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Majors & Minors
Pursue an undergraduate degree or take courses in political science or international relations.
Alumni Showcase
Discover notable individuals with Rochester degrees in political science or international relations.
Graduate Studies
Receive the most rigorous training in political science, and learn formal and statistical methods at the highest level.
Department News
- PhD alum Daniel Gillion publishes piece, "The Myth of the Silent Majority," in The Atlantic.
- Dept. of Political Science 2020 Commencement Ceremony posted
- Richard Fenno, a dear colleague, dies, April 21, 2020
- Alex Lee and PhD student Varun Karekurve-Ramachandra publish article on gender quotas in India
- Rochester PhD Lynn Vavreck elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Gretchen Helmke's article (with Levitsky) is most cited in Perspectives on Politics
- PhD alumnus Daniel Diermeier named Chancellor of Vanderbilt University
Recent PhD Placements
- Peter Bils — Vanderbilt University
- Zuheir Desai — Princeton University (post-doc) and IE School of Global and Public Affairs
- Karen Albert — US Government
- Andrea Morris — Washington University (post-doc)
- Olga Gasparyan— Hertie School of Governance (post-doc)
- Hans Leonard — Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- Justin Nicholson— Booz Allen Hamilton
- Rabia Malik — University of Essex
- Jeheung Ryu — Princeton University (post-doc)
- Sergio Ascensio Bonfil — University of New Mexico
- Chitralekha Basu — University of Cologne
- Emiel Awad — London School of Economics (post-doc)
New Faculty
- Dan Alexander — PhD University of Chicago, started Fall 2019
- Mayya Komisarchik — PhD Harvard, started Fall 2019
- Scott Tyson — PhD New York University, started Fall 2018
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Careers
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