PO Alumna Valeriya Kamenova Receives Distinguished Teaching Award At Penn
Department of Political Science alumna Valeriya Kamenova (GRS ’21) has received the 2026 Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching by Affiliated Faculty at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti awarded 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship
Second-year graduate student Yasir Kuoti has been named as a 2026-2027 APSA Diversity Fellowship Program recipient for his work on sectarian and ethnic politics in Iraq. The APSA Diversity Fellowship is a competitive award that supports early-stage political science doctoral scholars (1st and 2nd years) whose research and scholarship looks at race, ethnicity, systemic racism, […]
PO Alumnus Ken Peters Publishes Book On Georgetown’s Retail Past
PO alumnus Ken Peters, CAS ’71, has written the recently-published Georgetown’s Retail Past, a history of retail businesses in Washington, D.C.’s historic Georgetown neighborhood.
Graduate Student Samuel Gerstle To Receive Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper
PO graduate student Sam Gerstle will receive the Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding ISSS Graduate Paper. His work “Leaders, Legislators, and Bureaucrats in the Design of National Security Organizations” was presented at the 2025 ISA annual convention.
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti and Professor Shamiran Mako Published in War on the Rocks
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti and Professor Shamiran Mako have published an article on President Trump’s recent criticism of Nouri al Maliki and US-Iraqi relations on the online political analysis platform War on the Rocks.
Professor Christine Slaughter and co-authors featured in American Association for Public Opinion Research
Professor Christine Slaughter recently published a feature with coauthors Dr. Nadia E. Brown (Georgetown) and Dr. Camille Burge (Villanova) in the Black and African American Public Opinion Research affinity group’s winter newsletter, which has been spotlighted by the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
Professor David Mayers Publishes New Book
Professor David Mayers has published a new book, Seekers and Partisans: Americans Abroad in the Crisis Years, 1935–1941, that recounts the tales of individual Americans, some well-known and some not, who strove to understand their nation and its place in the world in the roiled years 1935–41. Professor Mayers identifies these individuals as ‘seekers’ and […]
Graduate Student Shivan Fazil Published In Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides
Graduate Student Shivan Fazil has co-authored a piece with Bahar Baser (Durham University) in The Palgrave Handbook of Kurdish Genocides. Their article can be found as Chapter 11: Echoes of Survival and Justice: The Yezidi Genocide and Its Lasting Impact.
Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil published with North Carolina State University’s Khayrallah Center on Lebanese Diaspora Studies
Graduate Student Catherine Abou-Khalil recently co-authored a report with North Carolina State University’s Khayrallah Center on Lebanese Diaspora Studies. The Lebanese Diaspora Philanthropy Report can be found here: https://lebanesestudies.ncsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/08/2025-Philanthropy-Report-Final.pdf
Graduate Student Yasir Kuoti published in War on the Rocks
Graduate student Yasir Kuoti has recently been published in War on the Rocks. His article on Iraq’s 2025 election, co-authored with Ali Taher al-Hamoud, can be found here: https://warontherocks.com/2025/09/iraqs-2025-election-a-recalibration-of-power-not-a-rupture-of-the-status-quo/