UMass-Amherst offers PhD and accelerated MA degrees in six fields of political inquiry: American Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Theory, Public Policy and Public Law. Yet we believe that often the most interesting and important political questions transcend disciplinary fields and encourage faculty and students to work at these intersections. Thus, while offering courses and exams in traditional fields of political science, we encourage doctoral students to pursue research questions that cross the domains of two or more fields. In addition, while each field is its own thriving research community, UMass-Amherst also convenes multiple research clusters whose work crosses subfields, including Conflict, Violence and Security, Political Economy, Computational Social Science, and Ambiguities of Democracy.

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