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.
Donald Beachler
Retired Associate Professor, Politics
Specialty: U.S. Politics (Parties and Elections, Public Policy )/ Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Martin L Brownstein
Retired Associate Professor, Politics
Zillah Eisenstein
Professor Emerita, Politics
Specialty: politics of class, sex, and race; political theory; feminist theories; gender construction
Beth Harris
Retired Associate Professor, Politics
Specialty: Law, Justice and Power
Thomas Shevory
Professor Emeritus, Politics
Specialty: Law and Public Policy