Faculty
This faculty member was recently named President of the International Development Ethics Association.
Who is Stacy Kosko?
“For a world facing an array of serious policy problems, we prepare our students to _____.”
What is to “be the solution."
Name the course co-taught by GVPT Chair Antoine Banks and U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks.
What is GVPT368L: “What’s Leadership Got to Do with It?”
This document begins with the words “We the People.”
What is the U.S. Constitution?
In 2025, U.S. News & World Report ranked UMD’s Department of Government and Politics this nationally among political science programs.
What is No. 26?
This faculty member directs the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies.
Who is Vladimir Tismaneanu?
Researchers studying misinformation, polarization, political communication, and social media through computational social science methods often collaborate through this GVPT program.
What is Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Computational Social Science (iLCSS)?
Name one of the course offerings through the Terp Young Scholars program offered by GVPT or MLAW this summer.
What is GVPT200: International Political Relations?
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What is MLAW289M: Mock Trial?
This congressional procedure allows senators to delay or block legislation through extended debate.
What is the filibuster?
In the 2026 AMCA National Written Brief Competition, how many of the UMD Moot Court Team’s eight teams placed nationally:
What is five?
This faculty member authored a recent book examining how governments respond to rebel movements and self-determination conflicts.
Who is Kathleen Cunningham?
If one forgets to submit hours in Workday, they must submit this type of request for the Business Office to enter the hours on their behalf.
What is a Retro Time Entry?
Every fall, GVPT typically selects 1 or 2 students to represent UMD at this longstanding undergraduate conference hosted by the United States Military Academy at West Point.
What is SCUSA?
Student Conference on U.S. Affairs
This international relations theory argues that states act primarily in pursuit of power and survival within an anarchic international system.
What is Realism?
GVPT’s Applied Political Analytics program, better known as APAN, officially launched during this academic year.
What is the 2021–22 academic year?
This faculty member won the APSA Best Book Award in 2019 for their book: "Poor Representation: Congress and the Politics of Poverty in the United States".
Who is Kris Miler?
This GVPT fund provides an annual award recognizing the best conference paper or journal article by a graduate student.
What is the Don C. Piper Fund?
This travel grant requires students to first secure internal or external funding before submitting an application, as it operates as a matching grant.
What is the Goldhaber Travel Grant?
Coined during the Cold War, this theory argued that if one country fell to communism, neighboring countries would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
In 1998, this former U.S. president visited the University of Maryland to deliver the Sadat Lecture for Peace commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Camp David Accords.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
"Deterrence Before Hiroshima", "The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation", and "Nuclear Zero?: Lessons from the Last Time We Were There" are among the works published by this late GVPT professor emeritus.
Who is Professor Emeritus George H. Quester?
“From Anthropic to Iran: Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Weapon Systems, and U.S. National Defense in an Era of Precise Mass” was CIDCM’s annual lecture series on this topic.
What is U.S. Foreign Policy in a Changing World?
This GVPT initiative supports mentorship, professional development, and community-building for women in the department’s graduate programs.
What is WIND?
Women’s Initiative Network for Development
This Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review in the United States.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
This former GVPT professor was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. from the department.
Who is Jean Elizabeth Spencer?