Political Science Department - Binghamton University

Department of Political Science
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902-6000
ph:607.777.2252
fax: 607.777.2675

Welcome to Binghamton's Department of Political Science, a leader in the discipline, ranked 19th in the world in the Hix study. Our faculty publish widely and are leaders in their fields. Our graduate program offers MA and Ph.D. degrees, and has an outstanding record of Ph.D. placement in research universities, and our undergraduate major is one of Harpur College's largest, with particular strengths in Politics and Law, Comparative Political Institutions, Civil War and repression, and International Relations. Explore this site to learn more about our faculty, students, workshops and programs.

The World Politics Workshop will meet in the Banks Room at 1:00-2:00 on Fridays. For past workshops, please click here.

April 18: Sol Polachek and student
April 11: Rich Frank
April 4: Ellen Cutrone (replication of Bussman and Schneider paper)

The Comparative-American Workshop will meet irregularly this semester. Unless otherwise noted, meetings will be in the Banks Room at 2:30-3:30 on Fridays. For past workshops, please click here.

May 2: Adriana Buliga-Stoian and Will Heller, "Rules of the Game and Political Equity: Voter Perceptions of Fairness and the Benefits of Electoral Reform"
April 25: Ray Carman, Ian Farrell, and Jon Krasno, "The Parties as Mobilizers: Party Efforts to Get Out the Vote in the 2000 and 2004 Elections"
April 18, 2:30 p.m., AD 148: Joshua Dyck (University at Buffalo, SUNY), "Not in My Schoolyard: Spatial Proximity, Symbolic Politics, and Voting on Sex Offender Residency Restrictions" (with Annika Hagley)

Adriana Buliga-Stoian and Michael Allen have been accepted to the EITM 2008 Summer Institutes in Washington University in St. Louis (Allen) and Duke University (Buliga-Stoian).

The department congratulates doctoral candidate Brandon Zicha, who has been offered a prestigious pre-doctoral fellowship in a research group on "Media, Movements, and Politics" at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

The department congratulates Geoff McGovern, who has won a Fulbright scholarship to conduct dissertation research in Finland for AY 2008-2009.

The department is pleased to announce that Seden Akcinaroglu will be joining the faculty (in the World Politics subfield) in fall 2008. Seden expects to complete her PhD at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this summer.

The department congratulates doctoral candidate Julie VanDusky, who has won a Fulbright scholarship to conduct dissertation research in Mexico for AY 2008-2009.

For past news, click here.