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Current Faculty

James Spriggs II Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government
Chair, Department of Political Science
American Politics; Empirical legal studies; Judicial process and politics; U.S. Supreme Court
Matthew Gabel Professor, Department of Political Science
Associate Chair, Department of Political Science
Comparative Politics; Legislative; Judicial; Mass Behavior; European Politics; Health Policy
Dawn Brancati Assistant Professor
Democracy and Intrastate Conflict
Randall Calvert Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science
Formal political theory; American political institutions; Constitutional politics
Brian Crisp Professor
Comparative Politics: Electoral Systems; Legislative Politics; Interbranch Relations
Justin Fox Assistant Professor
American political institutions; Game theory
James L. Gibson Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government
Judicial politics; Democratization; Political psychology; Political tolerance; Survey research; Quantitative research methods; South African politics; Law and society
Jeff Gill Professor, Department of Political Science, Arts & Sciences
Professor, Division of Biostatistics, School of Medicine
Professor, Department of Surgery (Public Health Sciences), School of Medicine
Political methodology; Bayesian methods; Statistical computing; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Voting; Bureaucracy Research methods; Scottish politics
Clarissa Rile Hayward Associate Professor
Political Theory
Nathan Jensen Associate Professor
International political economy; Comparative political economy; International relations
Frank Lovett Associate Professor
Director of Legal Studies
Political Theory
William Lowry Professor
American politics; Public policy; Natural resources
Ian MacMullen Assistant Professor
Political Theory; Education; Contemporary Liberal and Democratic Thought; Autonomy; Citizenship; Political Obligation; Conservatism; Patriotism; Civic Identity; Religious & Cultural Pluralism
Andrew Martin Vice Dean, School of Law
Charles Nagel Chair of Constitutional Law and Political Science
CERL Director
Political methodology; Bayesian statistics; American political institutions; Judicial politics
Gary Miller Professor
Bureaucratic politics; Organization theory; Experimental methods; Political economy
Jacob Montgomery Assistant Professor
American politics; Statistical methods
Ryan Moore Assistant Professor
American politics; Social policy; Statistical methods
Sunita Parikh Associate Professor
Comparative politics; Race and ethnicity; Institutions; Comparative methods; Federalism; Collective violence
John Patty Associate Professor of Political Science
Director, Center for New Institutional Social Sciences
Formal Political Theory; Game Theory; Social Choice Theory; Congress; Bureaucracy
Elizabeth Maggie Penn Associate Professor of Political Science
Social choice theory; Formal political theory; Voting institutions
Andrew Reeves Assistant Professor
American politics; electoral politics; political accountability
Andrew Rehfeld Associate Professor
Professor of Law (by courtesy)
Political Representation; Democratic Theory; History of Political Thought; Political Theory; Philosophy of Social Science
Jon Rogowski Assistant Professor
Guillermo Rosas Associate Professor, Department of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Comparative politics; Political economy; Latin American politics
Norman Schofield Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy
Professor, Department of Political Science
Formal theory; Comparative politics
Itai Sened Professor, Department of Political Science
Comparative Politics; Formal Theory
Betsy Sinclair Associate Professor
Steven S. Smith Kate M. Gregg Distinguished Professor of Social Science
Director of the Weidenbaum Center
Professor of Political Science
Director, the American Panel Survey (TAPS)
American politics; congressional politics; Russian legislative politics; development of political institutions
Melanie J. Springer Assistant Professor
American Politics; American Political Development
Margit Tavits Associate Professor
Comparative Politics; Parties and Elections; Political Institutions; Development of Democracy; European Politics; Post-Communist Europe
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