Core Faculty | Committee on International Relations

Paul Staniland, Chair, Committee on International Relations, Professor of Political Science, PhD, MIT. Civil War, Ethnic Politics, South Asia.
Burcu Pinar Alakoc, Associate Instructional Professor in CIR, PhD, University of Colorado Boulder. International Security, Terrorism, Political Violence, Refugee and Migration Studies.
Michael Albertus, Professor of Political Science, PhD, Stanford University. Politics of Redistribution, Democracy and Dictatorship, Clientism, Latin America.
Curtis Bradley, Allen M. Singer Professor of Law, JD, Harvard University. International Law, Foreign Relations Law.
Ralph A. Austen, Professor Emeritus of African History and African Studies, PhD, Harvard. African History, Colonialism, Slavery and the Slave Trade.
John Boyer, Martin A. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of History, Dean of the College, PhD, Chicago. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European History, Origins and Meaning of World War I.
Mark Philip Bradley, Bernadotte E. Schmitt Distinguished Service Professor of International History and Faculty Director of the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, PhD, Harvard. Twentieth Century US International History, Global History of Human Rights Politics, Postcolonial Southeast Asia.
Austin Carson, Associate Professor of Political Science, PhD, Ohio State University. International Security, International Relations Theory, Politics of Secrecy/Publicity, International Organizations.
Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, PhD, Australian National University. Modern South Asian History, Subaltern, Indigenous, and Minority Histories, Decolonization, Environmental History and Climate Change.
Elizabeth Chatterjee, Assistant Professor of Environmental History, DPhil, Oxford University. Modern Energy History, Environmental Politics, International Development, South Asia.
Chiara Cordelli, Associate Professor of Political Science, PhD, University College, London. Contemporary Political Philosophy, Distributive and Social Justice, Egalitarianism, Ethics of Philanthropy.
Terry Nichols Clark, Professor of Sociology, PhD, Columbia. Sociology of Transnational Processes, Urban Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Social Theory.
Bruce Cumings, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History, PhD, Columbia. International History, East Asian Political Economy, US Foreign Policy, Korean History.
Marco Garrido, Associate Professor of Sociology, PhD, University of Michigan. Global Cities, Urbanization and Social Class, Democratic Recession, Southeast Asia.
Scott Gehlbach, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, PhD, University of California-Berkeley. Political Economy, Formal Political Theory, Post-Communist Europe.
Adom Getachew, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, PhD, Yale. History of International Law, Theories of Empire and Race, Black Political Thought and Post-Colonial Theory.
Tom Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Distinguished Service Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar and Professor of Political Science, JD/PhD, University of California Berkeley. Comparative Law, International Law, Comparative Constitutions.
Andreas Glaeser, Professor of Sociology, PhD, Harvard. Sociology of Culture and Identity, Social Theory, Ethnographic and Quasi-Ethnographic Methods.
Julian Go, Professor of Sociology, PhD, Chicago. Historical International Relations, Empires/Colonialism, Global Field Theory, and Postcolonial Thought.
Robert Gulotty, Assistant Professor of Political Science, PhD, Stanford. International Political Economy, International Trade, Formal Theory and Statistical Methodology.
Susan Gzesh, Senior Lecturer in the College, JD, University of Michigan. Human Rights, NGOs, Labor and Human Rights of Immigrants and Refugees.
James Hevia, Professor Emeritus of International History and the New Collegiate Division, PhD, Chicago. International History, Imperialism, Military Intelligence.
Gary Herrigel, Paul Klapper Professor of Political Science, PhD, MIT. Comparative Political Economy, Economic Sociology, Organization Theory, Business Strategy and Business History.
Kimberley Kay Hoang, Associate Professor of Sociology, PhD, Berkeley. Globalization, Gender, Southeast Asia, Economic Sociology, Qualitative Methods.
William Howell, Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at the Harris School of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Effective Government, PhD, Stanford. Domestic Politics of Foreign Policy Making, American Political Institutions, Foundations of Presidential Power.
Ryan Cecil Jobson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Anthropology, PhD, Yale. Energy and Extractive Resource Development, Technology and Infrastructure, Racial Capitalism in the Americas.
Benjamin Lessing, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, PhD, University of California Berkeley. Comparative Politics, Armed Conflict, Latin America, Political Methodology.
Darryl Li, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Lecturer in Law, PhD, Harvard, JD, Yale. Law and Violence, Global War on Terror, Migration.
Charles Lipson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, PhD, Harvard. International Organization, International Political Economy.
Joseph P. Masco, Professor of Anthropology, PhD, University of California San Diego. US National Security Culture, Science and Technology, 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, PhD, Cornell. International Relations Theory, Security Studies, U.S. Foreign Policy, Middle East.
Constantine V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Chair, Committee on Southern Asian Studies, PhD, University of Pennsylvania. Youth Culture and Politics, Mass Media, South Asia.
Monika Nalepa, Professor of Political Science, PhD, Columbia University. Transitional Justice, Post-Communist Politics, Comparative Political Institutions, Formal Political Theory.
Natacha Nsabimana, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, PhD, Columbia University. Law and Subjectivity, Postcolonial Critique, African Peoples on the Content and in Diaspora.
Robert Pape, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Chicago Project on Security and Threats, PhD, Chicago. International Relations Theory, Security Studies, Political Violence.
Steven Pincus, Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of British History, PhD, Harvard. Atlantic History, History of Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire.
Jennifer Pitts, Professor of Political Science and Social Thought, PhD, Harvard. Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Empire and International Justice.
Paul Poast, Associate Professor of Political Science, PhD, University of Michigan. International Relations, Alliance Politics, Political Economy of Security, Political Methodology.
Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of Modern Chinese History, PhD, Yale. State, Society, and Economy in Late-Imperial and Twentieth Century China, Global Economic History.
Eric Posner, Kirkland & Ellis Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Arthur and Esther Kane Research Chair, JD, Harvard. Financial Regulation, International Law, the Relationship between Law and Social Norms.
James T. Sparrow, Associate Professor of History, PhD, Brown. History of Total War, International Institutions, US Foreign Relations, National Security Politics, and the American “Export” of Democracy.
Matthias Staisch, Associate Director and Associate Senior Instructional Professor in CIR, PhD, University of Chicago. International Relations Theory, International Organization and Networks.
Susan Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and Director of the Chicago Center on Democracy, PhD, Stanford. Democratic Theory and Politics, Distributive Politics, Comparative Political Behavior.
Nathan Tarcov, Karl J. Weintraub Professor of Social Thought and Political Science and Director, Leo Strauss Center, PhD, Harvard University. US Foreign Policy, War and Peace in Political Theory.
Rochelle Layla Terman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, PhD, Berkeley. International Norms, Human Rights, Computational Methods.
Jennifer Trinitapoli, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for International Social Science Research, PhD, University of Texas Austin. Social Demography, Sociology of Religion, Sub-Saharan Africa.
Linnea Turco, Assistant Instructional Professor in CIR, PhD, Ohio State University. International relations theory, ethics of international politics, and global governance.
Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, PhD, Berkeley. Comparative Politics, Middle East Studies, Political Theory, Feminist Theory, Interpretive Methods.
Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science, PhD, Princeton. Comparative Politics, Chinese Politics.