PolsNews: Spring 2024

From the Chair

There is no doubt that higher education is undergoing major changes today and this applies to Indiana University as well. Public universities are confronted with demographic changes and other challenges such as artificial intelligence, hyper-polarization, and the declining state support for higher education. We are seeking to adapt ourselves to the new environment while maintaining a tradition of excellence in research, teaching and service. Our Spring 2024 Newsletter gives an update about what we have been doing lately and shares with you some of our priorities for the year ahead.

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Lead Articles

POLS DC

This year marks the 5th anniversary of the POLS DC Internship Program; by the end of this fall semester, we will have sent 100 students to work in the nation’s capital!

New Interdisciplinary Student Organization

We are excited to announce the creation of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society (PPES) at Indiana University, a groundbreaking new interdisciplinary student organization marking the inception of Indiana’s first local chapter of the National PPE Society and consolidating student and faculty support for a PPE program at IU.

Profiles

Alumni Profile: Mike Wagner

Graduate Student Profile: Aashna Khanna

Craiutu Book Launch

Recent Lectures

Braman Book Symposium

Simon Sihang Luo New Article

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2023-24 Political Science Faculty and Staff

Faculty:

Christine Barbour
William Bianco
Nicolas Bichay
Jacob Bielasiak
Eileen Braman
Elizabeth Brannon
Edward Carmines
Aurelian Craiutu
Vanessa Cruz Nichols
Jacek Dalecki
Christopher DeSante
Noah Eber-Schmid

Judy Failer
Sumit Ganguly
Timothy Hellwig
Jeffrey Isaac
Ore Koren
Lauren MacLean
Armando Razo
William Scheurman
Abdulkader Sinno
Regina Smyth
Dina Spechler
Jun Sudduth
Steven Webster
Michael Weinman

William Winecoff
Jason Wu
Justyna Zajac

Staff:
Isabel Dowling
Jackie Gentry
Lisa McCoy
Jeanne Myers
Janette Peterson
Laurie Staring
Rick Watson

College of Arts and Sciences

Executive Dean: Rick Van Kooten
Executive Director of Advancement: Jeff Stuckey
Director of Alumni Relations: Vanessa Cloe
Director of Advancement Communications: Raymond Fleischmann
Associate Director of Advancement Communications: Sarah Johnson LaBarbera

Department of Political Science

PolsNews: Spring 2024