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Tom Weirich

Tom Weirich
Class of '04


Choosing the Committee on International Relations was one of the best decisions I made. Combined with its reputation as a top-tier M.A. program, the diversity of students' ethnicity and background and strong tradition of analysis and writing, there is no other program like it.

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Faculty

Professorial Faculty

  • Duncan Snidal, Chair of CIR, Associate Professor of Political Science and the Irving B. Harris School of Graduate Policy Studies, Ph.D., Yale International Relations Theory and International Political Economy.
  • Ralph A. Austen, Professor Emeritus of History, Ph.D., Harvard. African History, Colonialism, Slavery and the Slave Trade.
  • John Boyer, Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History, Ph.D., Chicago. 19th and 20th Century European History, the Origins and Meaning of World War I.
  • Terry Clark, Professor in Sociology, Ph.D., Columbia. Sociology of transnational processes, urban sociology, sociology of culture, social theory.
  • Bruce Cumings, Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy, Ph.D., Columbia. Korean History, U.S. Foreign Policy, International History.
  • Jean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, Ph.D., Brandeis University. Ethics, International Relations Theory, Just War Theory.
  • Michael Geyer, Professor Of Contemporary European History, Ph.D., Freiberg. 20th Century Germany and Europe, Modern Military History.
  • Andreas Glaeser, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ph.D. Harvard. Sociology of Culture, Social Theory, Ethnographic and Quasi-Ethnographic Methods, Identity.
  • Charles Glaser, Professor in the Harris School of Public Policy, Ph.D., Harvard. Security Studies.
  • Susan Gzesh, Lecturer in the Law School. J.D., University of Michigan. Labor and human rights of immigrants and refugees.
  • Gary Herrigel, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., M.I.T. Comparative Politics, European Industrial Political Economy.
  • Patrick Heuveline, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Pennsylvania. Health and mortality, sociology of the family, demographic methods.
  • Seth Jolly , Lecturer in the CIR, Ph.D., Duke. International Political Economy, European Union, Ethnic Politics.
  • Friedrich Katz, Morton Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Latin American History, Ph.D., Vienna. Mexican History, European Expansion in Latin America.
  • Charles Lipson, Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Harvard. International Organization, International Political Economy.
  • Joseph P. Masco, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, Ph.D., University of California San Diego. Politics of everyday life in the nuclear age and in post-Cold War America.
  • John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Cornell. International Relations Theory and Security Studies.
  • Robert Pape, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Chicago. International Relations, National Security Affairs.
  • William L. Parish, Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., Cornell. Comparative Sociology, Work, Family, and Chinese Society.
  • Eric Posner, the Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, J.D. Harvard. Contract Law, Bankruptcy Law, International Law, and the relationship between law and social norms.
  • Martin Riesebrodt, Professor in Sociology and the Divinity School, Ph.D., University of Heidelberg and University of Munich. Social theory, sociology of religion.
  • Nathan Tarcov, Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Harvard. U.S. Foreign Policy, War and Peace in Political Theory.
  • Bernard Wasserstein, The Harriet & Ulrich E. Meyer Professor in Modern European Jewish History, D.Phil. Oxford, D.Litt. Oxford. Modern Jewish and Middle Eastern history and the politics and diplomacy of twentieth-century Europe.
  • Lisa Wedeen, Associate Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Berkeley. Comparative Politics, Interpretive Methods, Middle East Studies, Political Theory, Feminist Theory.
  • Dali Yang, Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., Princeton. Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics.
  • Dingxin Zhao, Associate Professor of Sociology, Ph.D., McGill. Sociology of Media, Social Movements, China.
  • Marvin Zonis, Professor Emeritus in the Graduate School of Business, Ph.D., M.I.T. Middle East and International Political Economy.