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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 […]

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 […]

Prof. Andrew Reeves’ New Publication

Professor Andrew Reeves has a new publication coming out in the American Journal of Political Science, “Make It Rain? Retrospection and the Attentive Electorate in the Context of Natural Disasters.” It can be found here. His publication was recently used by the Sydney Morning Herald, you can find the article here.

Prof. William Grimes Invited to the Council on Foreign Relations

Professor William Grimes (IR) has been invited to join the Council on Foreign Relations as a life member.  The Council is an independent membership organization and thinktank that contributes to public policy discourse on issues of international affairs through its meetings, task forces, publications, and outreach efforts.  Membership is selective, and based on exceptional achievement, […]

Recent Publications by Professor James Schmidt

Professor James Schmidt’s article, “Misunderstanding the Question:  ‘What is Enlightenment?’ — Venturi, Habermas, and Foucault,” has just appeared in History of European Ideas. Also in early January, Prof. Schmidt presented a paper entitled “Constructing a Counter-Enlightenment:  Liberalism, Nihilism, and Totalitarianism” at the meetings of the American Historical Association in Boston.  It draws on his recent research in […]

Prof. Gendzier to Speak at the University of Iowa

Prof. Gendzier will be participating in a symposium, “Ten Years After 9/11: Rethinking Counter-Terrorism,” at the University of Iowa, Feb. 10-11. She will be presenting a paper on a panel with Prof. Richard Falk, entitled, “Rethinking Israel-Palestine Policy.” This symposium, which  is being hosted by the law journal, Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems,  is also […]