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Welcome to Emory Political Science


The Department of Political Science seeks to address urgent contemporary political challenges through rigorous theoretical and empirical research and to prepare students to become tomorrow's leading political scholars through training in and beyond the classroom.

Alumni gift establishes first distinguished professorship in political science at Emory


Professors John W. Patty and Elizabeth Maggie Penn to be visiting scholars with the Russell Sage Foundation