Featured Profiles
Congratulations, Class of 2023
October 7, 2024
May 8: Gerardo Munck "Evaluating the Social Sciences: The Question of Progress"
March 26, 2024
Mar 11: Tanya Golash-Boza: "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap"
March 4, 2024
Feb 29: Lisa Hajjar "Gaza Is a Crime Scene"
February 13, 2024
May 17: Ruth Langridge " Governing Groundwater"
May 3, 2023
Feb 8: Joshua Ryan "Legislative Gridlock and Policymaking Through the Appropriations Process"
January 18, 2023
Cassandra Mar: Bringing The Power To The People
March 21, 2022
May 4: Juan Bogliaccini "Empowering Labor? Left Distributive Strategies in Unequal Democracies"
February 9, 2022
April 11: Nadia Marzouki "The Rule of Law vs The Rule of One: Contending Legitimacies in Tunisia since the July 25th Coup"
February 9, 2022
May 25: Marcos Scauso "Intersectional Decoloniality: Research and Praxis within a Tension
February 1, 2022
Politics and Legal Studies Year End 2021
June 16, 2021
Professor Yasmeen Daifallah
February 1, 2019
Professor Vanita Seth
October 8, 2018
Professor Matt Sparke
June 28, 2018
Matt Sparke's research focuses on the politics of space and geopolitics, including the diverse ways in which the geographies of citizenship and belonging are shifting in the 21st century.
Professor Jackie Gehring
May 1, 2018
Jackie Gehring is an associate teaching professor of Politics and Legal Studies.
Professor Sara Niedzwiecki
December 29, 2017
Prof. Sara Niedzwiecki studies social policy and regional government, with a special focus on Latin America.
Professor David Gordon
May 8, 2017
David Gordon’s research explores the intersection of global and urban politics, and aims to better understand the role of cities in relation to complex issues on the global agenda.
Professor Sikina Jinnah
November 20, 2016
Sikina Jinnah's research focuses on the shifting locations of power and influence in global environmental governance, particularly the role of transnational actors in environmental decision-making.
Professor Melanie Springer
July 1, 2013
Melanie J. Springer joined the Politics department in July 2013. Her research focuses on the evolution of voting and elections in the United States.
Professor Ronnie Lipschutz
July 29, 2011
Lipschutz conducts research in and writes on a range of topics related to global political economy, including U.S. global economic and military policy and strategy, changing conceptions and practices of security, changing forms of war, global governance, global civil society and corporate social responsibility, environmental politics, and political economy and popular culture.
Professor Daniel Wirls
July 20, 2011
Daniel Wirls's research spans American political history, from the debates at the Constitutional Convention to the latest developments in military policy.
