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E. Scott Adler Associate Professor	PhD, Columbia University, 1996. American politics, political institutions, legislative process and structure, political economy.
Krister Andersson Assistant Professor	PhD, Indiana University, 2002. Environmental policy, comparative politics, Latin America, local governments, local governance of natural resources, international development assistance.
Aysegul Aydin Assistant Professor	PhD, SUNY Binghamton, 2006. International relations, conflict studies, civil wars.
Vanessa A. Baird Associate Professor Director of Graduate Studies	PhD, University of Houston, 2000. American institutions, judicial politics, law and society.
Andy Baker Associate Professor	PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001. Latin America, mass political behavior, international political economy.
Kenneth Bickers Professor Department Chair	PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988. American politics, public policy.
Carew Boulding Assistant Professor	PhD, University of California, San Diego, 2007. Comparative Politics, Latin America, non-governmental organizations.
David S. Brown Associate Professor	PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 1995. Comparative politics; economic development; Latin American politics.
Hank Brown Professor	JD, University of Colorado, 1969. United States Senator (CO), 1991-1997. President, University of Colorado, 2005-2007. American politics, public policy.
Steve Chan Professor	PhD, University of Minnesota, 1976. International relations, foreign policy, decision-making, political economy, East Asia.
Susan E. Clarke Professor Director, Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS)	PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1979. Urban politics and policy, public policy formation, local economic development policy.
Anne N. Costain Professor Director of Women and Gender Studies	PhD, Johns Hopkins University. American politics, interest groups and social movements, gender politics, media.
Michaele L. Ferguson Assistant Professor On Leave, 2009	PhD, Harvard University, 2003. Contemporary political theory, democratic theory, epistemology and philosophy of language, feminist theory.
J. Samuel Fitch Professor	PhD, Yale University, 1973. Latin American politics, civil-military relations, public policy.
Jennifer Fitzgerald Assistant Professor	PhD, Brown University, 2005. Comparative politics, public opinion, immigration, Western Europe, social context.
Edward S. Greenberg Professor	PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1969. American government and politics, political economy, economic and industrial democracy, the changing workplace and its impact.
Joseph Jupille AssociateProfessor Director, CU European Union Center of Excellence	PhD, University of Washington, 2000. Comparative politics, Western Europe, institutional theory, political economy.
Moonhawk Kim Assistant Professor	PhD, Stanford University, 2005. International relations, international political economy, international organization.
Amy Liu Assistant Professor	PhD, Emory University, 2009. Comparative politics, language regimes, politcal institutions, and Southeast Asia.
David Mapel Associate Professor Director of Undergraduate Studies	PhD, Johns Hopkins University, 1983. Contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy; theories of social justice.
John P. McIver Associate Professor	PhD, Indiana University, 1985. American politics; judicial behavior; empirical theory and methodology.
Horst Mewes Associate Professor	PhD, University of Chicago, 1970. Political philosophy.
Anand Sokhey Assistant Professor	PhD, Ohio State University, 2009. American politics, voting behavior, public opinion, religion & politics, and political methodology.
Sven Steinmo Professor On Leave until 2011	Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987. American politics, comparative politics, political economy, public policy.
Steve Vanderheiden Associate Professor	PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001. Normative political theory, environmental politics.
Jennifer Wolak Assistant Professor	PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004. American politics, political psychology, public opinion.
Scott Wolford Assistant Professor	PhD, Emory University, 2008. International relations, game theory, statistical methods.

instructors and lecturers

Nancy Billica Lecturer	Phone: (303) 492-3998 Email: billica@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 34 Research Interests: American politics.
Doug Costain Senior Instructor	Phone: (303) 492-6806 Email: costaind@colorado.edu Office: Muenzinger D0046 Research Interests: American politics
Janet Donavan Senior Instructor	Phone: (303) 492-6812 Email: janet.donavan@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 34A
Anita Halvorssen Lecturer	Phone: (303) 492-8637 Email: AMHalvorss@aol.com Office: Ketchum 121A Research Interests: International law
Michael Kanner Lecturer	Phone: (303) 492-8637 Email: Michael.Kanner@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 121A
Vince McGuire Senior Instructor	Phone: (303) 735-3019 Email: vincent.mcguire@colorado.edu Website: http://spot.colorado.edu/~mcguire Farrand Residence Academic Program Kittredge Honors Program 180 UCB
Lauri McNown Senior Instructor	Phone: (303) 492-3998 Email: mcnown@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 34 Research Interests: American politics, presidency.
Lapo Salucci Lecturer	Email: Lapo.Salucci@Colorado.edu Office: ebsite: http://sobek.colorado.edu/~salucci/ Research Interests: The political implications of migration and mobility in the European Union. Mobility and sorting in the US. International Debt and its political implications.

graduate part-time instructors

Curtis Bell GPTI	Email: curtis.bell@colorado.edu Office: 5DResearch Interests: Conflict, Democratization, Non-Democratic Regimes
Jonathan Berohn GPTI	Email: jonathan.berohn@colorado.edu Website: http://sobek.colorado.edu/~berohn/ Office: Ketchum 5 Research Interests: Conflict and security studies, focusing specifically on passion and resolve in conflict initiation and duration.
Ozge Cellek GPTI	Email: ozge.cellek@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum Research Interests: Political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, Nationalism, national identity and ethnic identity, Modernity, Theories of democracy, Relation bewteen political apathy and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Denniston GPTI	Email: mark.denniston@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 130A
Erin Mewhinney GPTI	Email: erin.mewhinney@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 5C Research Interests: Political economy of environmental policy, democratic institutions and environmental policy formation
Scott L. Minkoff GPTI	Email: scott.minkoff@colorado.edu Website: http://scottminkoff.com Office: Ketchum 130 Research Interests: Congress, Appropriations, Policy Dynamics, Local Politics, Federalism
Jason Robles GPTI	Email: jason.robles@colorado.edu Website: http://sobek.colorado.edu/~jarobles/ Office: Ketchum 5B
Joshua Ryan GPTI	Email: joshua.ryan@colorado.edu Website: http://sobek.colorado.edu/~ryanjm/ Office: Ketchum 131A Research Interests: American Institutions, Minority Politics, Bureaucracy
Keeley W. Stokes GPTI	Email: wynne@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 124 (CEUCE Office) Research Interests: Immigration, Racism, Minority Politics, Comparative Policy
Aubrey L. Westfall GPTI	Email: aubrey.westfall@colorado.edu Office: Ketchum 5C Research Interests: Immigration and integration policy formation relating to family migrants; asylum and refugee politics; the intersection of international norms and domestic policy-making. Area focus: European Union.
Glenn Wright GPTI	Email: glenn.wright@Colorado.edu Website: http://sobek.colorado.edu/~wrightgd Office: Ketchum 5D Research Interests: Economic and political development, local government, natural resource politics, Latin America

faculty emeritus

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Francis A. Beer	International relations, peace and war, international political psychology, international political communication.
Ronald D. Brunner	Theory and practice of policy sciences.
Dennis R. Eckart	Public policy analysis, urban politics, political ethics, political communication.
Zdenek Krustufek	History of legal and political philosophy, comparative legal systems.m
Conrad L. McBride	American government, U.S. presidency.
William Safran	Comparative politics, industrial democracies, Western Europe - especially France, political parties and interest groups, civil liberties, ethnic politics, citizenship, diaspora, religion and politics, language and politics.
James R. Scarritt	Comparative politics, Sub-Saharan Africa, political change, ethnicity, class, democratization, human rights.
R. Daniel Sloan, Jr.	National, state and local government, national security, budgeting, public administration and policy.
Thad Tecza	American Politics
William O. Winter	North American and European urban politics, American federalism, planning and finance.