Two members of the Department of Political Science, Sarah Treul Roberts and Clyde Ray who each received a Tanner Award, had their names and achievements added to the ever-growing list making Political Science the single most-honored department in the College of Arts and Sciences.

The 2012-13 class of PhD’s from the department continued a tradition of providing faculty to an excellent mix of research and teaching oriented departments around the country.  Each year we put an average of 10-15 students on the market, just a tad fewer than enter the program 5 years previously. The cohort on the market last year...

Andrew Reynolds, Associate Professor, and co-authors Jason Brownlee (University of Texas) and Tarek Masoud (Harvard University) are featured on a guest post about their recent Journal of Democracy article "Why the Modest Harvest?"...

Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 7:30pm

G202 Murray Hall, Free Admission, Open to the Public

How outside powers affect and are affected by that conflict is the subject of this panel by UNC-CH political science faculty and doctoral students.  Panelists will address the history of US involvement, the larger regional implications of the conflict, the impact of outside interventions and outside mediation in civil wars, and how the US military provides civilian leaders with advice about the use of military force...

Justin Gross, assistant professor of political science at UNC, and Brice Acree, PhD student, are cited in a recent "Monkey Cage Blog" post about the rise of the machines in the study of politics...

Evelyne Huber, Morehead Alumni Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Political Science and John D. Stephens, Gerhard E. Lenski, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology and Director of the Center for European Studies, have just received two awards for their new book, Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Virginia Gray, Robert Watson Winston Professor, received a signal honor: the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association has created an award in her honor – The Virginia Gray Award for the outstanding book published on state politics...

Rahsaan Maxwell joins the Political Science faculty as a tenured associate professor, coming to UNC from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he has been teaching since 2009.  Rahsaan’s research examines the politics of ethnic, racial, and religious minorities, with a focus on Western Europe.

Born and raised in New York City, Rahsaan received his BA in 1998 from the University of Pennsylvania, where he double-majored in Political Science and History.

There was a lot of excitement at the Dean Dome on Saturday.The men’s basketball team won in overtime against Virginia Tech 72-60. Among the fans cheering on the Heels were three Political Science faculty members.

The Department of Political Science has joined in the celebration of Rachel M. Myrick of Charlotte, a senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill majoring in political science and global studies, who recently won a Rhodes Scholarship, the world’s oldest and best known award for graduate study. She was one of 32 Americans selected for the prestigious award, which funds study at the University of Oxford in England.

The latest issue of the Department of Political Science newsletter is now available. In this issue we celebrate our recent graduates, recognize faculty and graduate students receiving awards this past year, as well as recent faculty publications and much more.