Meet our Faculty

Laura Bakkensen

Assistant Professor

• Environmental economics
• Natural disaster policy
• Risk and adaptation

Elizabeth Baldwin

Assistant Professor

• Environmental policy
• Energy policy
• Institutional analysis

Anne Boustead

Assistant Professor

• Law and policy
• Drug policy
• Surveillance and privacy

Alex Braithwaite

Associate Director, School of Government and Public Policy

Professor

• International relations
• Refugees and forced migration
• Violent and nonviolent conflict

Jessica Maves Braithwaite

Assistant Professor

• International relations
• Violent and nonviolent conflict
• Human rights and repression

Jennifer Cyr

Associate Professor

• Comparative politics
• Democracy and representation
• Qualitative and mixed methods

Suzanne Dovi

Associate Professor

• Democratic theory
• Representation
• Ethics and public policy

Kirk Emerson

Professor of Practice

• Environmental policy and management
• Collaborative governance
• Conflict management

Faten Ghosn

Director, Undergraduate Studies

Associate Professor

• International relations
• Conflict and conflict management
• Refugees and forced migration

Frank Gonzalez

Assistant Professor

• Political psychology
• Race and politics
• Biology and politics

Adam Douglas Henry

Associate Professor

Samara Klar

Associate Professor

• Political psychology
• Voter behavior
• Public opinion

Jeff Kucik

Assistant Professor

• International relations
• Global trade and investment
• International organizations

Paulette Kurzer

Professor

• Comparative politics
• European integration
• Welfare state

Michael Letcher

Lecturer

• Strategic planning
• Performance management
• Board governance

H. Brinton Milward

Director, School of Government and Public Policy

Fund Chair, Melody S. Robidoux Foundation

• Interorganizational networks
• Illegal and covert networks
• Public management

William Mishler

Professor

• Democratization
• Human trafficking
• Public opinion/behavior

Barbara Norrander

Professor

• American politics
• Primary elections
• Gender gap

Javier Osorio

Assistant Professor

• Comparative politics
• Political and criminal violence
• Natural language processing

Jun Peng

Associate Professor

• Public budgeting
• Public debt management
• Public pension management

V. Spike Peterson

Professor

• International politics/economics/inequalities
• Critical theorizing
• Gender/sexual/racial logics

Michael Polakowski

Associate Professor

• Criminal justice policies
• Crime statistics
• Inequality

Kirssa Cline Ryckman

Assistant Professor, Career Track

Assistant Director, ISS Program

• International relations
• Violent and nonviolent conflict
• Civilians in conflict

Lisa Sanchez

Assistant Professor

Edella Schlager

Professor

• Institutional analysis
• Multi-level governance
• Water policy/politics

Paul Schuler

Assistant Professor

Yotam Shmargad

Assistant Professor

• Online behavior
• Political communication
• Social networks

Craig Smith

Director, MPA/MPP

Associate Professor

• Public management
• Organization theory and behavior
• Privatization

Allison Vaillancourt

Professor of Practice

Thomas Volgy

Professor

• International politics
• Status considerations
• Comparative regional analysis

Chris Weber

Director, Ph.D. Studies

Associate Professor

• American politics
• Political psychology
• Methodology

Chad Westerland

Associate Professor

• American politics
• Law and courts
• Methodology

John P. (Pat) Willerton

Professor

• Comparative politics
• Russian politics
• Political elites