The faculty of the UVM political science department are nationally and internationally recognized scholars in their fields.  Not only do they regularly publish in academic outlets, but their expertise is also recognized more broadly, by the national and international media, by think tanks and research institutes and by the U.S. government. Among other accomplishments, UVM faculty members have been quoted in the New York Times, interviewed on NPR, appeared on the News Hour on PBS and testified before Congressional committees. 

Just since 2009, department members have published over two dozen books, along with numerous articles in scholarly journals, journals of opinion and current events and newspapers.  Those books demonstrate both the productivity of the department and the breadth of topics covered in its research and teaching:

Ellen Ann Anderson

Out of the Closets and into the Courts Legal Opportunity Structure and Gay Rights Litigation - University of (Michigan Press) January 20, 2009

Brad Bauerly

The Agrarian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building - (Brill Academic Pub) September 22, 2016

Caroline Beer

Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico (University of Notre Dame Press) November 11, 2003

Matthew Carlson

Political Corruption and Scandals in Japan, (Cornell University Press) March 15, 2018

Michelle Commercio

Polygynous Marriages among the Kyrgyz: Institutional Change and Endurance - (University of Pittsburgh Press) December 20, 2022

Alec C. Ewald

 

The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage (Vanderbilt University Press,), 2009.

Alec C. Ewald

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Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective, co-edited, with Brandon Rottinghaus (Cambridge University Press, Pp. iv 302), 2009.

Jan Feldman

Citizenship, Faith, and Feminism  (Brandeis University Press), 2011

Anthony Gierzynski

The Political Effects of Entertainment Media: How Fictional Worlds Affect Real World Political Perspectives (Lexington Books) July 8, 2020

Deborah Guber

The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment (Mit Pr) January 3, 2003

Peter S. Henne

Religious Appeals in Power Politics (Religion and Conflict) - (Cornell University Press) October 15, 2023

Lisa M. Holmes

Judicial Process in America (CQ Press) March 22, 2022

Bob Pepperman Taylor

Lessons from Walden: Thoreau and the Crisis of American Democracy, (University of Notre Dame Press) March 30, 2020

Leigh Raymond

 Reclaiming the Atmospheric Commons: The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and a New Model of Emissions Trading - The (MIT Press) September 9, 2016

E Thomas Sullivan

 Complex Litigation (Carolina Academic Press) January 1, 2019

Peter VonDoepp

 Judicial Politics in New Democracies: Cases from Southern Africa (Lynne Rienner Publishers), 2009

Melissa Williard-Foster

Toppling Foreign Governments: The Logic of Regime Change - (University of Pennsylvania Press) November 19, 2018

Alex Zakaras

A Liberal Pluralism: Isaiah Berlin and John Stuart Mill, translated into Chinese and republished in Isaiah Berlin and Contemporary China, Liu Dong and Xu Xiangdong, eds. (Nanjing: Yilin Press), 2015.