Major Areas of Interest:
- Compliance
- Political Psychology
- Public Opinion

Julie Cooper
Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 2003
on leave 2009-2010

Major Areas of Interest:
- History of Political Theory
- Early Modern Political Theory
- Jewish Political Thought
- Religion and Politics

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

jecooper@uchicago.edu

(773) 702-8052

Pick 521

Major Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Politics of Race and Ethnicity
- Democratic Theory

Webpage:

http://www.michaeldawson.net/

Major Areas of Interest:
- Nietzsche
- Du Bois
- Critical Race Theory
- African-American Political Thought
- 19th Century Continental Philosophy
- Existentialism
- Philosophy and Literature

Major Areas of Interest:
- Legislative Politics
- Interest Group Politics
- Rational Choice Models

Bernard Harcourt
J.D., Harvard, 1989
Ph.D., Harvard, 2000

Major Areas of Interest:
- Social and Political Theory
- The Sociology of Punishment
- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Criminology

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

harcourt@uchicago.edu

http://bernardharcourt.com/

(773) 834-4068

LBQ 525

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics, with an emphasis on Europe, the United States, and Japan
- Social Theory
- Economic Sociology
- Economic Geography

Pick 423

William Howell
Ph.D., Stanford, 2000
on leave 2009-2010

Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Political institutions
- Foundations of presidential power
- Domestic politics of foreign policymaking

Major Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- International Political Economy
- Modern International History

Patchen Markell
Ph.D., Harvard, 1999
Director of Graduate Studies

Major Areas of Interest:
- Modern European and American Political Thought and Philosophy
- The Political Theory of Hannah Arendt
- Democratic Theory
- Critiques of Capitalism
- Classical Political Thought and its Modern Receptions

Stanislav Markus
Ph.D., Harvard, 2009

Major Areas of Interest:
- Political Economy
- Rule of Law
- Post Communist Politics
- Corporate Governance
- Property Rights

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

smarkus@uchicago.edu



(773) 702-7301

Pick 526

John P. McCormick
Ph.D., Chicago, 1995

Major Areas of Interest:
- Modern Political Thought
- Renaissance Italy
- 20th Century Germany
- Contemporary Democratic Theory
- European Politics

Major Areas of Interest:
- International Relations Theory
- National Security Policy
- Causes of Great Power War
- Nationalism and War

Sankar Muthu
Ph.D., Harvard, 1998

Major Areas of Interest:
- Political Theory
- History of Political Thought

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

muthu@uchicago.edu

(773) 702-8059

P 515

Major Areas of Interest:
- Urban Politics
- Political Psychology
- Public Opinion

Major Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Organizational Theory
- Mathematical Models
- Co-Evolution of States and Markets

Major Areas of Interest:
- International Relations Theory
- National Security Affairs
- Causes of Suicide Terrorism
- Politics of Unipolarity

Jong Hee Park
Ph.D., Washington, 2007

Major Areas of Interest:
- International Political Economy
- Political Methodology
- Bayesian Statistics

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

jhp@uchicago.edu

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jhp

(773) 702-8056

Pick 426

Jennifer Pitts
Ph.D., Harvard, 2000

Major Areas of Interest:
- Political Theory
- History of Political Thought
- Empire and International Justice

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

jpitts@uchicago.edu

http://home.uchicago.edu/~jpitts/

(773) 702-8868

Pick 513

Major Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Public Law
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Major Areas of Interest:
- Japanese Politics
- Bureaucracies and Organizational Politics

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Democratic Accountability
- Corruption

Betsy Sinclair
Ph.D., California Institute of 
Technology, 2007

Major Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Political Methodology
- Voter Behavior

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

betsy@uchicago.edu

http://home.uchicago.edu/~betsy/

(773) 702-3404

Pick 415

Dan Slater
Ph.D., Emory, 2005

Major Areas of Interest:
- Authoritarianism and Democratization
- Contentious Politics and State-Building
- Comparative-Historical Methods
- Southeast Asian Politics

Major Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- Formal Models
- Public Policy

Major Areas of Interest:
- History of Political Theory
- Education and Family in Political Theory
- Principles of U.S. Foreign Policy

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Middle East
- Political Theory
- Feminist Theory

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Chinese Politics
- Political Economy.

Linda Zerilli
Ph.D., California, Berkeley, 1986

Other Appointments:
Center for Gender Studies

Major Areas of Interest:
- Political Theory
- Feminist Theory
- Gender and Politics

E-Mail:

Webpage:

Phone:

Office:

lmgzerilli@uchicago.edu

http://home.uchicago.edu/~lmgzerilli/

(773) 702-0522

Pick 522A

Associate Faculty

Other Appointments:
- Department of Sociology.

Major Areas of Interest:
- Organizational Analysis
- Institutional Theory
- American Political Development
- Social Movements

Other Appointments:
- Divinity School;
- Committee on International Relations.

Major Areas of Interest:
- Social and Political Theory and Ethics
- Moral Philosophy
- Women's Studies

Other Appointments:
- Department of Economics.

Major Areas of Interest:
- Game Theory
- Economic Models of Voting and Politics

Other Appointments:
- Law School;
- Department of Philosophy;
- Divinity School;
- Classical Language and Literature;
- Committee on South Asian Studies;
- Center for Comparative Constitutionalism.

Major Areas of Interest:
- Moral and Political Philosophy
- Global Justice
- Feminism
- Emotions

Moishe Postone
Dr.Phil., J.W. Goethe-Universität, 1983

Other Appointments:
- Department of History
- Committee on Jewish Studies

Major Areas of Interest:
- Modern European Intellectual History
- Social Theory
- Critical Theories of Modernity
- 20th Century Germany
- Anti-Semitism
- Contemporary Global Transformations

E-Mail:

Phone:

Office:

mpostone@uchicago.edu

(773) 702- 8560

HM E481

Emeritus / Emerita Faculty of the Department

Major Areas of Interest:
- History of Political Philosophy.

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Political Economy
- State formation
- South Asian Politics
- South Asian Cultural and Identity Politics
- Gandhian Thought and Practice

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Political Economy and Political Sociology of South Asia
- State Formation
- Max Weber
- The Politics of Category and Culture

E-Mail:

srudolph@uchicago.edu

E-Mail:

Phone:

Office:

wsewell@uchicago.edu

(773) 702-0900

Pick 412

Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Russian and Soviet Politics and History
- Nationalities of the USSR and Post-Soviet World
- Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict
- Revolution
- Emotions and Politics

Visitors and Associates

John Kurt Jacobsen
Ph.D., Chicago, 1982

Major Areas of Interest:

-International relations

-Science, technology and politics

-Psychology and politics

E-Mail:

Phone:

jkjacobs@uchicago.edu

(773) 728-1299