Government at Barnard College

15 faculty and 31 courses in Government at Barnard College.

Faculty

• Sheri E. Berman, Professor and Department Chair h-index 28
  European history and politics; the development of democracy; populism and fascism; and the history of the left. She has written about these topics for a wide variety of scholarly and non-scholarly publications, including the N
• Xiaobo Lü, Professor h-index 18
  Chinese politics, US-China relations, politics of economic development, corruption and good governance, regulatory reforms, and government-business relations. He has published widely on these subjects and consults for business firms
• Séverine Autesserre, Professor h-index 16
• Kimberly J. Marten, Professor h-index 15
• Eduardo Moncada, Associate Professor h-index 14
• Ayten Gündoğdu, Associate Professor h-index 7
• Alyssa Battistoni, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Environmental and climate politics, feminism, Marxist thought, political economy, and the history of political thought. She is the co-author, with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a
• Katherine Krimmel, Assistant Professor and Associate Department Chair h-index 5
• Sonya Chen, Assistant Professor h-index 2
• Alexander A. Cooley, Professor
• Jonathan Keller, Term Associate Professor
• Marjorie Castle, Term Associate Professor
• Mark Schneider, Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Michael G. Miller, Associate Professor
• Paula A. Franzese, Adjunct Visiting Professor

Courses

• Political Theory I POLS UN1101
• Intro to American Politics POLS BC1210
• Intro to Comparative Politics POLS BC1510
• International Politics POLS UN1601
• Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe POLS BC1401
• Global Politics of Climate Change POLS BC1605
• Peace and Conflict POLS BC2604
• Russia and the West POLS BC2875
• Political Theory at the Border POLS BC3003
• American Political Thought POLS BC3017
• American Political Parties POLS BC3025
• The American Presidency POLS BC3031
• Feminist Political Thought POLS BC3035
• First Amendment Values POLS BC3254
• The Comparative Politics of Gender Inequality POLS BC3402
• Introduction to American Constitutional Law POLS BC3438
• Politics of Illicit Economies in the Americas POLS BC3513
• Civil Rights & Civil Liberties POLS BC3521
• Race and Ethnic Politics POLS BC3695
• Global Authoritarianism POLS BC3697
• Data Science for Politics POLS BC3731
• American Political Development POLS BC3019
• Gun Politics in the United States POLS BC3026
• Capitalism and Its Critics POLS BC3048
• Political Violence & Terrorism POLS BC3055
• Problems in International Security POLS BC3118
• Politics of Bad Behavior POLS BC3325
• Election Science POLS BC3334
• Election Law and Reform POLS BC3337
• Grassroots Activisms and Social Change POLS BC3341
• Human Rights in a Diverse World POLS BC3410

Roster/catalog compiled from the college’s public directory. Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-01.