Faculty
Jack Amoureux
Associate Teaching Professor
PhD, Brown University, 2011
Areas of Expertise: Ethics in World Politics; Security and US Foreign Policy; Global Governance; Theories of International Relations; Reflexivity; Technology and War; Time and Space in IR
Lina Benabdallah
Associate Professor
PhD, University of Florida, 2017
Areas of Expertise: International Relations Theory, International Development, China-Africa Relations Foreign Policy, South-South Relations, African Politics, and Post-colonial Theory
Tom Brister
Teaching Professor
PhD, Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, 2000
Areas of Expertise: Terrorism, Irregular Warfare, Intelligence, Globalization
Michaelle Browers
Professor
PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota, 2001
Areas of Expertise: Arab and Islamic Political Thought, Feminist Theory, Democratic Theory, Comparative Political Theory
Claire Crawford
Assistant Professor
PhD, Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California, 2023
Areas of Expertise: Areas of expertise: Black Political Thought, Sound and Politics, Social Movements, Quotidian Politics, Political Identity Formation
Sara Dahill-Brown
Associate Professor
PhD, Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Areas of Expertise: American Educational Politics and Policy, Program Evaluation, Policy Implementation
Neil DeVotta
Professor
PhD, University of Texas at Austin, 2001
Areas of Expertise: South Asia Politics
John Dinan
Professor and Department Chair
PhD, University of Virginia, 1996
Areas of Expertise: Federalism, State Constitutionalism, State Politics, American Political Development
Justin Esarey
Professor
PhD, Political Science, Florida State University, 2008
Areas of expertise: Political Methodology; Corruption
Andrius Gališanka
Associate Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2013
Areas of expertise: History of 20th Century Analytic Political Thought; The Nature of Normative Arguments; Ethics and Politics; John Rawls
Katy Harriger
Professor
PhD, The University of Connecticut, 1986
Areas of Expertise: American Constitutional Law, American Politics, Civic Engagement, Deliberative Dialogue
Melissa Harris-Perry
Maya Angelou Presidential Chair
PhD, Duke University 1999
Areas of expertise: American Politics, African American Politics, Feminist Politics, Public Opinion, Religion and Politics
Victor Hernandez-Huerta
Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2016
Area of Expertise: Latin American Politics, Elections, Democracy, Disputed Presidential Elections
Victor Hernandez-Huerta Website
Charles Kennedy
Professor
PhD, Duke University, 1979
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Public Policy, US Foreign Policy in the Middle East and South Asia, Pakistan Studies
Wei-chin Lee
Professor
PhD University of Oregon, 1986
Areas of Expertise: Politics in China and Taiwan, East Asian International Relations, International Institutions, International Security, Civil-military Relations
Adam Lenton
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. George Washington University, 2023
Area of Expertise: Nationalism and ethnic politics, Russian domestic and foreign politics, political development, integration, international security in Eastern Europe and Eurasia
Sarah Lischer
Associate Professor
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Areas of expertise: International Security, International Conflict Resolution, Human Rights, Refugees and Migration, African Politics
Peter Siavelis
Professor
PhD 1996, Georgetown University
Areas of Expertise: Latin American Politics; Political Institutions; Election Systems; Candidate Selection; Chilean Politics
Susan Navarro Smelcer
Assistant Professor
JD, New York University School of Law, 2016
PhD, Emory University, 2015
Risa Toha
Associate Professor
PhD, University of California Los Angeles, 2012
Areas of Expertise: Comparative ethnic politics, political violence, elections, Southeast Asia
Mark Vail
Worrell Professor
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2005
Areas of Expertise: Comparative Political Economy of advanced industrial countries with a particular emphasis on social and economic policy; Industrial Relations; Political Institutions and the role of political ideas and ideologies in Western Europe
Will Walldorf
Professor
PhD University of Virginia
Areas of Expertise: International Security, US Foreign Policy, Grand Strategy, and Culture and Politics
Betina Cutaia Wilkinson
Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair
Ph.D. Louisiana State University, 2010
Areas of Expertise: Racial and Ethnic Politics, Public Opinion, Public Policy, Political Behavior
Betina Cutaia Wilkinson Website
Tess Wise
Assistant Professor
PhD Harvard University 2019
Areas of Expertise: American Politics, American Political Economy, Race and Ethnic Politics, Political Methodology
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