Research & Scholarship
Our faculty research topics ranging from elections, to migration, to international politics, to religion and race in politics. They present and publish their research through academic conferences, journals, books and news media. Our undergraduate students have many opportunities to collaborate with faculty on research and public projects.
Partners in Scholarship
To encourage greater student-faculty research partnerships, our department has sponsored more than 15 student-faculty PinS (Partners in Scholarship) projects.
Through the Undergraduate Research Center, undergraduates can find funding to support a research project with a faculty member, get summer research grants, travel to an academic conference or participate in the Undergraduate Research Symposium.
If you are interested in partnering with a faculty member on original research, talk to your political science advisor.
Faculty Publications and Presentations
Jesse Acevedo
Acevedo's article "Migrant remittances and demand for redistribution" appeared in Studies in Comparative International Development, volume 55, 2020.
Sara Chatfield
Chatfield and co-author John Brooks published their article "Mind the gap: Examining the role of gender in campaign staffing and compensation" in Electoral Studies, volume 67, 2020.
Lisa Conant
Conant's book chapter, "The Court of Justice of the European Union," appeared in The Palgrave Handbook of EU Crises in 2021.
Laurel Eckhouse
Eckhouse and two co-authors published their article "No justice, no peace: Political science perspectives on the American carceral state" in a special issue of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Politics, volume 5, special issue 3, 2020.
Seth Masket
In 2021, Masket and co-author Hans Noel published their book "Political Parties" with W.W. Norton.
Elizabeth Sperber
Sperber and Erin Hern's book chapter, "Pentecostalism, Partisanship and Civic Engagement," appeared in the edited collection Religion and Politics in Post-Colonial Zambia, published in 2020.
Jing Sun
Sun published his book, "Red Chamber, World Dream: Actors, Audience, and Agendas in Chinese Foreign Policy and Beyond," in 2021 with University of Michigan Press.
Nancy Wadsworth
In 2020, Wadsworth and co-author Aleš Črnič published their article "Invented religion, the awakened polis, and sacred disestablishment: The case of Slovenia’s 'Zombie Church'" in Politics and Religion.
Joshua Wilson
Wilson and co-author Amanda Hollis-Brusky published their book "Separate but faithful: The Christian right’s radical struggle to transform law and legal culture" with Oxford University Press in 2020.
