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Gary Herrigel

Paul Klapper Professor in the College and Division of Social Sciences

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

Office: Pick Hall 516

Phone: 773 702 8067

g-herrigel@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Benjamin Lessing

Associate Professor

Office: Pick Hall 517

Phone: 773 702 3404

blessing@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• Comparative politics
• Latin America
• Methodology

Zhaotian Luo

Assistant Professor

Office: Pick Hall 528

Phone: 773 702 2941

luozhaotian@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• Political economy of institutions
• Information manipulation
• Formal theory

John McCormick

Karl J. Weintraub Professor

Office: Pick Hall 422B

Phone: 773 834 4353

jpmccorm@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

John Mearsheimer

R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science

Office: Pick Hall 416

Phone: 773 702 8667

j-mearsheimer@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• International relations theory
• International security
• Israeli-Palestinian conflict
• Nationalism
• Rise of China

Isaac Mehlhaff

Assistant Professor

Sankar Muthu

Associate Professor

Office: Pick Hall 514

Phone: 773 702 8059

muthu@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• Political theory
• History of political thought

Monika Nalepa

Professor

Office: Pick Hall 324A

Phone: 773 702 0234

mnalepa@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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

Molly Offer-Westort

Assistant Professor

Office: Pick Hall 526

mollyow@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• Causal inference
• Experimental design

Eric Oliver

Professor

Office: Pick Hall 518A

Phone: 773 702 9784

eoliver@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• Urban politics
• Political psychology
• Public opinion

Robert Pape

Professor

Office: Pick Hall 418A

Phone: 773 834 0770

rpape@uchicago.edu

Interests:

• International relations theory
• National security affairs
• International terrorism
• American political violence

Jennifer Pitts

Chair and Professor, Department of Political Science; Professor, John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought

Office: Pick Hall 404

Phone: 773 702 8868

jpitts@uchicago.edu

Interests:

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