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Professor O'Leary wins Distinguished Teaching Award
Monday, April 7, 2025
Brendan O’Leary has been awarded the Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching. This is the highest SAS teaching honor given to faculty. Congratulations, Brendan, on this achievement and recognition of your pedagogy!
UPenn Political Science Department is Among the Top Ten
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
The Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania is a top ten department according to a newly published global ranking of research productivity in the discipline. The article was published in PS: Political Science & Politics, a journal of the American Political Science… Read More
Professor Michael Jones-Correa elected as AAPSS 2025 Robert A. Dahl Fellow
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Congratulations to Professor Michael Jones-Correa, who has been elected to the American Academy of Political and Social Science as the 2025 Robert A. Dahl Fellow.
Graduate Student Lauren Palladino Winner of the 2025 Penn Grad Talks, Social Science category
Monday, February 24, 2025
Congratulations to Lauren Palladino, second year graduate student in our department, winner of the 2025 Penn Grad Talks, Social Sciences category. Her talk, The Gender Gap in Political Tolerance: Explaining Women’s Attitudes Toward Free Expression outlines how she steps away from outdated… Read More
New Publication in the Irish Times for Professor Brendan O'Leary
Monday, February 17, 2025
Professor O'Leary has co-authored an article stemming from the ARINS/Irish Times survey results, released earlier this month. The article, "Trends show rise in support for Irish unity among Northern voters" takes a look at the attitudes towards unity from Northern Protestants and analyzes… Read More
Professor Brendan O'Leary Interviewed by the Irish Times Inside Politics Podcast
Monday, February 17, 2025
Professor O'Leary, Chair of the Political Science department and Chair of ARINS (Analyzing and Researching Ireland North and South) Public Opinion Committee, featured in the latest Inside Politics podcast names "North and South, attitudes to reunification are shifting."
The conversation… Read More
New Prize for Prof. Tariq Thachil's co-authored book
Monday, February 17, 2025
Tariq Thachil and his co-author Adam Auerbach’s book, Migrants and Machine Politics: How India's Urban Poor Seek Representation and Responsiveness (2024), has won yet another prize.
UPenn's Beta Tau chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, has been awarded a Best Chapter Award for 2023-2024
Monday, August 12, 2024
This is the twelfth time that the chapter has received this award, which is quite an achievement!
Emeritus Professor Rogers Smith featured in new article about the Most Patriotic States in America
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Professor Rogers M. Smith was featured in WalletHub's recent article about Most Patriotic States In America. You can find it here:… Read More
Professor Tariq Thachil wins 2024 Giovanni Sartori Book Award
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Tariq Thachil’s book, Migrants and Machine Politics, coauthored with Adam Auerbach, was awarded the 2024 Giovanni Sartori Book Award from APSA’s Qualitative and Mixed-Methods Section, and the 2024 Best Book award by APSA’s Experimental Research Section.