Faculty & Staff
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Tom Burke
Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research focuses on the role of courts, rights, and litigation in public policy and politics.
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Christopher Candland
Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Focused on the political dimensions of human development, based on comparative and quantitative studies within Southern Asia.
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Roxanne Euben
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
B.A., Wesleyan University; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Comparative political theorist, specializes in interactions between Islamic and Western thought; secretary of American Political Science Association.
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Stacie Goddard
Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science
A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Researching issues of international security with a specific focus on legitimacy, rising powers, and territorial conflict.
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Laura Grattan
Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Researches and teaches political theory, with a focus on grassroots organizing and the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture.
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Nadya S. Hajj
Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Research driven by this question: What are the origins of institutions among marginalized groups in anarchic systems?
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Hahrie Han
Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Harvard University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Research on civic engagement, political participation, civic organizations, polarization, health and environmental politics. Trainer on political organizing and leadership.
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William A. Joseph
Professor of Political Science
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
Bill Joseph's major area of research interest is contemporary Chinese politics and ideology, particularly the radicalism of Mao Zedong and its impact on China's political and economic development.
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Marion R. Just
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Science
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Research and teaching focuses on elections, politics, and the media.
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Joel Krieger
Norma Wilentz Hess Professor of Political Science
B.A., Yale College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Joel Krieger is a scholar of comparative and international politics.
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Paul K. MacDonald
Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of California Berkeley; M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
My primary area of research and teaching in political science is international relations, with a focus on American foreign policy.
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Katharine H.S. Moon
Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science
A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Expert on the U.S.-Korea alliance and social movements (democratization, women's movements, migrant workers, human rights) in Korea & Asia.
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Craig N. Murphy
M. Margaret Ball Professor of International Relations; Professor of Political Science
B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
The politics of globalization and inequality absorb me. I study them using archives, interviews, and direct observation of international development agencies.
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Robert L. Paarlberg
Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science
B.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researcher on food and agricultural policy, with a focus on farming technologies and poverty in the developing world.
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Nancy Scherer
Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Lafayette College; J.D., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of American politics and constitutional law. Research focuses on the U.S. justice system.
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Lois Wasserspring
Senior Lecturer in Political Science
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Princeton University
Fascinated by the richness and complexity of Latin American culture and politics.
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Miya Woolfalk
Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., Stanford University; A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
Research on American political behavior, racial and ethnic politics, religion and politics, and social policy and inequality.
Faculty Emeritus
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Wilbur C. Rich
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Political Science, emeritus
B.S.Tuskegee Institute, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Retired from teaching, but just released a new book entitled, The Post-Racial Society Is Here: Recognition, Critics and the Nation-State.
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Edward Stettner
Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
B.A. Brown University, M.A. Princeton University, Ph.D. Princeton University
Taught political theory courses at Wellesley. Main research field is American Political Thought.
