Department of Political Science Faculty Specializations
| Name | Area of Interest |
| Professors | |
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Graham, Michael
At SFSU since 1984 Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 1982 (Pre-Law Advisor) |
• Judicial Politics • Constitutional Law • American Politics (Presidency and Congress) |
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Guo, Sujian
At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., University of Tennessee, 1999 |
• Comparative politics/international relations • China/US-China/East Asia • Political Economy • Democratic transition • Communist/post-communist studies |
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Heather, Gerry
At SFSU since 1969 Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1969 |
• Political Theory • Politics and Religion • Politics and Literature • American Politics |
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Kassiola, Joel J.
At SFSU since 1995 Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974 (Dean, BSS College since 1995) |
• Political Theory/Political Philosophy • China's political thought and development • Epistemology and Methodology • Karl Popper’s Philosophy of Science • Environmental Political Theory • Literature and Politics • Contemporary Moral and Political issues |
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Shastri, Amita
At SFSU since 1989 Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1985 |
• Comparative Politics • South Asian Politics • Democracies and Democratization • Ethnicity and Nationalism • Political Economy of Development |
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Smith, Robert C.
At SFSU since 1989 Ph.D., Howard University, 1975 |
• Politics and Race • Presidency and Congress |
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Tabb, David H.
At SFSU since 1972 Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1967 |
• American Politics • Electoral and Media • Urban Politics |
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Tsygankov, Andrei
At SFSU since 2000 Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2000; Moscow State University, 1991 |
• Culture and Identity in World Politics • Russia and Former Soviet Nations • Comparative Politics |
| Associate Professors | |
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Belkin, Aaron
At SFSU since 2009 Ph.D., UC Berkeley, 1998 |
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Neely, Francis
At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., State University of New York, Stony Brook, 2001 (Faculty Advisor for P.S.S.A.) |
• American Politics • Parties and Partisanship • Political Psychology • Representation and election systems • Methodology |
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Martel, James R.
At SFSU since 2002 Ph.D., UC Berkeley (Chair of Political Science Dept.) |
• American and European Political Theory • American Politics • Gender Studies and Political Economy |
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Von Wahl, Angelika
At SFSU since 2001 Ph.D., Freie Universitaet Berlin, 1995, 1996-2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
• Comparative Politics • Western Europe, European Union • Public Policy • Women and social movements |
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Watts, Nicole
At SFSU since 2003 Ph. D., University of Washington, 2001 (Graduate Coordinator/Advisor) |
• Middle Eastern Politics • Social Movements • Comparative politics |
| Assistant Professors | |
| Boushey,
Graeme
At SFSU since 2007 Ph.D. University of Washington |
• California politics • public policy • federalism and state politics • research methods • American politics |
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Carcieri,
Martin
At SFSU since 2007 Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 1997 |
• public law and political theory • constitutional law • jurisprudence • American politics |
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Gen, Sheldon
Ph.D., Georgia Tech |
• environmental policy and management • policy analysis • participatory democracy • research methods |
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Gordy, Katherine
At SFSU since 2008 Ph. D., Cornell University, 2005 |
• comparative political theory • critical theory • Latin American and Caribbean political thought • theories of history and ideology • Cuban studies and social theory |
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McDaniel, Jason
At SFSU since 2009 Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2007 |
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Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany At SFSU since 2006 Ph.D., University of California , Santa Barbara, 2003 |
• History of Social Science • Critical Race Feminist Theory • Theories of Race, Racism, Whiteness • African Diaspora studies • Non-Western Political Thought • Comparative politics Theory |
