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Recent News
Aries Arugay, Ph.D. 2014, Wins the Outstanding Young Scientist Award
Aries Arugay, Georgia State Ph.D. in Political Science 2014, was awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Award of the National Academy of Science and Technology of the Philippines. It is the first time in two decades that a political...read more ❯
Olivia Murray, class of 2020, off to Harvard Law School
The department of political science would like to congratulate Olivia Murray, class of 2020, on being accepted to Harvard Law School where she will start...read more ❯
Hankla on Government Efficiency in Handling COVID-19
In a recent article published by The Conversation, Dr. Charles Hankla, Assistant Professor of Political Science, asked: “What do the countries that have dealt effectively with COVID-19 have in common?”
Based on his recent...read more ❯
Kelsi Quick Wins Two GSURC Awards
Kelsi Quick, a GSU Political Science undergraduate student, has won two research awards at the GSU Undergraduate Research Conference (GSURC) for her paper entitled, “Double Standards?...read more ❯
Subotic Wins 2020 Book Award
Dr. Jelena Subotic, Professor of Political Science, has been awarded the 2020 Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies for her book Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism. The book explains how...read more ❯
Work of McCoy and Rahman Cited in the NY Times
The work of Dr. Jennifer McCoy and PhD Candidate Tahmina Rahman is featured in a New York Times opinion piece by Thomas B. Edsall. The author referred to their 2018 paper, “Polarization and the Global Crisis of Democracy,”...read more ❯
PoliSci Alumna Ebony Carter Running for Georgia House District 110
Ebony Carter, BA in Political Science and Anthropology, is running for Georgia House District 110.
Ms. Carter has been an active member of the student body throughout her undergraduate studies at Georgia State University (GSU). She...read more ❯
Schorpp on USAPP: Diverse Courts Better for Civil Liberties
Can gender diversity on the federal judiciary make it less likely for judges to defer to the executive during times of war? Dr. Susanne Schorpp, Assistant Professor of Political Science at GSU, along with Dr. Rebecca Reid (University...read more ❯
New Publication: Post-Election Violence in Africa
Dr. Meshack Simati, a 2018 Political Science Ph.D. graduate of Georgia State, had a new book published by Routledge on post-election violence in Africa.
The book, entitled Post-Election Violence in Africa: The Impact of Judicial...read more ❯
Lensing Featured in the NY Times on his Study Trip to China
Dexter Lensing, a Ph.D. student of Political Science, is featured in a New York Times story on foreign students studying in China in light of the recent Coronavirus outbreak. Lensing was forced to change the plans he had through his...read more ❯
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