Effective Fall 2024: Applications for the CRS program will no longer be accepted, as the curriculum is integrated into aÌýreimagined degree beginning in Fall 2025. These changes will not affectÌýcurrentÌýstudentsÌýwho will complete the program as expected.
Department Chair
Research interests
- Comparative democratization
- Authoritarianism in Africa
- Politics of constitution-making
Department Director of Graduate Studies
Jennifer Poole Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Global integration on local labor markets
- Information transfer in tradeÌý
- Labor institutions
Core Faculty
Sumitra Badrinathan Assistant Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Political misinformation
- Comparative political economy
Keith Darden Associate Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Politics of Eurasia
- National loyalties and state-building
- Insurgency
Michelle Egan Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Comparative European politics
- Federalism, trade, governance, and law
- Comparative political economy
Agustina Giraudy Professor SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- DemocracyÌýin Latin America
- Subnational politics
- Institutional integrity and accountability
Anders Hardig Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Middle Eastern Islamist movement
- Political Islam in South Asia
- Development of grassroots networkÌý
Claudia Hofmann Hurst Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security
Research interests
- Community resilience
- Transitional organized crime
- Violent conflicts
Gina Lambright Senior Professorial Lecturer SIS | Politics, Governance & Economics
Research interests
- Quality of political institutions
- Decentralization
- Politics of development in Africa
Research interests
- Democracy, dictatorship and resistance
- Racial and ethnic discrimination
- Europe, the US, and Latin America
Research interests
- Politics of the Middle East
- Authoriarianism, protest and repression
- Research methods
Elizabeth Thompson Professor and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace, SIS SIS | Global Inquiry
Research interests
- Liberal constitutionalism in the Middle East
- RaceÌýand gender inÌýinternational law
Joseph Torigian Associate Professor SIS | Global Inquiry
Research interests
- Elite power struggles
- Civil-military relations
- Grand strategy
Research interests
- Democratic backsliding
- Politics of gender in Central East Europe
- Comparative politics
Yang Zhang Associate Professor SIS | Global Inquiry
Research interests
- Comparative historical sociology
- Contentious politics
- Political networks
Quansheng Zhao Professor SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security
Research interests
- Comparative politics of East Asia
- Strategies of great powers in the Asia-Pacific
Affiliated Faculty
Scott Freeman Assistant Professor SIS | Environment, Development & Health
Carolyn Gallaher Professor SIS | Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations
Louis Goodman Professor and Dean Emeritus, SIS SIS | Environment, Development & Health
Garrett Graddy-Lovelace Provost Associate Professor SIS | Environment, Development & Health
Pek Koon Heng-Blackburn Assistant Prof Emerita
Ji-Young Lee Associate Professor SIS | General Academics & Research
