Announcement Archive

2024

A Warm Welcome to our New Department Chair
July 1, 2024
Thank for your service, Dr. Bruhn
July 1, 2024
Dr. Kaplan's Retirement
June 28, 2024
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Congratulations to Cesar B. Martinez-Alvarez
June 13, 2024
Congratulations to Tara Mandrekar
May 8, 2024
Congratulations to Professor Kate Bruhn for her new book, Politics and the Pink Tide
April 29, 2024
Academic Senate’s 2023-’24 Distinguished Teaching Award Winner - Chase Hobbs Morgan
April 18, 2024
Hiring TAs for Next Academic Year F24, W25, S25
February 14, 2024

2023

Professor Pei-Te Lien Speaks on SCOTUS Affirmative Action Ruling
July 14, 2023
Nobel Peace Laureate and Journalist Maria Ressa Visits UCSB Political Science
May 30, 2023
Professor Leah Stokes Publishes Guest Essay in The New York Times
April 14, 2023
Julien Labarre Receives Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
April 14, 2023
Amit Ahuja publishes Internal Security in India: Violence, Order, and the State
February 7, 2023

2022

Christopher Parker publishes article on BLM, race, and politics in Perspectives on Politics
December 16, 2022
San Francisco Chronicle Publishes Masterson's Research on UC Grad Student Pay
December 16, 2022
Clayton Nall's work on housing discussed in the Atlantic Monthly
November 29, 2022
Prof. Paasha Mahdavi's Co-authored Paper Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
November 22, 2022
Lien and Filler's Contesting the Last Frontier: Race, Gender, Ethnicity, and Political Representation of Asian Americans published by Oxford University Press
October 18, 2022

2021

Paige Digeser's "Collaboration and Its Political Functions" published in American Political Science Review
August 10, 2021
2021 Political Science Awards
June 11, 2021
Pei-te Lien's "How to un-model a minority: A micro-syllabus on Asian American politics" published in The Washington Post
April 29, 2021
Benjamin Cohen interviewed for Foundations and Frontiers in International Political Economy project
February 9, 2021
Daniel Masterson's research on Syrian refugees' migration featured in the Economist
February 1, 2021
Tae-Yeoun Keum's “Plato and the Mythic Tradition of Political Thought” is featured in The Current
January 4, 2021

2020

Amit Ahuja’s “Mobilizing the Marginalized” Wins New India Foundation Book Prize for 2020
December 10, 2020
Leah Stokes's "Short Circuiting Policy" Wins American Energy Society's Best Energy Book of the Year
December 1, 2020
Leah Stokes on Climate Issues Near and Far in The Santa Barbara Independent
November 3, 2020
Rajkamal Singh: "When Modi govt came to power, farmer protests increased 700% — the 3 bills are its result." The Print
September 25, 2020
M. Kent Jennings Receives the 2020 Frank J. Goodnow Award
September 22, 2020
New Books in Political Science: Lorraine McDonnell and Stephen Weatherford publish Evidence, Politics, and Education Policy
September 4, 2020
Neil Narang joins Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation as Research Director
September 4, 2020
Message from the Chair
September 1, 2020
Leah Stokes Earns Prestigious Plous Award
August 31, 2020
Olivia Quinn, Amanda Brush & Eric Smith: “A simple forecast suggests a Democratic sweep in 2020” Monkey Cage
July 9, 2020
Jeff Feng receives the Bailey Award for his paper "Eco-queer: queering environmental politics and greening queer politics"
July 8, 2020
Benjamin Cohen will present a free public lecture in Summer Sessions' GRIT Talks
July 7, 2020