News
2018
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.
University of Missouri professor and Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy director Justin Dyer talks about polarization of legal interpretation on The Open Mind
Full show and transcript here.
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy director Justin Dyer and associate director Jeffrey Pasley write about the possibility of real dialogue in a university setting.
Professors Adam Seagrave and Stephanie Shonekan explain in the Columbia Daily Tribune what the new Race and the American Story will bring to the Citizenship@Mizzou program: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20170819/program-will-
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.
Bandon Park attends a lecture at ICPSR
Three MU Political Science graduate students attended the prestigious Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in Ann Arbor, Michigan this summer.
Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program participatants (2017)
Twenty Mizzou students recently returned from The Kinder Scholars D.C. Summer Program. The Springfield News-Leader covered the experience of political science honor society president Tricia Swartz here.