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

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...

May 15, 2020

Webinar - Reducing Nuclear Weapons: Stopping the War that No One Wants

The Pope's stand is clear: the only path forward is nuclear disarmament and the complete elimination of Nuclear weapons. Join...

May 14, 2020

Seniors team up for Hesburgh Program capstone project, researching bipartisan solutions to reducing recidivism

Seniors Kendrick Peterson and Andrew Jarocki are on opposite ends of the political spectrum, but they brought their perspectives together...

May 14, 2020

Congratulations to the Political Science class of 2020!

A video presentation of the University of Notre Dame Political Science faculty to celebrate the Class of 2020.

May 12, 2020

Nieto-Matiz Receives Outstanding Grad Student Award

Dissertation Year Fellow Camilo Nieto-Matiz, a comparative political scientist who studies state-building in violent contexts, has received the fourth annual...

May 07, 2020

Division of Student Affairs recognizes outstanding student leaders

The University of Notre Dame’s Division of Student Affairs recently recognized seven students who have made exceptional contributions to the Notre Dame...