TCU Political Science Department

Yesterday we hosted our annual Celebration of Achievement party at the Kelly Center. We honor and celebrate our Political Science students with awards, prizes and really great food! Thank you all for attending!

Congratulations are in order for Dr. Carrie Currier! She has been nominated for the Dean’s Award for Teaching. Congratulations on your nomination! 👏

Applications for the 2026-2027 National Model UN-NY Team which will attend the National Model UN-NY conference in Spring 2027 are now open. The application is due by Wednesday, March 25,2026 at 11:59 PM. For further information please check out the Political Science Website or email for further details. Questions? Please contact Dr. Eric Cox at [email protected]

Please join us for the Jim Wright Symposium on Thursday, February 26th at the Dee J. Kelly Center. Our theme this spring is “Aging and Generational Change in Japan and Beyond”. The symposium is free! Register at this link; https://calendar.tcu.edu/event/jim-wright-symposium-aging-and-generational-change-in-japan-and-beyond

First SURE LAB conference was a great success! Super proud of our students for their hard work and representing TCU so well!

Congratulations to our Fall 2025 Distinction graduates!

Last week, we had our annual Jim Wright Symposium, “Legends of the Lone Star Courthouses.” Our featured speaker, Susan Tietz, delivered an amazing talk about the preservation of Texas courthouses, with other lectures given by Dr. Keith Gaddie, Dr. Jim Riddlesperger, and Dr. Jocelyn Evan’s. McKay Trulove, TCU Junior, presented the trailer of her soon to be released documentary titled “Overlook History: Central Texas County Courthouse.” Dean Watson announced the wonderful news of the new “James Riddlesperger Endowed Scholarship.” This wonderful scholarship is to honor our retired Political Science, Piper Professor Dr. Jim Riddlesperger. Dr. Riddlesperger dedicated 43 years of teaching and mentoring students at TCU. Many thanks to Diane Latham Hanley and Tom Hanley whose generous donation made this scholarship possible.

Please join us for the Jim Wright Symposium on Monday, October 6th. This year theme is Texas Courthouses. Our featured guest speaker will be Susan Tietz with the Texas Historical Commission Courthouse Preservation Program. We will also have other guest speakers and a panel discussion. Lunch will be provided! Please RSVP by September 30th!

We hope to see you there!

Welcome Horned Frogs! Political Science is so excited for this new academic year! To kick off the semester we are doing a throwback of photos of our faculty before they became professors! If you have a throwback photo you like to share, please leave a pic in the comments! We hope everyone has a great year!