Politics at the University of Virginia

About the Department of Politics

Thomas Jefferson founded the University of Virginia to educate citizens and to prepare them for participation in the political life of this country. The Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics has embraced Jefferson’s mission and become one of the University’s most popular and prestigious departments.

The department includes more than thirty-five faculty members, and serves more than 750 undergraduate majors and approximately 110 graduate students.

The Department’s faculty teach and conduct research in four subfields: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political theory. Although the Department is intellectually diverse and values a wide range of methodologies, the faculty share a commitment to research and teaching that combines analytical rigor and careful attention to the world of politics.

Read more about the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia.

Department of Politics News

Cabell Hall, University of Virginia

2008 Graduation Information

New Thursday, May 1, 2008: Politics Graduate Students Kyle Haynes, In-Han Kim, and Brandon Yoder at the Lansing Lee/Bankard Series . Details...

New Associate Professor Colin Bird has been awarded a resident fellowship at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina for 2008-2009.

New Assistant Professor Denise Walsh has been awarded a fellowship at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College for 2008-2009.

James Small (Ph.D. 2007) has been appointed a Franklin Fellow at USAID.

Andrew Miller (M.A. 2007) is a Presidential Management Finalist.

Graduate Publications: Andrew Douglas, "Democratizing Dialectics with C.L.R. James", The Review of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 3 (Summer 2008).
Gregory Smith, Politics in the Parish, Georgetown University Press (2008).

Read about Assistant Professor Nick Winter's newest book, Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion.

Read about the 4th Annual Politics Department Graduate Student Conference, Full Schedule and Conference Papers

View the Department of Politics Winter 2008 Newsletter.

Letter from the Chair, Jeffrey W. Legro

The Department of Politics welcomes our new faculty members -- Dan Gingerich, Jeffery Jenkins, Sonal Pandya, Melvin Rogers, Jennifer Rubenstein, and Vesla Weaver.

More news from the Department of Politics

UVA Politics Graduate Student for Hire

Spring 2008 Colloquia at the Miller Center

Important Undergraduate and Graduate course information * For course descriptions view the Spring 2008 COD * Waitlist * VISTAA * ISIS

Questions or comments? Please email the webmaster.
Directions | Help with this site
©2008 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia