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Political Science Faculty Listing
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Professor Charles Shipan, Chair
Professor Lisa Disch, Associate Chair
Associate Professor Elizabeth R. Wingrove, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor Mary Gallagher, Director of Undergraduate Honors Program
Academics and Requirements
Professors
Robert Axelrod (Arthur W. Bromage Distinguished University Professor of Political Science and Public Policy; Mary Ann and Charles R. Walgreen, Jr. Professor for the Study of Human Understanding), Mathematical Models of Politics, Decision-making, Game Theory, National Security Policy
Pamela Brandwein, Public Law, Race, Ethnicity and Politics, Gender and Politics, Methods
Nancy E. Burns (Warren E. Miller Collegiate Professor of Political Science), American Local Politics and Institutions, Methodology, Gender and Politics, and Political Participation
John R. Chamberlin, Ethics and Public Policy, American Political Thought, Formal Political Theory, Mathematical Models of Social Science
William Clark, International and Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Institutions, Open-Market Macroeconomic Policy, Political Economy of Religion
Mary E. Corcoran, American Government and Politics, Public Policy and Administration, Research methods, Poverty and Inequality
Christian Davenport
Lisa Disch, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Feminist Theory, Electoral Process, Democratic Theory, Contemporary Continental Theory, Third Party Politics, Voter Participation
Robert J. Franzese Jr., Comparative and International Political Economy; Comparative Politics and Developed Democracies; Quantitative Methodology and Formal Models
Zvi Y. Gitelman (Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies), Former Soviet Union, East European and Israeli politics
Edie N. Goldenberg (Dean Emeritus, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts), Politics and the Mass Media, Bureaucracy and Public Policy
Anna Grzymala-Busse, Comparative Politics and Post-Communism, Institutional Development, Qualitative Methods
Richard L. Hall, American National Institutions, Legislative Behavior, Elite Socialization and Psychology, Public Policy
Don Herzog (Edson R. Sunderland Professor of Law), History of Political Thought, Contemporary Political Thought, Moral and Social Theory, Jurisprudence and Constitutional Law
Vincent Hutchings, Public Opinion; African American politics; Legislative politics; Voting behavior
Ronald F. Ingelhart (Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights), Comparative Political Behavior, Mass Participation and Communication, Advanced Industrial Societies
John E. Jackson (M Kent Jennings Collegiate Professor of Political Science), Professor of Political Science), American Politics, Political Economy
Pauline Jones Luong, Comparative Government and Politics, Political Economy, Political Development, Research Methods
Donald R. Kinder (Philip E. Converse Collegiate Professor of Political Science, James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science), Public Opinion and Political Action, Psychological Perspectives, Research Methods
Kenneth Kollman (Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor), American government, Formal modeling, political parties and elections, interest groups
Arthur Lupia (Hal R. Varian Collegiate Professor of Political Science), Cognition and Communication in Political Decision Making; Institutional Design; Game Theory; Public Policy
Gregory B. Markus, Mathematical and Statistical Modelling, American Mass Politics
Andrei S. Markovits (Carl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of German and Comparative Politics, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), German and European Politics, Comparative Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture and Sports
Walter R. Mebane, American Government and Political Methodology
James Morrow, World Politics, Formal Models, Statistical Methods
Scott E. Page (Leonard Hurwicz Collegiate Professor of Political Science, Complex Systems and Economics), Institutional Design, Complexity, Formal Modelling, public policy
Arlene W. Saxonhouse (Caroline Robbins Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies), Ancient and Modern Political Theory, Women in Political Thought
Charles R. Shipan (J. Ira and Nicki Harris Professor of Social Sciences), American Government and Politics, Comparative Government and Politics, Formal Modeling, Political Economy, Public Policy and Administration
Allan Stam, World Politics/International Relations, Comparative Governments and Politics, Public Law
Mark Tessler (Samuel J. Eldersveld Collegiate Professor of Political Science), Comparative Politics, Political Development, Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations
George Tsebelis (Anatol Rapoport Collegiate Professor of Political Science), Comparative Government and Politics, Political Economy, Formal Modeling
Nicholas A. Valentino, American Government and Politics, Political Psychology, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Methods
Associate Professors
Jenna Bednar, Institutional Design, Federalism, Formal Political Theory, Comparative Political Institutions (US, Canada, Western Europe), Political History
Ted Brader, American Politics, Political Psychology, Elections and Campaigns, Mass Media, Public Opinion and Political Behavior
Mary Gallagher, Chinese Politics, Comparative Politics, Transitions from Socialism, Political Economy of Development
Allen Hicken, Comparative Government and Politics; World Government and Politics; Political Economy; Southeast Asia
Anna Kirkland, Law and society (U.S.); contemporary political and legal theory; identity and civil rights (gender, race, sexuality, disability)
Barbara Koremenos, international politics, international organization, international law, institutional and agreement design, law and economics
Mika LaVaque-Manty (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor), Modern political theory, especially 18th century; contemporary political theory, especially liberal theory; philosophy of social science; environmental politics; social movements
Ann Lin, American Government and Politics, Public Policy and Administration, Gender and Politics/Feminist and Theory, Organizational Theory, Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Robert W. Mickey, American Political Development, Political Parties, Politics of Race and Ethnicity, Public Policy
Elizabeth R. Wingrove, Gender and Politics/Feminist Theory, Race, Ethnicity and Politics
Assistant Professors
Yuen Yuen Ang, Comparative Political Economy, Comparative Political Organizations, Contemporary China
Jowei Chen, American Government and Politics, Political Economy, Methods, Formal Modeling
Andrew Kerner, Political Economy, Comparative Government and Politics, World Politics/International Relations
Kenneth McElwain, Comparative Study of Political Parties and Institutions, Primarily in Japan and Europe
Brian Min, Comparative Governments and Politics; Political Development; Political Economy, Race and Ethnicity, and Politics: Methods
Robert Salmond, Comparative Governments and Politics, Research Methods, Political Economy, Political Psychology
Jana von Stein, international cooperation, law, and institutions; human rights; quantitative methods
Mariah Zeisberg, American constitutional theory; law and politics; liberal and democratic political theory; philosophy of law
Adjunct Faculty
Contstance Cook, Educational Policy
Barry Rabe (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor; J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy), State and Local, Environmental Politics and Policy
Michael W. Traugott, American government, Politics and the mass media
Professors Emeriti
John C. Campbell, Japan, Organizational Decision-making, Public Policy, and Gerontology
M. Kent Jennings, Political Psychology, Research Methods, Comparative Political Behavior
John W. Kingdon, American Government and Politics, Public Policy, Legislative Process
Kenneth Langton, Political Psychology
Daniel H. Levine (James Orin Murfin Professor of Political Science), Comparative Politics, Religion and Politics, Urbanization, Cultural Change, Latin America, Contemporary Social Theory
Kenneth Lieberthal (Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Political Science Distinguished Fellow, William Davidson Institute Professor of Business Administration), Chinese Domestic and Foreign Policy, Sino-Soviet Relations, Comparative Communis
Lawrence B. Mohr, Organization Theory, Quantitative Methods, Program Evaluation
Raymond Tanter, American Foreign Policy, Middle East in World Politics, International Security Affairs
William Zimmerman IV, Comparative Foreign Policy, Russia and former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe