University of Utah Department of Political Science

04/14/2026

The Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs visited the University of Utah last week! President Joel Rosenthal gave lectures to students in Professor Brent Steele’s POLS 5625 International Ethics class, and to the Hinckley Institute on Tuesday, April 7, on Nuclear Ethics and the Ethics of AI in a post-liberal world. Brian Mateo, director of education and special projects at Carnegie Council, and President Rosenthal, on Wednesday, April 8, hosted a lunch and discussion of Carnegie’s programs and initiatives with our Model UN, Global Affairs and POLS Student Advisory Committee

04/06/2026

https://www.hinckley.utah.edu/forum/4-7-26/

Tuesday, April 7, 2026 12:00 - 1:00 PM Hinckley Institute of Politics, 260 South Central Campus Drive, Room 2018, Salt Lake City, UT, 84112 United States (map) This forum is Presented as Part of the Wormuth Lecture Series   Speaker Joel Rosenthal - President, Carnegie Council Joel H. Rosenthal is p...

02/25/2026

How Peregrine Schwartz-Shea Helped Change Political Science Research

11/20/2025

12/04/2023

Attention students! Apply to be an OUR Summer Program for Undergraduate Research Scholar 2024 for an intensive 10 wk, full-time summer research experience with a U of U faculty, including this project with Tabitha Benney & University of Utah College of Social and Behavioral Science University of Utah Department of Political Science.

Learn more about this project: https://our.utah.edu/spur/integration-of-traditional-ecological-knowledge-with-stem-curriculum-on-the-wind-river-reservation/

Learn more about how to apply for SPUR here: https://our.utah.edu/research-scholarship-opportunities/spur/spur-student-application/

Apply for here: https://utah.infoready4.com/

The University of Utah

02/28/2022

Please join us at the Hinckley Institute tomorrow at noon to learn more about the conflict in Ukraine. The panel will feature Professors' Geoff Allen, Marjorie Castle and Steven Lobell. Pizza will be served after the event.

Forum offered online and in the Hinckley Institute caucus room - Room 2018, Gardner Commons. Russia and Ukraine are now engaged in an armed conflict. How did we get here? What explains the ongoing Russian aggression? What role have the United States and its allies played in the conflict, and what

04/23/2021

Check out this article co-authored by Prof. Jim Curry published in The Atlantic! 👏

It’s not the filibuster.

02/01/2021

Click the link to read about Professor Jesus Valero's study!

Study examines how interagency services for people experiencing homelessness have changed during the pandemic.

01/25/2021

Check out this article featuring Professor Juliet Carlisle's study on the COVID-19 vaccine effort!

A pre-COVID study explores how we perceive disease risk.

11/02/2020

Confused about different states voting rights laws? Read this article featuring Professor Baodong Liu!

States' laws regarding ballot counting, mail-in voting, early voting and voter ID requirements vary widely.