Research
A selection of research publications appears on each faculty member鈥檚 page. In addition, a full list can be viewed by clicking on their respective Curriculum Vitae.
American Politics
Dennis Hale
American Political Thought; The Founding; Modern States; Citizenship; Law and Politics; Local Government
Michael Hartney
Education Politics and Policy; State and local government; Policy process and analysis; Interest groups
David Hopkins
Political Parties and Elections; U.S. Congress; Political Behavior; Research Methods
Ken I. Kersch
American Political and Constitutional Development; American Political Thought; Politics of Courts
Masha Krupenkin
Partisan Polarization; Political Participation; Text as Data
Marc Landy - Faculty Chair, The Irish Institute
U.S. Presidency; Federalism; Comparative Federalism; Environmental Regulation
R. Shep Melnick - Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics
Courts; Public Policy
Kay L. Schlozman - J. Joseph Moakley Professor
Citizen Politics; Political Parties and Elections; Interest Groups
Peter Skerry
Racial and Ethnic Politics; Immigration Policy
Comparative Politics
Kathleen Bailey
Central Asian Politics; Russian Politics; Balkans
Ali Banuazizi
Middle Eastern Politics; Political Culture; Religion and Politics
Paul Christensen
Russian Politics; Social Movements; Globalization
Gerald M. Easter - Department Chair
Russian Politics; Eastern Europe; Modern State; Ethnonationalism; Post-Communist Transitions
Kenji Hayao
Japanese Politics; Political Leadership
Lauren Honig
African Politics; State-building; Natural Resource Governance; Political Economy of Development
Jonathan Laurence
Western European Politics
Thibaud Marcesse
Comparative Politics; Institutions and Institutional Change; Development Studies; South Asian Politics
International Politics
Timothy W. Crawford
International Relations Theory; International Security; U.S. Foreign Policy; United Nations
David A. Deese
International, comparative, and US politics of energy, social systems, and climate聽change; Instability of the global economic and financial systems; Theory of domestic and international political leadership; International institutional design: monitoring and enforcing聽international treaty systems; Energy, resources, security and U.S. foreign policy; Political economy of autocratic states
Jennifer L. Erickson
Globalization and National Security; European Union in World Affairs; Introduction to International Studies
Jonathan Kirshner
International Relations; Political Economy; Politics and Film
Peter Krause
International security;聽Middle East politics;聽Terrorism and political violence;聽Nationalism, rebels, and revolution
Lindsey O'Rourke
International Relations Theory; U.S. Foreign Policy; International Security; Military Strategy
Robert S. Ross
Sino-American Relations; Chinese Politics
Political Philosophy
Robert Bartlett - Behrakis Professor of Hellenic Political Studies
Classical Political Philosophy
Alice Behnegar
Western Intellectual History; Foundations and Issues of the Modern Liberal Democratic Nation-State;聽 American Political Thought; Politics and Religion; Law; Politics and Literature
Nasser Behnegar
Early, Modern, and Contemporary Political Theory; American Political Thought; Comparative Ideologies
David M. DiPasquale
Medieval and Modern Islamic Political Thought; Political Philosophy of Alfarabi, Avicenna, and Averroes; Transmission of Greek Science to the Muslim World; Islam and the West
Robert K. Faulkner
Early Modern Political Philosophy; American Political and Legal Thought; Liberalism
Ryan Hanley
17th and 18th c. British moral and political thought (esp. Adam Smith); 17th and 18th c. French moral and political thought (esp. F茅nelon)
Christopher J. Kelly
Rousseau; 18th-century Political Philosophy
Susan Meld Shell
Modern Political Theory and German Idealism; Kant; Hegel; Nietzsche; Heidegger
Paul Wilford
German Idealism (especially Kant and Hegel); Ancient Greek Philosophy (especially Aristotle); Philosophy of History