Political Science Department

Oswego student Sydney Mayer's work to increase student voter turnout earned her a spot on the 2025 ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge’s Honor Roll.

Five members of the SUNY Oswego community had an opportunity to travel to Washington, D.C., and attend a White House convening on Youth Civic and Voter Engagement on Nov. 22.

Vote Oswego, a university-coordinated student-run project that helps members of the community make their impact in elections, is hosting a film festival and other awareness events to get students prepared for the 2024 elections.

Two SUNY Oswego faculty members –- Andrea Pagano and Allison Rank –- have earned the prestigious Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.

SUNY Oswego faculty member Lisa Glidden, a professor of political science and director of global and international studies, has earned the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.

SUNY Oswego political science professor Allison Rank’s work on civic engagement recently earned the Barbara Burch Award from the American Association of State Colleges and Universities’ American Democracy Project (ADP).

Four Oswego students had an excellent showing in their first-ever appearance at the SUNY Model European Union gathering recently, winning an award for Outstanding Agenda Item with sophomore journalism major Aidan Trusz honored as Most Effective Finance Minister.

Political science faculty member Allison Rank recently earned a prestigious national fellowship to study and support practices and outcomes related to civic engagement and learning.

Eleven years in the making, the latest book by SUNY Oswego political science faculty member Helen Knowles chronicles a pivotal Supreme Court case and corrects some historical distortions.

In a semester that includes a pivotal election on national, state and regional levels, the college’s nonpartisan Vote Oswego civic engagement effort itself had to pivot -- instead of information tables and face-to-face events, the student team has relied on...

The Vote Oswego project returns this fall to inform and motivate the Oswego community to register and participate in elections.

SUNY Oswego political science faculty member Helen Knowles’ two new books span the timely and timeless: one addresses hot topics like removing Confederate statues, the other a historic treasure of a building in the Pacific Northwest.

Political science faculty member Allison Rank has used student feedback and engaging virtual activities to keep her classes fresh, interesting and fun as they all learn #TogetherOz.

SUNY Oswego junior Lauren Fitzgerald earned a 2020-21 Newman Civic Fellowship, a national honor for outstanding community service, for her work with Vote Oswego and other civic efforts.

A collaboration between SUNY Oswego faculty members resulted in “Lights! Camera! Execution!: Cinematic Portrayals of Capital Punishment.”

For raising participation and involvement through Vote Oswego, Allison Rank received the 2019 Standout Faculty Award and SUNY Oswego earned a bronze seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, at a November ceremony in Washington, D.C.

SUNY Oswego political science professor Dr. Allison Rank, founder of the student-driven Vote Oswego voter mobilization campaign, has won a national honor, the John Saltmarsh Award for Emerging Leaders in Civic Engagement, given by the American Democracy Project.

A SUNY Oswego panel has recommended college mini-grant funding for five project proposals -- ranging from a multicultural effort to provide water purifiers to Puerto Rico to helping support a talk by an eco-poet known for her poetry about the...

Stephen Rosow, professor of political science, recently earned the 2018 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarly and Creative Activities, a SUNY-wide honor given for "sustained intellectual vibrancy."

With an interest in public service, SUNY Oswego junior political science and history major Connor Breese is set to participate in the prestigious Junior Summer Institute program at Princeton University through the Public Policy and International Affairs Program.

Abraham Lincoln: politician, philosopher or economist? Was John Stuart Mill just a philosopher? Was Adam Smith just an economist? A new SUNY Oswego degree program to launch this fall underscores the answer: Academic disciplines, like careers, often intersect, regardless of...

Four SUNY Oswego students were among those representing their fellow students across the state during a recent SUNY Students on the Hill event on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on March 28 and 29.

A semester-long SUNY Oswego class project to encourage students to register and vote in November’s presidential election and local races reached a crescendo recently as the Vote Oswego drive recruited students across campus to pitch in for a “blitz week”...

Traditional theories of what constitutes a democracy must make way for multiple new approaches to the concept around the world, SUNY Oswego political science professor Dr. Stephen J. Rosow and Australian colleague Dr. Jim George contend in a new book.In...

SUNY Oswego political science faculty member Helen J. Knowles co-edited and helped write “Judging Free Speech,” a new book exploring the First Amendment opinions of nine key justices over the course of 100 years of Supreme Court decisions.The book, co-edited...