UMKC Political Science and Philosophy Department

Congrats to the Truman Good Neighbor Award Winners!

We have so much to celebrate! From our fantastic grads, our amazing faculty and staff, and our incredible students, we had a great 2026! More great news from Roos as we wrap up the school year.

Celebrating our department graduates and award winners. We are so proud of Roo! UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences

We were honored to host our amazing UMKC Political Science alums Matt Bingesser of the , Savina Balano of the Clay County Prosecutors Office, and Emily Pedersen of for this year's Political Science and Philosophy Law School Information Roundtable.

We had a great time today at UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences's event! Results are in from our annual Cookie Election: Exit polling predicted sugar cookie as the winner with snickerdoodle in last place. In a surprise twist, Chocolate Chip and Snickerdoodle tied for first place with 10 votes each, double chocolate netted 8 votes, 1 write-in vote for , and no votes for sugar cookie.

Join us on Thursday, April 30th at 1:00pm for an exciting talk on Artificial Intelligence and the Social Contract. Dr. Ryan Reed of Bradley University will discuss his new book and it's implications for AI. Please join us!

Henry, one of our awesome undergrad majors, is really going places!

UMKC PSP is always on target! Thanks for a great event! Hey Dean’s office- how are your free kicks?

Always exciting to see our students get recognition for being as awesome as they are! UMKC Political Science student Maya Clark is currently a student legislative intern in Jefferson City, and we can see we aren't the only ones who are proud of our students. Great work, Maya!

Any amount supports scholarships to help offsest costs of completing an internship in Washington D.C. or Jeff City. And, through noon March 4, first time donors get branded socks!

Donate $50 or more and get a pair of tickets to the trivia night, snacks and drinks included!