Short biographies of faculty members are arranged in alphabetical order. Please use the index 
below. 

     A-D     E-H     I-N     O-Z 
 

  • John H. Aldrich (Ph.D., University of Rochester)

    • Professor of Political Science 
    American politics and behavior, formal theory, and methodology 
    408 Perkins Library, 660-4346, aldrich@acpub.duke.edu 
  • William Ascher (Ph.D., Yale University)

    • Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science 
    Politics of development, public policy, Latin America, natural resource policy, and political-economic forecasting 
    124 Sanford Institute, 613-7315, ascher@pps.duke.edu 
  • John Brehm (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

    • Associate Professor of Political Science 
    Political psychology with applications in compliance, public opinion, and political organizations 
    303A Perkins Library, 660-4336, jbrehm@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Romand Coles (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    Continental political philosophy, critical theory, existential phenomenology, post-modernism and Marxist thought 
    407 Perkins Library, 660-4310, coles@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Kimberley F. Curtis (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

    • Assistant Professor of The Practice of Political Science and of Women's Studies 
    Political theory with particular concentration in contemporary continental work and feminist theory 
    320 Perkins Library, 660-4320, kcurtis@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Albert F. Eldridge (Ph.D., University of Kentucky)

    • Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning 
    International politics and American foreign policy 
    411 Old Chemistry, 684-4230, afe@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Peter D. Feaver (Ph.D., Harvard University)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    International relations and national security studies 
    331 Perkins Library, 660-4331, pfeaver@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Peter G. Fish (Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University) 

    • Professor of Political Science and of Law 
    Public law and the judicial process, and the development of U.S. courts and law 
    503 Perkins Library, 660-4329, pfish@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Christopher F. Gelpi (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    Sources of international militarized conflict and strategies for international conflict resolution 
    318 Perkins Library, 660-4318, gelpi@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Michael A. Gillespie (Ph.D., University of Chicago) 

    • Professor of Political Science 
    Political philosophy, with particular emphasis on modern continental theory and American political thought 
    308 Perkins Library, 660-4308, mgillesp@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Henk E. Goemans (Ph.D., University of Chicago)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    International relations, specializing in security studies 
    301A Perkins Library, 660-4345, hgoemans@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Ruth W. Grant (Ph.D., University of Chicago) 

    • Associate Professor of Political Science 
    Political theory with particular interest in early modern philosophy and political ethics 
    409 Perkins Library, 660-4316, grant@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Joseph M. Grieco (Ph.D., Cornell University) Professor of Political Science 

    • Theories of international relations and problems of international political economy 
    315 Perkins Library, 660-4315, grieco@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Paul Gronke (Ph.D., University of Michigan) 

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    American Politics and Methodology 
    303 Perkins Library, 660-4366, gronke@acpub.duke.edu 
  • James T. Hamilton (Ph.D., Harvard University) 

    • Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Economics, and Political Science 
    Regulatory economics, industrial organization, and public choice analysis 
    211 Sanford Institute, 613-7358, jayth@pps.duke.edu 
  • Ole R. Holsti (Ph.D., Stanford)

    • George V. Allen Professor of Political Science and Director of Undergraduate Studies 
    International politics and foreign policy decision-making 
    302 Perkins Library, 660-4348, holsti@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Donald L. Horowitz (Ph.D., Harvard University)

    • James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science 
    The legal process, government lawyers, ethnic politics, and military coups 
    3024 Law School, 613-7058, dhorowitz@law.duke.edu 
  • Jerry F. Hough (Ph.D., Harvard University)

    • James B. Duke Professor of Political Science 
    The government and politics of the Soviet Union and Soviet American relations 
    301C Perkins Library, 660-4347, jhough@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Sheridan W. Johns (Ph.D., Harvard University)

    • Associate Professor of Political Science 
    Africanist who also teaches in the areas of comparative politics and international resource politics 
    401 Perkins Library, 660-4341, johns@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Robert O. Keohane (Ph.D., Harvard University)

    • James B. Duke Professor of Political Science 
    Author of After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy , International Institutions and State Power: Essays in International Relations Theory, co-author of Power and Interdependence: World Politics in Transition and Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research Studies Association, 1988-89, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 
    504 Perkins Library, 660-4322, rkeohane@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Sanford H. Kessler (Ph.D., Boston College)

    • Adjunct Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University and Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at North Carolina State University 
    American political thought, and religion and modern political theory 
    North Carolina State University, 737-2481 
  • Elizabeth Kiss (D.Phil. B.Phil., Oxford)

    • Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Philosophy and Director of the Kenan Ethics Program 
    Moral and political philosophy focusing on human rights and on the application of rights theories to issues of ethnic conflict and nationalism 
    102 West Duke, 660-3033, ekiss@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Herbert P. Kitschelt (Ph.D., University of Bielefeld, Germany)

    • Professor of Political Science 
    European political systems, comparative public policy, political economy, and 20th century European social theory 
    405 Perkins Library, 660-4343, h3738@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Allan Kornberg (Ph.D., University of Michigan)

    • Norb F. Schaefer Professor of Political Science 
    Political parties, legislatures,and comparative political behavior 
    304 Perkins Library, 660-4302, kornberg@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Peter Lange (Ph.D., M.I.T.)

    • Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department 
    Comparative politics and political economy and twentieth century European politics 
    402 Perkins Library, 660-4303, plange@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Alasdair MacIntyre (M.A., Manchester)

    • Arts and Sciences Professor of Philosophy and Political Science 
    Author of A Short History of Ethics, After Virtue, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry, and numerous other books and articles in philosophy and political theory 
    203A West Duke, 660-3047 
  • Margaret A. McKean (Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley)

    • Associate Professor of Political Science 
    Japanese politics and environmental and resource politics 
    502 Perkins Library, 660-4340, mamckean@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Frederick W. Mayer (Ph.D., Harvard)

    • Associate Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science and Director of the Center for North American Studies 
    Focuses on the onnection between domestic politics and international relations, particularly for international trade policy;  the relationship between rational choice and constructivist approaches to political science; and methods for practical political analysis 
    208 Sanford Institute, 613-2723, mayer@pps.duke.edu 
  • Ellen P. Mickiewicz (Ph.D., Yale University)

    • James R. Shepley Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science 
    Director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Communications and Journalism, Director of the Commission on Radio and Television Policy of Duke University and the Carter Center 
    143 Sanford Institute, 613-7340, epm@pps.duke.edu 
  • Scott Morgenstern (Ph.D. University Of California, San Diego)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    Latin American politics, with emphases on executive-legislative relations, electoral systems and political parties 
    336 Perkins Library, 660-4350, smorgens@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Michael C.. Munger (Ph.D Economics, Washington University)

    • Associate Professor of Political Science 
    Methods, American institutions, ideology of racism in the slave South, and low-level radioactive waste disposal 
    301B Perkins Library, 660-4342, munger@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Emerson M.S. Niou (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin)

    • Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Graduate Studies 
    Formal theory, international relations, political economy, and East Asian politics 
    406 Perkins Library, 660-4307, niou@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Jean F. O'Barr (Ph.D., Northwestern University)

    • Adjunct Professor of Political Science and university Director of Women's Studies 
    Feminist theory with particular emphasis on women and education and gender and politics 
    210 East Duke Building, 684-5683, jeanobar@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Marion Orr (Ph.D., University of Maryland)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    Urban politics and urban public policy and African-American politics 
    314 Perkins Library, 660-4314, orr@acpub.duke.edu 
  • David L. Paletz (Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles)

    • Professor of Political Science 
    American politics, particularly the relationships between politics and the mass media of communication 
    501 Perkins Library, 660-4321, paletz@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Noah M. Jedidiah Pickus (Ph.D., Princeton)

    • Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Political Science 
    Relation between public policy, democratic theory and constitutional law 
    237 Sanford Institute, 613-7343, pickus@pps.duke.edu 
  • David E. Price (Ph.D., Yale University)

    • Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Studies 
    American politics, political theory, and ethics and public policy 
    on leave 
  • Tianjian Shi (Ph.D., Columbia University)

    • Assistant Professor of Political Science 
    Comparative politics with an emphasis on China, foreign policy and communism 
    306 Perkins Library, 660-4306, tshi@acpub.duke.edu 
  • Thomas A. Spragens, Jr. (Ph.D., Duke University)

    • Professor of Political Science 
    Modern political theory and the contemporary theory of liberal democracy 
    313 Perkins Library, 660-4313, spragens@acpub.duke.edu