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Graduate Program

Our graduate students are actively engaged in all professional aspects of the field, publishing in top journals and winning prestigious awards and grants that fund both pre-dissertation and dissertation research. If you are considering to hire a GW Ph.D., please click here. Recent accomplishments of our graduate students include:

Publications

• Michael MacLeod, "Financial Actors and Instruments in the Construction of Global Corporate Accountability" in A. Ebrahim and E. Weisband (eds.) Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism and Public Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
• Christina Caan, Beth Cole, Paul Hughes and Daniel P. Serwer, "Is this Any Way to Run an Occupation? Legitimacy, Governance, and Security in Post-Conflict Iraq" in Karen Guttieri and Jessica Piombo (eds.) Interim Governments: Institutional Bridges to Peace and Democracy? Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2007.
• David Malet, "Faith in the System: Conceptualizing Grand Strategy in the Post 9/11 World Order." Studies in Conflict and Terrorism. Forthcoming.
• Mitchell Killian, "Presidential Decision Making and Minority Nominations for the US Court of Appeals." Presidential Studies Quarterly, Forthcoming.
• Mitchell Killian, Ryan Schoen and Aaron Dusso, "Keeping Up with the Joneses: The Interplay of Personal and Collective Evaluations of Voter Turnout." Political Behavior, Forthcoming.
• Mitchell Killian and Clyde Wilcox, "Do Abortion Attitudes Lead to Party Switching?" Political Research Quarterly, Forthcoming.
• Gonzalo Paz, "Rising China's Offensive' in Latin America and the U.S. Reaction" Asian Perspective, no. 30 (4). (2006)
• Liang Sun, "Beyond the Globalization Debate: The WTO and China's New Economic Identity." Journal of World Trade Law, Forthcoming.
• James Reilly, "The Tenuous Hold of China Inc. in Africa" Washington Quarterly , 30 (Summer 2007), pp. 37-52 (with Bates Gill).
• David Malet, "Trade Vote Determinants: Partisan Effects of PAC Contribution Percentages." Social Science Journal, no. 44 (Fall, 2007): 546-553.
• Phillip Stalley, "An Emerging Environmental Movement in China?" China Quarterly, no. 186 (June 2006), pp. 333-56 (with Dongning Yang).
• Michael P. Gleason, "European Union Space Initiatives: The Political Will for Increasing European Space Power." Astropolitics: The International Journal of Space Politics and Policy, no. 4 (Spring 2006), pp. 7-41.
• Injoo Sohn, “Asian Financial Cooperation: The Problem of Legitimacy in Global Financial Governance,” Global Governance, vol. 11, no. 4 (2005), pp. 487-504.
• Gonzalo Paz, “Argentina’s Relations with East Asia,” in Jorg Faust, Manfred Mols, and Won-ho Kim, eds., Latin America and East Asia – Attempts at Diversfication. New Patterns of Power, Interest, and Cooperation.

Awards

• Yangmo Ku and Jennie Schulze were awarded Hoffman Dissertation Awards for 2008-2009 from the Institute for European, Russian & Eurasian Studies at the George Washington Univeristy.
• Colm Fox was awarded a 2008 Indonesia Society Intensive Studies Program Fellowship to study in Indonesia.
• Ajay Verghese received a 2008 Critical Language Scholarship from the Department of State to study Hindi in India
• Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre was awarded a Professional Development Grant from the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at the George Washington University.
• Yangmo Ku was awarded a 2008 Korea Foundation Fellowship for Field Research.
• Gonzalo Paz was awarded a 2008 Smith Richardson Foundation's World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship.
• Jennie Schulze was awarded a 2008 dissertation grant by the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
• Jeffrey Becker was awarded a David L. Boren Graduate Fellowship to support him while researching and writing his dissertation.
• James Reilly was awarded a 2007-2008 Fulbright-Hays Dissertation Grant from the U.S. Department of Education to support research in China.
• Michael MacLeod was awarded a 2007 Oikos PhD Fellowship at the Oikos Foundation for Economy and Ecology Summer Academy, University of St Gallen, Switzerland.
• Jennie Schulze has been awarded a three-year Early Stage Researcher fellowship, funded by a European Union Marie Curie grant, at Tallinn University in Estonia.
• Injoo Sohn, 2006-2007 Visiting Research Fellow with Princeton’s Institute for International and Regional Studies, and postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard-Princeton China and the World Program at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
• Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre was given an Emerging Scholar Award by the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action at its meeting in 2006.
• Phillip Stalley, 2006-2007 Visiting Research Fellow in the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
• Jessica Lieberman, a Diplomacy Fellowship for 2006-2007 from the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Maryam Zarnegar Deloffre, a Graduate Student Research Award from the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Graduate Studies.
• Craig Kauffman, 2005 2nd Runner-Up in the graduate student competition at the International Studies Association-South annual Conference in Miami.The title of the paper was "Transitioinal Justice in Guatemala: Linking the Past and the Future."
• Craig Kauffman, 2006 Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship for intensive language study in Ecuador, January-July 2006.
• Peter McSharry, 2005-2006 David L. Boren-National Security Education Program (NSEP) Fellowship.
• Jeffrey Hornung, 2005-2006 Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Japan.
• Lee Ann Fujii, 2005-2006 Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Dean's Fellowship. This special award, given to only two students in the college, “allow[s] our very best students a year without duties in which to complete their Ph.D. dissertations.”
• Gulnaz Sharafutdinova, 2005 "runner-up" for the Juan Linz Dissertation Award from the Comparative Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Her dissertation was entitled "The Dynamics of Postcommunist Transformations: Varieties of Authoritarianian Regimes and Paradoxes of Crony Capitalism in Russia's Regions," and her committee was Peter Reddaway (chair), Nathan Brown, and Harvey Feigenbaum.
• Jeffrey Hornung, 2005 Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Language Fellowship for intensive study in Japanese.
• Peter McSharry, 2005 FLAS Summer Language Fellowship for intensive study in Chinese.
• Stephanie McNulty, 2004-2005 Fulbright-Hays Fellowship for dissertation research in Peru.
• Gonzalo Paz, 2003-2005 Fulbright Fellowship.

Degree requirements

Ph.D. in Political Science
M.A. in Political Science
M.P.P./Ph.D. in Public Policy/Political Science

Useful information

Frequently asked questions (for prospective students)
Graduate course descriptions
Graduate funding opportunities
Select Ph.D. course syllabi
Prospectus defense guidelines
Dissertation defense guidelines
Some Pointers on Finding a Job in Political Science by Prof. Lee Sigelman
Quick Links
Comprehensive Exam Information
Graduate Conference Travel Information
Graduate Timeline
Graduate Handbook

Forms

Ph.D. plan of study (Microsoft Word document)
M.A. plan of study (Microsoft Word document)
E-Request Travel Form (Microsoft Word document)
Dissertation Committee Sign-off Pre-Defense (Microsoft Word document)
UMI Dissertation Copyright (PDF)
Dissertation Committee Sign-off Post-Defense (Microsoft Word document)
PhD Graduation Clearance (Microsoft Word document)
MA Graduation Clearance(Microsoft Word document)
Reimbursement Request (Microsoft Word document)
Prospectus Defense (Microsoft Word document)
Transfer Credit (Microsoft Word document)
Advancement to Candidacy (Microsoft Word document)
Petition (Microsoft Word document)
Consortium Registration Form (PDF)