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Hahrie Han
Faculty honors
Political scientist Hahrie Han receives genius grant
Published Oct 8, 2025 Video
Han, who studies political organizing and collective action and who has led the university's SNF Agora Institute since 2019, among 22 individuals to receive coveted MacArthur Foundation recognition
The Federal Reserve
3 Questions
The Fed's historic independence
Published Sept 16, 2025
Johns Hopkins political scientist Nicolas Jabko explains how prevailing political forces threaten to disrupt the nation's money supply and the global economy
Dawn Teele
Faculty honors
Political scientist Dawn Teele receives Carnegie Fellowship
Published April 16, 2025
SNF Agora Institute scholar will use the award to explore whether the gender gap is a driver of U.S. political polarization
Political scientist Glory Liu
Undergraduate studies
Program prepares students to tackle challenges of a complex world
Published Nov 19, 2024 Video
A new degree program in moral and political economy aims to give students the foundational skills and knowledge needed to think broadly about multifaceted problems
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Election 2024
Dashboard tracks campaign spending
Published Nov 4, 2024
Millions of campaign finance records are available through the new dashboard, which deploys machine learning across six million expenditure records reported by the nation's two main political parties
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William G. Howell named dean of new School of Government and Policy
Published Oct 24, 2024
Howell, a scholar of issues related to separation of powers, political institutions, democratic reform, and the U.S. presidency, will join JHU from the University of Chicago beginning Jan. 1
Headshot of Lilliana Mason
Faculty Honors
Lilliana Mason awarded Carnegie Fellowship
Published May 8, 2024
An associate professor of political science at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University, Mason is one of 28 scholars receiving grants of up to $200,000 to research political polarization
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Hopkins in D.C.
JHU to launch new School of Government and Policy
Published Oct 6, 2023
The university's 10th academic division, based in Washington, D.C., will build on JHU's longstanding leadership in research and discovery to develop solutions to contemporary policy challenges
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Voices
Justice for all?
Published June 7, 2023
Political scientist and sociologist Vesla Weaver listens to the voices of people whose experience of democracy, citizenship, and government is completely different from that of those not living under police surveillance
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Changing hearts, minds, and stomachs
Published Spring 2023
SAIS alumni Téa Ivanovic and Peter Schechter founded Immigrant Food to defend the vision of America as an immigrant nation / Johns Hopkins Magazine