Politics Staff and Faculty

Politics Department Administrative Staff

Gerard Alexander (Ph.D., Columbia), Associate Professor, Comparative Politics

Lawrie Balfour (Ph.D., Princeton) Associate Professor, Political Theory

Colin Bird (Ph.D., Columbia) Associate Professor, Political Theory

James W. Ceaser (Ph.D., Harvard) Professor, American Politics

Michele Claibourn (Ph.D., Wisconsin-Madison) Assistant Professor, American Politics

Dale Copeland (Ph.D., Chicago) Associate Professor, International Relations Theory

John Echeverri-Gent (Ph.D., Chicago) Associate Professor, Comparative Politics

Robert Fatton (Ph.D., Notre Dame) Professor, Comparative Politics

Paul Freedman (Ph.D., Michigan) Associate Professor, American Politics

Daniel W. Gingerich (Ph.D., Harvard University) Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics

Jeffery A. Jenkins (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) Associate Professor, American Politics

David C. Jordan (Ph.D., Pennsylvania) Professor, Comparative Politics

David Klein (Ph.D., Ohio State) Associate Professor, American Politics

George Klosko (Ph.D., Columbia) Professor, Political Theory

Jeffrey W. Legro (Ph.D., UCLA) Professor, Chair, International Relations

Allen Lynch (Ph.D., Columbia ) Professor, International Relations

Luis Medina (Ph.D., Stanford) Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics

Carol Mershon (Ph.D., Yale) Associate Professor, Comparative Politics

Sidney M. Milkis (Ph.D., Pennsylvannia) Professor, Department of Politcs

David M. O'Brien (Ph.D., California-Santa Barbara) Professor, American Politics

John M. Owen, IV (Ph.D., Harvard ) Associate Professor, International Relations

Eric M. Patashnik (Ph.D., California-Berkeley) Associate Professor, American Politics and Public Policy

William B. Quandt (Ph.D., MIT) Professor, International Relations

Steven E. Rhoads (Ph.D., Cornell) Professor, American Politics

Melvin Rogers (Ph.D., Yale University) Assistant Professor, Political Theory

Larry J. Sabato (Ph.D., Oxford) Professor, American Politics

Lynn M. Sanders (Ph.D., Michigan) Associate Professor, American Politics

James Savage (Ph.D., California-Berkeley) Professor, American Politics and Comparative Politics

Leonard J. Schoppa (Ph.D., Oxford) Professor, Undergraduate Director, Comparative Politics

Herman Schwartz (Ph.D., Cornell) Professor, International Relations

Todd Sechser (ABD, Stanford) Assistant Professor, International Relations

Michael Joseph Smith (Ph.D., Harvard) Associate Professor, International Relations and Political Thought

David Waldner (Ph.D., California-Berkeley) Associate Professor, Comparative Politics and Qualitative Methods

Denise Walsh (Ph.D., New School for Social Research) Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics

Vesla Weaver (Ph.D., Harvard University) Assistant Professor,

Stephen White (Ph.D., City University) Professor, Political Theory

Nicholas Winter (Ph.D., University of Michigan), Assistant Professor, American Politics

Brantly Womack (Ph.D., Chicago) Professor, Comparative Politics and International Relations

Associated Faculty

Frederick Hitz, Visiting Lecturer, fph7w@virginia.edu

Michael Krepon, Visiting Lecturer, mk4ub@virginia.edu

Paul Martin, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow, Miller Center of Public Affairs , pmartin@virginia.edu

E. Edmund Moomaw, Adjunct Faculty Constitutional Law

Russell Riley, Miller Center of Public Affairs Research Fellow, rlr2p@virginia.edu

Mary A. Stegmaier, Assistant Professor, Comparative Politics, ms2bu@cms.mail.virginia.edu

Vivian E. Thomson, Assistant Professor Department of Environmental Sciences, vthomson@virginia.edu

Yuri Urbanovich, Lecturer, Politics in Russia and the Post-Soviet Region yu9b@virginia.edu

Rina V. Williams, Lecturer and Interim Director, Studies in Women and Gender

Visiting Faculty

Touqir Hussian, Master's degree (English Literature) from the Punjab University, Lahore, th7h@virginia.edu

Emeriti

Henry J. Abraham Professor, American Politics hja@virginia.edu

Martha Derthick Professor, American Politics mad2d@virginia.edu

Matthew Holden Professor, American Politics mh3q@virginia.edu

Clifton McCleskey Professor, American Politics hcm6t@virginia.edu

David D. Newsom Professor, Diplomacy, Foreign Policy, Government–Media Relations ddn2n@virginia.edu

Ruhi Ramazani Professor, Comparative Politics (Middle East) rkr@virginia.edu

Paul S. Shoup Professor, Comparative Politics, (Russia, Eastern Europe) pss7z@virginia.edu

Kenneth W. Thompson (Ph.D., Chicago) Professor, International Relations kwt8b@virginia.edu