Department of Political Science Ph.D. alumna Julieta Casa has won the APSA Politics and History Section's Walter Dean Burnham Award for her dissertation, “Building Bureaucratic Capacity: The Political...

Spring 2026 Political Science Department Newsletter is now available! Check out the latest faculty, student, and alumni achievements, profiles, and news!

Department of Political Science Ph.D. alumnus Ronay Bakan has won two different awards from sections of the American Political Science Association (APSA) for her dissertation titled “Counterinsurgent ...

Department of Political Science Ph.D. alumnus Julieta Casas has published a new article titled “American Exceptionalism in Comparative Perspective” in the journal Studies in Comparative International ...

The Journal Democratic Theory recently published Dr. Jessica Croteau's ('25) new article "A Fermented Myth of Democracy" in a special issue on the concept of Earthborn Democracy. In the article, Crote...

Professor Vesla Weaver has been elected as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Founded in 1780, the Academy honors scholars and thought leaders across academic disciplines by recogn...

Yvette Shu (Hopkins ‘27), majoring in Political Science, has received the PURA (Provost’s Undergraduate Award),  an HOUR (The Hopkins Office for Undergraduate Research)  summer award to support and gr...

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Ankit Kawade, a second-year PhD student at the Political Science department, published his first book titled The Ambedkar-Nietzsche Provocations: The Genius of the Chandala and the Gospel of the Super...

Dr. Jessie Croteau, who received her PhD in 2025, was awarded the 2026 Environmental Political Theory Best Paper Award at the Western Political Science Association (WPSA) for her paper “In Praise of D...

The influential theorist explored a wide range of topics, including democracy, fascism, secularism, and climate

A half-day open symposium featuring talks with alumni, faculty, and visiting scholars. A celebration of our institutional legacy, our present community, and our intellectual future, featuring several ...

Professor Robbie Shilliam was featured in an episode of the podcast Peer Review: Creativity and Fulfillment in Academia. In the episode, he reflects on bringing creativity and community to academia th...

Dr. Engelhard’s article, titled “Imperial mobilities, errantry, and the displacement of the Chagos Islanders”, uses the 1968 displacement of Chagos Islanders by the British under the guise of claiming...

PhD Candidate Sebastian Cortesi has been awarded the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) post-doctoral fellowship at Princeton University for the academic year of 2026-2027. The fellowship awards...

Fall 2025 Department Newsletter is now available! Check out the latest faculty, student, and alumni achievements, profiles, and news!

Highlighting Krieger School doctoral programs and the value they bring to non-academic roles.

Robert Lieberman, a political science professor at Johns Hopkins University, explains how socialism, communism, and democratic socialism differ and what those ideas mean for issues like inequality and...

Across the democratic world, the postwar era’s dominant parties face a populist insurgency.

Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition

Dr. Sabrina Axster, who earned her PhD from the Political Science department at Johns Hopkins University, was awarded the Oxford University Press Early Career Research First Book Prize for her book pr...

Abstract. As part of a burgeoning interest in analyses of the colonial roots of contemporary state practices, scholars in the field of International Relati

Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how prevailing political forces threaten to disrupt the nation's money supply and the global economy

Read about the Johns Hopkins University Political Science Department, which boasts rigorous courses, award-winning faculty, in this interview with Dr. Jennifer Culbert.

Faculty members from the Department of Political Science visited public libraries to engage local communities and discuss historical context about the fragility of democracies around the world.

Faculty members from the Department of Political Science visited public libraries to engage local communities and discuss historical context about the fragility of democracies around the world.

Women's soccer fans have taken to the stands with banners, flags, and pro-D.C. chants.

Professor Jane Bennett was awarded the Benjamin E. Lippincott Award from the American Political Science Association (APSA). The Lippincott Award honors exceptional work by a living political theorist ...

‘Star Wars’ proves a surprisingly rich text for insurgency.

A semesterly newsletter from the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University

Congratulations to Ruoyu Li for winning the Edward Said Award for the 2025 best graduate student paper awarded by the Global Development Section of the International Studies Association (ISA), sponsor...

Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Democracy and Empire

A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that “explains the void” (Politico) at the center of America’s political partiesFeatured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon...

Robert Tucker, who founded the International Studies Program and the BA-MA Program with SAIS at Johns Hopkins, has passed away. Tucker was a prominent Realist, focusing on American diplomacy during th...

The Johns Hopkins Racial Politics Summer School (June 2-June 6 2025) The formal study of the relationship between the state and the market has long drawn the attention of scholars for intellectual an...

This review integrates recent scholarship outside of criminology with primary source material from a broadened source base to trace underappreciated histories of political struggle to secure safety an...