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Faculty & Staff
Department Chair & Program Directors
Paul Kowert
Chair of the Political Science Department
paul.kowert@umb.edu
Heike Schotten
Associate Chair
heike.schottten@umb.edu
Luis Jiménez
Director of the IR Major
luis.jimenez@umb.edu
Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty
Joseph M. Brown, Associate Professor
Expertise: International Relations, Peace and Conflict Studies, Non-State Actors, Signaling, Research Methods
Elizabeth Bussiere, Associate Professor
Expertise: American politics, Law and the Courts, Welfare Policy, and The Jury System
Leila Farsakh, Associate Professor
Expertise: Middle East Politics, Comparative Politics, Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Jose Gomez, Assistant Professor
Expertise:
Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Associate Professor
Expertise: Ancient and contemporary political theory, decolonial theory, critical theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, critical philosophy of race, poststructuralism, settler colonial critique
Luis F. Jiménez, Associate Professor
Expertise: Latin American politics, Mexican politics, immigration politics, Latino politics
Shuai Jin, Associate Professor
Expertise: Comparative Politics, Economic Inequality and Redistribution, Chinese Politics, Public Opinion, Quantitative Methods
Travis Johnston, Assistant Professor
Expertise: American Politics, Legislative Institutions, Policy Policy, Political Behavior, and Research Methods
Michelle Jurkovich, Associate Professor
Expertise: Food security, economic and social rights, ethics, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations
Paul Kowert, Chair and Associate Professor
Expertise: International relations theory, U.S.-Japan relations, foreign policy analysis, political psychology, research design
Erin O’Brien, Professor
Expertise: Public Policy; Politics of Poverty and U.S. Social Welfare Policy; Stratification, Politics, and Policy; Political Behavior; Urban Politics; Research Methods and Epistemology; American Politics
C. Heike Schotten, Professor and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Expertise: Political theory: ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought; Nietzsche studies Critical theory: queer theory and politics, biopolitics, feminist political theory, feminist and gender theory, radical/revolutionary political theory, Islamophobia and the War on Terror
Paul Watanabe, Professor and Director of the Institute for Asian American Studies
Expertise: American Foreign Policy, American Political Behavior, Ethnic Group Politics, and Asian Americans
Lecturers and Visitors
Caroline Coscia, Senior Lecturer II
Jerome Klassen, Lecturer
Expertise: International relations, political economy, U.S. grand strategy, Canadian foreign policy, development economics, corporate network analysis, social movements
Ursula Tafe, Senior Lecturer
Expertise: International Organization, Democratic Peace Theory
Faculty Emeriti
Tom Ferguson, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Diane Paul, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts
Department Staff
Linda Uch, Administrative Assistant II, Department of Political Science