Graduate Placement
The Ph.D. program at the University of Oklahoma enrolls
approximately 50 active doctoral students engaged in teaching and
research across six areas of study in political science- American Politics,
Public Administration, Public Policy, Political Theory, International Relations and Comparative Politics. Students take examinations in two areas of emphasis, and
also complete a rigorous sequence of appropriate research methodology
in either foreign language study or extensive statistical techniques
before writing a dissertation.
Graduate students in the
Department of Political Science are able to take advantage of a variety
of research facilities housed in the department, including the
University of Oklahoma Public Opinion Learning Laboratory, the archives
of the Carl Albert Center, the Institute for Public Affairs, and,
housed in the Department of Communication, the Julian Kantor Political
Advertising Archive.
Alumni of our program have
published in all of the major political science journals, and have also
authored books for a variety of major academic presses. In the
last six years, four new Ph.D.s from the University of Oklahoma won
APSA dissertation awards, including the prestigious William Anderson
Award, and dissertations supervised in the department have been
published by various university presses including the Ohio State
University Press, Oxford Press, and Oklahoma Press.
Graduates from our program are
on the faculties of a variety of colleges and research
universities, including the University of Kansas, Loyola-Chicago,
University of Missouri (Columbia), University of Tennessee, Oklahoma
State University, Texas A&M University, University of South
Carolina, University of Georgia, Brigham Young University, University
of Maine, Winthrop College, Washington and Lee, University of
Mississippi, and Tulane University. Oklahoma Ph.D.s have also
held prestigious Fulbright professorships, APSA Congressional
Fellowships, and held significant policymaking and executive positions
in state and federal government.
