Department of Political Science Faculty

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Amel Ahmed (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Assistant Professor: Comparative Politics, West European Politics, American Political Development, Normative and Empirical Democratic Theory, Electoral Studies
email: Amel Ahmed
Courses: Comparative Politics, Comparative Democratization, Political Economy of Development, West European Politics

Roberto Alejandro-Rivera (Ph.D., Princeton University)
Professor: Political Theory; American Political Thought
email: Roberto Alejandro
Courses: Plato; Fragmentation and the Social Contract Tradition; Nietzsche; Hermeneutics; Hobbes and the politics of interpretation; Rawlsian justice
Areas of research interests: Greek philosophy and tragedies, Nietzsche, contemporary liberal theory, and American political thought.
Author: The Limits of Rawlsian Justice (1997); Hermeneutics, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere (1993). Co-Author: Las vallas rotas (1982). Articles in Pensamiento Critico, The Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Journal of Politics.

Sonia Alvarez (Ph.D., Yale University)
Professor: Director of Center for Latin American Studies
email: Sonia Alvarez
Courses: Government & Politics of Latin America
Professional Activities: Before coming to UMass, Alvarez was Professor of Politics at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In Brazil, she has been Fulbright visiting professor in the Department of Political Science and the Inter-Disciplinary Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the State University of Campinas and visiting scholars at the Center for Philosophy and Human Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina. She was a Program Officer in Rights and Social Justice for the Brazil Office of the Ford Foundation from 1993 to 1996 and is currently on the national or international boards of editorial advisors of several scholarly journals, including Latin American Politics and Society, Political Geography, Bulletin of Latin American Research and Revista Estudos Feministas. She served as President of the Latin American Studies Association from November 2004 to May 2006.
Author: Engendering Democracy in Brazil: Women's Movements in Transition Politics (1990); Co-editor: The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy (1992); Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Re-visioning Latin American Social Movements (1998); Translocalidades/Translocalities: Feminist Politics of Translation in the Latin/a Américas (forthcoming); Articles in Signs, Feminist Studies, Revista Estudos Feministas, Estudios Latinoamericanos, International Feminist Journal of Politics, Debate Feminista, Meridians, Revista Mora, and numerous edited collections and social movement publications.

Ivan Ascher (Ph.D., Univ. of CA-Berkeley)
Assistant Professor: Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Courses: Modern Political Theory; Poststructuralism and the Politics of Difference; Karl Marx
email: Ivan Ascher
Professional Activities: His primary area of specialization is modern political theory, with a focus on the relation between political theory and language. His research interests include the works of Karl Marx, Max Weber, comparative politics, European politics and post-Soviet studies.

Maryann Barakso (Ph.D., MIT)
Assistant Professor: American Politics
Courses:
email: Maryann Barakso
Professional Activities: Her primary research interests include interest group governance, U.S. social movements, civic engagement, American political development and women in politics.
Author: Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for Women .

Angelica Bernal (Ph.D., Yale)
Assistant Professor: Theory
Courses:
email: Angelica Bernal
Professional Activities: She writes on a wide range of topics, including the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, the European Union, Founding historiography, and indigenous social movements. Author: De la Exclusion a la Participacion: Pueblos Indigenas y Sus Derechos Colectivos en el Ecuador ; De la exclusion etnica a derechos colectivos: Un analisis politico del Ecuador .

John Brigham (Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara)
Professor: Public Law
email: John Brigham; website
Courses: Introduction to Constitutional Law; The Politics of Law; Administrative Law; The Art of the Impossible.
Professional Activities: Fellow, International Institute for the Sociology of Law; Trustee, Law and Society Association; Past President Law and Courts Section, American Political Science Association; Chair, Law and Semiotics Round Table; Editorial Board, Legal Studies Forum.
Author: Law, States and Questions of Significance w/ Roberta Kevelson (1997); The Constitution of Interests (1996); Politics of Entitlement (1990); The Cult of the Court (1987); Civil Liberties and American Democracy (1984); Policy Implementation: Penalties or Incentives (1980); Constitutional Language (1978); Making Public Policy (1977) and articles in various journals and a few web sites.

Brenda Bushouse (Ph.D., Indiana University, M.P.A. Syracuse University)
Associate Professor: Political Science and Public Policy
email: Brenda Bushouse
Courses: Public Policy courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels; Nonprofit Management; Public Management; Urban Politics and Government
Research Interests: Early childhood policy, nonprofit governance, policymaking processes.
Professional Activities: Professor Bushouse is an active member of the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action and is a founding member of the Theories, Issues, and Boundary section. She is also active in the Public Policy section of the American Political Science Association. At UMass, she serves on the Steering Committee of the Center for Research on Families and is an active faculty member of the Center for Public Policy and Administration.
Author: Professor Bushouse’s new book, Universal Preschool: Policy Change, Stability, and the Pew Charitable Trusts, (SUNY Press, March 2009) analyzes the creation of state-funded preschool programs in six states and explores the impacts of foundation funding in state policymaking processes. She recently completed a two-year Leader for the 21st Century Fellow at Zero to Three and is currently working on a study to map out the early childhood advocacy network in the United States. In 2008 she was hosted by the New Zealand Ministry of Education through an Ian Axford Fellowship in Public Policy to study early childhood policy in New Zealand. Her research led to the publication of Early Childhood Education Policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand: The Creation of the 20 Hours Free Programme, “The 20 Hours (Free) Programme, Important Choices for New Zealand’s New Government” (Policy Quarterly 2009), and a forthcoming article, “A U.S. Perspective on the 20 Hours (Free) Programme” in the New Zealand Annual Review of Education. Other published works include an edited volume titled Comparative Public Policy (2005, co-editor) and articles in journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Affairs Education, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, among others.

Charli Carpenter (Ph.D., Oregon)
Assistant Professor:
Courses: Rules of War, Global Agenda-Setting, Humanitarianism, Introduction to World Politics
email: Charli Carpenter
Professional Activities: Her teaching and research interests include national security ethics, the laws of war, transnational advocacy networks, gender and political violence, war crimes, comparative genocide studies, humanitarian affairs and the role of information technology in human security. She has a particular interest in the gap between intentions and outcomes among advocates of human security.
Author: Innocent Women and Children: Gender, Norms and the Protection of Civilians and Born of War: Protecting Children of Sexual Violence Survivors in Conflict Zones.

Barbara Cruikshank (Ph.D., Minnesota University)
Associate Professor and Undergraduate Program Director : Political Theory
email: Barbara Cruikshank
Courses: History of Social and Political Thought; Contemporary Theory and Politics; Feminist and Democratic Theory; The Politics of Sex; Cultural Politics; and seminars in the Social Thought and Political Economy Program.
Professional Activities: Interim Chair of Women's Studies, Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Author: The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects (1999); articles in Socialist Review, Economy & Society, Signs; and book chapters on cultural politics and social policy. Associate Editor of Politics & Gender

Diane Curtis: (JD, New York University School of Law)
Lecturer and Director of Pre-Law
Advising: Law
Email: Diane Curtis
Courses: Poverty Law, Family and the State, Politics of Legal Education
Professional Activities: Director of Pre-Law Advising
Author: The Rights of Families: The Authoritative ACLU Guide (1996); "Doctored
Rights: Menstrual Extraction, Self-Help Gynecological Care and the Law," in the NYU Review of Law and Social Change (1994).

Carlene J. Edie (Ph.D.,University of California at Los Angeles)
Professor: Comparative Politics (Caribbean, Africa); International Relations and Development Studies.
email: Carlene J. Edie
Courses: Caribbean Politics; African Politics; Comparative Politics; Democracy and Development; Politics of Structural Adjustment.
Author: Politics in Africa: A New Beginning? (2002); Democracy by Default: Dependency and Clientelism in Jamaica (1991); Editor: Democracy in the Caribbean: Myths and Realities (1994); Articles in: Social and Economic Studies (2000); Global Development Studies (2000); Africa Development (2000); Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs (1997); Studies in Comparative International Development (1986); Journal of Development Studies (1984); Journal of African Studies (1987).

Eric S. Einhorn (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Professor and Departmental Honors Coordinator: Comparative Politics and Policy; Western Europe; Scandinavia.
email: Eric S. Einhorn
Courses: Comparative Public Policy; European Politics; Comparative Foreign Policies.
Professional Activities: Visiting Research Professor, Institute for Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark (2008). Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Affairs (2000).
Author: “Social Defense and National Security: the Globalized the Danish Welfare State,” in Danish Foreign Policy Yearbook 2006, “Denmark: Euro-Pragmatism in Practice,” in The European Union and the Member States, 2nd ed. Edited by E. Zeff and E. Pirro. (2006), “Liberalism and Social Democracy in Western Europe” in Comparative Democracy and Democratization, H.J. Wiarda, ed. (2001); National Security and Post-War Politics in Denmark (1975). Co-author with John Logue: Modern Welfare States: Politics and Policy in Social Democratic Scandinavia (rev. ed. 2003); “Scandinavia,” in European Politics. Edited by C.Hay and A. Menon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. "Scandinavia; Still the Middle Way?" in Europe Today, edited by R. Tiersky (rev. ed. 2007).

Jane E. Fountain (Ph.D., Yale University)
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy: Organization Theory; Information Technology and Politics; Economic Sociology; Public Policy; Political Sociology; Gender; Science, Technology and Society. Director of the Science, Technology, and Society Initiative; the National Center for Digital Government; and the Women in the Information Age Project
email: Jane E. Fountain ; website
Courses: Organization Theory; Public Policy and Management.
Professional Activities: Advisory roles and consultancies include the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Treasury, U.S. Information Agency, Government of Slovenia, Internet Policy Institute, MacArthur Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Meetup.com. Recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, 2001-present. Interim Director, UMass Amherst Center for Public Policy and Administration, 2006-07. Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow, 1999-2000, 2000-01.
Professional Interests: Visiting Research Professor, Institute for Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark (2008). Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Affairs (2000).
Author:Building the Virtual State: Information Technology and Institutional Change (2001; Chinese translation, 2004; Japanese translation, 2005; Portuguese translation, 2005; Choice Outstanding Title Award); Recent articles include "Challenges to Organizational Change: Facilitating and Inhibiting Information-Based Redesign of Public Organizations," in D. Lazer and V. Mayer-Schoenberger, eds. Governance and Information Technology: From Electronic Government to Information Government (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007); “Central Issues in the Political Development of the Virtual State,” in M. Castells and G. Cardoso, eds. The Network Society: From Knowledge to Policy (Washington, D.C.: Johns Hopkins Center for Transatlantic Relations, 2006); and “Prospects for Improving the Regulatory Process using E-Rulemaking,” Communications of the ACM, 2003. Other articles in Governance, Technology in Society, Science and Public Policy, the National Civic Review. Editorial boards: Journal of Information Technology and Politics, International Public Management Journal.

Sheldon Goldman (Ph.D., Harvard University)
Professor of Political Science and Chief Undergraduate Advisor: Public Law
email: Sheldon Goldman
Courses: Civil Liberties; Constitutional Law; Politics, Law, and Judicial Behavior
Professional Activities: Chair, Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association, 2000-2001 and serving on the editorial boards of several journals. Recipient of Chancellor's Medal and Distinguished Faculty Lecturer, 2004. Recipient of Lifetime Achievement
Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science
Association, 2006.
Author: Picking Federal Judges (Yale University Press, 1997); Constitutional Law: Cases and Essays (2nd ed., Harper Collins, 1991); The Federal Courts as a Political System, (3rd ed., Harper & Row, 1985), American Politics and Government (Scott Foresman/Little Brown, 1990) (co-authored with Barbara Hinckley); American Court Systems (2nd ed., Longman, 1989) (co-authored with Austin Sarat); and Judicial Conflict and Consensus (University of Kentucky Press, 1986) (co-authored with Charles Lamb). He has also authored numerous articles in law journals and professional political science journals. He has contributed numerous book chapters and contributed to several encyclopedias. Recent works include: "Judicial Confirmation Wars: Ideology and the Battle for the Federal Courts" University of Richmond Law Review (2005); "Is There A Crisis in Judicial Selection?" in George C. Edwards (ed.) Presidential Politics (2006); "W. Bush's Judiciary: The First Term Record," (with others), Judicature (2005); "Right to Travel," in Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, 2nd ed. 2005;"Unpicking Pickering in 2002: Some Thoughts on the Politics of Lower Federal Court Selection and Confirmation," in Segal Diascro and Ivers, eds., Inside the Judicial Process (2006); "The Politics of Appointing Catholics to the Federal Courts," University of St. Thomas Law Review (2006); and (with others), "Picking Judges in a Time of Turmoil: W. Bush's Judiciary During the 109th Congress," Judicature (2007).

Peter M. Haas (Ph.D., MIT)
Professor: International Relations; International Relations Theory; International Political Economy; International Environmental Politics; International Institutions; Global Governance.
email: Peter M. Haas
Courses: International Environmental Governance; International Relations Proseminar; Constructivism and Global Governance, International Political Economy, International Environmental Politics.
Professional Activities: Member of the editorial boards of Journal of European Public Policy, Global Environmental Politics, and MIT Press series on Politics, Science and the Environment. Consultancies include United Nations, United Nations Environment Program, US Department of State, US EPA, US CIA, Commission on Global Governance. Fellowships/grants received from the NSF, German Marshall Fund, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
Author: Global Environmental Governance(with Gus Speth), Emerging Forces in Environmental Governance (edited with Norichika Kanie), The International Environment in the New Global Economy (edited), Knowledge, Power and International Policy Coordination (editor), Institutions for the Earth (edited with Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy), and Saving the Mediterranean. Recent articles include "Addressing the Global Governance Deficit" Global Environmental Politics 2004, "When Does Power Listen to Truth?" Journal of European Public Policy 2004, and "Pragmatic Constructivism and the Study of International Institutions" Millennium 2002 (with Ernst B. Haas). Has 16 peer reviewed articles and over 35 chapters in edited books.

John A. Hird (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) Department Chair
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
email: John A. Hird; website
Courses: Controversies in Public Policy; American Public Policy; Public Policy Analysis; Capstone in Public Policy; Environmental Policy
Professional Activities: Areas of interest include policy expertise and advising, the use of information in policymaking, policy analysis, and environmental policy. His prior service includes positions at Resources for the Future, the Brookings Institution, and the President's Council of Economic Advisers. He serves as Co-editor and on the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, and on the Policy Council of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. He was Director of the UMass-Amherst Center for Public Policy and Administration from 1998-2006.
Author: His books include Power, Knowledge, and Politics: Policy Analysis in the States (Georgetown University Press, 2005), Controversies in American Public Policy (Thompson/Wadsworth, 3rd edition, 2004) and Superfund: The Political Economy of Environmental Risk (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994), and he has published articles in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Policy Studies Journal, Yale Journal on Regulation, Social Science Quarterly, and other professional journals.

Raymond La Raja (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
Associate Professor: American Politics
email: Raymond LaRaja; website
Courses: American Politics; Political Parties and Elections; Political Participation.
Professional Activities: Research interests include political parties, interest groups, elections, campaign finance, political participation, state politics, public policy and political reform. Managing editor of the The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics. Academic Advisory Board of the Campaign Finance Institute.
Author: Small Change: Money, Political Parties and Campaign Finance Reform (University of Michigan Press, 2008); articles on political parties, campaign finance and political reform appear in numerous professional publications, including the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management.

Rahsaan Maxwell (Ph.D., Univ. of CA-Berkeley)
Assistant Professor:
Courses:
email: Rahsaan Maxwell
Professional Activities: His research analyzes ethnic minority migrant integration, attitudes, and political behavior, with a particular focus on West Europe.
Author: (Forthcoming in Political Behavior) “Political Trust among British Muslims:
Incorporation and Religious Participation.” (Forthcoming 2009 in Ethnic and Racial Studies) “Caribbean and South Asian identification with British society: The importance of perceived
discrimination." (Forthcoming 2009 in Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies) “Political
Participation in France among Non-European Origin Migrants: Segregation or
Integration?” (2008) “Assimilation, Expectations, and Attitudes: How Ethnic Minority Migrant
Groups Feel About Mainstream Society.” Du Bois Review, Vol. 5, No. 2, September
2008, pp. 387-412. (2008) "Inclusion Versus Exclusion: Caribbeans in Britain and France" in S.
Karthick Ramakrishnan and Irene Bloemraad eds. Civic Hopes and Political
Realities: Immigrants, Community Organizations, and Political Engagement, New
York: Russell Sage Foundation Press. (2006) “Muslims, South Asians, and the British mainstream: a national identity crisis?” West European Politics, Vol. 29, No. 4, September 2006, pp. 736-56.

Tatishe Nteta (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley)
Assistant Professor: American Politics; Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Political Behavior
email: Tatishe Nteta
Courses: Introduction to American Politics; Race and Politics; African American Politics; Public Opinion in Politics
Author: Plus Ca Change, Plus C’est La Meme Chose (2006)

M.J. Peterson (Ph.D., Columbia University)
Professor: World Politics; International Institutions; International Political Economy; technology and technological change.
Courses: International Institutions; Making a Global World; 1500-2000 International Law; International Organizations; World Politics; International Relations Pro-seminar.
email: M.J. Peterson; website
Professional Activities:President of the New England Political Science Association (2005-06); Council of the American Society of Inter-national Law (1998-2001); member of editorial committee, Global Governance (1993-2006); editor of Polity (1994-1999).
Author: International Regimes for the Final Frontier (2005); The UN General Assembly (2005); Recognition of Governments: Legal Doctrine and State Practice 1815-1995 (1997); Managing the Frozen South: The Origin and Evolution of the Antarctic Treaty System (1988); The General Assembly in World Politics (1986); “Diverging Orbits: Situation Definitions in Creation of Regimes for Broadcast and Remote Sensing Satellites,” American Political Science Review (2004); "The Use of Analogies in Developing Outer Space Law," International Organization (1997); "The Emergence of a Mass Market for Fax Machines," Technology in Society (1995), "Whalers, Cetologists, Environmentalists and the International Management of Whaling," International Organization (1992) and other articles and chapters.

Laura Reed (Ph.D., MIT)
Lecturer: International Relations; International Relations Director; Internship Director, advising majors on programs and opportunities for work, study and service.
Courses: Globalization, Governance and World Order; Citizenship in the Nuclear Age: Nuclear Politics from Hiroshima to Iran; American Foreign Policy; Topics in International Relations.
Email: Laura Reed
Professional Activities: Former Assistant Director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies; Fellow, Managing the Atom Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Research Scientist, MIT's Security Studies Program; Program Officer at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Secretary of the U.S. Pugwash Committee (which received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995). Reed has taught at Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Boston College, and Wellesley College. Her research interests include: U.S. national security policy; implications of globalization for peace and security; nuclear security, nonproliferation, and disarmament initiatives; emerging norms of humanitarian intervention and collective responses to transnational problems. Fellowships/grants received from: the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Ploughshares Fund, and the U.S. Institute of Peace, among others.
Author: Lethal Commerce: The Global Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons (edited with Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael Klare); Collective Responses to Regional Problems: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean (edited with Carl Kaysen and Robert A. Paster); Emerging Norms of Justified Intervention edited with Carl Kaysen). Other publications include: "A Perilous Path to Security? Weighing U.S. 'Biodefense' Against the Risk of Qualitative Proliferation," in Biological Warfare and Disarmament: New Problems/New Perspectives; "Rethinking Security from the Ground Up," in Breakthroughs; "Evolving Security Regimes" and "Evolving Governance Regimes," in World's Apart: Human Security and Global Governance.

Jesse Rhodes (Ph.D., Virginia, 2008)
Assistant Professor:
Courses: Education Politics
email: Jesse Rhodes
Professional Activities: The central axis of his research agenda is the study of modern conservatism and its reckoning with the liberal state. His research extends to American political development, social policy, institutions, parties and social movements, education politics, and state politics and policy.
Author: Co-author of "George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the 'New' American Party
System," Perspectives on Politics (2007); "George W. Bush, the Republican Party,
and American Federalism," Publius (2007); "Barack Obama, the Democratic Party,
and the Future of the New American Party System," The Forum (2009), and "The
President, Party Politics, and Constitutional Development", Oxford Handbook of
Political Parties (2009).

Dean E. Robinson (Ph.D., Yale University)
Associate Professor: U.S. Politics; Policy and Health Disparities; Afro-American Politics and Social Thought; Race and American Political Development.
Courses: U.S. Politics and Health Inequalities; Black Politics; American Political Thought; Introduction of American Politics
email: Dean E. Robinson
Author: (co-author) Health Disparities By Race and Class: Why Both Matter (2005); The Black Family and US Social Policy (2003); Black Nationalism In American Politics and Thought (2001).

Srirupa Roy (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania)
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director: Comparative Politics email: Srirupa Roy
Courses: Nationalism, Ethnicity, Identity; Nationalism Through Film; Religion and Nationalism in South Asia ; Politics, Culture, and Society in South Asia ; Violence and the State
Professional Activities: Recipient of grants from the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program; the SSRC-Middle East and North Africa Program; and a Rockefeller Humanities Residential Fellowship at New York University. Research Interests: nationalism; state theory; politics and culture; secularism and religious nationalism; South Asia; Turkey.
Author: Beyond Belief: Culture, Politics, and Nation-State Formation In India (Duke University Press, forthcoming 2006), book chapters, and journal articles in Comparative Studies in Society and History (2006); Journal of Asian Studies (2006); Contributions to Indian Sociology (2003); Interventions (2002); South Asia (1999).

Frederic Schaffer (Ph.D., Univ. of CA-Berkeley)
Assistant Professor: Comparative Politics
Courses: The Language of Politics, What is Politics? Is Democracy Possible Everywhere?
email: Frederic Schaffer
Professional Activities: His research interests involve comparative election reform, with particular emphasis in Africa and East Asia, vote buying, politics and culture, and qualitative methods including ordinary language interviewing.
Author: The Hidden Costs of Clean Elections Reform; Elections for Sale: The Causes and Consequences of Vote Buying; Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture.

Brian Schaffner (Ph.D., Indiana)
Assistant Professor: American Politics
Courses:
email: Brian Schaffner
Professional Activities: His research interests include political communication, political parties and elections, and political behavior.
Professional Activities: He is co-editor of Congress & the Presidency. During the 2008-2009 academic year, he is serving as Program Director for the Political Science program at the National Science Foundation.
Author: Co-author of Politics, parties and elections in America, 6th ed. His research has appeared in over a dozen refereed journal articles, including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Communication, Political Research Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. Schaffner has twice been honored as co-recipient of best paper awards. He is also a regular contributor to the award-winning political site Pollster.com.

Jillian Schwedler (Ph.D., New York University)
Associate Professor: Comparative Politics
email: Jillian Schwedler
Courses: Political Culture, Repression and Dissent, Democratization, Civil Society and the Public Sphere, Contentious Politics, Ethnographic Methods, Political Islam, Middle East Politics
Professional Activities: Recipient of grants from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the United States Institute of Peace, the Fulbright Scholars Program, among others. Chair of the Board of Directors of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), publishers of the quarterly Middle East Report. Current research interests include political culture, protest and policing in Jordan, contentious politics, and state repression.
Author: Faith in Moderation: Islamist Parties in Jordan and Yemen (Cambridge, 2006; second printing 2007), winner of the 2007 Best Book Award of the Democratization Section of the American Political Science Association. Co-Editor (with Deborah J. Gerner) of Understanding the Contemporary Middle East (2004), a Choice Magazine Outstanding Title of 2004. Editor of Islamist Parties in Jordan (1997) and Toward Civil Society in the Middle East (1995). Articles have appeared in Social Movement Studies (2005), Comparative Politics (2003), Journal of Democracy (2003), SAIS Review of International Affairs (2001), among others. Chapters have appeared in numerous edited volumes, including Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach (2003).

Stuart Shulman (Ph.D., Oregon)
Assistant Professor: American Government, Environmental Policy, Public Administration, and Research Methods
Courses: American national government, environmental policy, sprawl, information technology, qualitative research methods, digital citizenship, governance, and service-learning.
email: Stuart Shulman
Professional Activities: His research interests include electronic rulemaking, human language technologies, manual annotation, digital citizenship, and service-learning efforts in the United States. He also edits the Journal of Information Technology and Politics and directs the Qualitative Data Analysis program.
Author: List of Publications

Nicholas Xenos (Ph.D., Princeton University)
Professor: Political Theory
email: Nicholas Xenos
Courses: Modern Political Theory; The Politics of European Film; Issues in Political Theory; Graduate Seminars on Machiavelli, Spinoza, Rousseau, Heidegger, and Walter Benjamin.
Professional Activities: Member, Hendrix College National Advisors on the Liberal Arts and the Future of Democracy in America; Editor of Polity (1999-2005).
Author: Cloaked in Virtue: Leo Strauss and the Rhetoric of American foreign Policy (2008); Scarcity and Modernity (1989). Articles in The London Review of Books, Logos, Critical Review, Political Theory, Grand Street, and other journals.