Graduate Faculty

The Department of Political Science is a the center of a larger community of political scientists at Boston University. We work closely with our fellow political scientists whose primary appointments are in other departments. Our students take courses with them and graduate students ask them to serve on their dissertation committees.

Ivan Arreguin-Toft ^
Email: imat@bu.edu
Specialization: Asymmetric Conflict (Insurgency, Counterinsurgency, Small Wars, Terrorism), International Relations Theory, Strategy, Russian Politics and Foreign Policy, Gender and World Politics.

Jack Beermann +
Email: beermann@bu.edu
Specialization: Civil rights; administrative law; federal courts; government and interest groups; local government law.

Thomas Berger ^
Email: tuberger@bu.edu
Specialization: German and Japanese Politics, International Relations and Comparative Government in East Asia, Political Culture.

Taylor Boas *
E-mail: tboas@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, methodology, political communication, electoral campaigns, political behavior.

Edouard Bustin *
E-mail: ebustin@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, AfricanStudies, International Relations.

Houchang Chehabi ^
Email: chehabi@bu.edu
Specialization: German and Japanese Politics, International Relations and Comparative Government in East Asia, Political Culture.

Dino Christenson *
E-mail: dinopc@bu.edu
Specialization: American electoral behavior, quantitative political methodology, public opinion, political communication, political psychology, parties and interest groups.

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

Walter D. Connor *
E-mail: wdconnor@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics.

Michael Corgan ^
E-mail: mcorgan@bu.edu
Specialization: International Security, U.S. Political Institutions, Icelandic Affairs.

Neta Crawford *
E-mail: crawfor@bu.edu
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.

Edward Cunningham ~
E-mail: eac4@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Political Economy (focusing primarily on China), Energy Policy and Governance, Sustainable Development, Chinese Politics.

Joseph Fewsmith *
E-mail: fewsmith@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Chinese Domestic and International Politics.

James Fleming +
E-mail: jfleming@bu.edu
Specialization: Constitutional law; constitutional theory; constitutional interpretation; political philosophy; law and philosophy; theories of democracy; torts; remedies.

Kevin Gallagher ^
E-mail: kpg@bu.edu
Specialization: Economic Development, Trade and Investment Policy, International Environmental Policy, Latin America.

Irene Gendzier *
E-mail: gendzier@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Political Development, International Political Economy, Middle Eastern Studies.

John Gerring *
E-mail: jgerring@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, American Politics, Methodology.

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

William Grimes *
E-mail: wgrimes@bu.edu
Specialization: Japanese and East Asian Political Economy, Japanese Politics and International Political Economy.

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

Douglas Kriner *
E-mail: dkriner@bu.edu
Specialization: American Politics, Separation of Powers, Domestic Politics and the Use of Force.

Timothy P. Longman *
E-mail: longman@bu.edu
Specialization: Religion and politics, human rights, ethnic identity and politics, and gender and politics.

David B. Lyons +
E-mail: dbl@bu.edu
Specialization:Philosophy of Law, Moral and Political Philosophy.

Cathie Jo Martin *
E-mail: cjmartin@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, Political Economy, and Comparative Public Policy.

David Mayers *
E-mail: dmayers@bu.edu
Specialization: International Relations, Diplomatic History, Political Biography.

Manjari Chatterjee Miller ^
E-mail: manjarim@bu.edu
Specialization: Foreign policy and security issues in international relations specializing in South and East Asia.

Augustus Richard Norton ^
Email: arn@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Anthropology

David Scott Palmer *
E-mail: dspalmer@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, Latin American Studies.

Sofia Perez *
E-mail: sperez@bu.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, European Studies, Politics and Business.

Elizabeth H. Prodromou ^
E-mail: ehpk@bu.edu
Specialization: Southeastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Andrew Reeves *
E-mail: areeves@bu.edu
Specialization: Electoral Reforms, Campaign Behavior, Political Behavior, Voting Technology, Legislative Politics.

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

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

Kaila Schilde ^
E-mail: kschilde@bu.edu
Specialization: European Union; European Foreign and Security Policy; Comparative Politics; Defense Acquisition and Technology; Bureaucracy and Interest Groups; Computational Modeling and Simulation.

James Schmidt *
E-mail: jschmidt@bu.edu
Specialization: Political Philosophy.

Vivien A. Schmidt *
E-mail: vschmidt@bu.edu
Specialization: European Political Economy, European Integration, European Politics, France.

Henrik Selin ^
E-mail: selin@bu.edu
Specialization: International Environmental Politics, Sustainable Development, Global Governance and International Institutions, Scandinavia, and Europe.

Mark Silverstein *
E-mail: msilvers@bu.edu
Specialization: American Politics, Public Law.

Anne Short ~
E-mail: agshort@bu.edu
Specialization: Environmental governance, institutional analysis, human-environment relations, sustainability science

Judith Swanson *
E-mail: jswanson@bu.edu
Specialization: Political Philosophy.

Strom Thacker *
E-mail: sthacker@bu.edu
Specialization: International and Comparative Political Economy, Governance, Development, Latin American. Studies, Mexican Political Economy and Politics

Graham Wilson *
E-mail: gkwilson@bu.edu
Specialization: American Politics, Comparative Politics, Business and Government, Interest Groups.

Michael Woldemariam ^
E-mail: mwoldema@princeton.edu
Specialization: Comparative Politics, International Relations, African Politics, Political Violence, Post-Conflict Governance

Min Ye ^
E-mail: ye@bu.edu
Specialization: China Politics, Comparative Political Economy, and Asian International Relations.

* Denotes member of the Political Science Department

^ Denotes member of the International Relations Department

~ Denotes member of the Geography and Environment Department

+ Denotes member of the Law School