The Department of Political Science at UC Riverside is proud to announce that PhD candidate Miki Hayashi has been awarded the prestigious University of California Dissertation Fellowship from the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). Miki’s dissertation examines a critical question in international relations: How does a great power’s economic dependence on a...
This summer marks a milestone for the Ronald O. Loveridge Public Service Fellowship, as we celebrate 10 years of preparing UC Riverside students for impactful careers in government, policy, and public service. Since its inception in 2015, the Fellowship has given rising seniors and recent graduates in Political Science and Public Policy the opportunity to...
Associate Professor Nick Weller of UCR's Department of Political Science and collaborators at University of Southern California received a grant from the National Science Foundation titled: Measuring and Improving Traffic Stops: An AI-Powered Approach to Analyzing Bodyworn Camera Footage. The grant will help to fund the Everyday Respect project's development of AI-powered tools for analyzing...
We are proud to share that Eunseong Oh, a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the 2025 John T. Williams Dissertation Prize by the Society for Political Methodology. This prestigious award recognizes the best dissertation proposal in the field of political methodology and honors the legacy of...
We are thrilled to announce that Jieun Lee, a doctoral candidate, has been honored with the prestigious Russell Sage Foundation Dissertation Research Grant. You can view more information about the award HERE. This initiative supports innovative and high-quality dissertation research projects that address questions relevant to RSF’s priority areas. Jieun will use the grant to...
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”. During her time at UCR, she participated in the department's MSIRA program, the internship program...
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 in honor of Lindon Barrett, a beloved professor and pioneering scholar whose work centered Black...
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 who demonstrate exceptional dedication to undergraduate instruction and consistently strong teaching performance. Sarah Siddique is...
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 is a significant and well-deserved recognition of Professor Merolla’s outstanding contributions to political science as...
The Department of Political Science is proud to recognize Karina Alpayeva, a second-year Ph.D. student, for earning an Honorable Mention in this year’s UC Riverside Grad Slam competition. Grad Slam is a UC-wide contest that challenges graduate students to present their research to a general audience in just three minutes — a test of both...
We are proud to announce that Mirena A. Munich, a first-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, has been awarded the prestigious Spring APSA Diversity Fellowship. Offered each spring by the American Political Science Association (APSA), the Diversity Fellowship Program (DFP) supports graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds who are in...
We are thrilled to share some exciting news about one of our outstanding alumni. Zabdi, a first-year Ph.D. student in Political Science at UCLA, has received an Honorable Mention in the highly competitive 2025 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)! 🎉 This recognition speaks to the importance and promise of Zabdi’s research, which centers on...
UCR Professor Paul D'Anieri sat down with other experts to discuss the enduring war in Ukraine on the IGCC podcast "Talking Policy." Check it out HERE.
Second year Phd student Donald Zarate has been presented two awards from the Society for Utopian Studies. The first award was the Nicole LaRose award to travel to the annual meeting in October 2024 to present his paper "Here and Now: Black Perspectives on Anti-Utopianism." The second award was the Kenneth M. Roemer Innovative Course...
Congratulations to second year PhD student Donald Zarate who recently recently received the Chicano Latino Alumni Scholarship (CLA) and the Humane Studies Fellowship to support his studies here at UCR.
Catherine Wells has been chosen as a graduate fellow for the Health Humanities and Disability Justice Lab for the 2024-2025 academic year. Her graduate fellowship will support the collection of the oral histories of mutual aid groups in the Inland Empire.
The University of California, Riverside's Sigma Phi chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honors Society, has been awarded a Best Chapter Award for 2023-2024.
Professor Kevin Esterling has been appointed Chair of the Department of Political Science from July 1st, 2024. The department thanks the outgoing department chair, Professor Jennifer Merolla, for excellent leadership over the past three years.
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Since 1984, the Society for Political Methodology has held an annual summer conference. “Polmeth” is the premier meeting in political science for research advancing applied statistics and machine learning methods. The meeting provides an opportunity for leading faculty and advanced PhD students to showcase and receive feedback on recent work in the field...