mardini won a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.