“Our center draws together people with different forms of specialized expertise to think about difficult questions that have no clear answers but that we can’t avoid,” said Bryan Garsten, the center’s faculty director and a professor of political science and humanities.

Each spring, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recognizes professors from each of four divisions for their advising and mentoring of Yale students.

Yale’s Daniel Martinez HoSang, Professor of American Studies, has received a 2026 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support his research into political polarization and to identify potential solutions.

Gandhi, a political scientist, will serve as the FAS dean of faculty development for a five-year term.

FAS faculty are exploring the past, present, and future of democracy, and working to understand how it might change to keep pace with—and evolve alongside—our increasingly complex world.

Gregory Huber, ISPS interim director and Forst Family Professor of Political Science, presented data in which he and his co-authors undercut a dominant narrative that mass polarization is primarily driven by wildly exaggerated misperceptions of the other side.

Hélène Landemore, Damon Wells '58 Professor of Political Science, writes about her latest research on citizens assemblies and democracy for the New York Times.

In a new book, Hélène Landemore, Damon Wells '58 Professor of Political Science, argues that electoral politics is irredeemably broken but that democracy can be repaired by empowering ordinary people to govern.

An excerpt of political theorist Hélène Landemore's new book, Politics Without Politicians, was recently published in Foreign Policy magazine.

A new book from Kate Baldwin, Professor of Political Science, asks why African churches are increasingly advocating for liberal democracy.