Faculty
by Subfield
American
- Richard Bensel, the Gary S. Davis Professor of Government
- American political development, political economy, political culture, and comparative state formation
- Office: 312 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6763
- › rfb2@cornell.edu
- Peter K. Enns, Assistant Professor
- American politics and government: public opinion; representation; quantitative methods
- Office: 205 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-3574
- › pe52@cornell.edu
- Michael Jones-Correa, Professor
- Immigration, race and ethnic politics, urban politics, and political participation
- Office: 305 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-3170
- › mj64@cornell.edu
- Adam Seth Levine, Assistant Professor
- American politics, political behavior, political participation, campaigns and elections, public opinion, survey and experimental design
- Office: 302 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-3844
- › asl22@cornell.edu
- Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Politics
- American government and politics. Public policy and administration
- Office: 116 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6205
- › tjl7@cornell.edu
- Suzanne Mettler, the Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions
- American politics; American political development, public policy, political behavior, gender and politics
- Office: 217 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-3307
- › sbm24@cornell.edu
- M. Elizabeth Sanders, Professor
- Political development, social movements, economic regulation, presidency, foreign policy
- Office: 314 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-2305
- › mes14@cornell.edu
- Martin Shefter, Professor
- American political development; U.S. political institutions; urban politics
- Office: 211 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6767
- › mas34@cornell.edu
- Christopher Anderson, Professor
- Comparative politics, political economy, political sociology
- Office: 308 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8819
- › christopher.anderson@cornell.edu
- Valerie Bunce, the Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies
- Comparative and International Politics. Democratization in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia; authoritarianism; American democracy promotion; nationalism and ethnic conflict
- Office: 204 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6359
- › vjb2@cornell.edu
- Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, Assistant Professor
- Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Violence and State Capacity, Migration, Developing Countries, Latin America
- Office: 219 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-4064
- › gaf44@cornell.edu
- Ronald Herring, Professor
- Comparative politics, South Asia; political economy; development, environmental politics
- Office: 313 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-4060
- › rjh5@cornell.edu
- Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor of American Studies
- Incarceration and citizenship; women's movements; Indian politics: gender and ethnicity
- Office: 319 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8965
- › mfk2@cornell.edu
- Alexander Kuo
- Comparative political economy, Western European politics, business and labor history, and political behavior
- Office: 315 White Hall
- › agk72@cornell.edu
- Andrew Mertha, Associate Professor
- Chinese and Cambodian politics; policy making and implementation; bureaucracy and institutions
- Office: 316 White Hall
- › am847@cornell.edu
- David Siddhartha Patel, Assistant Professor
- Middle Eastern politics; Islam; political culture; institutions; civil and ethnic conflict
- Office: 218 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6758
- › dsp58@cornell.edu
- Thomas B. Pepinsky, Assistant Professor
- Comparative and international political economy, authoritarianism, politics and finance, Southeast Asian politics, Islam
- Office: 322 White Hall
- › pepinsky@cornell.edu
- Kenneth Roberts, Professor
- Comparative politics; Latin American politics and political economy; democratization, party systems; labor and social movements
- Office: 203 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6764
- › kr99@cornell.edu
- Nicolas van de Walle, The Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government
- Comparative politics. Political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa; on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform.
- Office: 206 Uris Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-4076
- › nv38@cornell.edu
- B.R. Anderson, Professor Emeritus
- Comparative government: nationalism; militarism; Southeast Asian studies, especially Indonesia and Thailand.
- Martin Bernal, Professor Emeritus
- Comparative politics of the Middle East, Africa, and East Asia; history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge
- Office: White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-1878
- › mgb4@cornell.edu
- Milton J. Esman, Professor Emeritus
- Ethnic politics; Development politics and administration
- Office: 101 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6760
- › mje5@cornell.edu
- Vivienne B. Shue, Professor Emerita
- FBA State and society in contemporary China; culture and politics in China; topics in Chinese political economy
- › vivienne.shue@sant.ox.ac.uk
- Sidney G. Tarrow, the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government
- Comparative politics: Western Europe; social movements and political parties; comparative communism
- Office: 202A White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6765
- › sgt2@cornell.edu
- Norman T. Uphoff, Professor Emeritus
- Comparative politics: Third-World development; local institutions and participation; South Asia; political economy; development administration. Public policy; sustainable development
- Office: 31 Warren Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-0831
- › ntu1@cornell.edu
- Allen Carlson, Associate Professor
- International Relations, Asian security, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese politics
- Office: 310 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 254-6022
- › arc26@cornell.edu
- Matthew Evangelista, the President White Professor of History and Political Science
- International and transnational relations; war, human rights, ethics, and law; gender and nationalist conflict
- Office: 320 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8672
- › mae10@cornell.edu
- Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies
- Intersection of the fields of international relations and comparative politics; issues of political economy, security and culture in world politics; politics of civilizational states on questions of public diplomacy, law, religion, and popular culture; the role of anti-imperial sentiments, including anti-Americanism; regionalism in world politics; and German politics.
- Office: 321 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6257
- › pjk2@cornell.edu
- Jonathan Kirshner, Professor
- International relations, international political economy, money and finance; Economics and national security; Politics and film.
- Office: 323 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-4120
- › jdk5@cornell.edu
- Sarah Kreps, Assistant Professor
- International relations, international conflict and cooperation, alliance politics, proliferation of WMD
- Office: 317 White Hall
- › sarah.kreps@cornell.edu
- Yuri Orlov, Professor of Physics and Government
- International human rights
- Office: 310 Physical Sciences Building
- Phone: (607) 255-3502
- › yfo1@cornell.edu
- Christopher Way, Associate Professor
- International relations, international and comparative political economy, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
- Office: 306 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8920
- › crw12@cornell.edu
- Jessica Weeks, Assistant Professor
- International security, domestic sources of foreign policy, political methodology
- Office: 318 White Hall
- › jlw338@cornell.edu
- Xu Xin, Adjunct Associate Professor
- Adjunct associate professor and director of China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) program: East Asian international relations; Chinese foreign policy; the Taiwan issue; identity and grand strategy
- Office: 123 McGraw Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-4741
- › xx12@cornell.edu
- Susan Buck-Morss, the Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 Chair in the Social Sciences
- Critical theory and continental theory; visual culture and social theory; political economy and post-colonial theory.
- Office: 102A White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8628
- › sbm5@cornell.edu
- Jason Frank, Associate Professor
- Modern and contemporary political theory; American political thought; democratic theory; political culture
- Office: 307 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6759
- › jf273@cornell.edu
- Alexander Livingston, Assistant Professor
- Contemporary political theory, pragmatism and American political thought, nineteenth-century political thought, politics and morality
- Office: 215 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8270
- › alexander.livingston@cornell.edu
- Isaac Kramnick, the Richard J. Schwarz Professor of Government
- Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to the present
- Office: 311 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-9175
- › ik15@cornell.edu
- Diane Rubenstein, Professor
- Contemporary French political and literary theory; psychoanalytic theory; American cultural studies; the postmodern presidency; visual studies
- Office: 216 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-6463
- › dsr27@cornell.edu
- Anna Marie Smith, Professor
- Jurisprudence and normative political theory; distributive justice, socioeconomic rights, and constitutional law; feminist theory; sexuality studies; critical race theory; the rhetoric of modern State power and citizenship
- Office: 309 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-2708
- › ams3@cornell.edu
- Murad Idris, Postdoctoral Associate
- Political theory, Islamic political thought, continental philosophy, postcolonialism, political theology and secularism, war and peace
- Office: 202 White Hall
- Phone: (607) 255-8480
- › mai48@cornell.edu
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