2023 Faculty Accomplishments
Our faculty had another impressive and impactful year in 2023. We are proud of the individual and collective contributions to the research, teaching, and service missions of the department.
Members of our department published books with some of the top presses in the discipline. Tim Johnson’s book, with Rachael Houston and Eve Ringsmuth, SCOTUS and COVID was published by Rowman & Littlefield, and Kathleen Collins’s Politicizing Islam in Central Asia was published by Oxford University Press.
In 2023, our faculty received “best book” awards for their previous publications. The National Conference of Black Political Scientists awarded Michael Minta with the W.E.B. Dubois Book Award for No Longer Outsiders: Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill. Mark Bell’s Nuclear Reactions was recognized with the ISA Foreign Policy Section Best Book Award. The Representation and Elections Section of the APSA awarded David Samuels with the Hallett Award for Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers. Additionally, Professor Emerita Joan Tronto received APSA’s Benjamin E. Lippincott Award for Moral Boundaries.
Faculty authored peer-reviewed publications in prestigious outlets such as the American Political Science Review, Political Behavior, Perspectives on Politics, PS: Political Science and Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, Studies in Comparative International Development this year. They also published many additional book chapters, encyclopedia entries, and review essays, and contributed to the discipline by editing special sections of journals and writing book reviews. Finally, faculty were active in terms of publicly engaged scholarship, penning op-eds, blog posts, and articles in outlets like The Washington Quarterly based on their collective research expertise.
Other markers of excellence and scholarly visibility from this past year for which our faculty thrived include invited talks and other scholarly presentations are another marker of excellence and scholarly visibility. Members of the department gave presentations across the globe, including in such countries as Poland, Austria, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, Chile, Venezuela, the Netherlands, South Africa, Brazil, and Germany. Collectively, our faculty gave presentations at Columbia, Chicago, UNC, Emory, Washington University in St. Louis, William & Mary, Oxford, the University of the Western Cape, NYU, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, UCLA, Texas, and in many other venues.
Additionally, members of the department devoted considerable time and effort to mentoring undergraduate students. Our instructors taught 3,493 undergraduate and 221 PhD students in regular classes, and authored countless letters of recommendation. Political science faculty mentored undergraduate theses, honors projects, Political Science Distinguished Undergraduate Research Program (DURP) participants, Dean's Freshman Research and Creative Scholars (DFRACS) Program participants, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) participants, and led directed readings and other projects.
The faculty provided extraordinary service within the University, the academy, and the broader community. Here on campus, members of the department served on numerous committees and chaired the All University Honors Committee, the Council of Liberal Education, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. Faculty sat on editorial boards for journals and book series across the discipline, including leadership roles as co-editor, editor-in-chief, and book review editor for leading journals. They reviewed scores of book and article manuscript submissions, grant proposals, and promotion and tenure cases. Finally, their public engagement was wide-ranging, with faculty being an active presence in the community, the public sphere, and on social media.
We are proud of the impressive array of accomplishments from our faculty in 2023, and are excited to see what 2024 has in store for our department.
