News // Department of Political Science // University of Notre Dame

August 04, 2020

ND Votes announces 2020 General Election Voter Guide!

ND VOTES RELEASES GENERAL ELECTION VOTER GUIDE Notre Dame, Indiana: ND Votes, a student-lead nonpartisan voter education and mobilization campaign...

July 31, 2020

Joe Kernan, former student-athlete, mayor and governor, passes away

Notre Dame Athletics | July 31, 2020 Joe Kernan ‘68, former Notre Dame baseball student-athlete, Governor of Indiana, Lieutenant Governor...

July 29, 2020

Statement by Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., on the passing of former Indiana Gov. Joe Kernan

“Our prayers are with his wife, Maggie, their family and his many friends. We grieve over his passing while simultaneously...

July 28, 2020

On Brexit Preparations in Major Port Cities along the English Channel

Political science major Enzo Ambrose ’21 traveled to Rotterdam last winter to research the logistics preparations for freight trade routes...

July 27, 2020

Notre Dame withdraws as presidential debate host site

University of Notre Dame President Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., announced today the University has withdrawn as the host site...

July 22, 2020

Most comprehensive study yet of Latinx U.S. immigration agents shows economic self-interest drives decisions to join ICE

Research by David Cortez, assistant professor of political science, found that Latinxs — regardless of their preferred national/ethnic identity, their identification with...

July 22, 2020

Carozza Contributes to New State Department Report on Human Rights

A University of Notre Dame expert in international human rights law is part of a federal commission that recently released...

July 22, 2020

Notre Dame announces annual research awards funding

The University of Notre Dame has received $172.5 million in new research funding awards for fiscal year 2020 – the...

July 15, 2020

Rooney Center faculty in the news 2019–20

Reporters across the country regularly reach out to Rooney Center faculty, highlighting their research and seeking their expertise on stories...

June 29, 2020

Former South Bend mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg joins Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study

Pete Buttigieg, former South Bend mayor and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, has been named a 2020-2021 faculty fellow at the...

June 18, 2020

Gamma Delta Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha: "On the murder of George Floyd"

The Gamma Delta Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the Political Science Honor Society, has published a statement about the death...

June 08, 2020

'Notre Dame is a Special Place'

A political scientist with deep ties to the Kellogg Institute for International Studies has come home. Faculty Fellow Scott Mainwaring left...

May 29, 2020

'A Different Kind of Research'

When Rev. Robert Dowd, CSC, started the Ford Program in Human Development Studies and Solidarity…

May 29, 2020

2020 Senior Thesis

Join us in celebrating the 2020 Political Science Senior Thesis writers. *Not pictured above William Finn “Containing China: Projecting...

ARTICLE || The Future of the U.S. Marine Corps

On September 4, 2002, five months before the invasion of Iraq, this writer warned in an editorial for the Washington...

May 22, 2020

Twenty-six students and alumni awarded Fulbright grants

Notre Dame has been a top producer of Fulbright students for six consecutive years.

May 22, 2020

Graduate student Jessala Grijalva awarded highly competitive NSF fellowship

Graduate student Jessala Grijalva has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). Nationwide, just 11 political...

May 22, 2020

Peacemakers or Iron Ladies?

Conventional wisdom suggests that when women attain high political office they are more likely to act as peacemakers than their...

May 19, 2020

Fall Semester to Begin Aug. 10

Notre Dame will welcome students back to campus for the 2020-21 fall semester the week of Aug. 10, two weeks...

May 18, 2020

Class of 2020 Degrees Conferred

Thomas G. Burish, the Charles and Jill Fischer Provost, welcomed members of the Class of 2020, their family and friends...