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Professor of Political Science
Department Head
Affiliate Law Faculty
Director, Initiative on Legal Institutions and Democracy (ILIAD)
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- State Politics
- Judicial Politics

Professor of Political Science and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 863-1449
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Participation, Voting, and Public Opinion
- Social Movements and Protest
- Western Europe, especially German speaking countries
- Gender and Politics

Research Professor
Managing Director, McCourtney Institute for Democracy
(814) 863-7630

Senior Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies
Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- Methodology

Director, McCourtney Institute for Democracy
Professor of Political Science
(814) 863-6120
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- State Politics
- Participation, Voting, and Public Opinion

Brown-McCourtney Career Development Professor in the McCourtney Institute
Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
(814) 863-7660
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Participation, Voting, and Public Opinion
- Gender and Politics
- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

Assistant Teaching Professor
(814) 863-3192
Areas of Interest:
- Gender and Politics

Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
814-865-8749
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- Climate change and the environment

Director of Humanities Institute and Professor of Philosophy, Political Science, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-4190

Assistant Teaching Professor
Areas of Interest:
- Institutions
- Public Policy
- Social Movements and Protest
- State Politics

Professor of Political Science, Social Data Analytics
Director, Center for Social Data Analytics [C-SoDA]
Head, Program in Social Data Analytics [SoDA]
Director of Graduate Studies, Social Data Analytics
William and Monica DeGrandis-McCourtney Early Career Professor in Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Methodology

Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Methodology

Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Methodology

Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- International Relations
- Methodology

Associate Head and Director of World Campus Programs, Department of Political Science
Associate Professor of Political Science
(814) 865-1912
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Representation
- Interest Groups
- Public Policy

Associate Professor of Political Science and Jewish Studies
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- Political Violence
- Human Security
- State Failure

Professor of Political Science
Director of Graduate Studies
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations

Teaching Professor of Political Science
Director of Undergraduate Studies
(814) 863-0743

Distinguished Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Methodology

Political Science Board of Visitors Early Career Professor of Political Science
Associate Professor of Political Science
(814) 863-1040
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- International Relations
- Government Repression
- Human Security

Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
(814) 865-4476
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations

Professor of Political Science
(814) 865-6575
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- Methodology
- Domestic Politics and War
- Comparative Political Economy
- Institutions
- Political Violence

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
(814) 863-1594
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
(814) 863-9403

Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science
(814) 867-4429
Areas of Interest:
- Terrorism
- Political Violence
- Violent Extremism in the United States

Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science
(814) 865-6576
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Methodology
- Public Opinion and Political Behavior
- Gender and Politics

Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science

Assistant Professor of Political Science
SSRI Co-Funded Faculty
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Institutions
- Methodology
- Public Policy
- State Politics

Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Methodology

Assistant Professor of Political Science
Placement Director
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Dictatorships
- Public Opinion and Political Behavior
- Representation

Associate Teaching Professor of Political Science
Director, Counterterrorism Option
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Political Violence
- Extremism and Radicalization
- Terrorism

Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
(814) 865-3747

Professor of Political Science
(814) 865-3205
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Dictatorships
- Comparative Political Economy
- Government Repression
- Civil Military Relations

Professor of Political Science
(814) 863-2395
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics

Associate Professor of Political Science
(814) 865-6901
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations

Liberal Arts Professor of Political Science and Sociology
Affiliate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology
Affiliate Professor of Law
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Methodology
- Federal and State Courts, and Judicial Behavior
Researchers

Visiting Scholar
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Institutions

609-212-8740
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Congress
- Gender and Politics
- Public Opinion and Political Behavior
Staff


Academic Program Coordinator Supervisor
(814) 863-1595

Administrative Support Group Assistant
814-863-5346



World Campus Academic Support Group Administrative Assistant
(814) 863-8110

Undergraduate Academic Support Group Administrative Assistant
(814) 865-4597






Administrative Support Group Assistant
814-865-8140
Graduate Students

814-863-1595
Areas of Interest:
- Public Policy
- Federalism
- Economic Inequality
- Ideology
- Far Right Movements

Research Assistant
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Methodology
- Public Policy
- State Politics

(814) 863-1595
Areas of Interest:
- civil conflict
- civil society
- human security
- peacebuilding


Areas of Interest:
- electoral violence
- gender politics
- network analysis
- political methods

Graduate Student
Areas of Interest:
- Conflict and Political Violence
- Foreign Aid
- International Organizations
- Political Economy of Development
- Political Methodology

Graduate Student
Areas of Interest:
- Methodology
- Social Movements
- Social Media

Areas of Interest:
- Economic Inequality
- Political Behavior
- Interest Groups
- Labor Politics
- Gender, Sexuality, and Politics
- Race and Politics

Areas of Interest:
- Authoritarian politics
- contentious politics
- Political Communication
- politics of East Asia

Areas of Interest:
- Political human behavior
- Coalition building
- Regime/Institutional dynamics and durability
- Methodologies

Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Health Policy
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing

Areas of Interest:
- Institutions
- Representation
- Public Policy
- Elite Political Behavior
- Public Opinion Methodology

Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Dictatorships
- Democratization
- Public Opinion and Political Behavior


Areas of Interest:
- Methodology
- American Politics
- Social Media
- Political Economy
- Institutions

Graduate Student
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- State Politics
- Elections and Campaigns
- Methodology
- Content Analysis


Graduate Student
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Democratic Backsliding/Authoritarian behavior
- Eastern Europe
- Methodology


Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Gender Politics
- Political Representation of Women
- Violence and Harassment against Women in Politics

Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Gender and Politics
- Representation


Areas of Interest:
- International Relations
- International Political Economy
- Political Methodology


Areas of Interest:
- International conflicts
- International political economy
- Public opinion
Affiliated Faculty

Professor Emerita of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization
- Communist and Post-Communist Politics
- Participation, Voting, and Public Opinion

Douglas S. and Joyce L. Sherwin Professor in the
College of the Liberal Arts Honoring Frank Whitmore and
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Comparative Political Economy

Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Democratization

Christian Elliott
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Political Economy
- International Relations
- Public Policy

Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Public Policy and Political Science

Associate Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations

Distinguished Senior Scholar of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics

Professor of Law and Political Science
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Penn State Law
8148654285
Areas of Interest:
- American Politics
- Comparative Politics
- Judicial Politics
- Western Europe, especially German speaking countries

Assistant Professor of Statistics
(814)867-5363
Areas of Interest:
- Computational Social Science
- Bayesian Methods
- Causal Inference
- Spatial Data
- Elections

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology
(814) 863-8260

Professor of African Studies and Political Science
(814) 863-5815

Assistant Teaching Professor of Global and International Studies and Political Science
814-865-4598
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations

Affiliate Professor of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- Comparative Politics
- Methodology


Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Areas of Interest:
- International Relations

Director, School of Public Policy
Professor of Public Policy