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

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

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

Megan Ming Francis

Associate 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

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