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American Politics

  • Marisa A. Abrajano, Professor. Ph.D., NYU. American politics
  • Pamela Ban, Associate Professor, Ph.D., Harvard University. American politics and political economy
  • Amy B. Bridges, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago. American politics, urban politics
  • Steven P. Erie, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. American politics, urban politics
  • James H. Fowler, Professor, Political Science and Medicine. Ph.D., Harvard University. American Politics, Methodology
  • LaGina Gause, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. American politics
  • Zoltan L. Hajnal, Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago. American politics, ethnic politics
  • Daniel C. Hallin, Adjunct Professor, Communications. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Political Behavior, politics of mass communication
  • Seth J. Hill, Professor. Ph.D., UCLA. American politics, political methodology, voting behavior, and campaigns and elections
  • Peter H. Irons, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Boston University. JD Harvard University. Public law and politics
  • Gary C. Jacobson, Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. American politics, Congress, elections
  • Samuel Kernell, Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. American politics, presidency
  • Thaddeus B. Kousser, Professor. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Legislatures and Legislative Elections, California Politics
  • Richard G. Kronick, Adjunct Professor, Family and Preventive Medicine. Ph.D., University of Rochester. Health policy
  • Maysa Nichter, Assistant Teaching Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law. Pre-law curriculum and support programs
  • Benjamin Noble, Assistant Professor. Ph.D, Washington University in St. Louis.
  • Agustina Paglayan, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Public Policy, American Politics, Quantitative and Archival Methods
  • Samuel L. Popkin, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Voting Behavior, comparative politics
  • Amna Salam, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester.  American political institutions using formal models and empirical methods
  • Christopher Stout, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Politics of underrepresented groups in the United States

International Relations

  • J. Lawrence Broz, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles. IPE: central banking, exchange rates, international financial institutions, climate change
  • Peter Cowhey, Professor, GPS. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. IPE: international telecommunications and information policy, internet governance, trade policy
  • Erik A. Gartzke, Professor. Ph.D., University of Iowa. International security: war, international institutions, nuclear proliferation, alliances, development
  • Peter A. Gourevitch, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. IPE: corporate governance and corporate social responsibility, economic policy
  • Emilie Hafner-Burton, Professor, GPS and Political Science. International organizations: international law, IPE, human rights, trade, elections, social networks, regulation
  • Stephan Haggard, Distinguished Professor, GPS and Political Science, Adjunct Professor. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. IPE: developing countries, security in Northeast Asia, political economy of reform
  • Michael Joseph, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., George Washington University. International relations
  • David A. Lake, Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Cornell University. International relations: IPE, global governance, international security, American foreign policy
  • David R. Mares, Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. International relations: IPE, international drug trade, international energy, Latin American relations
  • Megumi Naoi, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. IPE: globalization and trade, East Asia
  • Lauren Prather, Assistant Professor, Global Policy & Strategy. Ph.D., Stanford University. Domestic determinants of foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy, Middle East politics, and experimental methods
  • Philip G. Roeder, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. International relations: nation-states, secessionism, political institutions
  • Christina J. Schneider, Professor. Ph.D., University of Konstanz. International Relations: IPE, international organizations, European Union, domestic politics, democratic representation, foreign aid
  • Weiyi Shi, Assistant Professor, Global Policy & Strategy. Ph.D., UC San Diego. Political economy of China’s outward direct investment
  • Branislav L. Slantchev, Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester. International security: war and war termination, military coercion, interwar negotiations, game theory
  • Jakana Thomas, Associate Professor of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and Political Science
  • David Victor, Professor, GPS. IPE: international regulatory regimes, energy and environmental policy, experimental
  • Barbara F. Walter, Professor, GPS; Adjunct Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., University of Chicago. International security: internal wars, bargaining, and cooperation, terrorism
  • Tom K. Wong, Associate Professor. Ph.D., UC Riverside. Immigration politics and policy, border controls, immigrant political behavior, global governance of refugees, human rights of migrants

Comparative Politics

  • William M. Chandler, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Comparative politics, Western Europe
  • Wayne A. Cornelius, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Comparative politics, Latin America
  • Gary W. Cox, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., California Institute of Technology. American politics, formal theory, comparative politics
  • Ann L. Craig, Emeritus Professor; Emeritus Provost, Eleanor Roosevelt College. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Comparative Politics, Latin America
  • Scott W. Desposato, Professor. Ph.D., UCLA. Comparative Politics, Latin America, Methodology
  • Paul W. Drake, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Comparative politics, Latin America
  • Maureen C. Feeley, Teaching Professor. Ph.D., UC San Diego. Comparative Politics, Sub-
    Saharan Africa.
  • Karen E. Ferree, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Comparative Politics
  • Clark C. Gibson, Professor. Ph.D., Duke University. Comparative politics, environmental politics
  • Peter A. Gourevitch, Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Comparative politics, Western Europe, international politics, political economy
  • Germaine A. Hoston, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Comparative politics
  • Arend Lijphart, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Comparative politics, democratic institutions, ethnicity and politics
  • Umberto Mignozzetti, Assistant Teaching Professor. Ph.D., NYU. Comparative politics, Methodology
  • Megumi Naoi, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. Comparative Politics, Political Economy, East Asia
  • Gareth Nellis, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Comparative Politics, Political Economy, South Asia
  • Simeon Nichter, Associate Professor. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Comparative politics, Latin America
  • Agustina Paglayan, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Public Policy, American Politics, Quantitative and Archival Methods
  • Samuel L. Popkin, Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Voting Behavior, comparative politics
  • Margaret E. Roberts, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard. Methodology, China.
  • Philip G. Roeder, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Authoritarian politics, ethnic policies, post-Soviet politics
  • Sebastian M. Saiegh, Professor. Ph.D., New York University. Comparative Politics, Latin America
  • Christina J. Schneider, Professor. Ph.D., University of Konstanz. International Relations: IPE, international organizations, European Union, domestic politics, democratic representation, foreign aid
  • Peter H. Smith, Distinguished Emeritus Professor. Ph.D., Columbia University. Comparative politics, Latin America
  • Kaare Strom, Distinguished Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Comparative politics, Western Europe, democratic institutions
  • Tom K. Wong, Associate Professor. Ph.D., UC Riverside. Immigration politics and policy, border controls, immigrant political behavior, global governance of refugees, human rights of migrants

Methodology

  • Scott W. Desposato, Professor. Ph.D., UCLA. Comparative politics, Latin America, methodology
  • James H. Fowler, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. American politics, methodology
  • Erik A. Gartzke, Professor. Ph.D., University of Iowa. International relations, formal/quantitative theory
  • Seth J. Hill, Professor. Ph.D., UCLA. American politics, political methodology, voting behavior, and campaigns and elections
  • Thaddeus B. Kousser, Professor. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Legislatures and Legislative Elections, California politics
  • Guoer Liu, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Chinese political institutions and the politics of data
  • Umberto Mignozzetti, Assistant Teaching Professor. Ph.D., NYU. Comparative politics, methodology
  • Agustina Paglayan, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Stanford University. Comparative Politics, American Politics, quantitative methods, public policy
  • Margaret E. Roberts, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard. Methodology
  • Amna Salam, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester. American political institutions using formal models and empirical methods
  • Branislav L. Slantchev, Professor. Ph.D., University of Rochester. International relations, game theory
  • David Wiens, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Contemporary political philosophy, philosophy of social science, applied ethics
  • Soichiro Yamauchi, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Methodology

Political Theory

  • Samuel Elgin, Assistant Teaching Professor. Ph.D., Yale University. Political philosophy
  • Fonna Forman, Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago. Political theory, public culture, grounded normative theory
  • Harvey Goldman, Adjunct Professor, Sociology. Ph.D., UC Berkeley. Political theory, comparative social theory
  • Sean Ingham, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Havard University.
  • Valerie Soon, Associate Professor. Ph.D., Duke University.
  • David Wiens, Associate Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. Contemporary political philosophy, philosophy of social science, applied ethics

Race, Ethnicity and Politics (REP)

  • Marisa A. Abrajano, Professor. Ph.D., NYU. American politics
  • Karen E. Ferree, Professor. Ph.D., Harvard University. Comparative politics
  • LaGina Gause, Assistant Professor. Ph.D., University of Michigan. American politics
  • Clark Gibson, Professor. Ph.D., Duke University. Comparative politics, political economy
  • Zoltan L. Hajnal, Professor. Ph.D., University of Chicago. American politics, ethnic politics
  • Philip G. Roeder, Professor, Political Science. Ph.D., Harvard University. International relations: nation-states, secessionism, political institutions
  • Christopher Stout, Professor. Ph.D., University of California, Irvine. Politics of underrepresented groups in the United States
  • Tom K. Wong, Associate Professor. Ph.D., UC Riverside. Immigration politics and policy, border controls, immigrant political behavior, global governance of refugees, human rights of migrants