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Michael Albertus

Professor

Pick Hall 417
773 702 8056

albertus@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

  • Politics of redistribution
  • Democracy and dictatorship
  • Civil conflict
  • Property rights

Read more about Michael Albertus


Christopher Blattman

Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

1307 East 60th Street, Room 2009

blattman@uchicago.edu

Christopher Blattman

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Sydney Stein Professor

1307 East 60th Street, Room 2025
773 834 9874

bdm@uchicago.edu

Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

Oeindrila Dube

Philip K. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies

1307 East 60th Street, Room 2015
773 702 8400

odube@uchicago.edu

Oeindrila Dube

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

Professor

Pick 322A

gehlbach@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

  • Political economy
  • Comparative politics
  • Formal theory

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Scott Gehlbach

Tom Ginsburg

Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar

1111 East 60th Street, Room 525
773 834 3087

tginsburg@uchicago.edu

Tom Ginsburg

Gary Herrigel

Paul Klapper Professor in the College and Division of Social Sciences

Pick Hall 516
773 702 8067

g-herrigel@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

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

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Gary Herrigel

Benjamin Lessing

Associate Professor

Pick Hall 517
773 702 3404

blessing@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

  • Comparative politics
  • Latin America
  • Methodology

Please read more about Benjamin Lessing

Benjamin Lessing

Zhaotian Luo

Assistant Professor

Pick Hall 528
773 702 2941

luozhaotian@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

  • Political economy of institutions
  • Information manipulation
  • Formal theory

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Zhaotian Luo

Roger Myerson

Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor

Saieh Hall 439
773 834 9071

rmyerson@uchicago.edu

Roger Myerson

Monika Nalepa

Professor

Pick Hall 324A
773 702 0234

mnalepa@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

  • Post-Communist politics
  • Comparative political institutions
  • Positive political theory
  • Transitional justice

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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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John Padgett

James Robinson

Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor and University Professor, Faculty Director of the Pearson Institute

1307 East 60th Street, Room 2017
773 702 6364

jamesrobinson@uchicago.edu

James Robinson

Paul Staniland

Professor

Pick Hall 418B
773 702 2370

paul@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

  • Civil war
  • Ethnic politics
  • South Asia

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Paul Staniland

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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Susan Stokes

Lisa Wedeen

Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science

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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Lisa Wedeen

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

Please read more about Dali Yang

Dali Yang

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