Led by professors Anne Preston and Anita Isaacs, a team of Haverford students is working to combat misinformation about immigration and immigrants by collecting and sharing personal stories from migrants in Mexico about their immigration and deportation experiences.
The department periodically hosts Friday afternoon socials, where student and faculty discuss timely issues of politics and governance. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17.
Students in the “Education Reform in America: Politics and Policy” class took a field trip to Lower Merion High School. See what other classes the department offers. Photo: Holden Blanco '17.
The Political Science Department offers a program of study that provides students with an opportunity to explore politics and government from multiple vantage points—at the grassroots, the nation-state, and the global community—and from a variety of theoretical, conceptual, comparative, historical, and experiential perspectives.
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Political science major and statistics, Chinese, and health studies minor Madeline Guth ’19 used her diverse set of tools to study the many ways that public policy can impact unintended pregnancy rates among low-income women.