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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News
Professor of Political Science Dr. Lee Ward has two forthcoming academic articles, which review the intellectual heritage of major American and German philosophers.
Along with three other Baylor faculty members, Dr. Flavin participated in an online webinar on the topic “Discovering Christian civility in the midst of political hostility” held on October 17, 2024.
In February, 2024, Michael Gonzalez (Ph.D. 2022) became the inaugural Executive Director for the Institute of American Constitutional Thought & Leadership (IACTL) at the University of Toledo.
Baylor University alum Adam Carrington has returned this fall to his undergraduate institution Ashland University as an the Archer Endowed Professor in History & Political Science.
The article “International Governance of Advancing Artificial Intelligence” was co-authored with Nicholas Emery-Xu and Robert Trager. It was published online in September by the journal AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication.
Baylor University Political Science Professor Lee Ward was an invited participant in a conference entitled “Free Societies in Crisis: Perspectives in Classical Liberal Thought and Political Economy.”
Associate Professor of Political Science Dr. Sergiy Kudelia was invited to speak at the 18th Danyliw Research Seminar on Contemporary Ukraine held on September 26 – 28, 2024 at the University of Ottawa.
Alumni Profiles
Professor of Political Science at St. Vincent College and Endowed Director of the Saint Vincent Center for Catholic Thought and Culture.
Stephen Patrick Sims is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
Rachel Alexander Cambre is Visiting Fellow for Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy.
Catherine Craig is Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (UBCO).
John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University