Faculty & Staff
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Christopher Baylor
Visiting Lecturer in Political ScienceB.A., Muhlenburg College; M.A., Brown University; Ph.D., University of California (Los Angeles)
Investigates the interaction between political parties and other political institutions such as interest groups and presidents.
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Tom Burke
Professor of Political ScienceB.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 poicy and politics.
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Christopher Candland
Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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
Associate Professor of Political ScienceA.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceA.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 ScienceB.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 ScienceB.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
Jane Bishop ’51 Associate Professor of Political ScienceB.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 ScienceB.A., Cornell University; M.A., Princeton University
Fascinated by the richness and complexity of Latin American culture and politics.
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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.
