About the Department
The Political Science Department at the University of Florida is committed to training tomorrow’s leaders—in government, business, the law, and higher education. From making local governments work better to changing the way we think about the global community, from meeting the environmental challenge to developing a strong sense of ethics in the political arena, our faculty and students are addressing the most critical problems facing the country today. With broad-based undergraduate instruction and a variety of innovative programs at the graduate level, we also have been at the forefront of the internationalization of the curriculum at UF.
Department News
- Sean Theriault, Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas-Austin, will give a talk on Friday, April 6, at noon in Anderson 216. The talk is entitled, "The Gingrich Senators." More information is available here.
- Congratulations to Chris Tecklenburg, who has been selected by the Graduate School as a recipient of a University-wide Graduate Student Teaching Award for 2011-12.
- Congratulations to Rich Conley on the publication of his book, Historical Dictionary of the Clinton Era. More information can be found here.
- Congratulations to Badredine Arfi on the publication of his book, Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction. More information can be found here.
- Josh Huder has been selected as a 2012-2013 APSA Congressional Fellow. Over the next academic year he will join other political scientists, journalists, and scholars on Capitol Hill, learning the institution from the inside.
- On February 18 and 19, the Department held a workshop entitled, "Institutions, Narratives, and Identities: A Graduate Student Workshop in Comparative Politics and Political Theory." More information can be found on the workshop's website.
- Congratulations to Larry Dodd on the publication of his new book, Thinking about Congress. The book collects ten essays that Larry published on Congress between 1977 and 2005.
- Congratulations to Ben Smith on winning a national grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation to support his research on Kurdish nationalist movements.
- Undergraduate political science major, Dayme Sanchez, is featured as the Fall 2011 Head of the CLAS.
- The UF Department of Political Science is now on Facebook! "Like" our page to receive updates about department events, new courses, and other information.
