Amel Ahmed
Amel Ahmed focuses on democratic studies, with a special interest in elections, voting systems, legislative politics, party development, and voting rights.
Roberto Alejandro
Roberto Alejandro's research interests include Greek philosophy and tragedies, Nietzsche, contemporary liberal theory, and American political thought.
Angélica Bernal
Angélica Bernal focuses on issues of popular power, constitutional change, decolonial theory and politics, and indigenous social movements.
Scott Blinder
Scott Blinder's research focuses on public opinion toward and perceptions of immigration.
Brenda Bushouse
Brenda Bushouse focuses on people and organizations who work to fulfill a social mission and is particularly interested in utilizing institutional analysis.
Charli Carpenter
Charli Carpenter focuses on law, transnational advocacy networks, civilian protection, humanitarian disarmament, and global human security policy.
Marissa Carrere
Marissa Carrere is interested in pedagogies and policies that promote equitable, inclusive educational opportunities.
Paul Collins Jr.
Graduate Program Director
Paul Collins Jr. studies the democratic nature of the judiciary, interdisciplinary approaches to legal decision making, and social movement.
Diane Curtis
Senior Lecturer of Legal Studies
Diane Curtis' teaching focuses primarily on constitutional law, the intersections between state power and individuals and their families, and legal reasoning.
Adam Dahl
Adam Dahl researches American political thought, democratic theory, the politics of race and indigeneity, and political theories of empire and colonialism.