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About the Department of Political Science

Full Time Faculty

Edouard Bustin
Office: ASC 407
E-mail: ebustin@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.7307
Specialization: Comparative Politics, AfricanStudies, International Relations

Walter Clemens
Office: PLS 221-222
E-mail: wclemens@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2171
Specialization: Negotiation, International Relations, American Foreign Policy, Post-Soviet Studies, the Baltic Region, Culture and Human Development

Walter D. Connor

Department Chair
Office: PLS 211-212
E-mail: wdconnor@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.7003
Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics

Neta Crawford
Office: PLS 313C
E-mail: crawfor@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.4040
Specialization: International Relations Theory and Security; US Foreign Policy; Economic Sanctions; Humanitarian Intervention; Ethics; and International Organization; South African Foreign and Military Policy; Political Psychology; Critical Theory; Qualitative Research Methods.

Joseph Fewsmith
Office: IR 401
E-mail: fewsmith@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.6344
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Chinese Domestic and International Politics

Irene Gendzier
Office: PLS 302
E-mail: gendzier@bu.edu
Phone:617.353.3683
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Political Development, International Political Economy, Middle Eastern Studies

John Gerring
Office: PLS 300
E-mail: jgerring@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2756
Specialization: Comparative Politics, American Politics, Methodology

Liah Greenfeld
Office: UNI 604
E-mail: lvg@bu.edu
Phone: 617.358.1772
Specialization: Nationalism, Political Sociology, Political Economy, Cultural Foundations of Modern Politics, Ethnic Conflict, Comparative Modern Politics and Society

Robert Jackson
Office: IR 405
E-mail: rjackson@bu.edu
Phone: 617.358.0191
Specialization: Post-Colonial African Politics, Doctrines and History of State Sovereignty, International Law

Douglas Kriner
Office: PLS 206
E-mail: dkriner@bu.edu
Phone: 617.358.4643
Specialization: American Politics, Separation of Powers, Domestic Politics and the Use of Force

Cathie Jo Martin
Office: PLS 311A
E-mail: cjmartin@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.3798
Specialization: Comparative Political Economy, American Politics, Business and Politics

David Mayers
Office: PLS 201
E-mail: dmayers@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2543
Specialization: International Relations, Diplomatic History, Political Biography

David Scott Palmer
Office: PLS 208
E-mail: dspalmer@bu.edu
Phone:617.353.2545
Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Latin American Studies

Sofia Perez
Office: PLS 301
E-mail: sofiap@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.3876
Specialization: Comparative Politics, European Studies, Politics and Business

Christine Rossell
Office: PLS 202
E-mail: crossell@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2776
Specialization: Public Policy, Public Policy Analysis; American Politics, School Desegregation and Bilingual Education Policy, Education Policy, Urban Politics and Policy, Methodology

Virginia Sapiro
Office: CAS 109
E-mail: vsapiro@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2401
Specialization: Political Psychology, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Gender Politics, Feminist and Democratic Theory, Higher Education

James Schmidt
Office: STH 612
E-mail: jschmidt@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.4020
Specialization: Political Philosophy

Simon Sheppard
Office: PLS 203
E-mail: si@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2540
Specialization: American Politics, Media and Politics

Mark Silverstein
Office: PLS 304
E-mail: msilvers@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.3694
Specialization: American Politics, Public Law

Judith Swanson
Office: PLS 201
E-mail: jswanson@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2038
Specialization: Political Philosophy

Graham Wilson
Office: PLS 215
E-mail: gkwilson@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2540
Specialization:

Betty Zisk
Office: PLS 311B
E-mail: zisk@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.4214
Specialization: American Politics, Political Communications, Interest Group Behavior, Political Movements

Associated Faculty

Associated faculty are colleagues who teach Political Science courses, teach other courses cross-listed with Political Science courses, have interests closely related to Political Science, and/or who hold Ph.D.'s in Political Science

Jack M. Beermann
Affiliation: School of Law
E-mail: beermann@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2577
Profile: Professor of Law; J.D., University of Chicago. A specialist on the federal courts as well as administrative and contract law, he is co-author of Administrative Law: Cases and Materials (3rd.ed. 1998).

Curriculum Vitae

Michael Corgan
Affiliation: CAS International Relations
E-mail: mcorgan@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.3553
Profile: Associate Professor of International Relations; Ph. D. Boston University. Professor Corgan, a former career naval officer was a Professor of Strategy and National Security Affairs at the Naval War College. He specializes in international security and Nordic and US politics. He is the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Iceland (2001), and his book, Iceland and its Alliances: Security
for a Small State
was published in 2004.

Susan Eckstein
Affiliation: CAS Sociology
E-mail: seckstei@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2591
Profile: Professor of Sociology; Ph.D., Columbia University. Professor Eckstein is a specialist on Latin American politics and development problems. She is the author of Back from the Future: Cuba Under Castro (1994), among other works.

William Grimes
Affiliation: CAS International Relations
E-mail: wgrimes@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.9420
Profile: Associate Professor of International Relations; Ph.D., Princeton University. Professor Grimes specializes in Japanese politics and political economy and the political economy of the Pacific rim. He is the author of Unmaking the Japanese Miracle:  Macroeconomic
Politics, 1985-2000
(2001).

William R. Keylor
Affiliation: CAS History
E-mail: wrkeylor@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.2551
Profile:Professor of History and International Relations; Ph.D., Columbia University. Professor Keylor is simultaneously a scholar of French history and the history of modern international relations. He has been a Guggenheim and a Fulbright fellow, and is the author of The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond: An International History since 1900 (2006).

Curriculum Vitae

Igor Lukes
Affiliation: The University Professors
E-mail: lukes@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.1776
Profile: Associate University professor, Associate Professor of International Relations and History; Ph.D. Charles University, Prague Ph.D., Tufts University. Professor Lukes is an expert in the politics and history of Central Europe in the twentieth century. He is the author of Czechoslovakia Between Stalin and Hitler: The Diplomacy of Edward Benes in the 1930's (1996).

David B. Lyons
Affiliation: Law Instruction-J.D. Prg
E-mail: dbl@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.3135
Profile: Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy; Ph.D., Harvard University. Professor Lyons is a scholar of moral and political philosophy, both a Guggenheim and an NEH Fellow. His publications include Rights, Welfare and Mill's Moral Theory (1994).

Curriculum Vitae

Augustus Richard Norton
Affiliation: CAS International Relations
E-mail: arn@bu.edu

Blog: www.bostonuniversity.blogspot.com

Phone: 617.353.7808
Profile: Professor of International Relations and Anthropology; Ph.D. University of Chicago. A specialist in Middle Eastern politics with a focus on opposition movements, political reform and political culture. He is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and he was an advisor to the Iraq Study Group. He is the author of Amal and the Shi'a: Struggle for the Soul
of Lebanon (1987), Hezbollah (2007), and (editor of) Civil Society in the Middle East (2 vols. 1995/6), among other works.

Curriculum Vitae


Strom Thacker
Affiliation: CAS International Relations
E-mail: sthacker@bu.edu
Phone: 617.353.7160
Profile: Assistant Professor on International Relations; Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Concentrating on the political economy of Latin America and on Mexican Affairs, he is author of Constructing Coalitions: Big Business, the State, and Free Trade in Mexico.