Farid Abdel-Nour, Ph.D.
Professor & Department Chair
Office: NH 110 | Phone: (619) 594-6244
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Political Theory, Politics of the Middle East

Brian Adams, Ph.D.
Professor & Social Science Advisor 
Office: NH 122 | Phone: (619) 594-4289
Email: [email protected]

Interests: American Politics, Public Policy, State and Local Politics, Political Behavior, Intergovernmental Relations

Mikhail Alexseev, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: NH 127 | Phone: (619) 594-0190
Email: [email protected]

Interests: International Relations – Eastern Europe

JP Anderson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: NH 104 | Phone: (619) 594-6244
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Racial and ethnic inequality in incarceration, public law, political theory, comparative politics, drug policy, rebel governments

David Carruthers, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Office: NH 117
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Latin America, Mexico, US/Mexico border, Chile, political ecology, environmental justice, indigenous movements, agriculture, sustainable development

Miranda Chase, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office:  NH-106
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Sustainability, climate change, environmental politics, Latin American politics, Amazonia, social movements, decolonial theories, intersectionality, political economy, and social network analysis

Kimberley Fletcher, Ph.D.
Associate Professor & Certificate in Public Law/Pre-law Advisor 
Office: NH 102
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Public law and judicial politics; the Supreme Court; American Constitutionalism: Structures of American Government and Civil Liberties

Stephen Goggin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Office: NH 108
Email: [email protected]

Interests: American Politics, Political Behavior, Research Methods

Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: NH 113
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Racial and ethnic politics, with a focus on U.S. immigration policy

Jonathan Graubart, Ph.D.
Professor 
Office: NH 119
Email: [email protected]

Interests: International Relations, International Law, Human Rights

Ahmet T.  Kuru, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Islamic and Arabic Studies
Office: NH 125
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Comparative Politics, Religion and Politics, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies

Kristen Maher, Ph.D.
Professor, Graduate Advisor, & Bruce E. Porteous Endowed Professor in Political Science
Office: NH 121
Email: [email protected]

Interests: U.S. border politics, international labor migration, public policy, comparative political cultures and identities

Madhavi McCall, Ph.D.
Professor & Associate Vice President, Office of Curriculum, Assessment, and Accreditation
Office: MH-3310 | Phone: (619) 594-2132
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Public Law; Judicial politics with emphasis on evaluating influence of institutional structures on judicial behavior

Cheryl O'Brien, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: NH 107 | Phone: (619) 594-3166 
Email: [email protected] (Email preferred)

Interests: Comparative public policy, women and politics, policy and norms diffusion, human rights, human security, social and environmental justice

Emanuele Saccarelli, Ph.D.
Professor
Office: NH 120 | Phone: (619) 594-6773
Email: [email protected] (Email preferred)

Interests: Political Theory; Marxism; Democracy; Imperialism

Ronnee Schreiber, Ph.D.
Professor & Interim Dean, College of Arts & Letters
Office: AL 600 | Phone: (619) 594-5431
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Gender and Politics; American Political Institutions

Kim Twist, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Office: NH 111
Email: [email protected]

Interests: European politics, far-right extremism, and research methods, including experiments

Latha Varadarajan, Ph.D.
Professor & Director, International Security and Conflict Resolution Program 
Office: NH 124 | Phone: (619) 594-3255
Email: [email protected]

Interests: International Relations Theory, South Asian Politics, American foreign policy, International Law, International Security

Grace Cheng, Ph.D.
Office: SH 129
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Comparative Perspectives on Human Rights, Peace, and Security; Conflict and Post-Conflict Transitions

Luca Dal Pubel, M.A.
Office: NH 109 | Phone: (619) 972-0834
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Conflict Resolution, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Law Applied to Communication Technologies

Chayanika Deka, Ph.D.
Office: NH 119
Email: [email protected]

Interests: International Politics, Comparative Politics, Development and Security Issues in Africa

Yvonne Gastelum, Ph.D.
Office: NH 128
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Political Theory

James W. Ingram III, Ph.D.
Office: NH 112
Email: [email protected]

Interests: American Politics

John E. Mercurio, M.A.
Office: NH 116
Email: [email protected]

Interests: American Politics, Native American Government

James Murren, M.E.S.
Office: NH 123
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Environmental Policy, International Development, Food Politics

James Samstad, Ph.D.
Office: NH 105
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Latin American Politics, Comparative Politics

Matthew Schneider, Ph.D.
Office: NH 119
Email: [email protected]

Interests: Globalization, International Political Economy, Development, Policy, and Systems.

 

Lyndelle D. Fairlie
Professor Emerita
Ph.D., Indiana University

Ivo Feierabend
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Yale University

G. Allen Greb
Lecturer Emeritus
Ph.D., University of California, San Diego

Lei Guang
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Minnesota

Dipak Gupta
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh

Edward V. Heck
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., John Hopkins University

John A. Hobbs
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Princeton University

C. Richard Hofstetter
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Indiana University

Carole Kennedy
Associate Professor Emerita
Ph.D., University of California, Riverside