Michael Albertus
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 417
773 702 8056
On Leave 2019-20
Major Areas of Interest:
- Politics of redistribution
- Democracy and dictatorship
- Clientelism
- Latin America
Ruth Bloch Rubin
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 426
773 702 4626
On Leave 2019-20
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Political parties
- American political development
John Brehm
Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Pick Hall 318A
773 702 8075
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 10:00-Noon; Wednesdays 2:00-4:00 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Compliance
- Political psychology
- Public opinion
Austin Carson
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 428
773 834 7916
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Politics of secrecy/publicity
- International security
- International relations theory
- International organizations
Cathy Cohen
David and Mary Winton Green Professor of Political Science
Pick 522B
773 702 8051
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Thursdays 1:00-2:30 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- African American politics
- Marginal groups
- Social movements
Chiara Cordelli
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 515
773 834 8616
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 2:00-4:00 pm
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: By appointment
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Politics of race and ethnicity
- Democratic theory
Scott Gehlbach
Professor
On leave 2019-20
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
On Leave 2019-20
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
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-3:00 pm
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
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 517
773 702 3404
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: October 1 only, 12:00-2:00 pm; Tuesdays 3:30-5:30 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative politics
- Latin America
- Methodology
Zhaotian Luo
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 528
On leave Autumn 2019
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political economy of institutions
- Information manipulation
- Formal theory
Andrew McCall
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Pick Hall 519
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: by appointment
Major Areas of Interest:
- Racial inequality
- Policing
- American political development
- Game theory
John McCormick
Professor
Pick 422B
773 834 4353
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-3:30 pm
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 3:30-5:00
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
On Leave 2019-20
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- History of political thought
Monika Nalepa
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 324A
773 702 0234
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 8:30-10:00 am
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Wednesdays 4:30-5:30 pm
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays 1:30-3:00 pm
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Thursdays 2:00-3:00 pm and by appointment
Major Areas of Interest:
- International relations
- Alliance politics
- Political economy of security
- Methodology
Patricia Posey
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Pick 415
Major Areas of Interest:
- American political economy
- Inequality
- Race and ethnic politics
- Research methods
Gerald N. Rosenberg
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 523
773 702 8061
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30-5:30 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Public law
- Civil rights and civil liberties
Paul Staniland
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 418B
773 702 2370
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:00-4:00 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Civil war
- Ethnic politics
- South Asia
Susan Stokes
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor
Pick 322A
773 702 7664
On Leave 2019-20
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Mondays, Wednesdays 3:00-4:00 pm
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
Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Pick 411
773 834 4879
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4:30 pm
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: By appointment
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
On Leave 2019-20
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
Autumn Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00-5:00 pm or by appointment
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