Job Announcements
The department would like to announce an exciting new position in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University. The position is a joint appointment with the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Science. The position is at the assistant professor level. Click on the Position Announcements link above for more information.
2007-2008
Louis Martin Sears
Lecture Series
"U.S. Security
in an Insecure World"
This bienniel lecture series is named for the late Purdue historian Louis Martin Sears, who was a faculty member in the then joint Department of History and Political Science from 1920 until his retirement in 1956. Follow this link for more information about this year's participants.
All lectures are free and open to the public
February 18, 2008
8:00pm
Loeb Playouse
Thomas Ricks, The Washington Post Correspondent and author of FIASCO: The American Military Adventure in Iraq will be presenting "The Iraq War as a Failure of the American System?"
March 26, 2008
8:00pm
Fowler Hall
Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago and author of Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism will be presenting "What's Wrong with the War on Terrorism?"
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 We have a faculty that is genuinely interested in undergraduate teaching with strengths in public policy; political behavior and institutions; international affairs; comparative politics; law and politics; ethics; and political theory. Most of our intermediate and advanced courses are relatively small in class size and are taught by professors who are both active in our discipline and strong teachers. Each year over 100 students graduate from the department's undergraduate program with a Bachelor of Arts degree. The department also offers a Master of Arts (M.A.) degree and a Doctoral (Ph.D.) program designed to prepare students for teaching and research careers. Feel free to contact the department for more information or with any questions you may have.
New Faculty Hires
 Daniel P. Aldrich is joining the department as an Assistant Professor of Public Policy. He is currently an Advanced Research Fellow at Harvard University's Program on US-Japan Relations. During the 2007-2008 academic year, he will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Tokyo's Law Faculty in Japan. He will begin teaching classes in Fall 2008. Nicole M. Simonelli is joining the department as an Assistant Professor of International Relations. Her research focuses on questions of international organization and cooperation. Professor Simonelli’s teaching interests include international politics, international relations theory, international organization, and international political economy. She will be on leave Fall 2007 and will begin teaching Spring 2008.
Promotions
 Congratulations to Professor Kevin Anderson and Professor Jay McCann on their promotions from Associate to Full Professor. Professor Anderson came to the department in 2002 from Northern Illinois
University. His research interests include
political and social theory, especially Marxism, Hegel, the Frankfurt School, and Foucault.
Professor McCann's scholarly interests are in the areas of American and Comparative politics, specializing in the politics of Mexico. He has been with the department since 1991.
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Political Science majors have the opportunity to become a member of Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society. PSA is the only honor society for college and university students of government in the United States. The Purdue University Delta Omega chapter organizes many activities throughout the year, including faculty and student colloquia, law school forums, resume workshops, and an end-of-the-year initiation cookout! See Purdue's Pi Sigma Alpha website for more information.
Support from our alumni and friends makes it possible for us to strengthen our Political Science program at Purdue. These contributions help us to support our students in a variety of ways; from independent research projects and research awards
to
recruitment and receptions recognizing student academic achievement. Support provides students with opportunities that would may not have been possible otherwise.
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