Political Science

Graduate Student News

Yu Cheng, Ph.D. candidate, received the WMU Graduate College’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship Award for the 2025-26 academic year. Previous recipients include Rei Gordon, Amauri Pineda, Manuel Soque, and Brittany Brake.
Ilay Inceefe, Ph.D. candidate, received the WMU Graduate College's Patricia L. Thompson Dissertation Award for the 2025-26 academic year.
Rahel Kessete Afewerky, Ph.D. student, received the 2024 All University Graduate Reseach and Creative Scholar Award.

Rei Gordon, Ph.D. candidate, received the 2023 All University Graduate Teaching Effectiveness Award. Other recent recipients include Manuel Soque in 2022 and Brittany Brake in 2019. Gordon also was named honorable mention for the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Midwestern Association of Graduate Schools (MAGS) in 2024.

Rei Gordon, Ph.D. current: Muskegon Community College, Michigan
Sarah Perez, Ph.D. 2017, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Texas
Latasha Chaffin, Ph.D. 2013, College of Charleston, South Carolina
Brittany Brake, Ph.D. current: Central State University, Ohio
Manuel Soque, Ph.D. 2022: Wittenburg University, Ohio
Leslie Pobee, M.I.D.A., 2020: GIS Analyst, Municipal GIS Partners, Inc., Des Plaines, Illinois.
Augusto Dominguez, M.I.D.A., 2019: Project Analyst, Nonprofit Regulation Agency, Ministry of Economics, Planning & Development, Dominican Republic
Naomi Bick, Ph.D., 2021: California State University at Fresno, California

Accelerated Master of International Development Administration Arts in Political Science: allows undergraduates at WMU to begin to accumulate credits toward the completion of a master's degree while completing their bachelor's degree; open to students majoring in Political Science, Economics, Sociology, Global and International Studies, or Environment, Geography and Tourism
Accelerated Master of Arts in Political Science: allows undergraduate political science majors at WMU to begin to accumulate credits toward the completion of a master's degree while completing their bachelor's degree
Kalamazoo College 4+1: K College students may be able to transfer undergraduate credits toward a WMU master's degree in political science
Albion College 4+1: Albion students may be able to transfer undergraduate credits toward a WMU master's degree in political science
Aquinas College 4+1: Aquinas students may be able to transfer undergraduate credits toward a WMU master's degree in political science

Email Peter Wielhouwer, graduate director, for more information