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 […]
Katherine Levine Einstein Featured on Brookings Institution Panel
Katherine Levine Einstein spoke on a Brookings Institution panel on housing policies for the middle class on May 8, 2019. Check out the event here.
April 24th: Upcoming Howard Zinn Fellow for Democracy Talk by Claudia Kim
“The Empire and the People: Opposing U.S. Military Presence Overseas” April 24th at 4:00 pm in the African Studies Center Seminar Room, 232 Bay State Rd. 5th fl, Boston, MA 02215.
Ph.D. Alum Sarah Knowles Publishes Updated Book about Justice Kennedy
Rowman and Littlefield recently published an updated paperback edition of Ph.D. alum Sarah Knowles’ book about Justice Kennedy, containing a new Afterword: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538124703/The-Tie-Goes-to-Freedom-Justice-Anthony-M-Kennedy-on-Liberty-Updated-Edition
Professor Crawford Featured on NPR
Professor Neta Crawford was interviewed on NPR discussing the Cost of War Project’s annual report. Take a listen here: https://www.npr.org/2018/11/18/669007529/brown-university-releases-cost-of-war-project.
Work on the Court’s Legitimacy from BU Profs in the News
The Supreme Court’s legitimacy is making news these days with the confirmation hearings on Brett Kavanaugh. To what extent does the public change their views of the Supreme Court around political events like these? Political science has had much to say about the topic. See, for example, two recent pieces in Vox that discuss work […]