Sippl Honored As Outstanding Grad Student Teaching Fellow
Dean Sapiro Announces Outstanding Teaching Fellows Dean Sapiro recently announced the 25 Outstanding Teaching Fellows for the 2011/12 academic year. These graduate student/teachers have contributed to the high quality of a BU education while also developing their skills as teachers and mentors. The Political Science honoree is Kristin Sippl: Kristin has served three times as […]
Find, Follow & Friend BU PoliSci
BU Political Science has three social media components up and running to keep in touch with our current majors and minors, grad students, alumni and other friends of the Department. You can keep in touch with us via LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter: LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4378994 Facebook http://www.facebook.com/BuPoliticalScience Twitter http://twitter.com/bu_polisci BU Political Science’s New Social Media Networks […]
Why Study Political Science?
Why Study Political Science? The purpose of our major is to deepen knowledge and understanding of one of the most powerful forces operating on people, communities and corporations today, namely government and politics in the USA and around the world. This knowledge and understanding is valuable for all citizens. It is also essential in many […]
Prof Martin Publishes Book
Prof Martin recently published “The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth and Equality”, Cambridge U Press (with Duane Swank). Abstract: Labor market coordination is the lynchpin of high-performance societies that maximize economic growth and equality, yet why does business ever cooperate? In a story replete with unintended consequences, The Political Construction of Business Interests […]
Poli Sci Newsletter
The April PoliSci Newsletter has been published at http://www.bu.edu/cas/newsletter/polisci/4_12/. In there you will find a Letter from the Chair on a bunch of exciting news in the Department, a story on Prof Crawford as well as various interesting notes from the faculty on “The Crisis of the Euro”, “Good News from Africa” and “Reflections on […]
Rosella Cappella to Join Political Science
Rosella Cappella The Department is delighted to announce that Rosella Cappella is joining the department. Ms. Cappella is in the International Relations field of Political Science and she focuses on how states finance wars. She is currently at the University of Pennsylvania completing her PH. D.
Seeking Creative Webmaster
We are searching for a dedicated BU student to maintain our departmental WordPress website. This is great experience for an undergraduate computer science major or any creative individual with some web design experience. Approximately 5 hours per week, some flexibility.
Profs in the Spotlight
Professor Vivien Schmidt was recently featured in Bostonia’s Profs in the Spotlight: “From NPR to the New York Times to the BBC to Al Jazeera, news media seek BU professors’ research and opinions.” For more info, go here: Bostonia
Katherine Levine Einstein to Join Political Science
Katherine Levine Einstein Katherine Levine Einstein, presently a Ph.D. Candidate at Harvard University, will join the Department in 2012. She received her B.A. in political science from Yale University in 2007. Her research interests broadly include political behavior, urban politics and policy, racial and ethnic politics, and political geography. Her dissertation considers the roles of […]
10 Graduate Students to Present at 2012 MPSA Conference
10 Graduate Students to Present at 2012 MPSA Conference 10 graduate students in the Department have been accepted to present at the 70th Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA) in April, 2012 in Chicago, IL. Abel Amado, Alejandro Avenburg, Chien-Kai Chen, Anshul Jain, Aki Nakai, Alexander Oliver, June Park, Abram Trosky, Jeremy Weiss […]