Utah Valley University Political Science program

09/10/2025

Congratulations, Jay DeSart on being the recipient of the American Political Science Association Political Forecasting Group's inaugural Best Paper Award for the paper he presented at the 2024 APSA Meeting in Philadelphia.
https://x.com/pol4casting/status/1965345291944485300

03/18/2025

Over Spring Break, students in Dr. Baktybek Abdrisaev's Sustainable Development class (POLS 3410) had the unique honor of presenting research at the United Nations during the 69th Commission on the Status of Women about the education and empowerment of women and girls in mountainous communities around the world.

10/05/2023

Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Paul Ryan spoke to UVU students about the challenges of governing in a democracy amid the current conditions of hyperpartisanship. He called the recent vote to remove Speaker Kevin McCarthy a "disgrace."

05/19/2023

The Department of History and Political Science was honored to have hosted the President of the U.N. General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, who delivered an address titled "From Crisis Management to Transformation – The UN in a Brave New World."
- Photo by Jay Drowns

02/24/2023

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Dustin Jansen for being honored with the UVU BIPOC Academic Excellence Award for his ongoing service to Utah's Native American community

08/30/2022

Curious about what you can do with a Political Science degree? Find out about potential career paths from UVU 2019 Political Science Alum, Joseph Giacolone, Budget and Policy Analyst with the Utah Governor's Office of Planning & Budget. September 9 at 11 AM in CB 414.

10/06/2020

Dr. DeSart, Chair of the Department of History and Political Science, has announced the prediction from his forecast model for the 2020 presidential election.

We'll find out next month if he's right!

For the past 5 presidential elections, Tom Holbrook and I have been generating forecasts of the national popular vote and Electoral College...

09/26/2020

Jay DeSart, chair for the history & political science department, recently received a grant to conduct research about the 2020 presidential election. His study, which will be administered in October, will study the attitudes of anti-intellectualism and how they affect the ways people vote. https://bit.ly/334ibMA

03/03/2020

UVU Political Science students participated in a Mock Democratic Caucus tonight on the eve of Super Tuesday to learn how party caucuses work.

02/21/2020

U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard speaking to Dr. Rhodes' American Heritage class this morning. A great opportunity for our students.

01/23/2020

Congratulations to the Center for Constitutional Studies at UVU and the Political Science and Constitutional Studies students who put in a lot of hard work to make this happen!

UVU’s Center for Constitutional Studies has been awarded a prestigious and highly competitive grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to continue researching, digitizing, and entering constitutionally based historical documents into the Quill Project — a data analytics platform.

01/04/2020

The History and Political Science Department at Utah Valley University invites applicants for a teaching-focused tenure-track Assistant Professor position teaching lower-division American Government courses as well as upper-division courses in Political Communication and related topics, such as Campaigns and Elections, Campaign Management, or Media and Politics.

[http://www.uvu.jobs/postings/16406](http://www.uvu.jobs/postings/16406)