Kelly M Askew
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Kelly Askew is the Niara Sudarkasa Collegiate Professor of Anthropology and Afroamerican & African Studies. She has worked…
Deborah Beim
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Deborah Beim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. She…
Ted Brader
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Brader currently serves as Associate Principal Investigator for Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences. He has formerly served as…
Ceren Budak
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Professor Budak’s research interests lie in the area of computational social science– and particularly in the use of…
Nancy E Burns
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Burns studies gender, race, political participation, public opinion, and intergovernmental relations in the American context.
Roberto Felix Carlos
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Roberto F. Carlos is a scholar of race, ethnicity, and politics, with a particular interest in Latinx politics,…
Charlotte Cavaille
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Charlotte Cavaillé is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of…
Jowei Chen
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Jowei Chen’s research interests include distributive politics, executive agencies, and legislatures. He has studied how legislators’ pork-barreling strategies…
Cesi Cruz
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Cesi Cruz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Department of Economics (by…
Christian Davenport
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Davenport’s primary research interests include political conflict (e.g., human rights violations, genocide/politicide, torture, political surveillance, civil war…
Justine Maisha Davis
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Justine Maisha Davis is an assistant professor jointly appointed in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies (DAAS)…
Mark Dincecco
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Mark Dincecco is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. His research examines the process of…
Christopher Jennings Fariss
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Christopher Fariss’ core research interest is in the politics of human rights, violence, and repression. He uses computational…
Christian James Fong
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Christian Fong specializes in the study of the United States Congress. He also does research in statistical methodology…
Edgar Franco
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Edgar’s research examines how colonial institutions and contemporary criminal violence contribute to economic underperformance and inequality in Latin…
Rob Franzese
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Franzese’s research interests center on the comparative and international political economy (C&IPE) of developed democracies and related…
Alexander Foster Gazmararian
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Alexander F. Gazmararian researches the intersection of international political economy and political behavior, with applications to climate change. He has written two books…
Ariel Hasell
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Ariel Hasell is an Associate Professor of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. Broadly, her research…
Allen D Hicken
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Hicken studies political institutions and political economy in developing countries. His primary focus has been on political…
Vincent L Hutchings
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Hutchings’ general interests include public opinion, elections, voting behavior, and African American politics. Professor Hutchings has also…
Pauline Jones
DIRECTOR, RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Pauline Jones is the Director of the Center for Political Studies. She will assume to role after completing…
Ken Kollman
RESEARCH PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Ken Kollman is Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. …
Barbara Koremenos
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Barbara Koremenos is a Political Science Professor at the University of Michigan. She received an MPP and a Ph.D. from…
Yanna Krupnikov
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Yanna Krupnikov is a Professor of Communication Media at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on political communication. In…
Kenneth Scott Lowande
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Kenneth Lowande is an associate professor of political science at the University of Michigan, with a courtesy appointment…
Arthur Lupia
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Arthur Lupia is the Gerald R Ford Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan. His research clarifies how people…
Walter R Mebane Jr
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Walter Richard Mebane, Jr. is a University of Michigan professor of political science and statistics and an expert on detecting…
Rob Mickey
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Professor Mickey’s research focuses on U.S. politics in historical perspective. He is interested in American political development, political…
Jon Miller
RESEARCH SCIENTIST EMERITUS, CENTER FOR POLITICAL STUDIES, INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH AND RESEARCH SCIENTIST EMERITUS, SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
Jon Miller is the Director of the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy (ICASL) in the…
Brian K Min
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Brian Min studies the political economy of development, with a focus on the politics of energy, ethnic politics,…
James D Morrow
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Morrow’s research addresses theories of international politics, both the logical development and empirical testing of such theories. He…
Ragnhild Nordaas
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Ragnhild Nordås’s main research interests are political violence, religion and war, and dynamics of conflict-related sexual violence.
Mara Cecilia Ostfeld
RESEARCH ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Dr. Mara Cecilia Ostfeld is an associate research professor in the Ford School of Public Policy, a research associate professor…
Josh Pasek
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Josh Pasek is Professor of Communication & Media and Political Science, Research Professor at the Center for Political Studies, Institute…
Anne Pitcher
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Anne Pitcher is the Joel Samoff Collegiate Professor of Political Science and Afroamerican and African Studies at the…
John Barry Ryan
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
John Barry Ryan’s research agenda is centered on political communication with a focus on campaign communication, social influence,…
Christian Sandvig
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Christian Sandvig is the H. Marshall McLuhan Collegiate Professor of Digital Media and the Director of the Center…
Michael Edward Shepherd
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Michael E. Shepherd is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Health, Health Management & Policy Department, and…
Yuki Shiraito
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Yuki Shiraito works primarily in the field of political methodology. His research interests center on the development and…
Tyler Simko
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Tyler Simko specializes in US state and local politics, political geography, and computational social science.Simko is Co-PI of the Algorithm-Assisted…
Dan Slater
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Dan Slater specializes in the politics and history of enduring dictatorships and emerging democracies, with a regional focus…
Megan Stewart
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Megan A. Stewart is an associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School…
Shea Streeter
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Shea Streeter is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan. Her research examines how race and gender shape the…
Mark A Tessler
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Tessler specializes in Comparative Politics, Public Opinion, and Middle Eastern and North African Studies. He received his…
Sabina Tomkins
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Sabina Tomkins joined UMSI as assistant professor in Fall 2021. Her research applies computational methods to advance understanding…
Michael W Traugott
INTERIM DIRECTOR, RESEARCH PROFESSOR EMERITUS
Michael Traugott is serving as Interim Director of the Center for Political Studies for the year 2025-2026. Professor…
Nicholas A Valentino
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Professor Valentino is the Donald R. Kinder Collegiate Professor of Political Science and currently serves as a PI…
Brian Weeks
FACULTY ASSOCIATE
Brian Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication and Media and a Faculty Associate in…
Donald Kinder
Research Professor Emeritus
Professor Kinder’s current research interests include rehabilitating the concept of ethnocentrism and developing a...
Jon Miller
Research Scientist Emeritus
Jon Miller is the Director of the International Center for the Advancement of Scientific Literacy (ICASL) in the Institute for...
Maris Vinovskis
Research Professor Emeritus
Professor Vinovskis’ current research interests include historical and policy studies of U.S. social, political, and...