The political science major has channeled her passion for minority advocacy into a career as a capital defender.
The department periodically hosts Friday afternoon socials, where student and faculty discuss timely issues of politics and governance. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17.
Carlos Castresana, a prosecutor at the Spanish Supreme Court responsible for filing the original complaints in the cases of crimes against humanity perpetrated by Latin American dictators Augusto Pinochet and Rafael Videla, spent a semester on campus co-teaching two political science courses. Photo: Brad Larrison
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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In his senior thesis, Graf Evans suggests a new approach to environmental activism— one informed by the Quakers’ theological beliefs.