In the Media

Read how Alina Chen, who is majoring in political science and cell biology and neuroscience and is on a prelaw track, told the Daily Targum that her primary goal as a student leader is to improve students' lives.

USA Today iInterviewed Professor Shah about the record number of black candidates for governor, citing that Black gubernatorial candidates have had outsized success this cycle but continue to be underrepresented overall. She went on to say the number of Black gubernatorial candidates this cycle will test longstanding arguments about electability that have often faced nonwhite contenders. To read the complete article, authored by Jay Stahl and Phillip M. Bailey, click on the newslink. 

Past president of Pi Sigma Alpha-Beta Omicron and recent grad. Rida Kadri '26 recently joined The Democracy Lab to coordinate RU Voting and RU Ready efforts at the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers-New Brunswick. A full circle moment, enjoy the article published in August 31 edition of Rutgers Today. Article Author: Mike Lucas. Image Credit: Luca Mostello 

 Associate Professor Elena Gambino has recently published a new book, Erotic Knowledge: Toward a Lesbian Feminist Political Theory (Duke University Press, 2026) ABOUT THE BOOK Erotic Knowledge explores how US lesbian feminists raised questions about the political stakes of sexual freedom, how their distinctive political vocabularies informed coalition- and institution-building in ways that strain against contemporary queer and feminist assumptions, and how these alternative grammars were left behind in the decades since lesbian feminism’s remarkable surge in the 1970s. Elena Gambino makes the case that the past of US lesbian feminism is rich in resources not only for rethinking vital questions of sexual freedom in the present, but also for incorporating these questions into a broader understanding of the silencing effects of disciplinary historical knowledge. Drawing on archival sources typically ignored in political theory, such as lesbian feminist poetry, literary criticism, and the...

What is the future of the Arab Gulf states after the onset of the Iran War? Given the damage caused by large-scale Iranian attacks on oil and natural gas production facilities, will the Gulf states be able to return to the status quo ante? Or will the Iran War, begun by the United States and Israel, impose permanent damage on the region?  In a recent blog post in The New Middle East, Professor Eric Davis addresses the future of the the Arab Gulf post Iran War.

A senior majoring in political science and public policy Rafael Escalante continues to advocate for democracy and human rights – both on and off campus. Read the full article published in Rutgers Today, July 23, 2025, using the link above.  Author: Mike Lucas  (Neal Buccino contributed to this article). Image: Jeff Arban/Rutgers University