Student representation is an important and valued part of the Political Science Department’s committee work. We strive to ensure that student voices are included in three areas: on the Undergraduate Studies Committee, which focuses on development and curriculum of our undergraduate course work, at the Faculty Meeting, where the Political Science Department faculty meets to discuss departmental issues, and the College Student Advisory Committee, which is part of the College of Arts and Sciences. Any political science major is eligible to apply. Benefits associated with serving on these committees include: (1) learning how things run “behind the scenes”; (2) becoming familiar with a diverse range of faculty members; (3) affecting the way the Department and College operate; and (4) it is an impressive resume item. Interested students should complete the application and return it to Dr. Ensley in the Political Science Department by Thursday, September 15, 2016. Forms may be submitted via email (mensley@kent.edu) or via hard copy to Bowman 302, attn: Dr. Ensley.
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Congratulations to faculty Daniel Hawes, PhD and Danny Chand, PhD on winning the Herbert Kaufman Award for best Public Administration Paper at the 2023 American Political Science Association Conference!
The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) recently announced its 2023-24 cohort of Peace Scholar Fellows and a Kent State University graduate student is one of the 21 award recipients.
Congratulations to PhD candidate Laura Mendez, who has been awarded the United States Institute for Peace: Peace Scholar Fellowship!
Laura’s work uses critical discourse analysis to examine the “self-help” discourse deployed in foreign aid packages and interpretive phenomenological analysis of interviews collected in the field to examine how that discourse is then understood and used by aid recipients