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Grad Student Laura Blume Authors Article for NACLA

Graduate student Laura Blume recently published an article entitled “A Tale of Two Dictatorships” for the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA).  Read more here: https://nacla.org/news/2018/08/15/tale-two-dictatorships.

Prof Rosenzweig Awarded APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics

Professor Steve Rosenzweig has won the APCG-Lynne Rienner Best Dissertation in African Politics 2017 award. This year’s committee consisted of Ryan Saylor (University of Tulsa), George Bob-Milliar (Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology), and Kimuli Kasara (Columbia University).  The committee unanimously agreed that the dissertation represented outstanding scholarship in African politics. The formal announcement […]

Professor Christenson’s Article Selected for Editor’s Choice Award

Political Analysis has selected a paper entitled “Modeling Unobserved Heterogeneity in Social Networks with the Frailty Exponential Random Graph Model” written by Professor Dino Christenson and Professors Janet Box-Steffensmeier and Jason Morgan from the Ohio State University for the Editor’s Choice award.  The paper has been ungated and can be found here. Congratulations, Dino!

Convocation 2018

We were honored to have families, friends, faculty, graduates, and esteemed guests attend yesterday’s convocation and were delighted to hear from student speaker and College Prize winner Michaela Cushing-Daniels, the venerable Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulin Cruz Soto, and faculty member Katie Einstein. Congrats to all of the 2018 graduates!

Advanced Programs Poster Session 2018

The BU Political Science community gathered together on Thursday, May 17, 2018 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: Anima Anwar’s poster […]

Prof Vivien Schmidt Made Chevalier in the Legion of Honor

Professor Vivien Schmidt has been made a Chevalier in the Legion of Honor, one of the highest honors that France confers, and seldom awarded to non-French citizens. A decoration ceremony will be held in the autumn at the French Consulate in Boston. The Legion of Honor was created by Napoleon in 1802 to acknowledge services […]

Prof Glick Promoted to Associate Professor

Congratulations to David Glick on his recent promotion to the rank of associate professor. Glick holds a Ph.D. in political science from Princeton University, and was previously a visiting fellow at the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College. His research and teaching interests in American Politics include political institutions, especially law and courts, […]

Prof Maxwell Publishes on Foucault Lectures

Visiting Associate Professor Lida Maxwell recently published an article in Contemporary Political Theory: “The politics and gender of truth-telling in Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia.” Abstract: This essay challenges dominant interpretations of Foucault’s lectures on parrhesia as affirming an ethical, non-political conception of truth-telling. I read the lectures instead as depicting truth-telling as an always political […]