Department of Political Science

Name	Area of Emphasis	Contact Information
Amit Ahuja Assistant Professor	Comparative Politics, Ethnic Politics, Security Studies, Politics of South Asia Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008	aahuja@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3722 893-1427 http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/ahuja/
Bruce Bimber Professor	Political Communication and Behavior, Digital Media Ph.D. Massaschusetts Institute of Technology, 1992	bimber@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3708 694-8386 http://www.bimber.cits.ucsb.edu
Marguerite Bouraad-Nash Senior Lecturer	Lecturer in Middle East politics	bouraad@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3811 http://www.global.ucsb.edu/faculty/bouraad_nash.html
Kathleen Bruhn Professor	Comparative Politics, Identity, Latin American Studies Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993	bruhn@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3804 893-2999
Benjamin J Cohen Professor	International Relations, International Political Economy Ph.D., Columbia University, 1963 Louis Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy	bjcohen@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3812 893-8763 http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/cohen
P. E. Digeser Professor	Political Philosophy Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1988	digeser@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3717 893-3395
Laurie A. Freeman Associate Professor	Comparative Politics, Political Communication, Japanese Politics, Media and Politics Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996	lfreeman@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3718
Garrett Glasgow Associate Professor	Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Political Parties, Quantitative Methodology Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, 1999	glasgow@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3719 893-5304 http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/glasgow
M. Kent Jennings Professor	American Politics, Political Behavior, Methodology Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1961	jennings@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3806 893-4260
Cynthia S. Kaplan Professor	Comparative Politics: Russian, Tatar, Baltic and Kazakh politics; ethnicity, political behavior and public opinion, social mobilization, framing, democratization, surveys, and qualitative methods Ph.D., Columbia University, 1981	kaplan@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3844 893-3110
Pei-te Lien Professor Graduate Program Director	American Politics, Identity, Asian American Politics, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, Public Opinion and Political Behavior Ph.D., University of Florida, 1995 Affiliated with Asian American Studies and Feminist Studies	plien@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3709 805-893-4983
Lorraine M. McDonnell Professor	American Politics, Politics of Public Policy, Bureaucracy Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975	mcdonnell@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3808 893-7128
Neil Narang Assistant Professor	International Relations, International Security and Conflict Management, Civil War, Political Violence Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2011	narangn@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3710 893-5902
Andrew Norris Associate Professor	Political Philosophy Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995	anorris@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3720 893-5154
Eric R. A. N. Smith Professor Chair	American Politics, Environmental Politics, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Congress, Political Parties Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1982 Affilated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, and the Environmental Studies Program	smith@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3711 893-6160 http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/smith
Heather Stoll Associate Professor	Comparative Politics, Political Parties and Elections, Political Institutions, Quantitative Methods Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005	hstoll@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3715 308-1314 http://www.polsci.ucsb.edu/faculty/hstoll
M. Stephen Weatherford Professor	American Politics, Political Economy, Politics of Public Policy, Representation, Public Opinion and Elections Ph.D., Stanford University, 1976	weatherford@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3810 893-5811
Steve Wiener Lecturer Undergraduate Program Coordinator	American Politics	wiener@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3837 893-3433
John T. Woolley Professor	American Politics, Politics of Public Policy, Political Economy Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980	woolley@polsci.ucsb.edu Office: Ellison 3714 893-7772

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