2012-2013 Catalogue
Faculty for Political Science Department
Ellen A. Andersen
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2008
Women's and Gender Studies Program
BA 1988 Cornell University
MA 1994 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
PHD 1999 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Alexandru Balas
Lecturer of Political Science
Appointed in 2011
MA 2006 Sabanci University
MA 2008 University of Illinois
PHD 2011 University of Illinois
Robert V Bartlett
Professor in the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2006
The Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources
BA 1974 Indiana University Bloomington
MPA 1976 Indiana University Bloomington
PHD 1984 Indiana University Bloomington
Caroline Charlotte Beer
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2000
BA 1993 Oberlin College
MA 1996 University of New Mexico
PHD 2000 University of New Mexico
Frank MacLlewellyn Bryan
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Appointed in 1976
BA 1963 Saint Michaels College
MA 1965 University of Vermont
PHD 1970 University of Connecticut
Eileen Kay Burgin
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1988
BA 1978 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
MA 1984 Harvard University
PHD 1988 Harvard University
John Patrick Burke
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1984
AB 1975 Stanford University
MA 1978 Princeton University
PHD 1982 Princeton University
Matthew M. Carlson
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2005
BA 1994 University of Puget Sound
MA 1997 University of Washington
PHD 2003 University of California Davis
Michele E Commercio
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2006
BA 1991 Boston College
MA 1994 University of Connecticut
MSC 1995 London School of Economics and Political Science
PHD 2004 University of Pennsylvania
Alec C. Ewald
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2006
BA 1992 Tufts University
MA 2000 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
PHD 2005 University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jan L. Feldman
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1982
BA 1976 Swarthmore College
MA 1980 Cornell University
PHD 1982 Cornell University
Francis Gregory Gause III
Chairperson of Political Science
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1995
AB 1980 Saint Joseph's University
PHD 1987 Harvard University
Anthony Gerard Gierzynski
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1992
BA 1983 Northern Illinois University
MA 1986 Northern Illinois University
PHD 1989 University of Kentucky
Deborah Lynn Guber
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1998
AB 1990 Smith College
MA 1992 Yale University
MPH 1992 Yale University
PHD 1996 Yale University
Lisa M. Holmes
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2002
BA 1991 University of Vermont
MA 1997 University of Georgia
PHD 2001 University of Georgia
Edward Raymond McMahon
Research Associate Professor of Community Development and Applied Economics
Research Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2003
Community Development and Applied Economics Department
BSFS 1978 Georgetown University
MA 1981 Johns Hopkins University
MS 1986 Boston University
George Herbert Moyser
Professor of Political Science Emeritus
Appointed in 1987
BA 1966 University of Manchester
MA 1968 University of Essex
MA 1972 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
PHD 1976 University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Patrick Allen Neal
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1988
BA 1977 West Virginia University
MA 1979 University of Toronto
PHD 1985 University of Toronto
Garrison Nelson
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1968
AB 1964 Boston University
MA 1966 University of Iowa
PHD 1973 University of Iowa
E. Thomas Sullivan
President of the University of Vermont
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2012
BA 1970 Drake University
JD 1973 Indiana University
Robert Pepperman Taylor
Honors College Coordinator of the College of Arts and Sciences
Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 1986
Dean's Office, College of Arts and Sciences
BA 1980 Wesleyan University
MA 1985 Rutgers University New Brunswick/Piscataway
Martha S. Thomas
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2010
BA 2003 St. Francis College
MA 2005 William Paterson University
PHD 2010 Pennsylvania State University
Peter A. VonDoepp
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2005
BA 1989 University of New Hampshire
MA 1994 University of Florida
PHD 1999 University of Florida
Melissa Margaret Willard-Foster
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2012
BS 1998 Georgetown University
MA 2003 University of Chicago
PHD 2011 University of California Los Angeles
Alex M. Zakaras
Associate Professor of Political Science
Appointed in 2005
BA 1998 Harvard University
MA 2003 Princeton University
PHD 2005 Princeton University
