Mark your calendars for our first public event this year in the Hubert H. Humphrey Lectureship -- Dr. Rebecca Morton will be speaking on October 23 at Hill Memorial.

Today at 2:00 in Hill Memorial Lecture Hall

Dr. James R. Stoner has coordinated a partnership between LSU and Southern University to host the civics education group iCivics. See press release from the National Endowment for the Humanities: content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USNEH…

Congratulations to Dr. Nichole Bauer on her latest research published in the Journal of Politics: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

Dr. Anna Gunderson is quoted in Vox: Private prisons face an uncertain future as states turn their backs on the industry vox.com/policy-and-pol… via Vox

Assistant Professor Jeong Kim will be receiving the Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award at this year's Midwest Political Science Association Conference. Her 2019 paper is titled: "The Gendered Effects of Direct Democracy on Political Efficacy". Congratulations Dr. Kim!

Public event today on Teaching Civics sponsored by the Voegelin Institute:

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dr. Anna Gunderson who is the recipient of this year’s Mooney Dissertation Prize for the best dissertation on state politics ("Why Do States Privatize their Prisons? The Unintended Consequences of Inmate Litigation”). Congratulations!

LSU Ph.D. graduate in Political Science, Dr. Stella Rouse (Associate Professor at the University of Maryland), was interviewed on the PBS News Hour last night about her new book, The Politics of Millennials. Watch the segment here: pbs.org/newshour/show/…

This Tuesday, October 27 from 3:00-5:00 pm on Zoom.

LSU Ph.D. graduate in Political Science, Dr. Mileah Kromer (Associate Professor of Political Science at Goucher College), is featured in this story. baltimoremagazine.com/section/histor…

Assistant Professor Anna Gunderson has a new publication in Nature Human Behavior finding that the policy of giving local law enforcement access to military weapons and surplus equipment did not reduce crime as previous studies claim. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Upcoming Events sponsored by the Eric Voegelin Institute

Retiring LSU Professor Cecil Eubanks to be Honored with Conference and Festschrift “Welcoming the Other: A Conference in Honor of Cecil Eubanks” to be held April 30 to May 1 lsu.edu/mediacenter/ne…

I’m joining LSU as Assistant Professor of Political Science this fall! I’m grateful to my family, friends, colleagues, and advisors UCLA — especially Lynn Vavreck — for all of their support and encouragement over the years. I can’t wait to get started. Geaux Tigers!

Research by one of our newest faculty members, Dr. Brian Hamel, was featured in today's edition of the New York Times nytimes.com/2021/09/01/opi…

Notre Dame Law Professor to Deliver Constitution Day Lecture on Criminal Procedure and the Supreme Court lsu.edu/mediacenter/ne…

Congratulations to @Poli_LSU and LSU Manship School of Mass Communication Dr. Nichole Bauer, the @lsuresearch Rainmaker Emerging Scholar Award Recipient! Visit lsu.edu/hss/news/bauer… to learn more!