Graduate Bulletin

POLITICAL SCIENCE FACULTY

Distinguished Professor

John G. Gunnell, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Political Theory: Specializes in Political Theory as a Field of Study and the Historical Development of American Political Science

Richard P. Nathan, Ph.D., Harvard University
Specializes in Public Management, Federalism, and U.S. Domestic Policy

Professors

Thomas W. Church, Jr., Ph.D., Cornell University
Public Law: Specializes in Judicial Politics and Law and Public Policy

Martin Edelman, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Public Law: Specializes in American Constitutional Law and the Israeli Judicial System

Erik P. Hoffmann, Ph.D., Indiana University
Comparative Politics: Specializes in the Politics and Foreign Policy of Russia and the former Soviet Republics

Michael J. Malbin, Ph.D., Cornell University
American Politics: Specializes in American Legislative Politics and Campaign Finance Reform

Bruce L. Miroff, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
American Politics: Specializes in the Presidency and American Political Theory

Robert T. Nakamura, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Public Policy: Specializes in Environmental Policy and Politics of Policy Implementation

Frank J. Thompson, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Public Administration and Policy: Specializes in Policy Making and Health Policy

Joseph F. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Syracuse University
American Politics: Specializes in Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and State Politics


Charles D. Tarlton, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Political Theory: Specializes in English Political Thought and Machiavelli

Associate Professors

Scott Barclay, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Public Law: Specializes in Judicial Politics and Law and Public Policy

Peter D. Breiner, Ph.D., Stanford University
Political Theory: Specializes in German Social Theory and Democratic Theory

Jose Cruz, Ph.D., City University of New York
Urban and Latino Politics

Benjamin Fordham, Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
International Relations: Specializes in American Foreign Policy and Civil-Military Relations

Sally Friedman, Ph.D., University of Michigan
American Politics: Specializes in Legislative Politics and Methodology

Anne M. Hildreth, Ph.D., University of Iowa
Specializes in American Political Behavior, Public Opinion and Methodology

Gregory P. Nowell, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
International Relations: Specializes in International Political Economy and Global Politics of the Oil Industry

Morton Schoolman, Ph.D., Brown University
Political Theory: Specializes in Contemporary Political Theory and the Political Theory of Individualism

Thomas A. Birkland, Ph.D., University of Washington
Public Policy: Specializes in Environmental Politics

Affiliated Faculty

Allen B. Ballard, Ph.D., Harvard University

Holly Sims, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Alissa P. Worden, Ph.D., University of North Carolina

Assistant Professors

Victor Asal, Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park
Comparative Politics: Specializing in Conflict and Conflict Resolutions

Cheng Chen, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Comparative Politics: Chinese and East Asian Politics, Communist/Post Communist Politics

Jennifer Jensen, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
American Politics: State and Local, Methodology

Thomas Walker, Ph.D., Rutgers University
International Relations: War and Peace