News
2018
Major Garrett, a 1984 MU graduate with bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science and chief White House correspondent for CBS News, discussed his new book, “Mr. Trump’s Wild Ride,” which was published earlier this fall to about 150 people. The event was hosted by Pi Sigma Apha, MU’s Political Science Honor Society…read more
Congratulations to Michael Hendricks, recently hired as assistant professor in the Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University.
https://news.illinoisstate.edu/2018/11/michael-hendricks-to-join-departm...
The University of Missouri Department of Political Science is pleased to announce that Heather Ba has joined our faculty.
Ba completed her doctorate in political science at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and was a postdoctoral fellow at the White House Transition Project from 2017 to 2018. Her research takes a historical and quantitative approach to studying the international systemic determinants of financial crises, the international politics of credit, the theoretical determinants of U.S. foreign policy, and the executive management of foreign policy crises.
Congratulations to Peverill Squire, recipient of the APSA State Politics and Policy Section Career Achievement Award. Squire received the award at the 2018 State Politics Conference in June.
The John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress has announced its newest scholars, who will be in residence during the fall and winter. Among them is MU Professor Marvin Overby, who is working on a book about some of the most significant congressional campaigns in the history of American politics.
PhD Candidate Mike Hendricks is co-founder and co-director of the new Missouri Science and Technology Policy Fellows Program.
Political Science major James Bohnett was in the first class of Kinder Scholars and is currently working on his honors capstone. His achievements in the classroom and on the basketball court were recently featured by MU Student Affairs: https://studentaffairs.missouri.edu/scholar-and-athlete/
Ed Goldring in Seoul, South Korea.
Ed Goldring received a place on the Institute for Far Eastern Studies’ (IFES) summer program in 2017. IFES is a research arm of Kyungnam University in South Korea, whose scholars focus on research relating to peace and unification on the Korean Peninsula. Ed conducted research for two months over the summer in Seoul, including interviews with North Korean defectors, policy, and media professionals.
2017
Dictators and Their Secret Police (Cambridge, 2016)
Dictators and Their Secret Police by Assistant Professor Sheena Greitens has been named a co-winner of the 2017 Best Book Award from the American Political Science Association Section on Comparative Democratization. The selection committee was “deeply impressed with the rigor of [the] comparative analysis and the magnitude of [the] book’s theoretical contributions to our understanding of coercive institutions.” The book was recognized at the September APSA conference in San Francisco.
Professor Peverill Squire's most recent book, The Rise of the Representative: Lawmakers and Constituents in Colonial America, is now out from University of Michigan Press.
Read an interview with Squire about his latest project here.