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Eva Bertram
Eva Bertram
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  American Politics, including the welfare state and social policy, political economy and the politics of labor markets; civil society and non-governmental organizations; public policy, including drug-control policy

Michael K. Brown
Michael K. Brown
Title:  Professor of Politics
Interests:  Inequality, race and African American politics, political economy, political development of welfare states, theories and methods of historical social science

Annette Clear
Annette Clear
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  Comparative politics, international relations, Southeast Asia, civil society, transnationalism.

Kent Eaton
Kent Eaton
Title:  Associate Professor of Politics
Interests:  Latin American Politics, the Philippines, Federalism, Decentralization, Party and Electoral Systems, Political Economy, Territorial Conflict

Paul Frymer
Paul Frymer
Title:  Associate Professor of Politics
Interests:  American politics and institutional development; law; race, and civil rights; parties, elections and representation; organizations, collective action and social movements; labor and employment, political history

Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Ronnie D. Lipschutz
Title:  Professor of Politics
Interests:  International relations; international political economy; foreign policy; resource/environmental politics; global political networks; global civil society; film, fiction, and politics; technology and society; states of terror

Mark Massoud
Mark Massoud
Title:  Assistant Professor
Interests:  International law and development, the politics of human rights, and qualitative and ethnographic methods.

Dean Mathiowetz
Dean Mathiowetz
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  Philosophy of language; early modern political theory and political economy; hermeneutics and interpretation; subjectivity, agency, and personality.

Robert Meister
Robert Meister
Title:  Professor of Politics
Interests:  Political and moral philosophy, law and social theory, Marxian theory, institutional analysis, anti-discrimination law

Eleonora Pasotti
Eleonora Pasotti
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  European politics, comparative politics, democratization, public policy, political economy, methodology

Benjamin Read
Benjamin Read
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  Chinese and Taiwanese politics, states, grassroots organizations, social movements and rights claims, the quality of governance and democracy in the developing world, mixed methods

Roger Schoenman
Roger Schoenman
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  Post-socialism, political economy, comparative capitalism, politics of pipelines, politics of memory, political networks, politics and money, Balkan and East European politics, Central Asian transitions

Vanita Seth
Vanita Seth
Title:  Associate Professor of Politics
Interests:  Early modern and modern political theory; feminist theory; cultural history; race politics; postcolonial theory

Megan Thomas
Megan Thomas
Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics
Interests:  Political theory, culture and identity, comparative colonialism, nationalist thought, 19th century thought, Orientalism, Southeast Asia

Michael E. Urban
Michael E. Urban
Title:  Professor of Politics
Interests:  Russian politics, post-communist transitions, U.S.-Russian relations, political language and ideology, revolution

Daniel Wirls
Daniel Wirls
Title:  Professor of Politics & Department Chair
Interests:  American politics, including national political institutions, (particularly Congress), the theory and practice of representation, public policy (military and foreign policy), and political history.