Leonard Freedman, 1924–2020 With profound sorrow, the UCLA Department of Political Science reports the passing of Professor Leonard Freedman, Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Dean Emeritus of UCLA Extension […]
U Heard It Here: Understanding the 2020 Election Outcome Tuesday, November 17, 2020 Live Streamed via Zoom a panel discussion featuring Lynn Vavreck Marvin Hoffenberg Professor of American Politics Efrén […]
U Heard It Here: The 2020 Campaign for the Hardest Job in the World featuring a conversation between John Dickerson Correspondent, 60 Minutes & CBS News Author, “The Hardest Job […]
James Tong, 1947–2020 With profound sorrow, the UCLA Department of Political Science reports the passing of Professor James Wai Tong, our colleague of thirty-one years, on October 3, 2020, after […]
Joseph Asunka (UCLA PhD 2014), currently Program Officer of the Global Development Program of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, will lead the Afrobarometer in early 2021 as its new Chief […]
John Branstetter (UCLA PhD 2017), Lecturer, was recently selected to receive the 2019-2020 UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. Only three non-Senate faculty in the entire university received this award. Reflecting upon […]
Over the summer, three of our recent PhD graduates received national distinctions awarded by the American Political Science Association. George Ofosu (UCLA PhD 2017), Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics, Department […]
UCLA alumnus Marco Greenberg (UCLA BS 1986) has recently published “Primitive: Tapping the Primal Drive That Powers the World’s Most Successful People,” about his journey as an advisor and confidant […]
On June 22nd, President Trump issued an executive order to restrict certain types of immigrants and temporary foreign workers from coming to the U.S. The order applied to future immigrants — […]
The Department of Political Science celebrates the achievements and hard work of all of our 2020 graduates. We are so proud of everything they have accomplished and look forward to […]
