Department Chair

Chip Gagnon

Professor and Chair, Politics
Specialty: International Relations/Comparative Politics

Administrative Assistant

Faculty

Juan Arroyo

Assistant Professor, Politics
Specialty: Comparative Politics

Sumru Atuk

Assistant Professor, Politics
Specialty: Political Theory, Feminist Theory, Public Policy

Carlos Figueroa

Associate Professor, Politics
Specialty: U.S. Political Development; Race, Religion, & Class politics; U.S. Quakerism; Afro American Politics; Politics and Comedy

Chip Gagnon

Professor and Chair, Politics
Specialty: International Relations/Comparative Politics

Michael Gorup

Assistant Professor, Politics
Specialty: Political Theory; U.S. Politics; Constitutional Law; Democracy, Race, and Captalism.

Evgenia Ilieva

Associate Professor, Politics
Specialty: Political Theory

Amy Rothschild

Associate Professor, Politics
Specialty: Human Rights/Transitional Justice; Genocide; Law & Society; Collective Memory; Timor-Leste; Nationalism; Race; Trauma

Peyi Soyinka-Airewele

Professor, Politics
Specialty: International and African Politics, The Politics of Memory, Critical Studies in Democratic Development, Politics of Popular African Cinema

Retired, Emeriti/ae, and Former Faculty

Asma Barlas

Professor Emerita, Politics
Specialty: Interests: Qur'anic hermeneutics; Muslim religious and intellectual history; "Third World" and Identity politics; Race & Colonialism.