The Center for Law, Justice & Culture advances scholarship and teaching by integrating programs and uniting faculty and students who share a common interest in law's constitutive and formative role in cultural, political, and social life.
Political Science Research
Political Science Research
Faculty in the Department of Political Science maintain an innovative disciplinary and interdisciplinary research culture that supports the department鈥檚 teaching mission. We produce original research that is fundamental, applied and theoretical in many subfields of political science including American politics, Public Policy, Comparative politics, International Relations, Law and Society, and Political Theory.
Through its teaching, research, and service to the university and community, the department seeks to instill a lifelong commitment to learning, which empowers its faculty and students to meet their responsibilities as citizens, managers, leaders, and professional political scientists in a democratic society and interdependent world.
Many of our faculty also direct and participate in interdisciplinary programs, such as Environmental Science and Sustainability; Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, the Center for International Studies; and the Center for Law, Justice & Culture.
Research Areas We Focus On
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American Politics and PolicyOur faculty publish research on questions that connect the institutional and behavioral foundations of the American political system to political outcomes; they also explore how policies are crafted, implemented and administered through political processes at the local, state and national levels.
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Global Politics and PolicyOur faculty conduct comparative and international relations research around the world; this research explores questions centered on global governance, conflict and terrorism, political institutions, culture, and behavior, as well as applied policy approaches to solving global issues.
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Law and Society / Political TheoryOur faculty use historical, critical, and theoretical approaches to study American political development, connect American or global legal systems and processes to social and political outcomes, and apply theories of ethics and justice in the study of political thought.
Related Centers & Institutes
The Political Science Department is tremendously proud to work with such a talented and accomplished cohort of undergraduate majors, graduate students, and faculty.
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Contemporary History Institute
The Contemporary History Institute hosts scholars, speakers and students from around the globe and provides historically grounded analysis of contemporary world affairs at both the national and international levels.
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Center for International Studies
The Center for International Studies trains students to become empathetic and curious global problem solvers and changemakers who navigate across different cultural, political, technological, and regulatory environments.
Recent Faculty Accomplishments
'A World of Wounds' by Nancy Manring
Rebuilding a Bipartisan Environmental Movement and Cultivating Authentic Hope
'Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State' by Kirstine Taylor
The story of how the American South became the most incarcerated region in the world鈥檚 most incarcerated nation.