Graduate

Introduction

Cornell's graduate field of Government has a large and diverse faculty representing the major theoretical, methodological, and substantive areas of contemporary political science. The ratio of faculty to graduate students is excellent; students have the opportunity to work closely with one or more members of the faculty. The faculty makes a special effort to place successful Ph.D. candidates in their first professional position in what has become a highly competitive and very selective academic market.

Christopher Anderson

Ph.D., Washington University

Comparative politics, political economy, political behavior, political participation, inequality, elections, democracies.

Richard Bensel

Ph.D., Cornell University

American political development, political economy, state theory, parties and elections.

Susan Buck-Morss

Ph.D., Georgetown University

Critical theory and continental theory (including Russia); visual culture and social theory; political economy and the politics of identity.

Valerie Bunce

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Comparative and international politics. Post-communism in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union; transitions to democracy in Europe; regional cooperation and conflict after the Cold War.

Allen Carlson

Ph.D., Yale University

International relations. Chinese foreign policy

Matthew Evangelista

Ph.D., Cornell University

International relations; ethical issues in international affairs. Comparative Foreign Policy.

Jason Frank

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Political theory, American political thought.

Ronald Herring

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin

Comparative politics, South Asia; political economy; development, environmental politics.

Michael Jones-Correa

Ph.D., Princeton University

American politics; inter-ethnic conflict, negotiation and coalition-building in US urban areas; social movements; racial and ethnic identity in the United States; Latin American politics.

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Feminism: women's movement and state policies; Indian politics: gender and ethnicity.

Peter J. Katzenstein

Ph.D., Harvard University

Security policy and political economy; relation between international and domestic politics; Germany in Europe and Japan in Asia.

Jonathan Kirshner

Ph.D., Princeton University

International relations, international political economy, political economy and national security.

Isaac Kramnick

Ph.D., Harvard University

Anglo-American political thought, eighteenth century to the present.

Theodore J. Lowi

Ph.D., Yale University

American government and politics. Public policy and administration.

Sherry L. Martin

Ph.D., Michigan University

Comparative politics (Japan); American politics; mass political participation; party systems; gender and politics, political socialization.

Kenneth Roberts

Ph.D, Stanford University

Comparative politics. Latin American politics, comparative political economy, party systems and political representation, labor and social movements.

Diane Rubenstein

Ph.D, Yale University

Political Thought; Contemporary continental political theory Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, Lacan, Althusser, Bourdieu, Agamben), Psychoanalysis and politics, Political Rhetoric, Western Marxism, Comparative ideology, Visual Studies.

M. Elizabeth Sanders

Ph.D., Cornell University

American political development, social movements, regulation.

Martin Shefter

Ph.D., Harvard University

American political development; U.S. political institutions; urban politics.

Anna Marie Smith

Ph.D., University of Essex

Contemporary democratic theory, post-structuralist theory, theoretical approaches to the study of racism; lesbian and gay studies.

Sidney G. Tarrow

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Comparative politics: Western Europe; social movements and political parties; comparative communism.

Nicolas van de Walle

PhD. Princeton University

Comparative politics. Political economy of development, with a special focus on Africa; on democratization, and on the politics of economic reform. The John S. Knight Professor of International Studies. Professor of Government and Director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

Christopher Way

Ph.D., Stanford University

International relations; International political economy.

Additional Faculty in the Graduate Field of Government

Mabel Berezin

Ph.D., Harvard University

Comparative and Historical Sociology, Culture, Political Institutions and Ideologies, Theory, Qualitative Methods, Economy and Society.

Maria Lorena Cook

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Comparative politics: Latin America, Mexico; political economy, comparative labor movements, social movements.

Sydney van Morgan

Ph.D., Cornell University

Comparative politics; Western Europe; nationalism and identity politics; contentious politics; comparative political parties and elections.

Victor Nee

Ph.D., Harvard University

Theory, Economic Sociology, Stratification/Inequality, Immigration and Race, Transitions from State Socialism.

Judith Reppy

Ph.D., Economics, Cornell University

Peace studies, military; science and technology.

Henry Shue

Ph.D. Princeton, 1970

Ethical issues that arise in international affairs, especially issues about the foreign policy of the United States; relative priority of economic rights; the strength of obligations across national boundaries; the morality of nuclear deterrence; the justice of international cooperation on the environment. He was a founding member of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

Lowell Turner

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Comparative political economy; Western Europe; German unification, comparative labor.

Emeriti Faculty

Benedict R. Anderson

Ph.D., Cornell University

Comparative government: nationalism; militarism; Southeast Asian studies, especially Indonesia and Thailand. Professor Emeritus.

Martin Bernal

Ph.D., King's College, Cambridge

Comparative politics of the Middle East, Africa and East Asia; history of ideas and the sociology of knowledge. Professor Emeritus.

Milton J. Esman

Ph.D., Princeton University

Ethnic politics; development politics and Administration. Professor Emeritus.

Vivienne B. Shue

Ph.D., Harvard University

State and society in contemporary China; culture and politics in China; topics in Chinese political economy. Professor Emeritus.

Norman T. Uphoff

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Comparative politics: Third-World development; local institutions and participation; South Asia; political economy; development administration. Public policy; sustainable development.