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

April 13, 2021

Inaugural Women Inspired to Serve event empowers female students, young professionals seeking defense and security careers

Partnering with the advocacy associations Women in Defense, Women in International Security and Girl Security, WISE hosted its inaugural event,...

April 09, 2021

Black Alumni of Notre Dame expands scope of Frazier Thompson Scholarship

The Frazier Thompson Scholarship has been broadened to provide grants in seven categories to undergraduate, graduate and professional students who...

April 09, 2021

Oral History Transcript

James Webb, former U.S. Senator from Virginia, has been a combat Marine, a counsel in the Congress, an assistant secretary...

Notre Dame to require students to be vaccinated for COVID-19 beginning with fall 2021 semester

The announcement comes in advance of the University opening a clinic Thursday (April 8) with the Pfizer-BioNTech two-dose vaccine, making...

April 05, 2021

What We Are Reading Today: Promoting Peace with Information by Dan Lindley

It is normally assumed that international security regimes such as the UN can reduce the risk of war by increasing...

April 05, 2021

Fact Check: Claims that VP Kamala Harris Refused to Salute the Military are Missing Context

The claim: Kamala Harris refused to salute members of the military while boarding Air Force Two - Shortly after a...

April 05, 2021

An Interview with the 2021 Peace Conference Planning Committee

The Notre Dame Student Peace Conference, endowed by Joan B. Kroc and sponsored by the Kroc Institute for International Peace...

March 23, 2021

Peace Studies Student Elected Notre Dame Student Body Vice President

Notre Dame junior Matthew Bisner has been elected undergraduate student body vice president for the 2021-22 academic year. Bisner and...

March 19, 2021

Our editors are pleased to welcome Christine Dunn Henderson to our editorial advisory board.

Professor Henderson is Associate Professor of Political Science and Basket Coordinator for Cultures of the Modern World at the Singapore Management...

March 18, 2021

Prayer service for the Atlanta shootings

A prayer service for all those impacted will be held in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart tonight (March 18)...

March 18, 2021

Experiential learning course trains students in international sanctions investigations, inspiring creation of public policy club

At Notre Dame, students in a course called the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act Clinic are drafting dossiers to...

March 16, 2021

The Status of Status in World Politics

What is status? How does it work? What effects does it tend to have? A new wave of scholarship on...

March 11, 2021

Students present Fukushima disaster-related research at ethics conference

Robbie Wachter (left) and Allan Njomo With the Liu Institute’s support, Notre Dame students Robbie Wachter and Allan Njomo were...

March 10, 2021

First-Year Journey: Irasema Hernandez Trujillo '24, Political Science and Global Affairs Major

When Irasema Hernandez Trujillo '24 received a scholarship from the Lily Endowment that helped pave the way for...

March 10, 2021

Young Scholars Symposium in Latino Studies to convene emergent scholars from across country and distinguished professor Charlene Villaseñor Black

Seven up-and-coming scholars from across the country, along with distinguished professor Charlene Villaseñor Black of UCLA, will headline the Young...

March 09, 2021

Cicero: Statesman As Well As Philosopher
by Walter Nicgorski, Online Forum Lecture

Cicero: Statesman As Well As Philosopher by Walter Nicgorski Professor Emeritus of Liberal Studies and Political Science University of Notre...

March 05, 2021

Policy School Deans Want It All: Results of a Survey of APSIA Deans and Top-50 Political Science Department Chairs on Hiring and Promotion

How do intellectual leaders of professional schools of international affairs, whose institutions primarily educate and train master's students for careers...

March 05, 2021

Women Lead 2021

Returning to "normal" isn't for everyone. In celebration of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, meet eight women leaders...

Fact-checking Psaki's claim that there 'have not been sanctions put in place' on foreign leaders even in recent past

George Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, was quoted in the CNN Politics article “Fact-checking...

March 03, 2021

March is Women’s History Month

The month of March is set aside as a time to celebrate the many contributions of women to society and...