Faculty subfield specialties

Main subfields in Political Science covered by full time tenured and tenure track faculty

  • American Politics: Ian Anson, Thomas Schaller, Jé St Sume, Mileah Kromer
  • Law and Politics: William Blake, Jeffrey Davis
  • Public Policy/Administration: Laura Antkowiak, Eric Stokan
  • Theory/Political Philosophy: Lisa Vetter
  • Comparative Politics: Felipe Filomeno, Carolyn Forestiere, Brian Grodsky
  • International Relations: Sunil Dasgupta (Shady Grove Campus), Devin Hagerty, Cindy Hody, Brigid Starkey, Guan Wang

Also, please note that our course selections usually follow a pattern.

  • Lower level courses begin with a 1 or 2
  • Upper level courses begin with a 3 or 4

IMPORTANT: the middle number of the course gives you an idea of what subfield the course is in.

  • 0 – Mixed
  • 1 – Theory/Political Philosophy
  • 2 – American Politics
  • 3 – Legal/Law and Politics
  • 4 – American Politics
  • 5 – Public Policy/Administration
  • 6 – Comparative Politics
  • 7 – Area Studies
  • 8 – International Relations
  • 9 – Foreign Policy