Grad Student Moeed Yusuf Speaks Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Ph.D. Student speaks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on US Policy towards Pakistan. Moeed is part of the United States Institute of Peace. The following is a small part from his testimony, you can find the full version here. Recalling Charles Dodgson’s 1865 novel, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, “if you don’t know where you […]
Grad Student David Collier Receives Multiple Grants!
Ph.D. student David Collier has received a Truman Presidential Library travel grant to visit the Truman library. He also received a grant from the Institute for the Study of Muslim Societies & Civilizations at Boston University to allow him to conduct research at the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Congrats David!
Prof James Schmidt Presents Paper in Munich
Professor James Schmidt will be presenting a paper on “The “New Failure of Nerve,” the Eclipse of Reason, and the Critique of Enlightenment in New York and Los Angeles, 1943-1949” at a conference on “The Enlightenment between Europe and the United States” to be held at Center for Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. The paper explores the […]
Grad Student Matthew Maguire Wins Teaching Award
The Department of Political Science has chosen Matthew Maguire as the Outstanding Teaching Fellow for the Academic Year 2010-2011. The award is given in recognition of Matthew’s important contribution to the Department’s teaching mission. Matthew has been a Teaching Fellow for PO 211 Introduction to American Politics in both the Fall and Spring semesters. Congratulations […]
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Prof William Grimes’ Book Published in Chinese
Professor William Grimes’s book Currency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism has been published in Chinese translation by Law Press China, a scholarly press. Originally published in late 2008, the original edition received the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize in 2010 and Honorable Mention in the contest for the Asia Society’s […]
Prof Doug Kriner Wins the Gitner Award
The Department of Political Science would like to congratulate and recognize Professor Doug Kriner for winning the Gitner Award for Distinguished Teaching in the College of Arts & Sciences. This award is highly competitive and honors extraordinary dedication and effectiveness in the classroom and beyond.
Grad Student Chien-Kai Chen Publishes Paper
PhD Student Chien Kai Chen will have his paper, “The State-Society Interaction in the Process of Taiwan’s Democratization from 1990 to 1992” published in the journal East Asia. The paper examines the process of Taiwan’s democratization in the period from 1990 to 1992 and introduces a special mode of democratization which involves cooperative interactions between […]
Political Science Congratulates Hockey Stars Kerrin Sperry and Samantha Pulley
The Department of Political Science congratulates Kerrin Sperry and Samantha Pulley for their excellence in Women’s Ice Hockey and their recent play in the NCAA tournament. Check out the full story here http://www.bu.edu/today/node/12534
New Political Science Honors Program
The Political Science Department is now offering an honors program for qualified Political Science majors. Our Honors Program in Political Science challenges you to explore politics in three ways: first, by taking and excelling in coursework; second, by engaging in in-depth research in order to produce a thesis; and third, by experiencing the practical world […]