Prof. Martin to be awarded Honorary Doctorate
Professor Cathie Jo Martin will receive an honorary doctorate from Southern Denmark University in October 2019. She recently gave a keynote at the Copenhagen Business School on “The Past, Present and Future of the Danish Social Investment Society form a Comparative Perspective”. Congratulations to Professor Martin on this extraordinary achievement!
Prof. Lida Maxwell Book Published
Professor Lida Maxwell’s book Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth Telling has just been published by Oxford University Press.
Prof. Dino Christenson awarded Research Incubation Award
In June, Professor Dino Christenson was awarded a Research Incubation Award (RIA) to be funded by the Hariri Institute for Computing for his project “Integrated foundations for privacy-protected public opinion research.”
Professor Neta Crawford’s work featured in the New York Review of Books
Professor and Chair Neta Crawford’s work on Pentagon fuel use and climate change covered in a New York Review of Books article found here.
Professors Cappella Zielinski and Crawford Publish Op-Ed on Cost of War with Iran
Professors Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Neta C. Crawford recently published an opinion piece in the Boston Globe with Professor Linda J. Bilmes of Harvard entitled “War with Iran Will Cost More than the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars”.
Convocation 2019
We were honored to have families, friends, faculty, graduates, and esteemed guests attend this year’s convocation and were delighted to hear from student speaker and College Prize winner John Czubek, the Honorable Michael Capuano, Member of the United States Congress, 1999-2019, and faculty speaker Professor Lida Maxwell. Congrats to all of the 2019 graduates!
Advanced Programs Poster Session 2019
The BU Political Science community gathered together on Thursday, May 16, 2019 to celebrate the accomplishments of the Honors Program and BA/MA candidates. This poster session allowed students to communicate the results of their year-long theses with faculty, graduate students, family, and friends. Below you can view the posters from the session: Cami Adajian worked […]
PO Undergrad Jasper Primack Featured in BU Today
Recent Political Science graduate, Jasper Primack (CAS’19) and and his teammate, senior Teddy Wyman (CAS), both members of the BU Debate Society, won the best debate team in the country in April 2019 at the College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J., tying for first place with Georgetown at the American Parliamentary Debate Association. Jasper finished second […]
Prof. Katherine Einstein and Prof. Maxwell Palmer Testify on Housing Policy
Prof. Katherine Einstein and Prof. Maxwell Palmer testified before the Massachusetts State Legislature at a hearing on new housing production legislation proposed by Governor Baker. They discussed their research (co-authored with Prof. David Glick) from their new book and recent Perspectives on Politics article. Their book, Neighborhood Defenders: Participatory Politics and America’s Housing Crisis, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.
Vivien Schmidt Awarded EUSA Lifetime Achievement Award
On Friday, May 10, Vivien Schmidt was awarded the European Union Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award, which is conferred on a scholar once every two years at the Association’s biannual meeting—this year in Denver, Colorado. The EUSA Executive Committee selects a scholar in the field of EU studies whose lifetime of research and writing have […]