Michael Albertus
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 417
773 702 8056
Major Areas of Interest:
- Politics of redistribution
- Democracy and dictatorship
- Civil conflict
- Property rights
Ruth Bloch Rubin
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 426
773 702 4626
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Political parties
- American political development
John Brehm
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Pick Hall 318A
773 702 8075
Major Areas of Interest:
- Compliance
- Political psychology
- Public opinion
Austin Carson
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 428
773 834 7916
Major Areas of Interest:
- Politics of secrecy/publicity
- International security
- International relations theory
- International organizations
Cathy Cohen
David and Mary Winton Green Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
Pick 522B
773 702 8051
On Leave 2020-21
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- African American politics
- Marginal groups
- Social movements
Chiara Cordelli
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 515
773 834 8616
Major Areas of Interest:
- Contemporary political philosophy
- Distributive and social justice
- Egalitarianism
Michael Dawson
John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College
Pick Hall 419
773 702 8932
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Politics of race and ethnicity
- Democratic theory
Scott Gehlbach
Professor
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political economy
- Comparative politics
- Formal theory
Adom Getachew
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College
Pick Hall 513
773 834 8723
Major Areas of Interest:
- History of political thought
- International law
- Theories of empire and race
- Black political thought and post-colonial political theory
Robert Gulotty
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 326
773 702 5726
Major Areas of Interest:
- International relations
- International political economy
- Political methodology
John Mark Hansen
Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor
Pick Hall 316A
773 702 5476
Major Areas of Interest:
- Legislative politics
- Interest group politics
- Rational choice models
Gary Herrigel
Paul Klapper Professor in the College and Division of Social Sciences
Pick Hall 516
773 702 8067
On Leave 2020-21
Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative political economy
- Social theory
- Economic sociology
- Organizations
- Governance
- Europe, North America, Asia
William Howell
Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics
Chair
Pick Hall 323
773 702 8058
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Political institutions
- Foundations of presidential power
- Domestic politics of foreign policymaking
Demetra Kasimis
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 511
773 834 8782
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- Classical Greek thought and its contemporary reception
- Democratic theory
- Citizenship and migration
Matthew Landauer
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 413
773 834 8706
Major Areas of Interest:
- Classical political thought
- Democratic theory
- Rhetoric and political discourse
- Knowledge and politics
Benjamin Lessing
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 517
773 702 3404
Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative politics
- Latin America
- Methodology
Zhaotian Luo
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 528
773 702 2941
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political economy of institutions
- Information manipulation
- Formal theory
Andrew McCall
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Pick Hall 519
773 702 0900
Major Areas of Interest:
- Racial inequality
- Policing
- American political development
- Game theory
John McCormick
Professor
Pick 422B
773 834 4353
Major Areas of Interest:
- Modern political thought
- Renaissance Italy
- 20th century Germany
- Contemporary democratic theory
- European politics
John Mearsheimer
R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science
Pick Hall 416
773 702 8667
Major Areas of Interest:
- International relations theory
- International security
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Nationalism
- Rise of China
Sankar Muthu
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 514
773 702 8059
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- History of political thought
Monika Nalepa
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 324A
773 702 0234
Major Areas of Interest:
- Post-Communist politics
- Comparative political institutions
- Positive political theory
- Transitional justice
Eric Oliver
Professor
Pick Hall 518A
773 702 9784
Major Areas of Interest:
- Urban politics
- Political psychology
- Public opinion
John Padgett
Professor
Pick Hall 512
773 702 8077
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Organizational theory
- Mathematical models
- Co-evolution of states and markets
Robert Pape
Professor
Pick 418A
773 834 0770
Major Areas of Interest:
- International relations theory
- National security affairs
- Causes of suicide terrorism
- Politics of unipolarity
Jennifer Pitts
Professor
Pick Hall 518B
773 702 8868
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- History of political thought
- Empire and international justice
Paul Poast
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Pick Hall 423
734 883 7093
Major Areas of Interest:
- International relations
- Alliance politics
- Political economy of security
- Methodology
Patricia Posey
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Pick 415
773 702 8066
Major Areas of Interest:
- American political economy
- Inequality
- Race and ethnic politics
- Research methods
James Robinson
Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor and University Professor, Faculty Director of the Pearson Institute
1155 East 60th Street, Suite 176
773 702 6364
Paul Staniland
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 418B
773 702 2370
On Leave 2020-21
Major Areas of Interest:
- Civil war
- Ethnic politics
- South Asia
Susan Stokes
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor
Pick 320A
773 702 7664
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political development
- Political parties and democracy
- Comparative political behavior
- Distributive politics
Nathan Tarcov
Karl J. Weintraub Professor in the College and the Division of the Social Sciences
Foster Hall 316
773 702 8064
Major Areas of Interest:
- Ancient political thought (Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch)
- Modern political thought (Machiavelle, Locke, the American Founders, Strauss)
- Education and family in political theory
- Principles of US foreign policy
Rochelle Layla Terman
Assistant Professor
Pick 411
773 834 4879
Major Areas of Interest:
- International norms
- Gender and women's studies
- Human rights
- Computational Social Science
Lisa Wedeen
Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science
Pick Hall 414
773 702 8065
On Leave 2020-21
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- Comparative politics
- Middle East
- Feminist theory
- Qualitative methods
James Lindley Wilson
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 521
773 702 8564
Major Areas of Interest:
- Democratic theory
- Egalitarianism and theories of justice
- Global justice
- History of democratic thought
- Constitutional and election law
Dali Yang
William Claude Reavis Professor
Pick Hall 422A
773 702 8054
Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative politics
- Chinese politics
- Political economy
Linda Zerilli
Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor
Pick Hall 522A
773 702 0522
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- Feminist and gender theory
- Gender and politics