Faculty in the Media As you might imagine, our Political Science faculty get called upon frequently to contribute their expertise to local and national media outlets. Did you catch these? Sara Benesh Just how impartial are State Supreme Court justices? Associate professor Sara Benesh gave her take in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. As the 2025 Wisconsin Supreme Court election …
Graduate Student Research Our PhD students traveled to academic conferences this year. Pictured to the left is Ahmet Ergurum and friends after their panel at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting where Ahmet presented his research using computational text analysis to consider the salience of emerging tech (AI, drones, semiconductors) on the United Nations Security …
Alumni Experiences Jaclyn Jecha ('24, MA Political Science) attended the 2025 Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers at Georgetown University Law Center this summer. She shared her recollections of the program in this testimonial: Political science alum Jaclyn Jecha attended the 2025 Supreme Court Summer Institute for Teachers at Georgetown University Law Center. This summer, …
Undergraduate Student Research Epsilon Xi Chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha National Political Science Honor Society Members of our chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha also traveled to a national conference to present research this year! Three students – Ellyn Blakeman, Miso Choi, and Josephine Joanis – spent three days in Washington, D.C. at the Pi Sigma …
Another chair letter, another farewell! First, we bid farewell to our long-time colleague, Distinguished Professor Kathy Dolan, who retired in June after an impactful career. Farewell, and a hearty congratulations! Professor Dolan served nearly 25 years at UWM and had just completed her second term as University Committee Chair. She had also just finished her …
The Department of Political Science is pleased to award four scholarships to our Political Science students, thanks to the generosity of our alumnus, Michael C. LeMay and the friends and family of Wilder Crane. Our 2025 recipients of the Michael C. LeMay Political Science Scholarship are Jakobe Godbolt and Shpresa Ameti, two impressive Political Science …
Political Science is happy to welcome you back to campus for Spring 2025! We are especially excited to have one of our own alums, Professor Wendy Martinek (MA, '95), here visiting this semester while she's on sabbatical from Binghamton University where she is Professor of Political Science. Professor Martinek will be working on a project …
Join Team POL SCI @ UWM on a virtual fall walk that benefits student scholarships: UWM Alumni Association’s PANTHER PROWL! We believe in our dual access and research missions, and this is one way to show it! Register to join our team and walk along with us, for our students!
Looking for something timely and new? How about spending a semester thinking about and learning about cyberpolitics! Course details below. Have questions? Email Professor Beck! rjbeck@uwm.edu Cyberpolitics – POL SCI 398Section 001, Class # 48974TR 2:30pm – 3:45pm Cyberpolitics will explore some of the most critical questions of our time. What is the nature of the …