Political Science Faculty & Staff
Staff Members
Corinne Foutz | Administrative Manager; 801-587-9899 |
Maddy Elliott | Administrative Assistant; 801-581-7031 |
TBD | Graduate Advisor; 801-581-8608 |
Undergraduate Advisor; 801-581-3241 |
Active Faculty
All faculty members are located in Carolyn and Kem Gardner Commons, Suite 3345 (unless
otherwise noted).
Please contact faculty members via email.
Tabitha Benney
International Relations
Associate Professor
Email: tabitha.benney@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: International currency markets, environmental policy, esp. environmental markets in emerging economies, and varieties of capitalism
Matthew Burbank
American Politics
Professor
Email: mburbank@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Mega-events, public opinion, and urban politics
Juliet Carlisle
American Politics
Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Email: juliet.carlisle@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: American Politics, energy and environmental politics, public opinion, and political socialization
David Carter
Public Policy & Administration
Assistant Professor
Email:david.carter@mpa.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Regulatory program design and administration, special districts, collective action
institutions, self-governance among climbers
International Relations, Political Psychology
Assistant Professor
Email: eunbinc@gmail.com
Areas of Expertise: International security, conflict resolution, political psychology, and survey and field experiments
International Relations
Assistant Professor
Email: c.cottiero@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: International organizations, esp. regional organizations, international relations in Africa, foreign policy and security politics in autocracies
American Politics
Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies
Email: james.curry@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Congress, leadership, and political parties
David De Micheli
Comparative Politics
Assistant Professor
Email: david.demicheli@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Ethnic and identity politics, inequality, citizenship, Brazil, Latin America
American Politics
Assistant Professor
Email: michael.dichio@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: American political and constitutional development, public law and courts, & politics of the U.S. Supreme Court
American Politics, Ethnic Studies
Associate Professor & Director of Ethnic Studies
Email: edmund.fong@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Race, ethnicity, and American politics
Comparative Politics
Assistant Professor
Email: laura.gamboa@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Transitions from and to democracy, political parties, voting behavior, and mixed methods, Latin American politics (in particular Colombia and Venezuela)
Comparative Politics
Associate Professor & Director of CLAS
Email: claudio.holzner@poli-sci.utah.edu
Office: CTIHB, Room 210
Areas of Expertise: Immigration, political participation, and social movements
Political Theory
Professor & Maxwell Endowed Presidential Chair
Email: steven.johnston@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Democratic theory, contemporary political theory, modern political theory, politics and film, patriotism, tragedy, monuments and memorials
International Relations
Professor & Director of the IR Certificate Program
Email: lehman@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Globalization, foreign aid, and African politics
American Politics
Professor
Email: bblpo@yahoo.com
Areas of Expertise: Urban and racial politics, voting, and elections
International Relations
Professor
Email: steven.lobell@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: International security, foreign policy, political economy, and the Middle East
Public Administration
Professor & Interim Director of Public Policy and Public Administration
Email: sharon.mastracci@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Public management, emotional labor, workplace diversity, and public service
Josh McCrain
American Politics
Assistant Professor
Email: josh.mccrain@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Computational social science, econometrics, lobbying, Congress, media and politics, and political economy
Political Theory
Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Gender Studies
Associate Professor
Email: ella.myers@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Citizen participation, economic inequality, race, and gender and politics
Public Administration, American Politics
Professor
Email: simon@cppa.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Alternative energy policy, energy security, education policy, and criminal justice
Health Policy
Assistant Professor
Email: Phillip.Singer@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: American Politics, health politics and policy, public health, and Medicaid
International Relations
Professor, Department Chair, & Wormuth Presidential Chair
Email: brent.steele@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Security, international relations, ethics, and just war
Public Administration
Associate Professor
Email: lina.svedin@poli-sci.utah.edu
Office: Gardner Commons, Suite 3050
Areas of Expertise: Governmental responses to crises and risk management
Public Administration
Assistant Professor
Email: jesus.valero@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Nonprofit organizations & management, public-nonprofit collaboration, and leadership
Comparative Politics
Professor
Email: hakan.yavuz@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Transnational Islamic networks, ethnic/religious conflict, Turkey, and the Middle East
Career-Line Faculty
International Relations, Comparative Politics
Professor Lecturer
Email: marjorie.castle@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Regime change, political parties, comparative institutions, qualitative methods including process-tracing
Political Theory
Associate Professor Lecturer
Email: luke.garrott@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Urban politics and neighborhood democracy
Research Faculty
Political Theory
Research Professor
Email: mark.button@poli-sci.utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Deliberative democracy, civic education, political ethics, and suicide
John Francis
Comparative Politics
Research Professor
Email: john.francis@utah.edu
Areas of Expertise: Public lands, public health, Western Europe, and North America
Visiting Faculty
Geoff Allen
Comparative Electoral Studies, Minority Politics
Assistant Professor
Email: geoff.allen@utah.edu
Teaching Interests: Political institutions, nationalism and ethnic politics, and political parties and elections
Dave Buhler
American Politics, Public Administration
Regents Professor
Email: dave.buhler@utah.edu
Teaching Interests: American politics and public administration
Auxiliary Faculty
Morgan Lyon Cotti | Adjunct Assistant Professor |
Leslie Francis | Adjunct Professor |
Paul T. Morris | Assistant Professor (Lecturer) |
Steve Nelson | Adjunct Associate Instructor |
Sandra J Pershing | Adjunct Associate Professor |
Adjunct Assistant Professor | |
Adjunct Associate Instructor |
Associate Instructors
Anthony Mastracci | Adjunct Instructor |
Emeritus Faculty
Rick Green | Professor Emeritus |
Yanqi Tong | Professor Emeritus |
Peri Schwartz-Shea | Professor Emeritus |
Jim Gosling | Professor Emeritus |
Lauren Holland | Professor Emeritus |
Ronald Hrebenar | Professor Emeritus |
Robert Huefner | Professor Emeritus |
Steven Ott | Professor Emeritus |
Dan McCool | Professor Emeritus |
Susan Olson | Professor Emeritus |