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Welcome to LSU's Department of Political Science. The Department is home to over 500 undergraduate majors and over 50 graduate students. They study with 30 faculty who are well known scholars in a wide variety of fields and who are amongst the most honored teachers at this university. We provide a vibrant place to study and a perfect place to prepare for an active role in politics. Please browse our website to learn more about us. For example, see what we teach under "Courses" and what we write under "Research." If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
James Stoner, Department Chair
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MAJOR LECTURES THIS SPRING — Thanks to grants from Jerry McKernan and the APGAR Foundation, respectively, we will sponsor two important lectures in the spring. Details will follow, including titles, but please “save the date”:
· Monday, March 22, 7:30 pm (McKernan Auditorium, LSU Law Center) — HUMPHREY LECTURE by Walter Isaacson, CEO of the Aspen Institute and former editor of Time Magazine, with an afternoon discussion preceding the lecture.
· Tuesday, March 30, 3:00 pm (Hill Memorial Library) — James Ceaser, University of Virginia, with a lunchtime discussion of his book on American Political Development earlier that day.
In addition, we will co-sponsor the Edward Douglass White Lectures, coordinated this year by the Law School, which will be held on April 13 and 14, and delivered by Professor Michael McClendon of Vanderbilt University, who directs several programs in their school of education. He will speak about his area of expertise, state funding of higher education, obviously a timely topic.
Congratulations to our graduate students who have accepted tenure-track positions beginning in Fall 2010: Caroline Payne at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania; Kaitlyn Sill at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington; Rhonda Wrzenski at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana; and Betina Wilkinson at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Jeremy Mhire, LSU PhD 2006, now an assistant professor at Louisiana Tech, is spending the academic year 2009-2010 in a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University.
Yale Political Scientist Bryan Garsten delivered a lecture called, "Who Speaks for the People? A Problem of Democratic Leadership," on November 12th at 3:00pm in Hill Memorial Library.
A new course is being taught for the spring semester, Political Science 2030, cross-listed with Mass Communication called "Civic Engagement, Youth, and Media," The course is taught by Professor Regina Lawrence and Michael Xenos.
Professor Kevin Mulcahy has been named a Fulbright Specialist, and lectured at Babes-Bolyai University in Romania in October.
Congratulations to Johanna Dunaway, who has been awarded an ATLAS grant for the 2009-2010 academic year.
Congratulations to Dr. William Clark who The College Senate has unanimously elected for President for the year 2009-2010.
Congratulations to Dr. Kate Bratton, who has been awarded an ATLAS grant for the 2009-2010 academic year for her study of “Legislative Networks: Determinants and Consequences.”
Congratulations to Kaitlyn Sill on a 2009-2010 LSU dissertation year fellowship. |
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Recent study ranks the Department 10th in country for research productivity.
Newly Published Research
Regina G. Lawrence with John Maxwell Hamilton and Raluca Cozma. 2010. "The Paradox of Respectability: The Limits of Indexing and Harrison Salisbury’s Coverage of the Vietnam War." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 15 (1), 77-103.
Howes, Dustin E. 2009. Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Politics. State University of New York Press.
Lawrence, Regina G. and Melody Rose. 2009. Hillary Clinton's Race for the White House: Gender Politics and the Media on the Campaign Trail. Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc.
Garand, James C., Micheal W. Giles, Andre Blais, and Iain McLean. 2009. "Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective: Evaluating Scholarly Journals in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom." PS Political Science & Politics. 42 (4): 695-717.
Branton, Regina P., and Johanna Dunaway. 2009. “Spatial Proximity to the US-Mexico Border and Local News Coverage of Immigration Issues.” Political Research Quarterly 62(2): 289-302.
Branton, Regina P., and Johanna Dunaway. 2009. “Slanted Newspaper Coverage of Immigration: The Importance of Economics and Geography.” Policy Studies Journal 37(2): 257-27.
Stoner, James. 2009. “Who Has Authority over the Constitution of the United States?” In The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism, eds. Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Pp. 95-111, 270-72.
Xenos, M.A. and Becker, A.B. (2009). Moments of Zen: Effects of The Daily Show on Information Seeking and Political Learning. Political Communication, 26(3):317-332.
Sandoz, Ellis. 2009. "The Philosopher's Vocation: The Voegelinian Paradigm." The Review of Politics 71(1): 54-67.
Abouharb, M. Rodwan, and David Cingranelli. 2009. "IMF Programs and Human Rights, 1981-2003." Review of International Organizations. 4(1): 47-72.
David Sobek. 2009. The Causes of War. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Dunaway, Johanna. 2008. "Markets, Ownership, and the Quality of Campaign News Coverage," In Journal of Politics 70 (4): 1193-1202.
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