The Politics Department will hold a single diploma ceremony for Goverment and Foreign Affairs majors in Memorial Gymnasium immediately following the Lawn ceremony on May 22, 2011.  Details on the Politics Department ceremony are available in the departmental graduation letter. Additional information on graduation is available on the College's Final Exercises page.

The call for papers for the 2011 Politics Department Graduate Student Conference, to be held in early April, is available here.

Recent Foreign Affairs Ph.D. Anne Peters has an op-ed in the Christian Science Monitor on the Obama Administration's reactions to events in Egypt.  She is also quoted in this article in the New York Times.

Recent Foreign Affairs Ph.D. Rob Saldin has published War, The American State, and Politics since 1898 in 2010 with Cambridge University Press.

Will Walldorf (PhD 2002) received the 2009 Best Book Award from the the International Studies Association's International Security Studies Section for his Just Politics: Democracy, Humanitarian Norms, and Great Power Foreign Policy (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2008). This book was based on his UVA dissertation. Walldorf teaches at Wake Forest.