faculty
Bentley Allan
Associate Professor
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- 271 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: International relations, science and politics, global governance, global environmental politics
Education: PhD, Ohio State University
Consuelo Amat
Assistant Professor
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- Wyman 325 N
Research Interests: Comparative politics, Latin American politics, nonviolent action, political violence, authoritarianism
Yuen Yuen Ang
Alfred Chandler Chair of Political Economy
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- Wyman Park 325N
Research Interests: Political economy, development and innovation, adaptive governance, complex systems, China
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Tarak Barkawi
Professor
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- San Martin 228
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Research Interests: International Relations
Angie Bautista-Chavez
Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor
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- Mergenthaler 354
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Jane Bennett
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Humanities, Departments of Political Science and Comparative Thought and Literature
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- 194 Gilman
- 410-516-5230
Research Interests: Political theory, American political thought, ecophilosophy
Education: PhD, University of Massachusetts
P.J. Brendese
Associate Professor
Diversity Champion
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- 357 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Political theory, comparative political thought, race and politics
Education: PhD, Duke University
Samuel Chambers
Professor
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- 327 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Political theory, political economy, and cultural politics
Education: PhD, University of Minnesota
Erin Aeran Chung
Charles D. Miller Professor of East Asian Politics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
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- 337 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Comparative politics, East Asian politics (Japan and Korea), international migration, comparative racial politics
Education: PhD, Northwestern University
Jennifer Culbert
Associate Professor
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- 339 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Political theory, jurisprudence
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Ronald J. Daniels
Professor and President of Johns Hopkins University
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- 242 Garland Hall
- 410-516-8068
Education: LLM, Yale University
Steven David
Professor
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- 362 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: International relations, security studies, comparative politics
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Daniel Deudney
Professor
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- 331 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: International relations, political theory
Education: PhD, Princeton University
Robert Freedman
Adjunct Professor
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- 355 Mergenthaler
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Education: PhD, Columbia University
Benjamin Ginsberg
David Bernstein Professor
Chair, Center for Advanced Governmental Studies
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- 341 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: American Politics, Political Development
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Hahrie Han
Professor
Inaugural Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute
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- 329 Wyman Park
- 410-516-0592
Research Interests: Civic and political participation, collective action, organizing, and social change, focusing particularly on the role of civic associations
Education: PhD, Stanford University
Nicolas Jabko
Associate Professor
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- 329 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Comparative politics, political economy, European politics
Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Richard S. Katz
Research Professor
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- San Martin 239
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Research Interests: Comparative politics, American politics
Education: PhD, Yale University
Matthew Kocher
Senior Lecturer
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- Baltimore: San Martin 229 / Washington, D.C.: Bernstein-Offit Building, Rm. 503
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Research Interests: Comparative Politics, International Relations, and Political Methodology
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Adria Lawrence
Aronson Associate Professor of International Studies and Political Science
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- 270 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Comparative politics, Middle Eastern and North African politics, colonialism, nationalism, conflict and collective action
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Robert Lieberman
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
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- 361 Mergenthaler
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Education: PhD, Harvard University
Jennifer Luff
Associate Teaching Professor
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- On Leave Fall 2024
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Renée Marlin-Bennett
Professor
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- 326 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-5478
Research Interests: International relations, political economy of information
Education: PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sebastián Mazzuca
Assistant Professor
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- 332 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: Political economy, comparative politics, Latin American politics and economy
Education: PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Sarah Parkinson
Aronson Associate Professor - Political Science and International Studies
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Research Interests: Comparative politics, political violence, Middle East and North African politics, social network theory, qualitative methods, forced migration
Education: PhD, The University of Chicago
Chas. Phillips
Associate Teaching Professor
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- Mergenthaler 360
Research Interests: Political Theory, Global Politics, Conceptions of Violence and the Human, Democratic Theory
Philipp Rehm
Professor
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- Macaulay 303
Research Interests: Comparative Politics, political economy, and parties and political behavior
Daniel Schlozman
Joseph and Bertha Bernstein Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
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- 278 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: American politics
Education: PhD, Harvard University
Sebastian Schmidt
Associate Professor
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- 365 Mergenthaler Hall
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Research Interests: International Relations
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
Adam Sheingate
Professor
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- 335 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-7531
Research Interests: American political development, historical institutionalism, comparative public policy
Education: PhD, Yale University
Robbie Shilliam
Professor and Chair
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- 341 Mergenthaler Hall
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Research Interests: International Relations, Racial Politics, Postcolonial Theory
Education: PhD, University of Sussex
Joshua Simon
Associate Professor
Placement Director
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- Mergenthaler 333
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Research Interests: Research interests lie at the intersection of political theory and comparative politics, focusing on the relationship between political ideas and political institutions in the United States and Latin America.
Lester Spence
Professor
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- 328 Mergenthaler
- 410-516-7537
Research Interests: American politics, black politics, race and politics, urban politics, American political behavior and public opinion
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Dawn Teele
SNF Agora Institute Associate Professor
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Research Interests: Gender and Politics, Historical Political Economy, Ethics of Experiments, Democratization, Political Development. Co-founder of EGEN: the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network; Director of the SNF Agora Academy; and Editor at Comparative Political Studies
Education: Ph.D, Yale University
Steven Teles
Professor
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- 356 Mergenthaler
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Research Interests: American politics, social policy, law and public policy, political analysis
Education: PhD, University of Virginia
Kris-Stella Trump
Associate Research Professor
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- Mergenthaler 359
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Research Interests: American politics, Comparative political behavior, Political psychology, Economic inequality
Inés Valdez
Associate Professor
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- Macaulay 307
Research Interests: Critical race and feminist theory, migration, transnationalism, empire, and racial capitalism.
Vesla Weaver
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology
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- 272 Mergenthaler Hall
Research Interests: American politics, racial inequality and politics, policing and incarceration, democratic citizenship, American political development, mixed methods
Education: PhD, Harvard University
John Yasuda
Associate Professor
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- Mergenthaler 363
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Research Interests: Regulatory governance, bureaucratic politics, and comparative political economy
Education: PhD, University of California, Berkeley
Emily Zackin
Associate Professor
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Research Interests: American politics, constitutional law
Education: PhD, Princeton University
associated faculty
Henry Farrell
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs at SAIS
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Chris Lebron
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the AAP Master of Liberal Arts
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- Gilman 290
Research Interests: Political philosophy; social theory; the philosophy of race; and democratic ethics
Education: PhD, MIT
Adam Seth Levine
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Bloomberg School of Public Health
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Leann Mclaren
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
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Research Interests: Race in American Politics, focusing on Black political behavior, social identity, and immigration politics
Stephanie Saxton
Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Mergenthaler 355
Research Interests: American Politics, Race and Ethnic Politics, Urban Politics, Police and Prisons
Volker Schmitz
Patrick Henry Postdoctoral Fellow
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- Mergenthaler 275B
Research Interests: Political Theory, American Political Thought, Modern European Thought, Marxism and Critical Theory
T Smith
Postdoctoral Fellow
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- San Martin 231
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Research Interests: Black Political Behavior; Gender and Sexuality Studies; Black-led Social Movements; Afrofuturism; Black Feminism
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
professors emeriti
William Connolly
Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor
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Research Interests: Political theory, planetary processes and eco-politics, political economy
Education: PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Matthew Crenson
Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor
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Research Interests: Urban government and American political development
Margaret Keck
Professor Emeritus and Academy Professor
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Research Interests: Comparative politics, international relations (Latin American politics, the environment, social movements)
Education: PhD, Columbia University
administrative staff
Ilsuk Aum
Undergraduate Coordinator
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Research Interests: Political Theory, Political History, Ecological Political Thought, Animal Ethics
Tracey Biller
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
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- 340 Mergenthaler
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Chas. Phillips
Associate Teaching Professor
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- Mergenthaler 360
Research Interests: Political Theory, Global Politics, Conceptions of Violence and the Human, Democratic Theory
Martha Sullivan
Administrative Coordinator
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- Mergenthaler 338
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