Faculty and Staff

Political Science Department Members

Andrea Stevenson Sanjian Chair - (Ph.D., Indiana University) - Post-Soviet Politics; Politics in East - CentralEurope; West European Politics; Comparative Politics

Sherri Foster Academic Assistant

John Doces - (Ph.D.,University of Southern California) - Political Economy and Public Policy

Chris Ellis - (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) - American Politics, Political Behavior andResearch Methods

R. Douglas Hecock - (Ph.D., University of New Mexico) - Comparative Politics, Latin America, and the Political Economy of Development

Michael James - (Ph.D., Duke) - Contemporary Political Theory, Politics of Cultural and Ethnic Pluralism, Constitutional Law, and Legal Theory.

Tansa (Tony) Massoud - (Ph.D., New York University) - International Relations, War, Peace, the Middle East, Peace Studies Coordinator

Amy McCready - (Ph.D., Chicago) - Political Theory, Legal Thought, Ethics

David Mitchell - (Ph.D., Syracuse) - International Politics, Comparative Foreign Policy, National Security, Foreign Policy Decision Making

Scott Meinke - (Ph.D., Ohio State) - U.S. Congress and legislative politics, judicial politics, American Presidency

Gregory Sanjian - (Ph.D., Indiana) - International Relations; U.S. Foreign Policy and National Security Policy; Positive Theory

Atiya Stokes-Brown - (Ph.D., University of Maryland) - American Politics, Race/Ethnicity, Gender, Campaigns and Elections, and State politics

Zhiqun Zhu - (Ph.D., University of South Carolina) - Chinese politics and foreign policy, East Asian international relations.

Syllabi for current students are usually posted on Blackboard. Other students may contact faculty members for syllabi and other course information, or contact the chair of the department.