The Department of Political Science is proud of the work and achievements of our graduate
alumni as they continue on to their professional careers. If you have an achievement
you would like highlighted, please email polsci_alumni@stonybrook.edu.
2021-2022
Congratulations to PhD alum Julie Wronski (2014), who just received tenure in the
Department of Political Science at the University of Mississippi. She will be a visiting
scholarat the University of Maryland's Department of Government and Politics in the coming year. Julie's research (with fellow SBU alums Lily Mason and John Kane)
was recently featured in the New York Times.
2019-2020
Congratulations to Kathleen (Katie) Donovan (PhD '14), who received tenure at St. John Fisher College in 2019. Katie is currently working on several research topics, including economic
influences on presidential approval and contextual factors on support for gun control.
She appears regularly on local Rochester TV and is often quoted in the local newspaper,
the Democrat & Chronicle. She also serves as an election night analyst for WXXI, the
Rochester local NPR affiliate. She is taking a sabbatical this fall to follow a political
consultant who works on campaigns across New York state, Fenno-style. She was also
awarded undergraduate teacher of the year at St John Fisher College in 2019.
We are delighted to announce that the International Society of Political Psychology
(ISPP) has named Pazit Ben-Nun Bloom as this year’s (2019) winner of its Erik Erikson Early Career Award. Pazit received her PhD from the Department of Political Science at Stony Brook University
in 2010 and is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University.
Her research examines the influence of religion, values, and morality on political
behavior. The award recognizes and celebrates exceptional achievement and is given
to a member of ISPP within a decade of receiving a Ph.D.