31 faculty and 40 courses in Government at Emory University.
- Holli Semetko, Asa Griggs Candler Professor h-index 36
Notable: “Framing European politics: A Content Analysis of Press and Television News” (2000) · 2,358 citations
- Dan Reiter, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor h-index 33
Causes and outcomes of international and internal conflicts; connections between domestic and international politics; quantitative methods and international relations; international alliances; decision-making; US foreign policy. Current re
Notable: “Exploring the Bargaining Model of War” (2003) · 472 citations
- Jeffrey Staton, Professor h-index 32
Notable: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: A New Approach” (2011) · 944 citations
- Clifford Carrubba, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor h-index 26
Legislative and judicial politics, institutions, European politics, game theory. Current research projects include the strategic use of legislative voting procedures, the European Commission and enforcement of European Union law, and
Notable: “Judicial Behavior under Political Constraints: Evidence from the European Court of Justice” (2008) · 391 citations
- Michael Rich, Professor and Department Chair h-index 23
Public policy, Policy Analysis and Evaluation Research, Federalism, Urban Politics/Policy Recent Courses : Community Building and Social Change, Public Policy, Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation, Poverty in America Selected Recent Publ
Notable: “Adhesion of Graphite Fibers to Epoxy Matrices: I. The Role of Fiber Surface Treatment” (1983) · 564 citations
- John Patty, Professor / Political Science and Data and Decision Sciences h-index 22
Es on mathematical models of political institutions. His substantive interests include political legitimacy, the US Congress, the federal bureaucracy, American political development, and democratic theory. His work has been published
Notable: “Slackers and Zealots: Civil Service, Policy Discretion, and Bureaucratic Expertise” (2007) · 513 citations
- Eric Reinhardt, Associate Professor h-index 20
International relations and political economy. Eric Reinhardt's current research, using quantitative and game theoretic methods, concerns international trade dispute settlement and institutional design, how industrial
Notable: “Multilateral Determinants of Regionalism: The Effects of GATT/WTO on the Formation of Preferential Trading Arrangements” (2003) · 294 citations
- David Davis, Associate Professor & Honors Program Director h-index 19
International relations, domestic politics and international conflict, political violence and ethnic conflict, defense economics and the political economy of development. Teaching interests: international relations, human rights, political
Notable: “Shaming and Blaming: Using Events Data to Assess the Impact of Human Rights INGOs1” (2011) · 566 citations
- Beth Reingold, Professor h-index 19
Es more intently on questions about legislative power and influence. It seeks to understand whether and how members of marginalized groups attain institutional power and how the institutions, norms, and processes that effect legislative pow
Notable: “American Identity and the Politics of Ethnic Change” (1990) · 488 citations
- Jack Paine, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies h-index 17
Notable: “Power Sharing and Authoritarian Stability: How Rebel Regimes Solve the Guardianship Dilemma” (2022) · 100 citations
- Miguel R. Rueda, Associate Professor h-index 15
Electoral manipulation, civil conflict, money in politics, and political methodology. His work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Jour
Notable: “Small Aggregates, Big Manipulation: Vote Buying Enforcement and Collective Monitoring” (2016) · 156 citations
- Elizabeth Penn, Professor / Political Science and Data and Decision Sciences h-index 14
Notable: “The drugs don’t work? antidepressants and the current and future pharmacological management of depression” (2012) · 202 citations
- Bernard Fraga, Ann and Michael Hankin Distinguished Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Candidates or Districts? Reevaluating the Role of Race in Voter Turnout” (2015) · 171 citations
- Danielle Jung, Professor h-index 13
Notable: “Insurgent Compensation: Evidence from Iraq” (2013) · 79 citations
- Luis Martinez, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Admissions and Placement h-index 12
Of interest are political economy, economic development, and public finance, with a regional focus on Latin America. Luis’s research has been published in leading academic journals in economics and political science, including the
Notable: “How Much Should We Trust the Dictator’s GDP Growth Estimates?” (2022) · 206 citations
- Zachary Peskowitz, Masse-Martin NEH Professor h-index 12
Notable: “Political Advertising Online and Offline” (2020) · 210 citations
- Michael Leo Owens, Professor h-index 12
Notable: “The Political Determinants of Women’s Descriptive Representation in Cities” (2011) · 108 citations
- Alexander Bolton, Associate Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Legislative Capacity and Executive Unilateralism” (2015) · 89 citations
- Hubert Tworzecki, Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies h-index 10
Political parties, elections, and voting in new democracies, as well as political communication and its effects. He is the author of Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland (Westview Press,1996) and Learning to Choose: Electoral Po
Notable: “Poland: A Case of Top-Down Polarization” (2018) · 141 citations
- Natalia Bueno, Associate Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Bypassing the Enemy: Distributive Politics, Credit Claiming, and Nonstate Organizations in Brazil” (2017) · 98 citations
- Renard Sexton, Associate Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Aid as a Tool against Insurgency: Evidence from Contested and Controlled Territory in Afghanistan” (2016) · 183 citations
- Nahomi Ichino, Associate Professor h-index 8
Sub-Saharan Africa. She has a secondary research interest in methodology for comparative politics. Her work has been published in American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and other outlets. She is the co
Notable: “Crossing the Line: Local Ethnic Geography and Voting in Ghana” (2013) · 304 citations
- Courtney Brown, Associate Professor h-index 7
Modeling complex systems, advanced nonlinear statistical and dynamic modeling methods, introductory and advanced statistical methods, political music, American electoral politics, democracy in developing nations, politics and the environme
Notable: “Political Context and Attitude Change” (1987) · 180 citations
- Andra Gillespie, Associate Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Women Also Know Stuff: Meta-Level Mentoring to Battle Gender Bias in Political Science” (2017) · 57 citations
- Jessica Sun, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Es on civil conflict and authoritarian regimes. More specifically, her research uses formal models to study the domestic and international consequences of repression and tactical decision making in civil conflict. Her work has been publishe
Notable: “Autocratic Stability in the Shadow of Foreign Threats” (2020) · 53 citations
- Tony Zirui Yang, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Normalization of Censorship: Evidence from China” (2021) · 18 citations
- Kiela Crabtree, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Reclaiming the public space” (2021) · 17 citations
- Pablo Montagnes, Associate Professor / Political Science and Data and Decision Sciences h-index 2
Notable: “Mass Purges: Top-Down Accountability in Autocracy” (2016) · 8 citations
- Adam Glynn, Professor / Political Science and Data and Decision Sciences
Es on causal inference and sampling/survey design for political science applications. His articles have been published in a number of leading journals including the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of the American Statisti
- Judd Owen, Associate Professor
Enlightenment and classical political philosophy. His most recent works are “John Locke’s Revolution in the Law of Fashion” and “Hobbes’s State of Nature as Rationalist Myth.” He is c
- Matthew Baker, Assistant Teaching Professor & Director of Experiential Learning
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.