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Isabela Mares appointed the Wolfers Professor of Political Science Isabela Mares, recently named as the Arnold Wolfers Professor of Political Science, focuses her research on a range of topics in comparative politics and political economy,...	Selected Works of David Mayhew The works of David Mayhew, Sterling Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Yale University, have been collected and organized into a website available to both scholars...	Assistant Professor Elizabeth Nugent: "How the death of Egypt’s former president shows changing politics" Assistant professor Elizabeth Nugent is the author of a piece on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage, titled “How the death of Egypt’s former president shows changing politics...	Allison Harris presented with the APSA Law and Courts Section Best Conference Paper Award Assistant Professor of Political Science Allison Harris was presented with the 2019 APSA Law and Courts Section Best Conference Paper Award. This award is given annually for...
Professor Paul Bracken on the National Constitution Center podcast Professor Paul Bracken, Stelring Professor of Law and Political Science and Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law...	Graduate Student Natalia Bueno awarded APSA's 2019 Harold D. Lasswell Dissertation Award. Yale Graduate Natalia Bueno has been awarded APSA’s 2019 Harold D. Lasswell Dissertation Award. The Harold D. Lasswell prize is awarded annually for the best...	Graduate student Hilary Matfess article on ForeignPolicy.com: In Africa, All Jihad Is Local Yale Political Science Graduate Student Hilary Matfess has authored an article on ForeignPolicy.com entitled “In Africa, All Jihad Is Local”. The article argues that the...