Heather Stoll
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005

e-mail: hstoll@polsci.ucsb.edu
personal home page: http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/hstoll

Fields of Interest: Comparative Politics; Political Methodology; Politics of Advanced Industrial Democracies; Middle Eastern (especially Israeli) Politics

Professor Stoll's research interests range from comparative politics to political methodology. Her substantive interests focus on political representation; political parties and elections; and political institutions. She has regional expertise both in Western Europe and in the Middle East, particularly in Israel. Her dissertation was recently awarded the 2005 Seymour Martin Lipset Award for the best dissertation in the comparative field by the Society for Comparative Research. Prior to joining the faculty at UCSB in 2005, Stoll spent a year as a research fellow at the Center for Basic Research in the Social Sciences at Harvard University. She also has an M. S. in statistics from Stanford University and an M.Phil in politics from the University of Oxford.

Courses Taught:
PS 104 Introduction to Research in Political Science (undergraduate)
PS 149 Israeli Politics (undergraduate)
PS 196 Senior Seminar: Comparative Party Politics (undergraduate)
PS 205 Political Research Methods I (graduate)