News: Faculty and Staff

Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, "Read my lips: No new (carbon) tax"
Nov 14, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on the HuffingtonPost site, "If Liberal Billionaires Really Wanted To Change Politics, Here’s What They’d Do"
Oct 25, 2018
Prof. Christopher S. Parker talking, Trumpism in Europe: The American President Offers Hope to Growing Far Right Forces Overseas
Oct 19, 2018
Obituary: William Jay Gore
Oct 15, 2018
John Wilkerson, Department Chair
Letter from the Chair
Oct 15, 2018
Meera Roy, Director of Academic Services
Staff Profile: Meera Roy, Director of Academic Services
Oct 15, 2018
James Long conducting research
Faculty Profile: Associate Professor James Long: Combatting Electoral Fraud
Oct 15, 2018
Prof. John Wilkerson on Legbranch site, "Machine learning improves our understanding of how laws are made and who deserves credit for them"
Oct 5, 2018
Prof. Jamie Mayerfeld on the Lawyers, Guns & Money web site, "Kavanaugh and the question of torture"
Sep 21, 2018
Interview with Prof. Victor Menaldo about new book Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy
Sep 4, 2018
Prof. Christopher S. Parker on The Hill web site, “There's a boost in black turnout, especially among black women voters”
Aug 29, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, “Seattle’s smoky summers are becoming the new normal”
Aug 24, 2018
Prof. Jamie Mayerfeld on the Just Security web site, "Brett Kavanaugh and the Risk of a Return to Torture"
Aug 16, 2018
Prof. Mark A. Smith
Seeking Truth in an Age of Cynicism and Political Polarization: Professor Mark Alan Smith talks about his new undergraduate course Pols334 for Autumn 2018
Aug 8, 2018
Political Science PhD Student Mathieu Dubeau on the NewPolitics Site, "Battleground Seattle: A Class of Classes and a Brewing Perfect Storm"
Aug 3, 2018
Lecturer Scott Lemieux on Vox, "6 myths about Roe v. Wade, debunked"
Jul 17, 2018
Prof. Christopher Parker on KQED radio San Francisco, "Racial Resentment and White Cultural Anxiety Fuel Support of President Trump, Studies Find"
Jul 17, 2018
International Coverage of "Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy" by Professor Victor Menaldo
Jul 12, 2018
Megan Francis
Imagine you had a class with Distinguished Faculty Award Winner Megan Francis
Jun 5, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill news site, "What Amazon owes Seattle's homeless is a matter of debate"
May 23, 2018
Professor Victor Menaldo inThe New York Times Opinion, "Why Are So Many Democracies Breaking Down?"
May 9, 2018
Professors Whiting, Ainsley, and Caporaso
Trump, Trade, Tariffs panel discusses undesirable outcomes of trade wars
May 5, 2018
Professor Christopher Parker Lecture on C-SPAN, The Great White Hope: Donald Trump, Race, & The Crisis of American Politics
May 2, 2018
Prof. Victor Menaldo in The Seattle Times, "Crony capitalism and protectionism are the despot’s way"
Apr 23, 2018
Scott Lemieux in the LA Times, "If Democrats sweep the House this fall, blame Paul Ryan's rich-on-poor class warfare"
Apr 23, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Huffington Post, "The Climate Change Hypocrisy Of Jet-Setting Academics"
Apr 12, 2018
Megan Ming Francis
UW political scientist Megan Ming Francis named fellow with NAACP’s Thurgood Marshall Institute
Mar 9, 2018
Prof. Christopher Parker at Town Hall Seattle with Arlie Russell Hochschild on her book, "Strangers in Their Own Land"
Feb 28, 2018
Polisci Lecturer Scott Lemieux: The GOP Is Scared of a Fair Fight
Feb 26, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Washington Post Monkey Cage blog, "The Oxfam scandal shows that, yes, nonprofits can behave badly. So why aren’t they overseen like for-profits?"
Feb 23, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, "The key to a successful carbon tax is how you spend the money"
Feb 23, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash in The Washington Post's Monkey Cage blog, "Why is India ‘missing’ 63 million women — even though development is roaring?"
Feb 13, 2018
Prof. John Wilkerson in The Washington Post Magazine, "Can big data predict which bills will pass Congress?"
Feb 8, 2018
Prof. Wilkerson and Grad Andreu Casas quoted in The Washington Post, "Congress can easily avoid shutdowns. Here’s why it doesn’t"
Jan 22, 2018
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Hill web site, “EPA's Pruitt: Bring back 'true environmentalism'”
Jan 19, 2018
Megan Francis
Faculty Friday: Megan Ming Francis
Jan 12, 2018
Lecturer Scott Lemieux in The Los Angeles Times op-ed, “Remember, much of what Trump does can be undone”
Jan 2, 2018
Prof. Christopher Parker leads a Study Abroad Program in Berlin, Germany, Summer 2018
Dec 14, 2017
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Huffington Post site, "Amazon HQ2 In The Time Of Climate Change"
Dec 6, 2017
Professor Geoffrey Wallace
2017 Fall Faculty Panel - The Politics of Terror and Terrorism
Nov 28, 2017
Prof. Anthony Gill on the EconTalk podcast with Russ Roberts, "Why Does Tipping Persist?"
Nov 21, 2017
Christopher Parker
Prof. Christopher Parker interview on WFHB and Public Radio Exchange (PRX), "The Same Old Hate: The Reactionary Right Rides Again"
Nov 15, 2017
Prof. Scott Lemieux Op-Ed in The Los Angeles Times, "What a surprise: another tax plan to help the super rich"
Nov 14, 2017
Prof. Aseem Prakash In The Washington Post Monkey Cage blog, "Delhi is blanketed with toxic smog. This is why"
Nov 14, 2017
Prof. Aseem Prakash on The Conversation web site, "How donors can help make nonprofits more accountable"
Nov 3, 2017
Wallace
Prof. Sophia Jordán Wallace selected Western Political Science Assoc. Field Editor for Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration at Political Research Quarterly
Oct 23, 2017
Experts: Local elections are where voters' opinion matters most
Oct 16, 2017
Anthony Gill
Political Science Professor Anthony Gill: Why Do Donuts (Almost) Disappear At Faculty Meetings?
Oct 13, 2017
Anthony Gill
Political Science Professor Anthony Gill: Is "Buying Local" Even Possible
Oct 13, 2017
New lecturerer Scott Lemieux writes op-ed for LA Times
Sep 27, 2017

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