Government at Bowdoin College

21 faculty and 40 courses in Government at Bowdoin College.

Faculty

• Michael Franz, DeAlva Stanwood Alexander Professor of Government h-index 25
  Campaign finance, political advertising, and interest groups. I teach courses in campaigns, mass media, voting behavior, citizenship, and research methods. I am also co-director of the Wesleyan Media Project . The predec
• Laura A. Henry, Professor of Government, Chair of Department h-index 19
• Andrew Rudalevige, Thomas Brackett Reed Professor of Government h-index 14
• Barbara Elias, Sarah and James Bowdoin Associate Professor of Government h-index 14
• Paul Franco, Barry N. Wish Professor of Government and Social Studies h-index 11
• Jean Yarbrough, Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of Social Sciences h-index 11
• Henry C.W. Laurence, Professor of Government and Asian Studies h-index 7
• Janet Martin, Professor of Government h-index 7
• Angel Saavedra Cisneros, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 6
  Notable: “Measuring, mapping and quantifying the effects of trust and informal communication on transboundary collaboration in the Great Lakes fisheries policy network” (2018) · 62 citations
• Shana Starobin, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and Government h-index 6
• Allen Springer, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Constitutional and International Law and Government h-index 6
• Christopher Heurlin, Associate Professor Government and Asian Studies h-index 5
• Ezgi Yildiz, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 4
• Maron Sorenson, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 3
• Jeffrey Selinger, Associate Professor of Government h-index 3
  Political parties, race and American politics, public policy, and American political development. Selected Honors and Publications “(De-) Democratizing America: The Founding and the Uneven Path of Democratic Change in the Unit
• Michael Yekple, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government h-index 1
• Tulio Zille, Assistant Professor of Government h-index 1
  Notable: “"The River is My Teacher": A Political Ecology of Development in the Brazilian Amazon” (2019) · 1 citations
• Max Lykins, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government
• Muhammad Omar Afzaal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government
  Lie in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and security studies. His substantive scholarly expertise is in limited war, nuclear strategy, security decision-making, conflict management, adversarial collusion, and c
• Shaukat Ansari, Visiting Assistant Professor of Government
• Soohyun Cho, Assistant Professor of Government

Courses

• Representation, Participation, and Power in American Politics GOV 1001
• Political Leadership GOV 1002
• The Supreme Court and Social Change GOV 1004
• Women of Color in Politics GOV 1005
• Presidential Elections: From the Constitution to the Campaign Trail GOV 1006
• Fundamental Questions: Exercises in Political Theory GOV 1011
• Human Being and Citizen GOV 1012
• Disunited Kingdom? The Politics of Identity and Inequality in Modern Britain GOV 1024
• The Politics of Climate Change GOV 1027
• The Pursuit of Peace GOV 1030
• Weapons of the Weak GOV 1031
• Introduction to American Government GOV 1100
• Introduction to Comparative Government GOV 1400
• Introduction to International Relations GOV 1600
• Watergate and American Politics GOV 2001
• Judicial Politics GOV 2002
• The American Presidency GOV 2005
• Presidents and Civil Rights GOV 2006
• United States Congress GOV 2010
• Public Administration GOV 2015
• Constitutional Law I GOV 2020
• Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Liberties GOV 2021
• Education and Law GOV 2024
• Political Science and Policy History in the United States GOV 2030
• Maine Politics GOV 2035
• Race and Political Development in the United States GOV 2038
• Urban Politics GOV 2039
• Public Opinion and Voting Behavior GOV 2050
• Race, Citizenship, and Political Behavior GOV 2051
• Race, Ethnicity, and Politics GOV 2052
• Black Politics GOV 2053
• Latina/e/o/x Politics GOV 2054
• Political Parties in the United States GOV 2055
• Campaigns and Elections GOV 2060
• Political Psychology GOV 2065
• Mass Media and American Politics GOV 2070
• Quantitative Analysis in Political Science GOV 2080
• Political Economy of the United States from Revolution to Reconstruction GOV 2090
• Classical Political Philosophy GOV 2200
• The Idea of Rome: Republicanism from Cicero to Shakespeare GOV 2205

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.