Department of Politics

March 24, 2025

4-5:30pm | Mandel G03, Mandel Center for Humanities

Kristen Kao, Associate Professor University of Gothenburg, Sweden will discuss a study that explores refugee inclusion at the neighborhood level in Turkey. The study employs a conjoint survey experiment (n=5,000) examining simultaneous migrant and host community preferences for residential segregation. It considers this topic in the context of Turkey, a country that has experienced massive in-migration of refugees from the Syrian civil war.

About the Speaker:

Kristen Kao [kristenkao.com] is an Associate Professor with the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. Kristen is an expert in large-n survey methods and experimental design informed by fieldwork and in-depth interviewing. She has been conducting fieldwork-based studies since 2006 across countries as varied as Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon, Tunisia, Oman, Iraq, Turkey, Malawi, Kenya, Zambia, and Egypt. She has served as an advisor to the Carter Center, the National Democratic Institute, and the World Bank, and is a country expert for the Freedom House and the Varieties of Democracy Institute. Kristen is a former Fulbright Scholar to Egypt and Boren Fellow to Jordan and Kuwait.

January 23, 2025

The School of Arts and Sciences and Department of Politics welcomed Yanna Krupnikov to Brandeis campus on Thursday, January 23, 2025. Using survey data collected just before and after the 2024 election, Prof. Krupnikov's talk, "How We See Each Other: Perceptions Across the Political Divide," considered how partisan divisions shape what people expect from others.

Krupnikov is a Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. Her work focuses on attention to political news and political expression in the context of polarization. She is the co-author of books Partisan Hostility and American Democracy (2024), The Other Divide (2022) and Independent Politics (2016).

April 3, 2022

Please join us for a virtual half-day nonpartisan training for women and non-binary students on how to run for student government and political office. Participants will consider their own candidacy, discuss the importance of women running for political office, examine the issues they care about, map out their support networks, craft and deliver elevator speeches, learn more about campaign strategy, hear from incredible speakers who have run for office, and more. 

Co-sponsored by the Gordon Center for American Public Policy, AAAS, Sociology, and WGS. Financial support from the School of Arts & Sciences.

June 12, 2020

Virtual Panel Discussion:

• Chad Williams, the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Chair in History and the Chair of the African and African American Studies department (Moderator)
• Anita Hill, University Professor
• Daniel Kryder, the Louis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics/li>
• Leah Wright Rigueur, the Harry Truman Associate Professor of History

America is in the midst of reckoning with the legacies of racism, racial violence, and systemic injustice against black people. The current national uprising, sparked by the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery, have exposed the complex intersections of history, politics, and the law in how race, white supremacy, and anti-blackness function in American society. Join us for a conversation with leading Brandeis faculty about these issues and how we can chart a new future for black lives.

March 10, 2020

Professor Peter Dreier, E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics at Occidental College, will be visiting Brandeis to speak about his newest book, "We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism – American Style." Hosted by the Department of Politics and sponsored by Jules Bernstein ’57. 

March 5, 2020

Come enjoy breakfast for lunch with your politics professors and discuss the results of Super Tuesday and the direction that the electoral politics are taking in the U.S.

January 30, 2020

It took 72 years for us to win the right to vote. Learn about the mobilization from 1848 at Seneca Falls to 1920, and passage of the 19th Amendment. Presenters: Professors Joyce Antler, Jill Greenlee with Theo Tyson, Anja Parish and others.

Co-sponsored by Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Department of Politics, Hadassah Brandeis Institute.

April 15, 2019

Greenberg Scholars, Tamar Lieberman, Tal Richtman, and Julianna Scionti, will present their research projects. Support of their research was made possible by a generous donation from the Joshua Greenberg Memorial Fund. Joshua Greenberg (1970-98) graduated from Brandeis, '92, with a major in Politics. The Joshua Greenberg Memorial Fund was established by Joshua's family and friends to honor his life and preserve his memory.

February 27, 2019

Panelists:

• Farah Pandith, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations

• Paul Turner, Director and Senior Advisor for CVE, Creative Associates

• Saida Abdi, Director of Community Relations, Boston Children's Hospital Refugee Trauma and Relilience Center

February 14, 2019

January 25, 2017

Panelists:

• Robert Art

• Christian A. Herter Professor of International Relations

• Shai Feldman, Judy and Sidney Swartz Director's Chair of the Crown Center for Middle East Studies and Professor of Politics

• Lucy Goodhart, Lecturer in International & Global Studies and Politics

• Jill Greenlee (Moderator), Associate Professor of Politics

• Jeffrey Lenowitz, Assistant Professor of Politics

November 29, 2016

Panelists:

• Charles Stewart III, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at MIT

• Kay Lehman Schlozman, J. Joseph Moakey Professor of Political Science at Boston College

• David A. Hopkins, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College

September 29, 2016

Interdepartmental Forum: History, Politics and Economics

Panelists:

• George J. Hall (presenting)

• David Hackett Fischer

• Steven L. Burg

• Paul Jankowski

May 4, 2016

"2016: The Constitution at a Crossroads"

May 3, 2016

A Panel Discussion

May 3, 2016

March 22, 2016

A special Primary Season screening of Elia Kazan's classic film, "A Face in the Crowd," with commentary by Prof. Bernie Yack

February 2, 2016

A talk by Colin Kahl, National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden