Tom Clark is a scholar of American politics with an interest in the non-democratic uses and consequences of democratic political institutions. His research and teaching interests are in the political economy of judicial politics, policing and public safety, as well as applied formal theory and statistical methodology.
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Professor Dawson’s research interests include black political behavior and public opinion, political economy, and black political ideology. Most recently he has combined his quantitative work with work in political theory.
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Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz is a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Political Science. He works on issues around social movements, immigration, Latinx politics, racial politics, ethnographic methods, and collective resistance. His research looks at the ways that immigrant communities in the U.S. actively resist – both through political mobilization and every-day defiance – the marginalizing experiences produced by the U.S. immigration policy regime.
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Anton Strezhnev's research focuses on applied quantitative methodology, with an emphasis on developing methods for reliable causal inference in observational settings and descriptive analysis of network data. Substantively, he studies international organizations, the empirical analysis of law, and the governance of global trade and investment.
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Molly Offer-Westort works on quantitative methodology for social science research, with a focus on causal inference and experimental design.
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Jon Rogowski’s research focuses broadly on American politics, with specific interests in political institutions, political economy, and the American presidency. His current research projects focus on executive branch politics and the presidency in the contemporary and historical periods.
As MA Programs Faculty Director, Professor Rogowski leads a strategic review and renewal of the division’s MA programs, working closely with faculty and program directors to articulate each program’s pedagogical mission, to evaluate operations and strategy, and to consolidate their position within the division.
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Andrew Eggers is a political scientist whose research focuses on electoral systems, corruption/accountability, the relationship between money and politics, and political development in the U.S., Britain, and France. He also has an interest in research methodology.
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James Robinson has conducted influential research in the field of political and economic development and the factors that are the root causes of conflict. His work explores the underlying relationship between poverty and the institutions of a society and how institutions emerge out of political conflicts.
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Rochelle Terman studies international norms, gender, and advocacy, with a focus on the Muslim world.
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Dr. Posey’s research broadly examines the relationship between American political economy and race, with a focus on the links among capitalism, urban space, technology, and political behavior.
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