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Political Science
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Recent News
Nancy Burns received a Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award!
The Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards honor senior faculty who have consistently demonstrated outstanding achievements in scholarly research or creative endeavors, teaching and mentoring of students and junior colleagues, service, and other tasks.
CPS Blog: Unexpected Margins - Analysis of the 2025 Elections
Interview with Tyler Simko, elections analyst on the CBS News team.
Learn the skills, Serve communities, Change the world.
"Within the University of Michigan Department of Political Science, you can build an astonishing and versatile and long-lasting skillset here. One that will scaffold whatever you do next, and whatever you do after that, and after that. One that gives you the tools to transform the world."
- Former Chair, Nancy Burns
Events
Featured
Apr
16
Professors Jie (Jackie) Li, Ralf J. Spatzier, and Nicholas A. Valentino, Collegiate Professorship Inaugural Lecture
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Upcoming
Mar
06
Multi
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Comparative Politics & The Social Sciences
1:30 PM
Pre-Function Room 5769
Haven Hall
Mar
10
Multi
Political Economy Workshop
1:00 PM
Eldersveld, Room 5670
Haven Hall
Mar
10
Multi
Political Theory Workshop
3:00 PM
Room 2239
Lane Hall
Mar
10
DISCO Network Presents - Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression
Victoria Copeland, Megan Fereday, Kim Fernandes, Wells Lucas Santo, and Shin Yang in conversation with M. Remi Yergeau
4:00 PM
10th Floor
Weiser Hall
Mar
10
WCEE Emerging Issues Lecture. Why Greenland Matters Now
Gabriella Gricius, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Konstanz, Senior Fellow at the Arctic Institute, and Fellow at the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network
4:00 PM
Forum Hall
Palmer Commons
Mar
13
Multi
American Institutions Group
12:00 PM
Pre-Function Room 5769
Haven Hall
