Comparative Politics Faculty

Thomas Berger (BA, Columbia College; PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) German and Japanese Politics, International Relations and Comparative Government in East Asia, Political Culture.

Houchang E. Chehabi (Licence, Université de Caen; Diplôme, Institut d’Etudes Politiques; MA, PhD Yale University) Middle Eastern and Central Asian Politics, International Law.

Walter D. Connor (BA, Holy Cross; MA, PhD, Princeton University) Comparative Politics, International Relations, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics.

Joseph Fewsmith (BA, Northwestern University; MA, PhD, University of Chicago) Comparative Politics, Chinese Domestic and International Politics.

Kevin P. Gallagher (BA, Northeastern University; MA, PhD, Tufts University) Economic Development, Trade and Investment Policy, International Environmental Policy, Latin America.

Erik Goldstein (BA, Tufts University; MA, MALD, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; PhD, University of Cambridge) Diplomacy, International Relations, British Foreign Policy.

William W. Grimes (BA, Yale University; MPA, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs; PhD, Princeton University) Japanese and East Asian Political Economy, Japanese Politics, International Political Economy.

Robert Jackson (BA, MA, University of British Columbia; PhD University of California at Berkeley) International Ethics, Doctrines and History of State Sovereignty, International Law.

William R. Keylor (BA, Stanford University; MA, PhD, Columbia University) History of International Relations, History of American Foreign Policy, History of European-American Relations, History of Modern France.

H. Joachim Maître (BA, MA, Bonn University; PhD, McGill University) Security Policy, Force Planning, Defense Journalism.

Augustus Richard Norton (BA, MA, University of Miami; PhD, University of Chicago) Comparative Politics, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Anthropology.

David Scott Palmer (BA, Dartmouth College; MA, Stanford University; PhD Cornell University) Comparative Politics, International Relations, Latin American Studies.

Elizabeth H. Prodromou (BA, MALD, Tufts University; SM, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Comparative Politics; Religion and Security; Democracy and Culture; Religious Freedom and Human Rights; State-Building/Failure; Nationalism.

Vivien Ann Schmidt (BA, Bryn Mawr College; MA, PhD, University of Chicago) European Political Economy, European Integration, European Politics, France.

Strom C. Thacker (BA, Pomona College; MA, PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) International and Comparative Political Economy, Governance, Development; Latin American Studies; Mexican Political Economy and Politics.