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Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Oregon; M.Ed., Boston University; Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
Research interests include race & ethnicity, public opinion, immigration, intergroup solidarity, methodology.
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Freedom Project Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science
B.A., M.A., Ankara University; Ph.D., State University of New York (Binghamton)
Research interests include political economy, intellectual property, cultural expressions, foreign policy, international organizations, the Middle East, and the Kurdish question.
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Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of Minnesota (Minneapolis); M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkeley)
Research focuses on the roleof courts, rights, and litigationin public policy and politics.
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Professor of Political Science
B.A., Haverford College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
人类德感兴趣的政治维度velopment, especially policies that promote education, employment, health, and dignity in Southern Asia.
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Knafel Assistant Professor of Social Sciences; Assistant Professor of Political Science
A.B., Brown University; M.A., Ph.D., University of Michigan
Studies American politics with an emphasis on race and ethnicity, public opinion, and political psychology
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
B.A., Georgetown University; Ph.D., University of Texas (Austin)
Research interests include the political behavior, mobilization, and transnationalism of Afro-Latin Americans and their descendants.
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Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science; Faculty Director, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs
A.B., University of Chicago; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Researching issues of international security with a specific focus on legitimacy, rising powers, and territorial conflict.
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Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., College of William and Mary; M.A., Ph.D., Duke University
Researches and teaches political theory, with a focus on grassroots organizing and the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture.
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Professor of Political Science
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University
My area of research interest is contemporary Chinese politics and ideology, particularly the radicalism of Mao Zedong and its impact on China's political and economic development.
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Visiting Lecturer in Political Science
A.B., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University
My primary research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of foreign policy and international institutions.
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Professor of Political Science
B.A., University of California (Berkeley); M.A., Ph.D., Columbia University
My primary area of research and teaching in political science is international relations, with a focus on American foreign policy.
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Visiting Lecturer in Political Science
B.A., University of San Francisco ; M.A., Ph.D., University of California (Berkley)
Paul Martorelli received his Ph.D. in Political Science with a Designated Emphasis in Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. His primary focus is political theory.
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Visiting Lecturer in Political Science
B.A., George Washington University; M.A., Naval Postgraduate School
My research explores the role of philosophical premises in shaping foreign policy decision-making, with a focus on the Chinese intellectual tradition.
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Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of Asian Studies; Professor of Political Science
A.B., Smith College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University
Expert on the U.S.-Korea alliance and comparative social movements in East Asia (democratization, women's movements, migrant workers, human rights); migration and identity politics.
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Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor of Political Science
B.A., Grinnell College; M.A., Ph.D., University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill)
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Assistant Professor of Political Science
M.A., University of Edinburgh; M.Sc., London School of Economics; M.A., Ph.D., Cornell University
International political economy with a focus on global governance, the politics of international finance and central banking
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Associate Professor of Political Science
B.A., Lafayette College; J.D., Emory University; Ph.D., University of Chicago
Professor of American politics and constitutional law. Research focuses on the U.S. justice system.
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Visiting Lecturer in Political Science
B.A., Tsinghua University (China); M.A., Peking University (China); M.A., Boston College
Research and Teaching Interests
International Relation Theory; International Security; Chinese Foreign Policy; U.S.-China Relations; Social Statistics; Research Methods
Faculty
Political Science Faculty 2021-2022
Faculty in other Departments/Programs who Teach Courses Cross-listed with Political Science
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Associate Professor of Peace and Justice Studies
B.S., Università degli Studi di Firenze; M.A., University of Notre Dame; Ph.D., University of Southern California
Scholar and activist around issues of peace and gender.
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Assistant Professor of Africana Studies
B.A., Linfield College; M.A., Ph.D., Georgia State University
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Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies
B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Focuses on environmental politics,international environmental law,ocean and atmospheric issues, andprotection of the global commons.
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Whitehead Associate Professor of Critical Thought; Associate Professor of Peace & Justice Studies
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., Ph.D., Emory University
Research on how marginalized communities such as Palestinian refugees improve their well-being.
Emeriti Faculty
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Professor Emerita of Political Science
B.A., Barnard College; M.A., Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D., Columbia University
Research and teaching focuses on elections, politics, and the media.
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Norma Wilentz Hess Professor Emeritus of Political Science
B.A., Yale College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Joel Krieger is a scholar of comparative and international politics.
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Professor of Political Science Emerita
B.A. Radcliffe College, Ph.D. Columbia University
Professor of Political Science Emerita at Wellesley College
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Betty Freyhof Johnson ’44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science
B.A., Carleton College; Ph.D., Harvard University
Researcher on food and agricultural policy, with a focus on farming technologies and poverty in the developing world.
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William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Political Science
B.S.Tuskegee Institute, Ph.D. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Retired from teaching, but just released a new book entitled,The Transformative City: Charlotte Takeoffs and Landings.
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Professor Emeritus of Political Science
B.A. Amherst College; Ph.D. Columbia University
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Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science, Emeritus
B.A. Brown University, M.A. Princeton University, Ph.D. Princeton University
Taught political theory courses at Wellesley. Main research field was American Political Thought.
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Senior Lecturer Emerita in Political Science
B.A., Cornell University; M.A., Princeton University
Focuses on the politics of development, inequality and democracy in Latin America.
