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...
Threats and harassment targeting elected officials are negatively impacting our political processes and local democratic forums. What can be done to mitigate this threat to our democracy while still protecting First Amendment rights? On Wednesday, June 26th, 5 PM at UCR's Alumni Visitor's Center The Violence, Inequality and Power (VIP) Lab with the UCR’s School...
Congratulations to Minhye Joo, Sidney Kerr, Morrey Liedke, and Catherine Wells, who received the Outstanding Teaching Award for 2023-2024 academic year!
We are pleased to announce two great upcoming workshops for Political Science majors considering graduate study. The first is for undergraduate political science students who are considering a PhD in political science. The second is for students considering any of a number of different graduate degrees, academic and professional. (1) MSIRA How to Apply to...
Congratulations to Igor Acácio (Ph.D. 2022) who will join California State University, Fullerton as tenure-track assistant professor position in July 1st. Igor's research focuses on democracy and civil-military relations, military missions, and defense and security issues, with a geographical focus on Latin America.
We have just learned that professors Benjamin Bishin and Nicholas Weller won the Bailey Award for best paper on LGBT politics presented at the 2022 APSA meeting. Congratulations to both of them! The announcement from the caucus' website: "The committee to select the Bailey Award (Calla Hummel, Matthew Incantalupo, and Thomas Hayes) has chosen “The...
An article in WalletHub examines which state in the US is most representative of the whole population and asks whether a state's representativeness ought to influence the order in which the states hold their primaries. The article consults several experts, including Prof. Esterling, on the issue.
The department's honor society (Pi Sigma Alpha) now has an official webpage on the department's website! You can find the website here: https://politicalscience.ucr.edu/psa
Prof. Grittersova spends the Academic Year 2023-24 as a visiting professor at the Paris School of Economics (at the invitation of Professor Eric Monnet). Prof. Grittersova is also co-organizing the 2024 The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis International Conference in Economics, Econometrics, and Finance at Brunel University London, 20-22 May 2024.
Prof Marissa Brookes, along with Ellen Reese, Michael Bates, and Richard Rodriguez, has been awarded grants from The James Irvine Foundation to support the UCR Inland Empire Labor and Community Center's capacity as well as a grant from the Inland Empire Community Foundation.
Minhye Joo has been awarded an APSA Dissertation Research Improvement Grant. Her dissertation is entitled "How Does Contact with Street-Level Bureaucrats Impact Immigrant Incorporation?"
Prof. Napolio's work with Christian Grose (USC) on majority party control mentioned in the New York Times: A Brief History of Consequential Deaths in Congress
Congratulations to Prof. David Miller on being awarded the Jewell-Loewenberg Award for the best American Politics article in Legislative Studies Quarterly in 2022 for " On Whose Door to Knock? Organized Interests’ Strategic Pursuit of Access to Members of Congress"!
Three political science majors were selected for The Capital Fellow Program in Sacramento. The Capital Fellow Program is the most prestigious, and competitive, state legislative intern program in the country. Tricia Sarmiento will be an Assembly Fellow, Mufida Assaf a Senate Fellow, and Meenatchi Odaiyappan an Executive Fellow. The department congratulates you on your achievement...
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Minhye Joo on her Dissertation Research Grant from The Russell Sage Foundation. The grant will support Joo's work on how immigrants' experiences with bureaucrats shape their political attitudes and behavior.