Faculty

Ruth Bloch Rubin

Assistant Professor

Pick Hall 426
773 702 4626

blochrubin@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest: 

• American politics
• Political parties
• American political development

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Austin Carson

Associate Professor

Pick Hall 428
773 834 7916

acarson@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Politics of secrecy/publicity
• International security
• International relations theory
• International organizations

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Chiara Cordelli

Professor

Pick Hall 515
773 834 8616

cordelli@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Contemporary political philosophy
• Distributive and social justice
• Egalitarianism

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Andrew Eggers

Professor

Pick 412

aeggers@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Electoral systems
• Corruption/accountability
• Political development
• Research methodology

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Scott Gehlbach

Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor

Pick 322A

gehlbach@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political economy
• Comparative politics
• Formal theory

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Robert Gulotty

Associate Professor

Pick Hall 326
773 702 5726

gulotty@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• International relations
• International political economy
• Political methodology

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Gary Herrigel

Paul Klapper Professor in the College and Division of Social Sciences

Pick Hall 516
773 702 8067

g-herrigel@uchicago.edu

Office Hours: Wednesday, 9:00am-11:00am

Major Areas of Interest:

• Comparative political economy
• Social theory
• Economic sociology
• Organizations
• Governance
• Europe, North America, Asia

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Demetra Kasimis

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

Pick Hall 511
773 834 8782

For undergraduate questions:
dus-polsci@uchicago.edu

demetrakasimis@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political theory
• Classical Greek thought and its contemporary reception
• Democratic theory
• Citizenship and migration

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Benjamin Lessing

Associate Professor

Pick Hall 517
773 702 3404

blessing@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Comparative politics
• Latin America
• Methodology

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John McCormick

Professor

Pick 422B
773 834 4353

jpmccorm@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Modern political thought
• Renaissance Italy
• 20th century Germany
• Contemporary democratic theory
• European politics

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Sankar Muthu

Associate Professor

Pick Hall 514
773 702 8059

muthu@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political theory
• History of political thought

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Molly Offer-Westort

Assistant Professor

Pick 526

mollyow@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Causal inference
• Experimental design

John Padgett

Professor

Pick Hall 512
773 702 8077

jpadgett@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• American politics
• Organizational theory
• Mathematical models
• Co-evolution of states and markets

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Jennifer Pitts

Professor

Pick Hall 518B
773 702 8868

jpitts@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political theory
• History of political thought
• Empire and international justice

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Patricia Posey

Assistant Professor

Pick 415
773 702 8066

pdposey@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• American political economy
• Inequality
• Race and ethnic politics
• Research methods

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Jon Rogowski

Professor

Pick 523

jrogowski@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Representation and accountability
• Political institutions
• American political history

Susan Stokes

Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor

Pick 320A
773 702 7664

sstokes@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political development
• Political parties and democracy
• Comparative political behavior
• Distributive politics

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Nathan Tarcov

Karl J. Weintraub Professor in the College and the Division of Social Sciences

Foster Hall 316
773 702 8064

nst1@uchicago.edu

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

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Lisa Wedeen

Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Political Science and the College

Pick Hall 414
773 702 8065

lwedeen@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political theory
• Comparative politics
• Middle East
• Feminist theory
• Qualitative methods

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Dali Yang

William Claude Reavis Professor

Pick Hall 422A
773 702 8054

daliyang@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Comparative politics
• Chinese politics
• Political economy

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