The editorial team from the Sigma Upsilon chapter at Elon University is thrilled to release their twelfth and final issue: Volume XXVI, No. 1, Spring 2026!

This issue features the work of two undergraduate authors:

“When Justice Falters: On the Inability of Transitional Justice to Deliver in South Sudan”
E.E. Naber, William Jewell College

“Live and Let Tie: The Visual Aesthetics of Partisan Identity”
Mallory Waligora, Oakland University

This issue also includes a special piece by the faculty editors:

“A Six-Year Stewardship of Political Science Undergraduate Research at the Twenty-Fifth Year of the Pi Sigma Alpha Undergraduate Journal of Politics“
Bari​ş Kesgin and Laura Roselle, Elon University

The Journal welcomes submissions from undergraduates of any class or major; submissions from Pi Sigma Alpha members are especially encouraged. The Editorial Board routinely receives honors theses, senior seminar projects, capstone projects, and other original research papers produced in or out of class.

Please see the following website for more information on submitting to the Journal: https://wp.stolaf.edu/poli-sci/pi-sigma-alpha-undergraduate-journal-of-politics/

Past issues of the journal can be found here.