Areli Hernandez: Summer 2017 Undergraduate Fulbright Fellow

One of four U.S. students selected for an Undergraduate Fulbright Summer Institute at the University of London, Areli will study the Politics of Protest & Change focusing on Social Movements. She hopes to further research London's race relations and the rise in hate crime post-Brexit; all paid for by the Fulbright Commission.

Anne Baker: Do Political Contributions Hinder the Pursuit of Economic Justice? (Podcast)

SCU Students Attend Model United Nations

The SCU delegation to the 67th Model United Nations of the Far West conference in San Francisco, CA. This year's theme was "Old Threats, New Threats: Global and Human Security in 2017." We represented Syria, Iran, and France. The students learned about cooperation, negotiations, and conflict resolution. It was a great experience for one and all. 

As the Panetta intern, Beau is excited to work with people of all backgrounds to expand his knowledge of public policy and how it impacts under-served communities in the United States. 

Kat will be traveling to the annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago to present her research on the relationship between outside ideological intervention in a state’s education system and the legitimacy of that state.

Professor Perez-Armendariz presented her working paper "Return Migrants, Transnationalism, and "Grey Zones" of Politics" at Nuffield College, University of Oxford.

"As a part of the Global Social Benefit Fellowship, I will enter a comprehensive program of social entrepreneurship, field-based study and action research. This summer, I will have the privilege of working alongside Empower Generation, a social enterprise that identifies, trains and supports rural women to distribute clean energy solutions to their remote communities in Nepal. In this pursuit, I, along with my colleague Clarissa Nguyen, will research, investigate, and document the impact of Empower Generation on its entrepreneurs, sales agents and customers."

Jesse Caemmerer, Political Science, ’14 is one of the chosen few tasked with making the world a smaller place. Named to the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars for the Master’s degree program at Tsinghua University in Beijing, Caemmerer will engage in an elite graduate curriculum that trains students to engage in China’s expanding role in the world. This program was modeled after the Rhodes scholarship – only 110 of 3,000 applicants were accepted – and is designed to meet the challenges of the 21st century and beyond. Learn more...

This summer, the annual political science Summer Research Fellowship returned for its second year with six new members and three returners. Thanks to the success of last summer, Professor Naomi Levy was able to continue the program that invites a team of students to assist her team in their research. Read more...

Political Science student assistant and peer advisor, Athena Nguyen, served as a Jean Donovan Fellow in Cusco, Peru for Summer 2016. Read more...