People - Faculty

Christopher Adolph

Associate Professor
cadolph@uw.edu / Gowen 145
Office Hours: By appointment
Comparative Politics, Computational Methods, Data Visualization, Health Policy, Labor, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Public Administration, Public Policy, Quantitative Methods, Statistics

Caitlin Ainsley

Assistant Professor
cainsley@uw.edu / Gowen 44
Office Hours: By appointment
Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Statistics

Jeffrey Arnold

Assistant Professor
jrnold@uw.edu / Smith 221B
Office Hours: By appointment
Computational Methods, Data Visualization, International Relations, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Statistics

W. Lance Bennett

Professor of Political Science; Ruddick C. Lawrence Professor of Communication; Director, Center for Communication and Civic Engagement
lbennett@uw.edu / Gowen 115
Office Hours: By appointment
Civic Engagement, Communication, Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, Media Studies, Political Communication, Sustainability

James A. Caporaso

Professor
caporaso@uw.edu / Gowen 144
Office Hours: By appointment

Rachel A. Cichowski

Associate Professor; Associate Chair
rcichows@uw.edu / Gowen 127
Office Hours: By appointment
Comparative Law and Politics, European Law, Global and Transnational Studies, Human Rights, International Law and Organization, Legal Mobilization, Public Law
Lawrence Cushnie

Lawrence Cushnie

Lecturer
cushnie@uw.edu / Gowen 48
Office Hours: MW 1:00-2:00 and by appointment
American Politics, Civil Rights, Environmental Politics, Labor, Law and Society, Political Resistance & Violence, Political Theory, Public Law, Social Movements

Christine DiStefano

Associate Professor; Department of Political Science; Director NEW Leadership Puget Sound
distefan@uw.edu / Gowen 133
Office Hours: By appointment
African American, American Indian/Native American, Asian American, Civic Engagement, Crime and Criminality, Disability, Environmental Politics, Ethics, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Political Theory
Yoav Duman -- Political Science Lecturer

Yoav Duman

Lecturer
duman@uw.edu / Gowen 114
Office Hours: M 8:30-9:30, W 12:00-1:00
Comparative Politics, European Politics, European Union, Immigration, International Relations, Middle Eastern Politics

Megan Ming Francis

Assistant Professor
meganmf@uw.edu / Gowen 37
Office Hours: By appointment
African American, American Political Development, American Politics, Civil Rights, Law and Society, Legal Mobilization, Minority and Race Politics, Public Law, Race and Ethnicity, Social Movements

Anthony Gill

Professor
tgill@uw.edu / Gowen 25
Office Hours: By appointment
Civil Rights, Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, Game Theory, Human Rights, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Religion, Social Movements, Sociology

Elizabeth Kier

Associate Professor
ekier@uw.edu / Gowen 129
Office Hours: By appointment
European Politics, International Relations, International Security

Karen Litfin

Associate Professor
litfin@uw.edu / Gowen 33
Office Hours: By appointment
Civic Engagement, Contemplative Education, Environmental Politics, International Relations, Service Learning, Social Movements, Sustainability

James D. Long

Assistant Professor
jdlong@uw.edu / Gowen 146
Office Hours: By appointment
Area Studies, Comparative Politics, Crime and Criminality, International Relations, International Security, Minority and Race Politics, Political Economy, Political Methodology, Poverty

George Lovell

Professor, Political Science; Divisional Dean of Social Sciences
glovell@uw.edu
Office Hours: By appointment
American Political Development, American Politics, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Courts, Immigration, Interest Groups, Labor, Law and Society, Public Law

Stephen J. Majeski

Professor, Political Science; Associate Dean for Research Administration and Infrastructure, College of Arts & Sciences
majeski@uw.edu / CMU 044B
Office Hours: By appointment
Computational Methods, Game Theory, International Relations, Political Methodology, Quantitative Methods

Jamie Mayerfeld

Professor
jasonm@uw.edu / Gowen 35
Office Hours: By appointment
Civil Rights, Human Rights, Justice, Law and Society, Political Theory, Public Law

Michael W. McCann

Professor and Chair; Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship
mwmccann@uw.edu / Gowen 47
Office Hours: By appointment
American Political Development, American Politics, Civic Engagement, Civil Rights, Comparative Politics, Labor, Law and Society, Minority and Race Politics, Political Theory, Public Law

Victor Menaldo

Associate Professor
vmenaldo@uw.edu / Gowen 31
Office Hours: By appointment
Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, Latin American, Political Economy

Jonathan Mercer

Professor
mercer@uw.edu / Gowen 135
Office Hours: By appointment
Chris Parker

Christopher Sebastian Parker

Professor
csparker@uw.edu / Gowen 112
Office Hours: MTWThF 2:30-3:00
American Politics, Civil Rights, Minority and Race Politics, Public Opinion, Social Movements, survey research methods

Aseem Prakash

Professor of Political Science; Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences
aseem@uw.edu / Gowen 39
Office Hours: By appointment
Environmental Politics, Human Rights, International Relations, Labor, Political Economy, Poverty, Social Movements, South Asian, Sustainability
Mark Smith

Mark A. Smith

Professor
masmith@uw.edu / Gowen 29
Office Hours: By appointment
American Political Development, American Politics, Interest Groups, Political Communication, Religion, Sociology
Becca Thorpe

Rebecca U. Thorpe

Associate Professor
bthorpe@uw.edu / Smith 221A
Office Hours: By appointment
American Political Development, American Politics, Crime and Criminality, Housing, Incarceration, Justice, Poverty, Public Law, Public Policy, Quantitative Methods
Jack Turner

Jack Turner III

Associate Professor
jturner3@uw.edu / 206-929-1577 / Gowen 131
Office Hours: By appointment
African American, American Political Development, Constitutional Law, Ethics, Feminism and Feminist Theory, Justice, Law and Society, Minority and Race Politics, Political Theory

Geoffrey Wallace

Associate Professor
gprwall@uw.edu / 206-685-5580 / Gowen 139
Office Hours: By appointment
International Institutions, International Law, International Relations, International Security, Political Violence, Public Opinion

Sophia Jordán Wallace

Associate Professor
sophiajw@uw.edu / 206-543-5701 / Gowen 148
Office Hours: By appointment
Immigrant Rights Movement, Immigration, Latino Politics, Latino/a Studies, Public Policy, Race and Ethnicity, Representation, Social Movements, U.S Congress
Susan Whiting

Susan H. Whiting

Associate Professor
swhiting@uw.edu / Gowen 147
Office Hours: By appointment
Area Studies, Comparative Politics, East Asian, Law and Society, Political Economy, Public Law
John Wilkerson

John D. Wilkerson

Professor of Political Science; Director, Center for American Politics and Public Policy
jwilker@uw.edu / Smith 221C
Office Hours: By appointment
American Politics, Computational Methods, Data Visualization, Game Theory, Health Policy, Legislative Politics, Political Methodology, Public Policy, Quantitative Methods, Statistics

Emeriti Faculty

Ellis Goldberg

Professor Emeritus
goldberg@uw.edu / Smith 30
Office Hours: By appointment

Donald Hellmann

Professor Emeritus, Political Science and Jackson School of International Studies
hellmann@uw.edu

Margaret Levi

Professor Emerita
mlevi@uw.edu

Peter J. May

Donald R. Matthews Distinguished Professor Emeritus of American Politics
pmay@uw.edu

Michael Taylor

Professor Emeritus
mjtaylor@uw.edu