Faculty Academic Specialization & Contact Iinformation

Faculty Directory
Political Science Department
San Francisco State University

Name

Contact Info

Area of Interest

Professors

Graham, Michael
At SFSU since 1984
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara, 1982
(Pre-Law Advisor)

Office:	HSS 131
Office Hours:	Summer Hours TBA
Phone:	(415) 338-7044
E-mail:	magraham@sfsu.edu
Web:

• Judicial Politics
• Constitutional Law
• American Politics (Presidency and Congress)

Guo, Sujian
At SFSU since 2002
Ph.D., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1999
(Graduate Coordinator/Advisor)

Office:	HSS 131
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-7523
E-mail:	sguo@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://cuscps.sfsu.edu/
	http://bss.sfsu.edu/sguo/

• Comparative politics/international relations
• China/US-China/East Asia
• Political Economy
• Democratic transition
• Communist/post-communist studies

Heather, Gerry
At SFSU since 1969
Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1969

Office:	HSS 132
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-1019
E-mail:	gh@sfsu.edu
Web:

• Political Theory
• Politics and Religion
• Politics and Literature
• American Politics

Kassiola, Joel J.
At SFSU since 1995
Ph.D., Princeton University, 1974
(Dean, BSS College since 1995)

Office:	HSS 359
Office Hours:	By Appt. please contact the Dean's Office 415-338-1846
Phone:	(415) 338-1846
E-mail:	kassiola@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/kassiola/research.htm

• 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

Shastri, Amita
At SFSU since 1989
Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, 1985

Office:	HSS 134
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-2139
E-mail:	ashastri@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/ashastri

• Comparative Politics
• South Asian Politics
• Democracies and Democratization
• Ethnicity and Nationalism
• Political Economy of Development

Smith, Robert C.
At SFSU since 1989
Ph.D., Howard University, 1975

Office:	HSS 128
Office Hours:	By appointment: Tu/Thu.
Phone:	(415) 338-7524
E-mail:	rcs@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/rsmith/

• Politics and Race
• Presidency and Congress

Tabb, David H.
At SFSU since 1972
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1967

Office:	HSS 132
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-2736
E-mail:	dtabb@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/dtabb/

• American Politics
• Electoral and Media
• Urban Politics

Associate Professors

Martel, James R.
At SFSU since 2002
Ph.D., UC Berkeley
(Chair of Political Science Dept.)

Office:	HSS 260
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 405-2162
E-mail:	jmartel@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/jmartel/

• American and European Political Theory
• American Politics
• Gender Studies and Political Economy

Tsygankov, Andrei
At SFSU since 2000
Ph.D., University of Southern California, 2000; Moscow State University, 1991

Office:	HSS 379
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-7493
E-mail:	andrei@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/tsygankov

• Culture and Identity in World Politics
• Russia and Former Soviet Nations
• Comparative Politics

Von Wahl, Angelika
At SFSU since 2001
Ph.D., Freie Universitaet Berlin, 1995, 1996-2000, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Office:	HSS 260
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-2247
E-mail:	avonwahl@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/avonwahl

• Comparative Politics
• Western Europe, European Union
• Public Policy
• Women and social movements

Assistant Professors

Boushey, Graeme
Ph.D. University of Washington

Office:	HSS 133
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-6888
E-mail:	gboushey@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/polisci/faculty_profiles/boushey.htm

• California politics
• public policy
• federalism and state politics
• research methods
• American politics

Carcieri, Martin
Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara

Office:	HSS 133
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 338-7526
E-mail:	carcieri@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/polisci/faculty_profiles/carcieri.htm

• public law and political theory
• constitutional law
• jurisprudence
• American politics

Gen, Sheldon
Ph.D., Georgia Tech

Office:	HSS 235
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 405-2482
E-mail:	sgen@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://userwww.sfsu.edu/~sgen/

• environmental policy and management
• policy analysis
• participatory democracy
• research methods

Neely, Francis
At SFSU since 2002
Ph.D., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 2001
(Faculty Advisor for P.S.S.A.)

Office:	HSS 128
Office Hours:	By appointment
Phone:	(415) 338-1522
E-mail:	fneely@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/fneely/

• American Politics
• Parties and Partisanship
• Political Psychology
• Representation and election systems
• Methodology

Watts, Nicole
At SFSU since 2003
Ph. D., University of Washington, 2001

Office:	HSS 129
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	(415) 405-2470
E-mail:	nfwatts@sfsu.edu
Web:	http://bss.sfsu.edu/nfwatts/

• Middle Eastern Politics
• Social Movements
• Comparative politics

Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany
At SFSU since 2006
Ph.D., University of California , Santa Barbara, 2003
(Undergraduate Advisor)

Office:	HSS 129
Office Hours:	No Summer Hours
Phone:	415-405-2471
E-mail:	twillher@sfsu.edu
Web:	bss.sfsu.edu/polisci/faculty_profiles/willoughby-herard.htm

• History of Social Science
• Critical Race Feminist Theory
• Theories of Race, Racism, Whiteness
• African Diaspora studies
• Non-Western Political Thought
• Comparative politics Theory