Graduate

Introduction

Cornell's graduate field of Government has a large and diverse faculty representing the major theoretical, methodological, and substantive areas of contemporary political science. The ratio of faculty to graduate students is excellent; students have the opportunity to work closely with one or more members of the faculty. The faculty makes a special effort to place successful Ph.D. candidates in their first professional position in what has become a highly competitive and very selective academic market.

Christopher Anderson

Ph.D., Washington University

Comparative politics, political economy, political behavior, political participation, inequality, elections, democracies

Richard Bensel

Ph.D., Cornell University

American political development, political economy, state theory, parties and elections

Susan Buck-Morss

Ph.D., Georgetown University

Critical theory and continental theory (including Russia); visual culture and social theory; political economy and the politics of identity

Valerie Bunce

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Comparative and international politics. Post-communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; transitions to democracy in Europe; regional cooperation and conflict after the Cold War

Allen Carlson

Ph.D., Yale University

International relations. Chinese foreign policy

Peter Enns

Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

American politics; American politics; public opinion; representation; quantitative methods

Matthew Evangelista

Ph.D., Cornell University

International relations; ethical issues in international affairs. Comparative Foreign Policy

Gustavo Flores-Macias

Ph.D., Georgetown University

Concentrations: Comparative politics; Research interests: comparative political economy; state building; migration; organized crime

Jason Frank

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Political theory, American political thought

Ronald Herring

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Comparative politics, South Asia; political economy; development, environmental politics

Michael Jones-Correa

Ph.D., Princeton University

American politics; immigration; inter-ethnic conflict, negotiation and coalition-building in US urban areas; social movements; racial and ethnic identity in the United States

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Feminism: women's movement and state policies; Indian politics: gender and ethnicity

Peter J. Katzenstein

Ph.D., Harvard University

Security policy and political economy; relation between international and domestic politics; Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia

Jonathan Kirshner

Ph.D., Princeton University

International relations, international political economy, political economy and national security

Alexander Kuo

Ph.D., Stanford University

Concentrations: Comparative politics; international relations

Isaac Kramnick

Ph.D., Harvard University

Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to the present

Sarah Kreps

Ph.D., Georgetown University

International relations; interstate and intrastate conflict; international cooperation and institutions; nonproliferation studies; post-Cold War international order; international law and the use of force

Adam Levine

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Concentrations: American politics; Research interests: political behavior; political participation; campaigns and elections; public opinion

Theodore J. Lowi

Ph.D., Yale University

American government and politics. Public policy and administration

Andrew Mertha

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Comparative politics; Chinese politics; political institutions; public policy and political participation in non-democracies; domestic politics and international trade; political socialization in authoritarian regimes

Suzanne Mettler

Ph.D., Cornell University

American politics; Minor Public Policy; American political development; public policy; political behavior; gender and politics; race and politics

David Patel

Ph.D., Stanford University

Comparative politics; international relations; comparative politics; Middle Eastern politics; religion; political culture; civil conflict authoritarianism

Thomas Pepinsky

Ph.D., Yale University

Comparative politics; international relations; comparative and international political economy; authoritarianism; Southeast Asia

Kenneth Roberts

Ph.D., Stanford University

Comparative politics. Latin American politics, comparative political economy, party systems and political representation, labor and social movements

Diane Rubenstein

Ph.D., Yale University

Political Thought; Contemporary continental political theory Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lacan, Althusser, Bourdieu, Agamben), Psychoanalysis and politics, Political Rhetoric, Western Marxism, Comparative ideology, Visual Studies

M. Elizabeth Sanders

Ph.D., Cornell University

American political development, social movements, regulation

Martin Shefter

Ph.D., Harvard University

American political development; U.S. political institutions; urban politics

Anna Marie Smith

Ph.D., University of Essex

Contemporary democratic theory, post-structuralist theory, theoretical approaches to the study of racism; lesbian and gay studies

Sidney G. Tarrow

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Comparative politics: Western Europe; social movements and political parties; comparative communism

Nicolas van de Walle

PhD., Princeton University

Comparative politics. Political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa; on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform. The John S. Knight Professor of International Studies. Professor of Government and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Christopher Way

Ph.D., Stanford University

International relations; International political economy

Jessica Weeks

Ph.D., Stanford University

International Relations, comparative politics; international relations, international security, domestic politics, authoritarian regimes

Additional Faculty in the Graduate Field of Government

Mabel Berezin

Ph.D., Harvard University

Comparative and Historical Sociology, Culture, Political Institutions and Ideologies, Theory, Qualitative Methods, Economy and Society

Stephen Coate

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Political economy; formal theory; campaigns and elections; electoral system

Maria Lorena Cook

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Comparative politics: Latin America, Mexico; political economy, comparative labor movements, social movements

Odette Lienau

J.D., New York University; Ph.D., Harvard University

International law and international relations; international political economy; sovereign debt; international political and legal theory

Fredrik Logevall

Ph.D., Yale University

U.S. foreign relations; history of U.S. diplomacy and foreign policy; international history of the Cold War and Vietnam War

Richard Miller

Ph.D., Harvard University

Political thought and international relations; ethics of international relations, transnational economic relations & war; social justice, status of economic equality, autonomy and community; global power structure; social movements

Sydney van Morgan

Ph.D., Cornell University

Comparative politics; Western Europe; nationalism and identity politics; contentious politics; comparative political parties and elections

Victor Nee

Ph.D., Harvard University

Theory, Economic Sociology, Stratification/Inequality, Immigration and Race, Transitions from State Socialism

Aziz Rana

J.D., Yale University; Ph.D., Harvard University

American political and constitutional thought; American political development; democratic theory; history of social movements; comparative law of postcolonial states

Steven Shiffrin

J.D., Loyola University

Peace studies, military; science and technology

Lowell Turner

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Constitutional law; freedom of speech; freedom of religion; church-state relations

Emeriti Faculty

Benedict R. Anderson

Ph.D., Cornell University

Comparative government: nationalism; militarism; Southeast Asian studies, especially Indonesia and Thailand. Professor Emeritus

Martin Bernal

Ph.D., King's College, Cambridge

Comparative politics of the Middle East, Africa and East Asia; history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge. Professor Emeritus

Judith Reppy

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University

Peace studies, military; science and technology