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Jalal Alamgir, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Brown University

Globalization, international political economy, competition and rivalry, and democratization.

Elizabeth Bussiere, Associate Professor and Department Chair

M.A., Columbia University; Ph.D., Brandeis University
American politics, law and the courts, welfare policy, and the jury system

Charles Cnudde, Professor of Political Science

B.A., University of Michigan; Ph.D., University of North Carolina

American politics, research methods

Maurice (Mo) Cunningham, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Boston College; J.D., New England School of Law

American national politics, Massachusetts politics, survey research and public policy

Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of London; M.Phil, Cambridge University, UK

Middle East politics, comparative politics, and politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict

Thomas Ferguson, Professor

Ph.D., Princeton University

U.S. and global politics and economics

Kathleen Hartford, Professor

Ph.D., Stanford University

Political economy of China, Central and Eastern Europe and East Asia

Erin E. O’Brien, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., American University

Public policy; politics of poverty and U.S. social welfare policy; stratification, politics, and policy; political behavior; urban politics; research methods and epistemology; American politics

Heike Schotten, Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

Western political thought, Friedrich Nietzsche, and feminist and queer theory (broadly construed)

Primo Vannicelli, Associate Professor and Director of the International Relations Program

Ph.D., Harvard University
International/Third-World development, European Union, and world politics/international political economy.

James Ward, Professor

Ph.D., Harvard University

Contemporary political philosophy, health policy, and philosophy of social science

Paul Watanabe, Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science

Ph.D., Harvard University

American foreign policy, American political behavior, ethnic group politics, and Asian Americans

Robert Weiner, Professor

Ph.D., New York University

Eastern Europe, Theories of International Relations, and International Organization

 

ADJUNCT FACULTY:

Caroline Coscia, ABD

Office Hours for Spring 2008 - MW 10-11

W-5-074

Alan Jenko, Ph.D.

On leave, Spring 2008

W-5-073

Anny Rivera-Ottenberger, Ph.D.

Office Hours for Spring 2008 - T 130-230

W-5-093

Rita Peters, Ph.D.

Office Hours for Spring 2008 - MWF 1230-115

W-5-072

Hormoz Shahdadi, Ph.D.

Office Hours for Spring 2008 - MWF 12-1

W-5-073

Ursula Tafe, Ph.D.

Office Hours for Spring 2008 - MF 10-11, W 4-5

W-5-072