Department of Political Science
Baylor's Political Science Department is renowned for its high quality teaching and for professors who care about students. Our majors have gone on to become lawyers, journalists, politicians, lobbyists, diplomats, political analysts and teachers. We place students in top law schools around the country such as Georgetown and Harvard, and in top graduate programs such as Yale and Princeton.
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Associate Professor of Political Science Peter Campbell was awarded a $24,000 grant from the Dr. Benjamin Brown IV Fund for Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Scholarship through the Baylor in Washington program. The Brown Fund provides support to faculty “engaged in interdisciplinary and collaborative projects on issues of global importance.”
Dr. Colby Humphrey, a lecturer at the Political Science Department, and a senior in Mechanical Engineering and Political Science Jackson Boone (’26 Baylor University) published a report Building a Better Waco: CTE Programs for the Future with policy analysis and recommendations for the municipal government of Waco.
Dr. Rebecca Flavin was one of three recipients of the 2023-2024 Core Curriculum Virtues Recognition Award from the College of Arts & Sciences recognized for excellence in teaching moral, intellectual and/or spiritual virtues in a course in Baylor’s Unified Core Curriculum.
Political science professors Ann Ward and Sergiy Kudelia have been offering their insights on the US presidential election to the audiences in their native countries – Canada and Ukraine.
Peter Wostenberg recently participated in RAND’s Summer Associate program, where he worked alongside noted cyber experts to inform Army cyber policy.
Dr. Sergiy Kudelia and Dr. Curt Nichols presented their co-authored paper “Transnational Solidarity Against Ukraine Aid? Comparing the AfD and the Freedom Caucus” at the 30th International Conference of Europeanists organized by the Council for European Studies. Held on July 3 – 5, 2024 in Lyon (France), the Conference addressed the general theme Radical Europe: Violence, Emancipation and Reaction.
Political science professor Ann Ward presented her paper “The unfolding of being in Plato’s Sophist” during the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA). The conference was held from June 12 to June 14, 2024 at McGill University in Montreal.
Professor Lee Ward presented his paper “John Adams: Conservative Revolutionary” at the annual meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) at McGill University, Montreal. Held from June 12 to June 14, 2024, the conference was devoted to a theme of Approaches, Knowledges, and Methods for the World of Tomorrow and called for envisioning “a more sustainable, equitable, and just world.”
Alumni Profiles
Deborah is the inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Postdoctoral Fellow at Assumption College. Her research explores the source and scope of the rights of religious institutions in the American legal tradition.
Christine is an Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Belmont Abbey College.