Government at Colby College

13 faculty and 40 courses in Government at Colby College.

Faculty

• Daniel Shea, Chair, Professor h-index 11
• Kenneth Rodman, Professor h-index 11
• Lindsay Mayka, Associate Professor h-index 11
• Guilain Denoeux, Professor h-index 10
• Jennifer Yoder, Professor h-index 10
• Laura Seay, Assistant Professor h-index 5
• Joseph Reisert, Professor h-index 5
• Milan Babik, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 3
  Notable: “NAZISM AS A SECULAR RELIGION1” (2006) · 34 citations
• Carrie LeVan, Assistant Professor h-index 2
• Nazli Konya, Assistant Professor h-index 2
  Notable: “Making a People: Turkey’s “Democracy Watches” and Gezi-Envy” (2020) · 7 citations
• Tizoc Chavez, Visiting Assistant Professor h-index 2
• Deirdre Martin, Visiting Assistant Professor
• Nicholas Jacobs, Assistant Professor
  Notable: “Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism” (2026)

Courses

• Introduction to American Government and Politics GO111fs
• Introduction to International Relations GO131fs
• Introduction to U.S. Law GO140A
• Writing and Thinking about Law GO140B
• Utopia in Fiction: Happy Tomorrows or Hells on Earth? GO149A
• Political Theory of Utopia GO149B
• Introduction to Political Theory GO171fs
• Interest-Group Politics GO210
• The American Presidency GO211s
• Parties and the Electoral Process GO214f
• Political Rhetoric GO216
• America and the World GO223f
• Media and Politics GO226f
• Introduction to Race, Ethnicity, and Politics GO228f
• U.S. Foreign Policy: The Cold War GO231f
• Economic Statecraft GO233
• International Law and Politics of Human Rights GO236s
• Politics of War Crime Tribunals GO238s
• Intelligence and US National Security Policymaking GO247
• Israelis and Palestinians: Conflict and Accommodation GO251s
• Introduction to Politics of the Middle East GO252f
• Introduction to Latin American Politics GO253s
• Introduction to African Politics GO255
• Introduction to East Asian Politics GO256s
• Introduction to European Politics GO259f
• 9/11: Origins, Event, Aftermath GO260s
• Global Crisis of Democracy and Democracy Assistance GO263s
• Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America GO264f
• Classical Political Theory GO271
• American Political Thought GO273
• Suburban Politics GO312
• National Powers in American Constitutional Law GO313f
• Civil Liberties in American Constitutional Law GO314
• Minority Representation GO315
• Money and Politics GO318
• International Organization GO332
• Post-Communist Transformations GO344f
• The European Union GO354s
• Political Economy of Regionalism GO357
• Seminar: U.S. Foreign Policy GO432f

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.