Princeton dedicated Prospect House spaces in honor of faculty, alumni and others who “helped to shape the University and the world” including Politics alum Charles Hey-Maestre ’77 who spent his legal career fighting for the rights of underserved and marginalized people in Puerto Rico. bit.ly/4oEUh1f

"Trump’s disfiguring the White House fits into a larger global trend: far-right populist leaders in many countries have used spectacular architecture to advance their political agenda" Jan-Werner Müller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social writes for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Politics Professor and Dean of Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs Amaney Jamal presented "Dialogue in Action: Leading for the Public Good" as part of Princeton Graduate School's Many Minds, Many Stripes conference. #ManyMinds bit.ly/47fs6yY

Layna Mosley @laynamosley.bsky.social speaks with @NPR on tariffs impact on Diwali celebrations in the US. www.npr.org/2025/10/20/n...

Professor Leonard Wantchekon Addresses the United Nations General Assembly Second Committee on Economic & Financial Affairs bit.ly/46TwTHm

"This is not about this or that policy; it is about a chief executive governing according to his whims, with impunity and obvious disregard for the US Constitution." @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social writes for @projectsyndicate.bsky.social bit.ly/43bKHum

"Our Constitution doesn’t need gilded letters, since those would only be distractions from the true content." Abigail Anthony '23 writes for National Review www.nationalreview.com/corner/i-saw...

Check out my new piece on Moldovan 🇲🇩 elections with @grigopop.bsky.social

We speak with Politics Professor Jan-Werner Müller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social about what political science can contribute to a better understanding of architecture. #WorldArchitectureDay bit.ly/48dnStR

🚨🚨 I’m thrilled to share that my book, Return of Tyranny: Why Counterrevolutions Emerge and Succeed, will be published this month with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org in their Comparative Politics Series

October 9-11, Princeton will host “Many Minds, Many Stripes: A Princeton University Conference Celebrating Graduate Alumni,” coinciding with the Princeton Graduate School’s 125th anniversary. All alumni are invited to attend. Register now: manyminds.alumni.princeton.edu

"This hub is an instrument for empowering communities to build their own evidence-based solutions, moving beyond aid to self-reliant development." Prof. Leonard Wantchekon explained of The Princeton-African School of Economics Research at the 2025 Devolution Conference. bit.ly/4gGYIWI

"They put into place in our Constitution a system of structural constraints on power knowing that no one, given the nature of human beings, could be trusted with unchecked and unaccountable power." Robert George on the Pursuit podcast @constitutionctr.bsky.social bit.ly/4pHECjh

Dahyun Choi @dahyunchoi.bsky.social studies how private and public organizations strategically use expertise in the U.S. administrative state. Her job market paper shows that while high-quality studies remain resilient to political turnover, partisan bias still shapes which evidence agencies use.

Professor Robert George to give The 2025 Kellogg Biennial Lecture in Jurisprudence of the Library of Congress. blogs.loc.gov/law/2025/09/...

"I would probably focus quite a bit on academic freedom, on knowledge. That is really the root of all things in terms of liberty — which is really the core of what we're trying to do with the democratic process, to preserve liberty.” - Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson

Aaron Friedberg @alf2014.bsky.social discusses the current geopolitical situation and the threat posed by China on the podcast Conversations with Bill Kristol. @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social bit.ly/3VYqe8s

In her dissertation, Manasi ‪@manasibose.bsky.social examines international responses to rebel governance and uses the case study of HTS in Syria to address the question of why groups with no expectation of legitimacy or legal recognition engage in costly political institutionalization.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, officials relied on rapidly evolving science and data to make high-stakes decisions. Join @upenn.edu and our Prof. Lee for a seminar discussing the health, social, & economic impacts of those choices. ldi.upenn.edu/events/healt...

Join us today, from 5-6:30PM in McCosh Hall 50 for the annual Princeton University Constitution Day Lecture, co-sponsored by the James Madison Program, titled, "Our Civil Rights Revolution." The lecture will feature Jeannie Suk Gersen of @harvard.edu and an introduction by Prof. Robert George.

2024 APSA Kenneth Sherrill Prize recipient @nancyyuntang.bsky.social studies how authoritarian regimes and LGBTQ movements interact through the "law", whose job market paper explores how Chinese feminist and queer movements advance non-heteronormative reproduction under state pro-natalism.

In his dissertation book project, Hani F. Abdel-Warith demonstrates that autocrats in the Middle East and North Africa punish their opponents by withholding schools from restive regions.

Jeff Staton presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Cameron 🏆👏 Congratulations to Dr. Cameron on this well-deserved honor and thank you for your extraordinary contributions to our field!

Free tickets: From Tyranny to Athenian Democracy 👉gres.hm/tyranny-demo... Prof Melissa Lane* traces Athenian democracy to 508 BCE, when a popular uprising toppled a tyrant & Cleisthenes’ reforms reshaped politics, identity & society *also of @princeton.bsky.social / @princetonpolitics.bsky.social

In his job market paper, @hirotosawada.bsky.social presents a formal model to explain (i) when a climate disaster triggers armed conflict and (ii) why empirical evidence on climate and conflict seems mixed. His research can be found at hiroto-sawada.github.io.

"The horrendous killing of the far-right activist Charlie Kirk has been met with calming, statesman-like responses on both sides of the political aisle. But it has also demonstrated yet again the fundamental asymmetry of contemporary American politics." Prof. Jan-Werner Müller writes bit.ly/4nS3HGz

In his book project, Huseyin Emre Ceyhun examines how elite access to new communication technologies re-shapes internal power dynamics within ruling parties in competitive authoritarian regimes — creating new forms of intra-party challenge to autocratic leadership.

In his job market paper, Christian examines how permanent oil revenue shortfalls reshape distributional conflicts in oil-dependent states and drive targeted institutional reforms to strengthen public goods provision, offering insight into how these states will respond to the clean energy transition.

Why does climate finance routinely stall between promise and delivery? Fiona Bare's job market paper shows how dual features of climate finance - mixed public-private benefits and pervasive uncertainty - create strategic frictions between donors and recipients that delay dealmaking.

@rinouye.bsky.social examines how racial and religious identities of countries in conflict shape public support for them. He argues identity isn’t just another factor, but a lens shaping how people interpret strategic and material information, with real consequences for conflict support.

"Today our division is about ends as well as means." Robert George on Orthadoxy Podcast discussing the polarization of our cultural moment. bit.ly/47F9Fpc

In her job-market paper, “Beliefs, Values, and the Geography of Redistribution,” Yuhan examines how local- and national-level beliefs about inequality and inequality aversion interact to shape citizens’ preferences for redistribution in high-inequality democracies such as Brazil.

In her book project, Heather examines internationalized territories as a distinct form of alien rule. Dr. Penatzer was awarded the “Best Student Paper in International Law” at ISA 2024 and Princeton’s George Kateb teaching prize in 2024. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow with PIIRS Princeton.

Princeton SPIA and P•LAW will welcome Ketanji Brown Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, to Princeton on September 10. In a conversation with P•LAW director Deborah Pearlstein, Justice Jackson will discuss her memoir, Lovely One. @debpearlstein.bsky.social #PLAW #LawatPrinceton

Princeton University President Christopher L. Eisgruber has issued a statement following the release of graduate student Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was kidnapped in Iraq in 2023: bit.ly/4gkIB0P

In his job market paper, @icjohnson.bsky.social‬ examines how voters’ perceptions of racial competency shape the behavior of Multiracial politicians. Using a formal model, he demonstrates how uncertainty limits the ability of Multiracial incumbents to signal credibility to diverse constituencies.

Introducing our 2025 job market candidates! We’ll share more about each student and their work in the days ahead, but in the meantime, you can meet all of our candidates here: politics.princeton.edu/graduate/job... #PSJMInfo

Jasante' Howard brings former former leader of the New York Black Panther Party Dhoruba Bin Wahad and Robert Boyle to speak on campus in conjunction with Princeton University Library's new collection of FBI, NYPD, and other documents related to the Black Panther Party. bit.ly/4lWwRTe

“Every day feels like the first day of a honeymoon because I enjoy what I’m learning and because of all the resources here.” - Franklin Castro'27 politics major and Transfer Scholars Initiative residential adviser www.princeton.edu/news/2025/08...

"You’ll never get at the truth unless you recognize your won fallibility. You will persists in whatever errors you have in your head until you rethink the situation." -Professor Robert George on The Eric Metaxas Show Podcast bit.ly/4nbgX8v

"You cannot be an activist and a bad student- it doesn't add up. We must be as demanding of ourselves as we are of our governments."- Professor Leonard Wantchekon www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/mag...

well-qualified individuals for a tenured or tenure track faculty position in public law. puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Welcome (back) to the Politics Department! Here’s to a semester of inquiry, meaningful engagement, and discovery. Let’s get started. 🗳️📚

“Research and education require not only that we speak, but that we listen to and learn from one another." At his annual Orientation talk, President Eisgruber addresses incoming students on free expression, civil discourse and "conversations that matter." www.princeton.edu/news/2025/08...

“If there is no such thing as the truth, there is no way for you to offer me any challenge or criticism — there is no rational basis for you to ask me to rethink, reconsider, to give me an argument, to induce reasons, or marshal evidence.”- Robert George www.deseret.com/faith/2025/0...

Alum Jeffrey Collins '96 speaks with Family Wealth Report about his path from Politics major to Managing Partner at Cloverlay, an independent asset manager focused on Adjacent Private Markets. www.familywealthreport.com/article.php/...

Professor Arthur Spirling to be the new director of Princeton's Center for Statistics and Machine Learning. csml.princeton.edu/about/direct...

From Princeton to Seoul to Copenhagen, Princeton SPIA highlights the work of Professor Hye Young You in their SPIAccolades series. spia.princeton.edu/news/spiacco...