Government at Bates College

11 faculty and 40 courses in Government at Bates College.

Faculty

• Clarisa Perez-Armendariz, Professor of Politics h-index 7
  Notable: “Do Migrants Remit Democracy? International Migration, Political Beliefs, and Behavior in Mexico” (2009) · 349 citations
• Stephen M. Engel, Charles A. Dana Professor of Politics h-index 7
  Notable: “Frame Spillover: Media Framing and Public Opinion of a Multifaceted LGBT Rights Agenda” (2012) · 41 citations
• Senem Aslan, Professor of Politics h-index 5
  Es on the use of emotions for mobilization and legitimation in Turkey and the Middle East. Teaching for Academic Year 2023-24 Fall 2023: PLTC 205: State-Society Relations in the Middle East PLTC 311: Emotions and Politics Winter 2024: PLTC
• John R. Baughman, Professor of Politics; Politics Chair h-index 4
  Notable: “The Origins of Crowd Psychology: Gustave Lebon and the Crisis of Mass Democracy in the Third Republic” (1976) · 88 citations
• Lucy C. Britt, Assistant Professor of Politics h-index 4
  Notable: “MEANINGS AND IMPACTS OF CONFEDERATE MONUMENTS IN THE U.S. SOUTH” (2020) · 18 citations
• Lisa R. Gilson, Associate Professor of Politics h-index 1
  Notable: “Activism versus Criticism? The Case for a Distinctive Role for Social Critics” (2023) · 13 citations
• Rafael Alexandre Mello, Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics h-index 1
  Es on unequal international political-economic relations, primarily concerned with the repercussions these interactions have on economic development and on the democracy-authoritarian nexus in Latin America and the broader Global South. He
  Notable: “Building Bridges between Dependency Theory and Neo-Gramscian Critical Theory: The Agency-Structure Relation as a Starting Point” (2022) · 2 citations
• Seulgie Lim, Associate Professor of Politics h-index 1
  Es on gender equality, women’s political movement and participation in West Africa, more specifically in Senegal, as well as African feminisms and the interactions between politics and religion (Islam). She is the representative of th
• Alex McAuliff, Assistant Professor of Politics
• Garry W. Jenkins, President and Professor of Politics
• Mayumi Fukushima, Assistant Professor of Politics

Courses

• U.S. Political Institutions and Processes PLTC 115
• The Moral Basis of Politics PLTC 121
• Comparative Politics PLTC 122
• Introduction to Comparative Politics PLTC 123
• States and Markets PLTC 125
• Gender, Power, and Politics PLTC 155
• International Politics PLTC 171
• Western Political Theory PLTC 191
• Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States PLTC 203
• State-Society Relations in the Modern Middle East PLTC 205
• Latinx Politics PLTC 208
• Contemporary United States-Latin American Relations PLTC 209
• International Human Rights in Africa PLTC 210
• U.S. Parties and Elections PLTC 211
• Great Power Politics PLTC 213
• Political Participation in the United States PLTC 215
• Constitutional Law I: Balance of Powers PLTC 216
• Statistics for Political Analysis PLTC 218
• International Political Economy PLTC 222
• International Security PLTC 225
• Latin America Debates Dependency and Development PLTC 228
• The U.S. Congress PLTC 230
• Processes of Peacebuilding PLTC 237
• Queer Power: Political Sociology of U.S. Sexuality Movements PLTC 238
• Peace and Conflict in Europe PLTC 242
• Politics and Literature PLTC 243
• Politics of Latin America PLTC 249
• Feminist Political Thought PLTC 256
• Comparative Politics of Immigration Control PLTC 259
• Nationalism and Nation Building PLTC 260
• Nuclear Politics PLTC 261
• Politics of the Modern Middle East PLTC 262
• Performance and Politics PLTC 265
• Global Political Economy of Development PLTC 268
• How Democracies Die PLTC 277
• Constitutional Law II: Rights and Identities PLTC 282
• International Politics of East Asia PLTC 283
• The Political Economy of Capitalism PLTC 284
• Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa PLTC 290
• Negotiation and Dialogue: Everyday Skills for Everyday Leaders PLTC 293

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 2026-07-02.