Welcome
Interested in Political Science? Come change the world with us.
We are a community of scholars dedicated to improving how people and societies govern themselves.
Memorial Political Science faculty and students balance quantitative and qualitative methods with cutting-edge political theory as they engage with issues in environmental politics, human migration, international relations, political behaviour, democracy, gender, human rights, Indigenous self-governance, social movements, and public policy. Our department offers a breadth of undergraduate and graduate courses taught by some of the leading experts in Canada.
We are situated on the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Please explore this website to learn more about our faculty and programs at the Memorial University Campus in St. John’s, NL.
(Students from the Grenfell and Labrador campuses should consult their own campus websites.)
News
For the second year in a row, a Political Science student has been awarded a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. The Rhodes Scholarship, the world’s oldest and most prestigious graduate fellowship, will allow Ms. Ebsary to pursue fully funded studies at the University of Oxford in the U.K. "This will change the trajectory of my life."
Read more in the Gazette.
Political science professor and Canada Research Chair in Equitable Energy Governance and Public Policy, Dr. Angela Carter, was recently profiled in the MUN Gazette about her groundbreaking research and future plans. Read more here.
Political Science professor Lucian Ashworth was profiled in the Gazette for organzing a public dialogue at the Rooms provincial art gallery on then politics of public commemorations—and the who, when, and why of remembrance. Read more here!