College of Arts and Sciences

Professor Kathryn Lavelle joined the Hudson Institute to participate in a panel discussion where she spoke about regimes and regime complexity in regards to the geostrategic importance of the Arctic. Below is a description of the panel discussion from the Hudson Institute: The melting of Arctic ice accelerated by global warming...

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Professor Karen Beckwith’s book, Cabinets, Ministers, and Gender, written with Professors Claire Annesley (University of Sussex, UK) and Susan Franceschet (University of Calgary, Canada), has been published by Oxford University Press. The book examines the gendered process and outcomes of cabinet formation in seven countries (Australia, Canada, Chile, Germany, Spain,...

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Justin Buchler, Associate Professor of Political Science, discussed the political dynamics in Ohio during the lead-up to the 2020 election on C-SPAN. He talked about Ohio as a swing state, the mischaracterization of blue-collar workers, and the crowded democratic field. Watch his interview here!  

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Kathryn Lavelle, Ellen and Dixon Long Professor in World Affairs, participated in the 2019 CWRU China-U.S. Medical Summit organized by the Chinese Student Association on April 20th. She discussed Chinese-U.S. relations in respect to the trade war as part of the China-U.S. Relations panel.

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Congratulations to Professors Laura Tartakoff and Pete Moore for their well-deserved nominations for the J. Bruce Jackson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Mentoring!

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See the review of Justin Buchler's new book, Incremental Polarization, in Perspectives on Politics (17 (1), March 2019). Perspectives on Politics is a journal of the American Political Science Association. Incremental Polarization: A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties, and Roll Call Voting. By Justin Buchler. New York: Oxford...

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