University of Florida Department of Political Science

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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 addres

sing 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.

🌟 CLAS alumnae Sol Ortega and Wendy Whitman Cobb both started their journeys at UF as political science majors when the ...
02/04/2025

🌟 CLAS alumnae Sol Ortega and Wendy Whitman Cobb both started their journeys at UF as political science majors when the space industry was only in its infancy. Despite this, they both forged their own way, advancing in careers with NASA and the Air Force respectively. 🚀 Learn more about their experiences in our latest issue of Ytori magazine!

https://news.clas.ufl.edu/alumnae-follow-their-passion-in-earth-bound-space-exploration/

Our spring 2024 Junior Fellows cohort! Today was our capstone research symposium and these terrifically talented student...
04/27/2024

Our spring 2024 Junior Fellows cohort! Today was our capstone research symposium and these terrifically talented students crushed it! Each year they get better and the opportunity to work one on one with faculty takes this huge university down to the personal level for each of them.

This year's winner of the Campbell Leadership Award for an outstanding student in the UF Political Campaigning Program ...
06/01/2022

This year's winner of the Campbell Leadership Award for an outstanding student in the UF Political Campaigning Program is Anniston McMahan.

The James W. Button Memorial Award recognizes an outstanding student whose work is focused on race relations, poverty, o...
05/30/2022

The James W. Button Memorial Award recognizes an outstanding student whose work is focused on race relations, poverty, or diversity issues. This year's winner is Hannah Lazar.

This year's winner of the Price American Government Award is LaRaven Temoney, who is currently working on her dissertati...
05/27/2022

This year's winner of the Price American Government Award is LaRaven Temoney, who is currently working on her dissertation on the Voter Education Project.

The winner of the Barbara Noreen Roth Memorial Award this year is Kris N. Gary.
05/25/2022

The winner of the Barbara Noreen Roth Memorial Award this year is Kris N. Gary.

This year's Best Undergraduate Thesis Award goes to Yesha Shah for her study of "The Carceral State and its Threat to Am...
05/23/2022

This year's Best Undergraduate Thesis Award goes to Yesha Shah for her study of "The Carceral State and its Threat to American Democracy: The Relationship Between Youth Carceral Contact and Political Participation." Professor Michael Martinez supervised Yesha's thesis research.

Our Best Graduate Paper Award goes to Shadi Heidarifar for her paper, "From State Feminism to Feminist Nationalism: A Ca...
05/20/2022

Our Best Graduate Paper Award goes to Shadi Heidarifar for her paper, "From State Feminism to Feminist Nationalism: A Case Study of Mainstream Feminism in Iran," submitted in Professor Patricia Sohn's CPO 6407 Modern Middle East Politics seminar.

This year's award for the Best Undergraduate Paper goes to Elizabeth Estep for her paper, "How Precedent and Deference t...
05/19/2022

This year's award for the Best Undergraduate Paper goes to Elizabeth Estep for her paper, "How Precedent and Deference to the Fundamental Principles of the First Amendment Guide the Decision in Texas v. Johnson (1989).". Elizabeth submitted this paper in Professor Samuel Stafford's POS3606: American Civil Liberties.

Over the next few days, we'll be recognizing our outstanding graduate and undergraduate award winners for 2021-22.This y...
05/17/2022

Over the next few days, we'll be recognizing our outstanding graduate and undergraduate award winners for 2021-22.

This year's Best Graduate Student Teacher Award goes to Bryant Edward Harden , who taught INR 4931 Women and World Politics in Fall 2021 and INR 4085 Gender and International Relations in Spring 2022. Congratulations, Bryant!

Congratulations to our newest PhDs and their mentors ... Hye Ryeon Jang (pictured with Ido Oren), Bobby Mermer (pictured...
04/28/2022

Congratulations to our newest PhDs and their mentors ... Hye Ryeon Jang (pictured with Ido Oren), Bobby Mermer (pictured with Michael Martinez), and Nouf Aljassar (pictured with Zachary Selden)!

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234 Anderson Hall, PO Box 117325
Gainesville, FL
32611

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Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm

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