News
Ph.D. Candidate Mikhail Strokan featured in PennToday
Mikhail Strokan was featured in the August edition of PennToday in an article entitled "Resisting the resource curse". Read the full article here.
Read MoreCongratulations to our Recent Graduates!
Congratulations to the fourteen Ph.D. candidates who successfully defended and deposited their theses last Academic Year. We wish them the best of…
Read MoreGraduate Student Awards
Many of our students have received prestigious awards, grants, and fellowships in the past year. Congratulations to you all! Amber Mackey …
Read MoreIra H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching
Rudra Sil has been awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. The Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching…
Read MoreTeaching Awards for Abigail Dym and Nicholas Dias
Abigail Dym has received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students while Nicholas Dias has been awarded the Penn Prize for…
Read MorePenn students, Indigenous Leaders from Argentina and Chile, and CLALS Director, Tulia Falleti produce the film: Gente de la tierra: Indigeneidad y política en Argentina y Chile (People of the Land: Indigeneity and politics in Argentina and Chile)
CLALS Director and Class of 1965 Endowed Term Professor of Political Science, Tulia Falleti, in collaboration with Mapuche and other Indigenous…
Read MorePenn Placements 2021-2022
Congratulations to all our recent and soon-to-be Ph.D.'s who will be starting off in new positions this coming Fall (or in some cases already started…
Read MoreHirschmann Named Segal Professor in American Social Thought
Nancy J. Hirschmann has been appointed Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought. Read more here.
Read MoreAPSA's Paul Lazarsfeld Best Paper Award
Sumitra Badrinathan's paper "Educative Interventions to Combat Misinformation: Evidence from a Field Experiment in India" has been awarded APSA's…
Read MoreCouncil on Foreign Relations invites PWH Director Michael Horowitz to be senior fellow
Penn professor and Perry World House Director Michael Horowitz has been appointed as a senior fellow of the David Rockefeller Studies Program in the…
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Penn’s Political Science Department is experiencing a renaissance. Over the past decade, our faculty has grown by 50%, an increase in quantity that has been matched by gains in quality. The strength of our faculty in each of four major subfields is being built with an eye to excellence embracing a variety of approaches and methodologies.
Events
Comparative Workshop Series
Practice Job Talk
Rithika Kumar, University of Pennsylvania
American Politics Workshop Series
Practice Job Talk
Alex Tolkin, University of Pennsylvania
Featured People
John Lapinski
Robert A. Fox Leadership Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies
Nancy Hirschmann
Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought
Beth Simmons
Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law and Political Science
Michael C. Horowitz
Richard Perry Professor Director, Perry World House
Tariq Thachil
Professor, Madan Lal Sobti Chair for the Study of Contemporary India Director, Center for Advanced Study of India, Madan Lal Sobti Professor for the Study of Contemporary India
Books
Elite Parties, Poor Voters: How Social Services Win Votes in India
Why do poor people often vote against their material interests?
The Principle of Political Hope: Progress, Action, and Democracy in Modern Thought
Refreshing and lucid, Goldman reconstructs hope as a necessary condition for social and political engagement, reinvigorating the possibility of utopia in the process.
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies
One of the most important political and economic challenges facing Europe and elsewhere is the ageing of societies.
Our Common Bonds Using What Americans Share to Help Bridge the Partisan Divide
Our Common Bonds shows that—although there is no silver bullet that will eradicate partisan animosity—there are concrete interventions that can reduce
Winners and Losers: The Psychology of Foreign Trade
Winners and Losers challenges conventional wisdom about how American citizens ...