FACULTY

Ethan Bernick

Dir. of Public Administration

Associate Professor

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Research Interests: State & local politics; public health programs;
race & politics; policy
Nathaniel Birkhead
Department Head
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Congress; state legislatures; elections; presidency;
American institutions
Sabri Ciftci
Professor
Research Interests: Islam; Muslim political attitudes; Arab public opinion;
Turkish politics
John Fliter
Dir. of Undergraduate Studies
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Supreme Court; law;judicial policy making;
civil rights & liberties; law, politics and literature
Michael Flynn
Dir. of Security Studies
Professor
Research Interests: U.S. foreign policy; political economy; U.S. military
deployments; international relations; international security
Brianne Heidbreder
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Gender & representation; public administration;
urban politics; state & local politics
Laurie Johnson
Dir. of Primary Texts
Professor

Research Interests: Political philosophy; enivronmental

political thought; ideologies; classical liberal theory

Emizet Kisangani
Professor

Research Interests: Civil wars; impact of military interventions;

African politics; international political ecnomoy; international law

Andrew Long
Associate Professor

Research Interests: International conflict & cooperation; the

connection between economics & security; international economy

Jeffrey Pickering
Professor

Research Interests: Global patterns of military intervention; domestic

inequality; interstate cyber incidents; the use of military force abroad

Vera Smirnova
Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Political geography; territorial politics; relations

between land, territory, and power and their various manifestations in

pre- and post-Soviet Russia

Michael Tyburski
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Political implications of international migration

and migrant remittances for both development and security

John Warner
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Political thought; how politics structure

experiences of intimacy; Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Zhiwei Zhang
Associate Professor

Research Interests: Public budgeting & finance; public procurment &

outsourcing; nonprofit finance & management

 

VISITING PROFESSORS

Ju-Ying Yang

Visiting Assistant Professor

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ACADEMIC ADVISORS

Kathy Lillich

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John Fliter

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STAFF

Monica Macfarlane

Office Manager

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