Political Science News

The Political Science Department recently hired an exciting new Director for the New Directions Graduate program focused on Public, Non-Profit, and Community Leadership, Robin Kniech. Robin was an at-large Denver City Council member for 12 years (through July 2023), where she became a leader in affordable housing policy and worked...

Jim Walsh, Assistant Teaching Professor in Political Science, was interviewed on Colorado Matters about the Leadville Irish Memorial. Colorado Matters , Mar. 15

James Walsh, Clinical Teaching Track Assistant Professor in Political Science, says unions are seeing a surge in power thanks in part to low unemployment that puts workers more in demand and anger over CEOs and their huge salaries, which are on average 350 times higher than salaries of average workers...

“The city is wholly unprepared,” Associate Professor in the Political Science Betcy Jose said referring to Khartoum. “People went to bed Friday night in a peaceful country and woke up to war, and despite the challenges, difficulty, heartache, violence and unpredictability, the people of Sudan have come together to help...

“It typically takes new unions at least a year to get their first contracts,” said James Walsh, Political Science Clinical Associate Professor. “Starbucks is engaging in a strategy that's pretty typical in this country,” he continued. “When workers win the right to organize, the employers typically stonewall the negotiations or...

Political Science Professor Christoph Stefes, and Associate Professor Betcy Jose, talk about the Russian and Ukrainian conflict one year after the Russian invasion. It has been one year since Russia invaded Ukraine 9News Denver , February 24

Assistant Professor in Political Science James Walsh says there were about 3,000 Irish-born people in the town of Leadville at any one time during the silver rush. Walsh, who has spent 20 years researching Irish history in Leadville and is publishing a book next year, says life for those who...

In March, the University of Colorado Denver revealed plans to restore and renovate all of the buildings on Ninth Street that the school occupies. - Brian Page, Associate Professor and Chair of Geography and Environmental Sciences, is working on a project to digitize the history of Auraria by creating interactive...

James Walsh, Clinical Associate Professor of Political Science, offers insights to the history of strikes and the current debate of strikes in Colorado. Walsh was also recently part of a group welcoming a delegation from the Allihies Copper Mine Museum in West Cork, Ireland, who traveled to Leadville, Colorado, to...

Political Science Professor Christoph Stefes said in an interview he believes the Russian invasion of Ukraine may have been in the works for months or years and that it would be hard to judge exactly how sanctions will affect Putin and Russia. “I’ve seen Putin’s speeches in the last few...