A selection of research publications appears on each faculty member’s page. In addition, a full list can be viewed by clicking on their respective Curriculum Vitæ.
American Politics
Dennis Hale American Political Thought; Public Administration; State and Local Politics.
Ken I. Kersch (Director, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy) American Political and Constitutional Development; American Political Thought; Politics of Courts.
Marc Landy (Faculty Chair, The Irish Institute) U.S. Presidency; Federalism; Comparative Federalism; Environmental Regulation.
R. Shep Melnick (Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics) Courts; Public Policy.
Kay L. Schlozman (J. Joseph Moakley Professor) Citizen Politics; Political Parties and Elections; Interest Groups.
Peter Skerry Racial and Ethnic Politics; Immigration Policy.
Alan Wolfe (Director, Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life) Public Policy.
Comparative Politics
Kathleen Bailey Central Asian Politics; Russian Politics; Balkans.
Ali Banuazizi Middle Eastern Politics; Political Culture; Religion and Politics.
Paul Christensen Russian Politics; Social Movements; Globalization.
Gerald M. Easter Russian Politics; Eastern Europe; Modern State; Ethnonationalism; Post-Communist Transitions.
Kenji Hayao Japanese Politics; Political Leadership.
Jonathan Laurence Western European Politics.
Jennie Purnell Social Movements; State Formation; Latin American Politics.
International Politics
Timothy W. Crawford International Relations Theory; International Security; U.S. Foreign Policy; United Nations.
David A. Deese International Political Economy; International Institutions, Public and Private; U.S. Foreign Policy.
Donald L. Hafner U.S. Foreign Policy; National Security Policy (currently on leave as Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Academic Affairs).
Robert S. Ross Sino-American Relations; Chinese Politics.
Mark S. Sheetz International politics; European security; American foreign policy.
Political Philosophy
Nasser Behnegar Early, Modern, and Contemporary Political Theory; American Political Thought; Comparative Ideologies.
Christopher Bruell Classical Political Philosophy.
Robert K. Faulkner Early Modern Political Philosophy; American Political and Legal Thought; Liberalism.
Christopher J. Kelly Rousseau; 18th-century Political Philosophy.
Pierre Manent (Visiting Professor) Liberalism; Aristotle; Montaigne; Pascal.
Susan Meld Shell (Department Chair) Modern Political Theory and German Idealism; Kant; Hegel; Nietzsche; Heidegger.