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Sandra Alvarez Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Politics of Human Rights, Transnational Social Movements, Women of Color and Transnational Feminisms, Cultural Politics and Resistance in Colombia.

Cassie Ambutter Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  Liberalism and its limits, American religious identity, religious liberty, American constitutional law, Mormonism, democracy, polygamy, feminist theories, secularism, religion as a contemporary civilizing practice, practices of unfreedom and unreason.

Steven Araujo Title:  PhD Candidate Interests:  Egalitarian forms of political organizing, horizontalism in Argentina, social movements, race and ethnicity, intersectional analysis, anarchism, community.

Sara Benson Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  U.S. political history, prison studies and global political economy of prisons, prison labor and the politics of work, feminist theories, feminist critical race studies, International Relations and feminist epistemologies.

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

Katherine Blakeley Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  Politics of war, nationalisms and violence, discourse analysis, food and environmental politics and policy, political economy.

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

Christine Bunting

Ryan Coonerty Title:  Lecturer Interests:  American political history, law and international relations.

Gina Dent

Alicia Dolan Title:  Doctoral Candidate

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

Theresa Enright Title:  Doctoral Candidate

Benjamin Fribley

Christine Goffredo Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  Indigenous Binational Social Movements, Latin American social movements, Fair Trade, Anti-Globalization, Gentrification/Redevelopment in the United States and its codification, Network Analysis, Relational Sociology.

Wolfgang Grundinger Title:  Exchange Graduate Student Interests:  Energy Policy, Environmental Policy, Democracy and Interest Groups Research

Katherine Hamilton

Sandra Harvey

Paul Held Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Financial speculation, political theology, monetary and banking policy, reparative justice, theories of rhetoric

Alexander Hirsch Interests:  Democratic theory, transitional justice studies and the politics of reconciliation, jurisprudence and sovereignty, political economy, indigenous, and postcolonial politics, history of social and political thought.

Don Kingsbury Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Contemporary European and Latin American Critical Theory; Constituent Power; Politics of the Bolivarian Revolution; Ethics, Violence and Empire.

Jan Kotowski Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Theories of nationalism & patriotism, particularly in the American context. Religious fundamentalism. Middle Eastern studies. International Relations.

Ruth Langridge Title:  Lecturer Interests:  Public Law, Water Politics

Matthew Lasar Title:  Lecturer Interests:  9th and 20th Century U.S. economic, social, and political history, history of broadcasting, telecommunications, and U.S. corporations.

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

Benjamin Lozano Title:  Lecturer Interests:  Primary interests are the political and legal cultures of the war on terror, the history and politics of states of emergency, sovereignty, and jurisprudence. He utilizes the tools of psychoanalysis and political philosophy.

Sarah Mak Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  International relations, Comparative East Asian politics and political thought - particularly in 20th Century China, culture and identity, anti-colonial and postcolonial nationalism.

Mark Fathi Massoud Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies Interests:  International law and development; law and politics in Sudan; human rights; qualitative and ethnographic methods

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.

Corina McKendry Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Global political economy, environmental politics, and the politics of urban greening.

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

Anais Miodek Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  U.S. politics; social welfare programs and policy; liberal ideology and practice; race and gender inequality; the role of the Supreme Court in systemic change.

Marco Mojica Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Latin American politics, populism and its cultural dimensions, politics of memory, Nicaraguan and Sandinista politics, Transnational migrant politics.

Shawn Nichols Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  International Relations, Political†Economy†(especially related to development and†economic†rights), European Union politics, and human rights

Milad Odabaei

Charles Olney Title:  Graduate Student

Lydia Osolinsky Title:  Graduate Student

Eleonora Pasotti Title:  Assistant Professor of Politics Interests:  Professor Pasotti's research interests include: comparative urban politics, European politics, democracy & democratization, public policy, political economy. Professor Pasotti teaches courses on democracy, democratic transition, European politics and methodology.

Felicia Peck Interests:  Environmental political theory, political ecology, American environmental politics, the environmental"movement"

Hector Perla

Lavar Pope Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Urban Politics, Technology, and Modern Political Theory

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

Courtney Rivard Title:  Doctoral Candidate

Sarah Romano Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Latin American comparative politics, transnational collective action, politics of privatization and water management, participatory democracy.

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

Andrew Sivak Title:  Graduate Student Interests:  Nuclear violence, mondialization and the New International, war, gonzo radicalism, ethics before ontology, absurd in-existentialism or the politics of everyday life, postmodernism after 9/11, and Bob Dylan.

Eric Snickars Interests:  Law and Politics, American Political Development, U.S. Constitutional Law.

Jasmine Syedullah Interests:  Exploring the intersections of theology, performance and politics in social change theory and praxis. Development of social movements as sites of the embodied ritualized production on new knowledge.

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

Maureen Turnbull Title:  PhD Interests:  Participatory democracy, social movements, Latin American politics, the politics of feminism, and transdisciplinary praxis

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

Mary Virginia Watson Title:  Doctoral Candidate Interests:  Culture and identity, race, discourse analysis

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.

Zachary Zwald Title:  Lecturer Interests:  International Relations theory (bridging the Rationalist-Constructivist divide on issues of security); psychological and organizational aspects of judgment and decision-making (particularly under conditions of high and persistent uncertainty); the relationship between nuclear weapons and security (the theory and practice of deterrence, the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation, as well as the normative and institutional aspects of arms control); issues at the intersection of science, technology and security (e.g. space weaponization, global warming, genetic modification, and nanotechnology); international political economy (classical and contemporary theory as well as trade regimes and strategies for development); qualitative research methods.