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

January 25, 2018

Q&A with Maryann Kwakwa, Ph.D. candidate in political science

This is the second installment in an ongoing Q&A series with Arts and Letters graduate students. Maryann Kwakwa, a Ph.D....

January 24, 2018

Videos: Political science alumni discuss the value of a liberal arts education in Washington, D.C.

Political science alumni are making their mark in Washington, D.C., building successful careers at prestigious organizations including The Washington Post,...

January 24, 2018

Video: Notre Dame senior presents work in Latino Studies and Political Science

Notre Dame Senior, Gregory Jenn, recently presented his research, "How Latinos will Make America Great Again" at El Colegio de la...

January 23, 2018

Video: Notre Dame Washington Program offers opportunity to learn, live, and work in nation's capital

Sophomores and juniors from any major or college at the University of Notre Dame may participate in the semester-long Washington...

January 22, 2018

Q&A with Maryann Kwakwa, Ph.D. candidate in political science

This is the second installment in an ongoing Q&A series with Arts and Letters graduate students. Maryann Kwakwa, a Ph.D....

January 02, 2018

Political scientist wins NEH fellowship, continuing Notre Dame’s record success

Notre Dame political scientist Susan Collins has been awarded a 2018 fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, extending...

November 20, 2017

New article by Graduate Student Luis Schenoni

Congratulations to Graduate Student Luis Schenoni for his article, "Of words and deeds: Latin American declaratory regionalism, 1994–2014" published in the...

November 17, 2017

Connection, political science, and climate change: A Q&A with Associate Professor Debra Javeline

Debra Javeline, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and affiliated faculty member of the Notre Dame Environmental Change...

November 13, 2017

Political scientist examines global impact of leaders on Communist Party

In Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global Idea of the Communist Party (Princeton University Press, 2017), author A. James McAdams seeks to...

September 06, 2017

Nanovic Hall brings social sciences students and faculty together

For Luis Fraga, acting chair of the Department of Political Science, Nanovic Hall is a dream come true. The state-of-the-art new...

September 01, 2017

Political science professor wins prestigious book award for research on women’s suffrage

In the nearly 100 years since women won the right to vote, a conventional wisdom about the aftermath of the...

August 29, 2017

Professor’s research on state legislatures wins American Political Science Association book award

Jeff Harden, an assistant professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Political Science, has won the American Political Science Association’s Virginia...

June 20, 2017

Video: After full-time service work, political science alumna excels in job at Facebook

“The liberal arts education is one of the best things Notre Dame offers,” said Kaitlin Sullivan ’10, now a product...

June 14, 2017

New articles by Matthew Hall

Congratulations to Matthew E.K. Hall on two new publications — “Holding Versus Dicta: Divided Opinion Control on the U.S. Supreme...

May 22, 2017

Senior Thesis Prize Winners

Congratulations to these students and faculty, and to all the students who wrote senior theses this year and to the...

May 11, 2017

Asher Kaufman, historian of the Middle East, appointed director of Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies

Kaufman, professor of history and peace studies, has been appointed the John M. Regan Jr. Director of Notre Dame’s Kroc...

May 10, 2017

Professor Amy Barrett nominated to Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit

Amy Coney Barrett, Diane and M.O. Miller II Research Chair in Law and Professor of Law at the University of...

May 10, 2017

Important information for Commencement attendees

With the participation of Vice President Mike Pence, additional security measures will be in place at Notre Dame’s 172nd University...

April 27, 2017

Notre Dame political science professor wins Carnegie Fellowship to study political implications of secularism

David Campbell, the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy at the University of Notre Dame, has been selected as...

April 17, 2017

New article by Eileen Hunt Botting

Eileen Hunt Botting has published "The Early Rousseau's Egalitarian Feminism: A Philosophical Convergence with Madame Dupin and 'The Critique of...