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Professor and Chair Department of Political Science |
Welcome to the web site of the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. We are located on the main quad of the beautiful campus of the University of Washington. Situated on the shore of Lake Washington and only a few minutes from downtown Seattle, we are blessed with spectacular views of Mount Rainer and the Olympic and Cascade mountain ranges.
Our department is one of the oldest political science departments on the West coast and we are consistently recognized as one of the strongest departments in the country. We are committed to both the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about politics. The faculty have significant expertise in the traditional areas of American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Methodology and Political Theory. We have specialized intellectual strength in comparative political economy, international security, political communication, public law, public policy, and race and ethnicity politics. Our faculty often win national honors and awards for their books, articles, and teaching, and have been particularly successful in receiving external funding to support their research. Our graduate students are among the strongest and most diverse in the United States with an impressive record of job placement. Our undergraduates, including nearly 900 majors, are actively engaged both on campus and in the community. Many pursue independent research and/or internships, and some have received prestigious national honors.
One of the most distinctive aspects of Political Science at the University of Washington is the significant number of research centers located in the department. The Center for American Politics and Public Policy, Center for Labor Studies, Comparative Law and Society Studies Center, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement, European Union Center, Center for Comparative and Historical Analysis of Organizations and States, University of Washington International Security Colloquium, and The University of Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality provide vibrant intellectual clusters for faculty and graduate students. We also have many interdisciplinary connections with colleagues in the Law School, the Department of Communication, the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, the Evans School of Public Policy, the Jackson School of International Studies, and numerous humanities and social science departments in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Our aim is to make the services and resources of our department as accessible as possible to current and prospective graduate and undergraduate students and their parents, to our alumni, to the citizens of Washington, and to colleagues at the University of Washington and around the world. In that vein, we hope that our web site is informative and answers most of your questions. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sincerely,
Stephen Majeski
Professor and Chair
More information about the department is available on the Department of Political Science factsheet.