Congratulations to Prof. Michael Yarbrough @mwyarbrough for receiving the Henry Wasser award for outstanding Assistant Professors in CUNY. The CUNY Academy for the Humanities and Sciences gives these each year to only a few Assistant Professors across the entire CUNY system.

Once again, our National Model UN Team brings home the awards! With its Distinguished Delegation Award, the team, for the past 15 years, has been recognized among the top 10% of teams in the competition. Congratulations to the students and their advisor, Prof. Jacques Fomerand!

The Center for International Human Rights(CIHR) is inviting applications for research assistants for the 2019-2020 academic year (see attached flyer).

Thank you, Prof. @VeronicaMichel for leading the organization of another Pi Sigma Alpha induction ceremony!

Thanks to Professors Michel, Majic, and Arbour as well as our Department Administrator Ms. Dikambi for their work on the Pi Sigma Alpha induction ceremony (04/29/19). The speaker at the ceremony was City Council member @Vanessagibson. Kudos to all!

Johnny Derogene, one of PoliSci@Jjay former majors who is about to graduate from Chicago-Kent College of Law, has been selected for a one-year fellowship with the AFL-CIO’s legal department in Washington, D.C. kentlaw.iit.edu/news/2019/afl-…

We received an exciting update from our fall 2018 intern, Destiny Cruz, who just began her new job in April 2019 as Field Representative and Caseworker to Congress member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14)! Congrats!

Congratulations to Prof. Monica Varsanyi on her recent election to the Executive Council of APSA’s (American Political Science Association) Migration and Citizenship Section!

The Political Science Student Association and Pi Sigma Alpha are proud to announce that a Fulbright Scholar and Ph.D. Candidate from the University of Palermo, Ms. Simona Vitale, will be giving a talk on money laundering on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, in room NB 1.65 at 1:40.

We are happy to share the latest issue of the Department of Political Science Newsletter for Fall 2019!

On Nov. 4, 2019, Political Science major Zaria Goicochea and ICJ major Melissa Safi attend an OAR-organized luncheon where they share their experiences on the inaugural Presidential Student-Faculty Research Award with President Mason.

The Center for International Human Rights is organizing a panel discussion in celebration of the 71st anniversary of the adoption of the UDHR (see flyer below). Our Department is co-sponsoring this event.

District Office Internships with U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries available for Spring 2020.

APPLY FOR A STUDY ABROAD program (June 27-July 18, 2020) in Vienna, Austria. It will take place on the premises of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and will be dedicated to the topic of transnational crime and justice. Further information at: jjay.cuny.edu/OISP/studyabro…

We congratulate our Prof. Samantha Majic. She co-edited a special issue in Perspectives on Politics--a peer-reviewed journal of the American Political Science Association (APSA)--covering celebrity politics. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Congratulations to Prof. Yuliya Zabyelina on the release of her book, Illegal Mining: Organized Crime, Corruption and Ecocide in a Resource-Scarce World, co-edited with Daan van Uhm (Palgrave, 2020). palgrave.com/gp/book/978303…

The Center for International Human Rights (CIHR) is organizing a talk by Phelim Kine, Senior Director for Asia at the environmental campaign organization Mighty Earth (see attached flyer).

Please join Prof. Michel for the college-wide talk she'll be giving on Nov. 10@3pm on her award-winning book "Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims' Rights in Latin America."

We are pleased to share out Fall 2020 Newsletter. Academic Year 2019-2020 was another successful year for the Department. Thank you everybody who made this success possible.

Congratulations to Jack Jacobs who just had a piece on Trump's relationships with racism, antisemitism, and Islamophobia published in Clockwork Enemy. Xenophobia and Racism in the Era of Neo-Populism. Links to the book can found here: mimesisinternational.com/interregnum-be…