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Department of Political Science

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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BA Political Science BA International Studies Prelaw Minor Criminal Justice PhD Political Science MA International Relations MA Public Policy and Administration Joint JD/MA Public Policy and Administration

News

AHI Conference on the Moral Foundations of Modern Democracy

Graduate students, alums, faculty, and friends of Baylor’s PhD program in political science convened for on April 14 and 15 for a conference on the Moral Foundations of Modern Democracy. The topic of the conference was inspired by the volume Democracy and the History of Political Thought, edited by Steve Block, Stephen Sims, and Patrick Cain (Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Lakehead University) (Lexington, 2021).

Baylor Alum Hired as Assistant Professor of Political Theory at University of British Columbia

Catherine Craig has received the position of Assistant Professor, Political Theory, tenure-track, in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus (UBCO).

Spring AHI conference to celebrate publication of Democracy and the History of Political Thought

American Political Thought Announces New Editorial Team

American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture recently announced its new editorial team

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Alumni Profiles

Deborah O'Malley

Doctor of Philosophy
Daniel Patrick Moynihan Postdoctoral Fellow
Assumption College

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.

Doctor of Philosophy
Asst. Professor
College of the Holy Cross

Eric is a a visiting assistant professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He has taught courses on American Foreign Policy, International Relations, The Cold War, Terrorism, and Diplomacy.

Christine Basil

Doctor of Philosophy
Asst. Professor in the Honors College
Belmont Abbey College

Christine is an Assistant Professor in the Honors College at Belmont Abbey College.

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