Faculty
| Name & Contact Information | Subfield(s) | Research Interests | |
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Juliann E. Allison |
International Relations | International political economy, environmental politics |
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William Barndt Assistant Professor 2230 Watkins Hall e-mail: william.barndt@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics | Democratic politics, business and the state, Latin America |
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Benjamin Bishin Associate Professor 2221 Watkins Hall (951) 827-4637 e-mail: ben.bishin@ucr.edu |
American Politics, Mass Political Behavior |
Representation, elections, political behavior, public opinion, Cuban American politics, Congress |
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Shaun Bowler Professor Associate Dean of CHASS 2225 Watkins Hall (951) 827-5595 e-mail: shaun.bowler@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics, Mass Political Behavior |
Electoral systems, voting behavior, U.S. and Europe |
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John Cioffi Associate Professor 2216 Watkins Hall (951) 827-7269 e-mail: cioffi@citrus.ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics | Public law, political economy, regulation, U.S. and Europe |
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Loren Collingwood Assistant Professor 2229 Watkins Hall e-mail: loren.collingwood@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics | American politics, methods, race and ethnic politics |
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Ebru Erdem Assistant Professor (951) 827-5510 e-mail: eerdem@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics | Identity politics, ethnic conflict, Central Asia |
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Kevin M. Esterling Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate Division 2228 Watkins Hall (951) 827-3833 e-mail: kevin.esterling@ucr.edu |
American Politics | Political information, lobbying, public policy, deliberation experiments, statistical estimation of treatment effects |
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Farah Godrej Associate Professor 2213 Watlkins Hall (951) 827-4693 e-mail: farah.godrej@ucr.edu |
Political Theory | Comparative political philosophy, feminist thought, globalization |
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Jana Grittersova Assistant Professor 2230 Watlkins Hall (951) 827-5597 e-mail: jana.grittersova@ucr.edu |
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Indridi Indridason Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Admisions 2227 Watkins Hall (509) 207-4431 indridi.indridason@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics, Formal Theory | Comparative Political Institutions, elections and electoral behavior, coalition formation and the organization of coalition cabinets |
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Martin Johnson Associate Professor & Chair 2222 Watlkins Hall (951) 827-4612 e-mail: martin.johnson@ucr.edu |
Mass Political Behavior, American Politics | Political behavior, public opinion, political psychology |
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John Christian Laursen Professor 2224 Watkins Hall (951) 827-6390 e-mail: johnl@ucr.edu |
Political Theory | History of political thought, skepticism, liberalism, cosmopolitanism, and freedom of the press |
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Bronwyn Anne Leebaw Associate Professor 2213 Watkins Hall (951) 827-7379 e-mail: bronwyn.leebaw@ucr.edu |
International Relations, Political Theory |
Human rights, humanitarian movements, transitional justice |
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Ronald O. Loveridge Director, CSSD & former Mayor of Riverside 2217 Watkins Hall (951) 827-4548 e-mail: ronald.loveridge@ucr.edu |
American Politics | Urban politics, California politics, leadership, public policy |
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John N. Medearis Associate Professor 2226 Watkins Hall (951) 827-4345 e-mail: medearis@citrus.ucr.edu |
Political Theory | Democratic theory, social movements, social science methodology |
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David S. Pion-Berlin Professor 2215 Watkins Hall (951) 827-4606 e-mail: david.pion@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics | Civil-military relations, human rights, Latin America |
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S. Karthick Ramakrishnan Associate Professor 2220 Watkins Hall (951) 827-5540 e-mail: karthick.ramakrishnan@ucr.edu |
American Politics, Mass Political Behavior |
Immigration and race/ethnicity, civic engagement, public policy |
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Yuhki Tajima Assistant Professor 2231 Watkins Hall (951) 827-5797 email: yuhki.tajima@ucr.edu |
Comparative Politics | Communal violence, insurgencies, post-war societies, policing and gangs, and Indonesia. |
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Georgia Warnke Distinguished Professor Director of the Center for Ideas & Society 2232 Watkins Hall (951) 827-1555 email: georgia.warnke@ucr.edu |
Political Theory | Critical theory, hermeneutics, democratic theory and issues of race, sex and gender. |
