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Obituary: Professor Joseph LaPalombara. Joseph LaPalombara, beloved father, grandfather, great-grandfather, scholar, teacher, and friend, passed away peacefully on June 12, 2026, at The Whitney Center, Hamden, CT....	Daniel Martinez Hosang inducted into the 2026 cohort of Andrew Carnegie Fellows Carnegie Corporation of New York announced this year’s class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows today. Twenty-four scholars will each receive a $200,000 research stipend to explore...	Victor Wu: On the real politics of the presidency PhD student Victor Wu was recently interviewed on Substack Live about his research on the development of executive power in modern democracies and its contemporary...
Politics, polarization, and the future of democracy A number of faculty from the Department of Political Science were interviewed by the FAS’s Dean’s office about the effects of polarization on voting habits and...	Ian Shapiro: "How the post-Cold War mistakes made by Western leaders paved the way for populism" Sterling Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs Ian Shapiro as an article on the London School of Economics and Political Science website entitled “How the post-...	Professor Oona Hathaway Named President of the American Society of International Law At its annual meeting this month, Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science Oona Hathaway ’97 assumed the presidency of the ...
Seyla Benhabib awarded the Skytte Prize in Political Science Eugene Meyer Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Philosophy Emerita Seyla Benhabib has been awarded the Skytte Prize in Political Science. “Benhabib, whose scholarly...