Faculty and staff in Saint Louis University’s Department of Political Science have expertise across a broad range of topics.
Their areas of expertise include: the presidency, U.S. state and local politics, Asian politics, Middle East politics, international security and terrorism, polling, administrative law, democratization, revolution and ethnic conflict, political leadership, public policy, civil liberties, race and gender, feminist theory, disability theory, the history of political thought, post-Communist systems, and African and Latin American development.
J. D. Bowen, Ph.D.
Department chair
Matthew Nanes, Ph.D.
Coordinator of graduate studies
Steven Rogers, Ph.D.
Coordinator of undergraduate studies
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D.
Coordinator of the international studies program
Robert Cropf, Ph.D., and Ness Sandoval, Ph.D.
Co-directors of the Ph.D. in public and social policy
Political Science Faculty
Post Basnet, Ph.D.
Ethnic politics, human rights, interstate conflict, politics of South Asia, politics
of the global South
J. D. Bowen, Ph.D.
Latin American politics, political economy of development, race and ethnicity, U.S.
foreign policy
Ellen Carnaghan, Ph.D.
Russian and post-Soviet politics, opposition in autocratic regimes, mass politics
and political change
Nathaniel Carrington, Ph.D.
Judicial politics, American politics, freedom of expression, public opinion, political
psychology
Robert Cropf, Ph.D.
Public administration, e-government, public budgeting
Christopher M. Duncan, Ph.D.
Religion and politics, American political thought
Ali Fisunoglu, Ph.D.
International political economy, political science research methods, international
organization and the management of world problems
Ruth Groff, Ph.D.
History of Western social and political thought and critical theory
Morgan Hazelton, J.D., Ph.D.
American and judicial politics
Nori Katagiri, Ph.D.
Asian politics, international relations, security policy
Wynne Moskop, Ph.D.
American political thought, Aristotle, leadership, feminist theory
Matthew Nanes, Ph.D.
Middle East politics, postconflict policing
Steven Rogers, Ph.D.
American political institutions, electoral politics
Emmanuel Uwalaka, Ph.D.
African politics, international law, comparative and international politics
Kenneth Warren, Ph.D.
Administrative law, electoral politics and polling, American politics
Professors Emeriti
- Eloise Buker, Ph.D.
- James Gilsinan, Ph.D.
- Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux, Ph.D.
- Timothy Lomperis, Ph.D.
- Steven Puro, Ph.D.
Staff
- Claire Bruce, administrative assistant
- Mary Lapusan, administrative assistant