Political Science at Columbia University

87 faculty and 0 courses in Political Science at Columbia University.

Faculty

• Jon Elster, Professor Emeritus h-index 85
• John Marshall h-index 84
• Robert L. Amdur h-index 65
• David A. Baldwin, Professor Emeritus h-index 57
• Robert Y. Shapiro h-index 57
• David Spiro h-index 57
• Robert S. Erikson, Professor of Political Science h-index 55
• Daniela Campello, Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor h-index 47
• Mahmood Mamdani h-index 41
• Thomas P. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus h-index 35
• John D. Huber, Professor of Political Science h-index 34
• David C. Johnston h-index 33
  Political Theory David Johnston (Ph.D., Princeton, 1981) specializes in political philosophy and the history of moral and political ideas. His books include The Rhetoric of Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Cultural T
• Jack Lewis Snyder h-index 33
• M. Victoria Murillo h-index 32
• Cesar Zucco h-index 31
• Michael M Ting h-index 29
• Timothy M. Frye, Marshall D. Shulman Professor of Post-Soviet Foreign Policy h-index 28
• Jean Louise Cohen, Nell and Herbert M. Singer Professor of Contemporary Civilization in the Core Curriculum h-index 26
• Justin H Phillips h-index 23
• Jeffrey R Lax h-index 19
• Elizabeth N. Saunders h-index 18
• Yamil R. Velez h-index 18
• Lisa Anderson, Professor Emerita h-index 14
  Comparative Politics Lisa Anderson is Special Lecturer and James T. Shotwell Professor Emerita of International Relations at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs. Dr. Anderson served as President of the America
• Michael W. Doyle, University Professor, School of International and Public Affairs h-index 14
• Andreas Wimmer h-index 13
• Tamar Mitts h-index 13
• Karuna Mantena h-index 12
• Sarah Z. Daly, Associate Professor (with tenure) of Political Science h-index 12
• Gemma Dipoppa, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 12
• Gregory J. Wawro h-index 10
• Tsveta Petrova h-index 10
• Andrew Gelman, Higgins Professor of Statistics and Professor of Political Science h-index 10
• Jonathan E. Collins, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Education, Teachers College h-index 10
• Turkuler Isiksel, Associate Professor (with tenure) of Political Science h-index 9
  Political Theory Turkuler Isiksel (Ph.D., Yale) is Associate Professor of Political Science at Columbia and works in contemporary political theory. Isiksel is particularly interested in how descriptive and normative categories tai
• Charles David Freilich h-index 9
• Chiara Superti h-index 7
  Comparative Politics Political Methodology Chiara Superti is the Director of the M.A. program in political science and Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science at Columbia University. She received a B.A. in international and d
• Soubhik Barari h-index 6
• Calvin N. Thrall h-index 6
• Kevin B. Funk h-index 5
• Jayme R. Schlesinger h-index 3
• Abdullah Aydogan h-index 2
• Albert Bininachvili
  International Relations Courses Taught Fall 2022 GLOBAL ENERGY: SECURITY/GEOPOL 3 pts, GU4814 420 W. 118th Street
• Alessandra M. Casella, Professor of Economics and Political Science
• Alexander T. Clark, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Alexander W. Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
  American Politics Alexander Hertel-Fernandez is a political scientist who studies the political economy of the United States, with an emphasis on the politics of organized interests and public policy. In recent work, Hertel-Fernandez h
• Allison Jean Carnegie, Professor of Political Science; Director of Graduate Studies
  International Relations Political Economy Allison Carnegie (Ph.D.Yale University 2014, joint in political science and economics) specializes in global governance and international institutions, with a focus on populism, trade, foreign aid
• Andrew J. Nathan
  Comparative Politics International Relations Andrew J. Nathan is Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. His teaching and research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, the comparative study of
• Benjamin McClelland
• Bernard E Harcourt, Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law; Director of Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought
• Carlos Vargas-Ramos
• Caterina Chiopris, Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Daniel Luban
  Political Theory Daniel Luban is an assistant professor of political science at Columbia specializing in political theory. His main academic interests are in the history of modern social and political thought (with a particular focus on the
• David McGrath
• Davit Sahakyan
• Diana J. Moser
• Donald P Green, Burgess Professor of Political Science
  American Politics Political Methodology Donald P. Green (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1988) is the author of five books and more than one hundred essays. Professor Green's research interests span a wide array of topics: voting
• Elise Giuliano
• Ester Fuchs, Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs
• Fredrick Cornelius Harris, Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science
  American Politics Fredrick C. Harris is the Class of 1933 Professor of Political Science and former Dean of Faculty in the Social Sciences. He also serves as Director of the Center on African American Politics and Society . Profe
• Gerald Leon Curtis, Professor Emeritus
  Comparative Politics Gerald L. Curtis is Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University, Senior Research Scholar and Director of Columbia’s Japan Research Program, Chairman of the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundatio
• Giulio M. Gallarotti
  International Relations Giulio M. Gallarotti is Professor of Government at Wesleyan University and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Economic Theor
• Glenn T. Mitoma
• Greg Bovitz
• Ira I. Katznelson
• Isaac Justin Stethem
  Political Theory Isaac Stethem is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science and a Core Lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. Their research interests include sovereignty and territory, particularly as they relate t
• Jack S. Levy
• Jackie Dugard
• Jean E. Krasno
• Jeffrey Henig, Professor Emeritus
• Jeffry A. Frieden, Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
  International Relations Political Economy Jeffry Frieden is Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science at Columbia University. He specializes in the politics of international economic relations. Frieden is the
• Jeremiah S Pam
  International Relations Jeremiah Pam is a senior policy analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He has previously been a research scholar at Columbia's Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies and a visiting scholar, fellow, or v
• Judith Russell
  American Politics Judith Russell has more than twenty-five years of experience in academia and politics as a professor and political advisor. She is the author of Economics, Bureaucracy, and Race: How Keynesians Misguided the War
• Julia Clara Maier
• Lincoln A. Mitchell
  American Politics International Relations Lincoln Mitchell is a political analyst, pundit, and writer based in New York City and San Francisco. Dr. Mitchell works on democracy and governance-related issues in the former Soviet Union, Easter
• Linda Kirschke
• Madhav Khosla
• Mark J. Kesselman, Professor Emeritus
  Comparative Politics 420 W. 118th Street
• Nadia Urbinati
  Political Theory Nadia Urbinati (Ph.D., European University Institute, Florence, 1989) is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired th
• Paola Magdalena Solimena
• Partha Chatterjee, Professor Emeritus
• Richard K. Betts, Professor Emeritus
• Robert L. Tortoriello
• Robert Legvold, Professor Emeritus
• Shana Warren
• Sharyn L. O'Halloran
  American Politics Political Methodology Political Economy Sharyn O'Halloran is the George Blumenthal Professor of Political Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University in the City of New York. A p
• Sudipta Kaviraj
• Tenzin Dorjee

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.