Johns Hopkins University-Political Science Department

Check out this recent piece by Yunchen Tian and Erin Chung available on the Foreign Affairs website entitled, “Is Japan Becoming a Country of Immigration?” See https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/japan/2018-08-03/japan-becoming-country-immigration

Johns Hopkins University-Political Science Department The Political Science Department at the Johns Hopkins University Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences provides graduate and undergraduate training in American politics and law, comparative politics, international relations, and political theory.

Welcome!
Dr. Jan Dutkiewicz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Area of study: American Politics

WELCOME NEW FACULTY!!!
Dr. Robbie Shilliam, PhD
Professor
Area of Study: International Relations

Public lecture by Cristina Beltrán on April 25th! Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1649250321776643/

Save the dates for the JHU Political Science Spring Seminar Series!

Check out Professor Sarah Parkinson and Johns Hopkins undergraduate, Anna Gordon's piece entitled "How the Houthis Became "Shi'a"." This is a great example of a social science undergrad publishing with a professor! http://www.merip.org/mero/mero012718

Please check out The Johns Hopkins Political Science Department's 2017-2018 Newsletter! http://politicalscience.jhu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/55/2017/12/2017-18-Political-Science-Newsletter-JHU.pdf

Check out Dr. Sarah Parkinson's new piece in the Washington Post - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/12/15/how-to-watch-star-wars-like-an-insurgent/

Please Join us on December 12th from 2-4pm in Mergenthaler 366 for our annual Cider & Snacks!

Vesla Weaver, a leading scholar on racial inequality and criminal justice issues, joins Johns Hopkins- Trailblazing political scientist from Yale joins Bloomberg Distinguished Professorships program
https://hub.jhu.edu/2017/11/06/vesla-weaver-bloomberg-distinguished-professor/

Congratulations Sarah E. Parkinson and Meaghan Charlton for being awarded a:

JHU Berman Institute for Bioethics Exploration of Practical Ethics Research Grant

The Ethics of Preparedness in Humanitarian Disasters

Principal Investigator:
Sarah E. Parkinson, Aronson Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and Nitze School of Advanced International Studies
Co-Investigator:
Meaghan Charlton, PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

Narrative: What are the “everyday” ethical issues that affect war-adjacent professionals such as humanitarians, journalists, and scholars on the ground? How do individuals in these fields resolve them? We examine: 1.) The training that professionals such as researchers, journalists, and humanitarians working adjacent to war receive; 2.) How these individuals’ understandings of professional conduct interact with local populations’ concepts of ethical and moral behavior; and 3) How professionals’ protocols and practices subsequently evolve—or do not—in the field. Focusing on the humanitarian crises that conflicts in Syria and Iraq have produced, this project uses multi-sited, immersive fieldwork with foreign and local professionals in Iraqi Kurdistan and Lesvos, Greece to identify communities of practice, indigenous innovations, and emergent ethical tensions. Subsequent workshops in each field site bring together scholars, practitioners, and community representatives, to identify key ethical issues and discuss potential cross-field policy interventions.