The Department of Political Science
News
We are proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Debanhi Rojas Figueroa, a graduating senior from the Department of Political Science at UC Riverside, who has been featured in the University of California’s Class of 2025 spotlight: “Building California’s Brilliant Future”...
The Department of English at UC Riverside announced that Donald Zarate, a Ph.D. student in Political Science, has been awarded the 2025 Lindon Barrett Award for his outstanding essay, “Here and Now: Black Perspectives on Antiutopianism.” The award is named...
The Department of Political Science is proud to announce that Sarah Siddique and Harry Muttram have been recognized as Outstanding Teaching Assistants (OTAs) for the 2024–2025 academic year by UC Riverside’s Graduate Division. This honor is awarded to graduate students...
The Department of Political Science at UC Riverside is proud to announce that Professor Jennifer Merolla has been elected President-Elect of the Midwest Political Science Association (MPSA), one of the largest and most respected professional associations in the discipline. This...
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Insights
May 22, 2025
Marching to the beat of his own drum
UCR graduate student Donald Zárate is a U.S. Army Reservist and a committed community volunteer.
April 28, 2025
Platform developed at UCR reinvents the webinar
Online webinar platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teams have enabled public discourse at an unprecedented scale. But when hundreds of people join a meeting, the flow of feedback—often reduced to rapid-fire chat messages—becomes chaotic and overwhelming.
September 30, 2024
UCR experts demystified voter props in online forum
Once again California voters are facing a plethora of state initiatives to decide on issues ranging from increasing penalties for theft and drug offenses to borrowing money to build schools.
To help voters better understand the myriad of propositions on the Nov. 5 ballot, the UC Riverside Office of Alumni Engagement and School of Public Policy hosted on Oct. 1 an informative webinar to help voter navigate the complexities of the 2024 California ballot propositions.
September 18, 2024
Q&A: 10 states face abortion rights initiatives
Shaun Bowler, professor of political science, and Andy Crosby, an assistant professor of teaching in the School of Public Policy, weigh in on how the plethora of state abortion rights initiatives may affect the presidential election.