Jeffrey Abramson
Professor, Fellow of the Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Chair in Government and Professor of Law
jabramson@austin.utexas.edu |
512 232 6224 |
JON 6.264 and by appt. of MEZ 3.148
Education: Ph.D., J.D., Harvard University
Richard Albert
William Stamps Farish Professor in Law, Professor of Government, and Director of Constitutional Studies
Education: LL.M., Harvard University; B.C.L., University of Oxford; J.D., B.A, Yale University
Interests: Constitution-Making, Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment, Comparative Constitutionalism
Bethany L Albertson
Associate Professor
balberts@austin.utexas.edu |
232-1737 |
BAT 4.124
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Political Psychology; Public Opinion
Michael R. Anderson
Associate Professor of Instruction and Director-International Relations and Global Studies
Education: Ph.D., 2009, University of Texas at Austin
Kiril Avramov
Affiliated Faculty
kiril.avramov@austin.utexas.edu |
512-475-6145 |
BUR 578
Education: Ph.D., University of Sofia
Interests: Non-western political warfare, Soviet and Russian propaganda, Soviet and Russian influence and psychological operations, "weaponization of information" and cognitive hacking, elite and mass cognitive resilience, history of Soviet and East European civilian and military intelligence services.
Zoltan Barany
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor
barany@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7231 |
BAT 3.156
Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia
Daniel M Brinks
Professor and Department Chair
danbrinks@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7252 |
BAT 2.116G
Education: Ph.D., J.D., University of Notre Dame, University of Michigan
Jason Brownlee
Professor
brownlee@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7304 |
BAT 3.146
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University
Interests: comparative politics, democracy, development, foreign intervention
Bruce Buchanan
Professor Emeritus
bruceb@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7212 |
BAT 3.122
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Presidential and American politics, American institutions, public policy and political behavior
J. Budziszewski
Professor
jbudziszewski@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7229 |
MEZ 3.106
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: See biography
Terrence Chapman
Associate Professor
t.chapman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7221 |
BAT 3.104
Education: Ph.D., Emory University
Interests: International organizations, international conflict, international law, international political economy, formal modeling
Alison Craig
Assistant Professor
acraig@austin.utexas.edu |
BAT 4.148
Education: Ph.D., The Ohio State University
Interests: American political institutions, legislative politics, policy process, network analysis
Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto
Affiliated Lecturer
Education: Ph.D., Duke University
Interests: Campaigns and elections; political marketing; political psychology; immigration; race, ethnicity, and gender;
Erik Dempsey
Lecturer and Assistant Director-Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas
ed6335@utexas.edu |
(512) 471-6649 |
WAG 401
Interests: human virtue, and the proper place of politics in a well-lived human life, the different ways in which human virtue is understood in different political situations, and the ways in which human virtue may transcend any political situation
Henry Dietz
Professor Emeritus, University Distinguished Teaching Professor
h.dietz@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7209 |
MEZ 3.202
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
David Edwards
Professor Emeritus
dedwards@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-7254 |
BAT 3.126
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Zachary Elkins
Associate Professor
zelkins@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7250 |
BAT 4.120
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Derek Epp
Assistant Professor
depp@austin.utexas.edu |
BAT 3.126
Education: Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Interests: Policy agendas, information processing, racial justice, economic inequality
Rhonda L. Evans
Senior Lecturer and Director-Edward A. Clark Center for Australia and New Zealand Studies
revans@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7234 |
BAT 4.150
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Michael Findley
Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Government
mikefindley@utexas.edu |
512-232-7208 |
BAT 3.102
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Gary Freeman
Professor Emeritus
gfreeman@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7278 |
BAT 4.148
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Interests: Politics of immigration, comparative social policy, politics in western democracies
John Gerring
Professor
jgerring@austin.utexas.edu |
232-7254 |
BAT 3.136
Education: PhD, UC Berkeley
Nathaniel Gilmore
Assistant Professor
nathaniel.gilmore@austin.utexas.edu
Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto
Interests: Early-modern political thought and jurisprudence, historical political thought, Rome in political thought
Lawrence Graham
Professor Emeritus, Fellow at IC2
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Interests: Comparative Politics, Regionalism, and Development Policy and Management
Kenneth Greene
Associate Professor
kgreene@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7206 |
BAT 4.112
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Benjamin Gregg
(on leave)
Professor
bgregg@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7274 |
MEZ 3.138
Education: Ph.D., Princeton University, Freie Universität Berlin
Interests: Social and political theory, human rights, political bioethics
Sheena Greitens
Affiliated Faculty
sheena.greitens@austin.utexas.edu |
SRH
Education: PhD in Government, Harvard University; MPhil in International Relations, Oxford University; B.A. in Political Science (Honors in Security Studies), Stanford University
Interests: East Asia, American national security, Authoritarian politics, and foreign policy
Angie Gutierrez
Postdoctoral Fellow, Mexican American and Latino/a Studies
angela.gutierrez@austin.utexas.edu
Education: PhD, Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
Robert Hardgrave, Jr.
Temple Professor Emeritus of the Humanities in Government and Asian Studies
Education: PhD, University of Chicago
James Henson
Director, Texas Politics Project
j.henson@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-0090 |
MEZ 2.302E
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
John Higley, PhD
Professor Emeritus
jhigley@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7236 |
BAT 4.154
Education: Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Interests: Comparative Politics, Political Sociology, Political Elites
Ran Hirschl
Professor of Government & Earl E. Sheffield Regents Chair in Law
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Public law, comparative constitutionalism, constitutional and judicial politics
Stephanie Holmsten
Assistant Professor of Instruction-International Relations and Global Studies
ssholmsten@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7215 |
MEZ 3.214
Education: PhD, Political Science, University of Texas
Interests: comparative politics, democratization, electoral institutions, race and gender, international organizations
Wendy Hunter
Professor
wendyhunter@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7247 |
BAT 3.138
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Gary J. Jacobsohn
Professor, Malcolm Macdonald Professor in Constitutional and Comparative Law
gjacobsohn@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1444 |
MEZ 3.110
Education: PhD, Cornell University
Interests: Constitutional Theory, Comparative Constitutionalism
Jangai Jap
Provost’s Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow, Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab
Education: PhD, George Washington University
Stephen Jessee
Associate Professor
sjessee@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-7282 |
BAT 4.128
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Bryan Jones
Professor, J. J. "Jake" Pickle Regents Chair in Congressional Studies
bdjones@austin.utexas.edu |
512-471-9973 |
BAT 3.154
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Policy processes; models of decision-making and choice; agenda-setting; fiscal policy
Hans-Inge Lango
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: M.A. in International Relations, Boston University; PhD, Government, University of Texas at Austin
David L. Leal
(on leave)
Professor
dleal@austin.utexas.edu |
512.471.1343 |
BAT 3.140
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: Latino Politics and Policy
Tse-min Lin
Associate Professor
tml@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7248 |
BAT 4.144
Education: Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Amy Liu
Associate Professor
amy.liu@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7249 |
BAT 3.128
Education: Ph.D., Emory University
Interests: ethnic politics, language policies, migration politics, Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe
Xuecheng Liu
Visiting Associate Professor
xcliu814@yahoo.com |
BAT 3.108
Education: Ph.D, University of Texas at Austin, 1993
Xiaobo Lü
Associate Professor
xiaobolu@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7257 |
BAT 3.152
Education: Ph.D., Yale University
Interests: Distributive politics of development; Chinese politics; comparative and international political economy
Robert Luskin
Professor
rcluskin@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7230 |
BAT 3.148
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Interests: Public opinion, voting behavior, political psychology, and statistical methods
Patricia Maclachlan
Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor in Japanese Studies
pmaclachlan@austin.utexas.edu |
(512) 232-1724 |
BAT 3.150
Education: Ph.D., Columbia University
Interests: Comparative Politics; Politics of Japan and East Asia
Raul L. Madrid
(on leave)
Professor
rmadrid@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7246 |
BAT 3.112
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Al Martinich
Professor Emeritus, Roy Allison Vaughan Centennial Professor in Philosophy
martinich@austin.utexas.edu |
512-484-8186 |
WAG 416A
Education: PhD, University of California at San Diego
Eric McDaniel
Associate Professor
emcdaniel@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7268 |
BAT 4.122
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois
Patrick McDonald
(on leave)
Associate Professor
pjmcdonald@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1747 |
BAT 4.136
Education: Ph.D., Ohio State University
Ashley Moran
Postdoctoral Fellow, Comparative Constitutions Project
Education: MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; PhD, Government, University of Texas at Austin
Interests: Comparative constitutional law, divided societies, state fragility, democratic legal and institutional reform, the Middle East
Robert Moser
Professor
rmoser@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7260 |
BAT 4.102
Education: Ph.D., University of Wisconsin
Michael W Mosser
Associate Professor of Instruction-International Relations and Global Studies
mosserm@austin.utexas.edu |
232.7280 |
MEZ 3.222
Education: PhD, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Daniel Nielson
Professor
dan.nielson@utexas.edu |
(512) 232-7211 |
BAT 3.134
Education: PhD, University of California – San Diego
Shannon Bow O'Brien
Associate Professor of Instruction
shannonbow@utexas.edu |
512-232-7213 |
MEZ 3.226
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida
Lorraine Pangle
Professor and Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson Center
lorrainepangle@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1447 |
MEZ 3.134
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: history of political and moral philosophy
Thomas Pangle
Professor, Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies; Co-Director, Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas
tpangle@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1529 |
MEZ 3.154
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Classical political philosophy; the eighteenth century theoretical foundations of modern and especially American constitutionalism and political culture; nineteenth and twentieth century German political philosophy; post-modern political theory; the moral-philosophic basis of international relations; the dialogue between political theology and political philosophy.
Ami Pedahzur
Professor, Ralph W Yarborough Centennial Professor of Liberal Arts
pedahzur@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1452 |
Mezes 3.140
Education: Ph.D., University of Haifa
Interests: Radicalism, Political Violence, Warfare, Middle East.
H. W. Perry, Jr.
Associate Professor, Joint Professor with UT School of Law
hwperry@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-1852 |
TNH 3.245
Education: Ph.D., University of Michigan
Tasha Philpot
Professor
tphilpot@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-3681 |
BAT 4.140
Education: PhD, University of Michigan
Brian Roberts
Professor
brian@utexas.edu |
512-232-7243 |
BAT 4.156
Interests: American Political Institutions, Interest Groups, and Positive Political Economy
Marcel Roman
Provost’s Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow, Politics of Race and Ethnicity Lab
marcel.roman@austin.utexas.edu
Education: PhD, University of California-Los Angeles
Thomas K Seung
Affiliated Faculty
t.k.seung@austin.utexas.edu |
471-6808 |
WAG 431
Education: PhD, Yale
Daron Shaw
Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor & Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Chair of State Politics
dshaw@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7275 |
BAT 4.146
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Interests: Campaigns and Elections, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, American Politics, Survey Research
Zeynep Somer-Topcu
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
zsomer@utexas.edu |
512-232-7209 |
Batts 3.124
Education: Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Interests: European politics, political parties, voter behavior, elections, representation
Bartholomew Sparrow
Professor
bhs@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7207 |
BAT 3.142
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Dana Stauffer
Associate Professor of Instruction
danastauffer@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1448 |
MEZ 3.136
Education: Ph.D., University of Toronto
Devin Stauffer
Professor and Associate Chair
dstauffer@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-1462 |
MEZ 3.144
Education: Ph.D., Boston College
Interests: classical and early modern political thought
Sean Theriault
Professor, University Distinguished Teaching Professor
seant@mail.utexas.edu |
512-232-7279 |
BAT 3.130
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: American political institutions
Jeffrey Tulis
Professor of Government, Professor of Law & Professor of Communication Studies
tulis@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7244 |
MEZ 3.152
Education: Ph.D., University of Chicago
Interests: Political Theory and American Politics
Maurizio Viroli
Professor
maurizio.viroli@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7256 |
MEZ 3.150
Education: Ph.D., European University Institute in Florence
Interests: History of political thought; classical republicanism and neo-republicanism; Niccolò Machiavelli; Jean Jacques Rousseau; republican iconography; the relationship between religion and politics; patriotism; constitutionalism, classical rhetoric; political communication; citizenship and civic education
R. Harrison Wagner
Professor Emeritus
rhwagner@utexas.edu |
512-232-7271 |
BAT 3.134
Education: Ph.D., Harvard University
Interests: International conflict, international political economy, the relations between domestic and international politics, and formal theories of foreign policy and international politics
Di Wang
Assistant Professor of Instruction
diwang@austin.utexas.edu |
MEZ 3.230
Education: Ph.D., Texas A&M University
Interests: International political economy; sovereign wealth funds
Rachel Wellhausen
Associate Professor
rwellhausen@utexas.edu |
512.232.7202 |
BAT 4.138
Education: Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Interests: International political economy: Political risk, International investment law, Sovereign debt, Sovereignty, Political economy of Indigenous lands, International relations and science
Kurt Weyland
Professor, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts
kweyland@austin.utexas.edu |
512.232.7253 |
BAT 4.126
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University
Interests: Democratization and authoritarian rule, social policy and policy diffusion, and populism in Latin America and Europe
Christopher Wlezien
Hogg Professor of Government
Wlezien@austin.utexas.edu |
4.154 Batts
Education: Ph.D., University of Iowa
Interests: Public opinion, public policy, political institutions, elections, mass media, research methods
Scott Wolford
Professor
swolford@austin.utexas.edu |
512-232-7210 |
BAT 4.152
Education: Ph.D., Emory University
Interests: International Conflict, International Institutions, Game Theory
