The subject pool gives undergraduate political science majors experience with the research process and it also serves to facilitate faculty and graduate student research. The political psychology program sponsors a regular colloquium series, which provides a forum for the presentation of new ideas or early reports of research in progress. In addition, a monograph paper series has been created, which reports the research findings of faculty and graduate students affiliated with the program. The program's active research culture provides graduate students with an unusually good opportunity for collaboration with the faculty on research projects. Beginning in their first year of study, students typically are actively engaged in research with one or more faculty members.
Many students deliver jointly or singly authored papers at professional conferences.
Moreover, a majority of graduate students in the program publish papers in major political science journals with the faculty. As a consequence, our students are able to compile highly competitive professional records while completing their doctoral degrees. The Stony Brook program is unique among the nation's top political psychology programs. The core faculty members are all full-time members of the Political Science Department, rather than adjuncts from other departments and disciplines. A brief description of the core faculty, including background and research interests is provided below.