Chiara Cordelli
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 528
773 834 8616
Office Hours: On Leave 2017-18
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
Office Hours: On Leave 2017-18
Major Areas of Interest:
- American politics
- Politics of race and ethnicity
- Democratic theory
Adom Getachew
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College
Pick Hall 513
773 834 8723
Spring Quarter Office Hours: Mondays, 1:30-3:30 pm signup sheet on office door
Major Areas of Interest:
- History of political thought
- International law
- Theories of empire and race
- Black political thought and post-colonial political theory
Demetra Kasimis
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 511
773 834 8782
Spring Quarter Office Hours: by appointment
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
Patchen Markell
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 412
773 702 8057
Spring Quarter Office Hours: Tuesdays 3:00-5:00 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Modern European political thought and philosophy
- Twentieth-century American political thought and culture
- The political thought of Hannah Arendt
- Democratic theory
- Critiques of capitalism
- Classical political thought and its modern receptions
John McCormick
Professor
Pick 422B
773 834 4353
Office Hours: On Leave 2017-18
Major Areas of Interest:
- Modern political thought
- Renaissance Italy
- 20th century Germany
- Contemporary democratic theory
- European politics
Sankar Muthu
Associate Professor
Pick Hall 514
773 702 8059
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- History of political thought
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
1111 East 60th Street, Room 520
773 702 0303
John W. Patty
Professor
Pick Hall 320A
773 702 7699
Spring Quarter Office Hours: by appointment
Major Areas of Interest:
- Bureaucracy
- Congress
- Executive politics
- Game theory
- Social choice theory
- Democratic theory
Jennifer Pitts
Associate Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Pick Hall 518B
773 702 8868
Spring Quarter Office Hours: Mondays, 1:30-3:00 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- History of political thought
- Empire and international justice
Nathan Tarcov
Karl J. Weintraub Professor in the College and the Division of the Social Sciences
Foster Hall 316
773 702 8064
Spring Quarter Office Hours: Mondays, 2:00-4:00 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
Lisa Wedeen
Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science
Pick Hall 414
773 702 8065
Wilder House 202
773 702 0250
Major Areas of Interest:
- Comparative politics
- Middle East
- Political theory
- Feminist theory
- Qualitative methods
James Lindley Wilson
Assistant Professor
Pick Hall 521
773 702 8564
Spring Quarter Office Hours: by appointment
Major Areas of Interest:
- Democratic theory
- Egalitarianism and theories of justice
- Global justice
- History of democratic thought
- Constitutional and election law
Linda Zerilli
Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor
Pick Hall 522A
773 702 0522
Spring Quarter Office Hours: Thursdays, 12:00-2:00 pm
Major Areas of Interest:
- Political theory
- Feminist and gender theory
- Gender and politics