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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At the Texas State Capitol, the Baylor Bullock Scholars were celebrated by both the Senate and the House.
On Wednesday January 29th the Zavala Program for Constitutional Studies and the R.W. Morrison Chair hosted a talk by Dr. Stephen Skowronek, Pelatiah Perit Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
Associate Professor of Political Science Sergiy Kudelia was one of the invited speakers to address participants of 2025 Winter School organized by the Invisible University for Ukraine and sponsored by the Open Society University Network. The School was held at Central European University Budapest campus on January 11 – 18, 2025.
The new article by the Associate Professor of Political Science Richard Jordan co-authored with Peter Bils and Kristopher Ramsay was published in The Journal of Politics.
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.
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