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By Andy Baker Welcome to our Winter 2023 newsletter. I’m happy to report that we are well on the way to completing a rather normal academic year—for the first time since 2018/19! Our lecture halls are teeming with students, speculation and fear about the next pandemic surge have faded, and...

As a college student at Denison University some years ago, Associate Professor Anand Sokhey decided on a whim to dabble in political science research for a summer. Little did he know at the time that this was the beginning of a remarkable academic career. Since completing that degree at Denison...

The United Nations is one of the most controversial institutions in the world. One of its primary roles is to organize and execute peacekeeping missions, which are intended to help maintain peace in countries previously torn apart by civil war. Yet some UN peacekeeping missions have gone horribly and notoriously...

Last year, CU Political Science established the First Year Scholarship Award to recruit high-performing high school seniors who intend to major in political science. The scholarships are offered to students with strong high school academic records and demonstrated financial need. The department selects students for the award after they are...

Becoming a professor takes a lot of work and requires a long haul. Aside from all the schooling and degrees one must collect, the job market for professors is all too tight. Colleges and universities—and especially elite universities—have many talented applicants from which to choose when they hire new professors...

When Missy Kelly enrolled at CU in 1990, she thought that law school and a career as an attorney were on her eventual path, but life had very different plans. After Kelly graduated from CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ with a doub le major in Political Science and International Affairs, she pursued a...