40 faculty and 40 courses in Government at George Washington University.
- Michael N. Barnett, University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science h-index 53
Notable: “The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations” (1999) · 2,086 citations
- Martha Finnemore, University Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 34
Notable: “International Norm Dynamics and Political Change” (1998) · 8,107 citations
- Henry E. Hale, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 34
Notable: “Regime Cycles: Democracy, Autocracy, and Revolution in Post-Soviet Eurasia” (2005) · 381 citations
- Michael E. Brown, Professor of International Affairs and Political Science h-index 28
Notable: “Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing” (2005) · 5,208 citations
- Michael K. Miller, Professor of Political Science h-index 27
Notable: “A Complete Data Set of Political Regimes, 1800–2007” (2012) · 1,090 citations
- Yonatan Lupu, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 27
Notable: “The online competition between pro- and anti-vaccination views” (2020) · 733 citations
- Forrest Maltzman, Professor of Political Science h-index 26
Notable: “Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice and Public Policy, by Bryan D. Jones” (1995) · 256 citations
- Sarah A. Binder, Professor of Political Science h-index 25
Notable: “The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock, 1947–96” (1999) · 624 citations
- Danny Hayes, Professor of Political Science h-index 25
Notable: “Candidate Qualities through a Partisan Lens: A Theory of Trait Ownership” (2005) · 384 citations
- Nathan J. Brown, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 25
Notable: “Shariʿa and State in the Modern Muslim Middle East” (1997) · 102 citations
- Ethan Porter, Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs and of Political Science h-index 24
Notable: “The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes’ Steadfast Factual Adherence” (2018) · 863 citations
- Bruce J. Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 23
Notable: “Integrating Wealth and Power in China: The Communist Party's Embrace of the Private Sector” (2007) · 190 citations
- Kimberly J. Morgan, Professor of Political Science h-index 22
Notable: “Paid to Care: The Origins and Effects of Care Leave Policies in Western Europe” (2003) · 299 citations
- Marc Lynch, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 21
Notable: “After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State” (2011) · 385 citations
- Brandon Bartels, Professor of Political Science h-index 21
Notable: “On the Ideological Foundations of Supreme Court Legitimacy in the American Public” (2012) · 353 citations
- James H. Lebovic, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 20
Notable: “The Cost of Shame: International Organizations and Foreign Aid in the Punishing of Human Rights Violators” (2008) · 403 citations
- Steven J. Balla, Associate Professor of Political Science, Public Policy and Public Administration, and International Affairs h-index 18
Notable: “Interstate Professional Associations and the Diffusion of Policy Innovations” (2001) · 312 citations
- Alexander B. Downes, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 17
Notable: “Desperate Times, Desperate Measures: The Causes of Civilian Victimization in War” (2006) · 218 citations
- Harris Mylonas, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 17
Notable: “Nationalism: What We Know and What We Still Need to Know” (2021) · 158 citations
- Cynthia McClintock, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 16
Notable: “Territory and State Power in Latin America: The Peruvian Case. By David Slater. New York: St. Martin's, p. $39.95.” (1991) · 178 citations
- Mike Mochizuki, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 16
Notable: “Japan's Search for Strategy” (1983) · 61 citations
- Eric D. Lawrence, Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 15
Notable: “Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation, and Polarization in American Politics” (2010) · 353 citations
- Adam Dean, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 11
Notable: “Mortality Rates From COVID-19 Are Lower In Unionized Nursing Homes” (2020) · 84 citations
- Alicia Cooperman, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 11
Notable: “Adoption of community monitoring improves common pool resource management across contexts” (2021) · 69 citations
- Janet I. Lewis, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 10
Notable: “Nations' income inequality predicts ambivalence in stereotype content: How societies mind the gap” (2012) · 251 citations
- Stephen B. Kaplan, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 10
Notable: “Banking unconditionally: the political economy of Chinese finance in Latin America” (2016) · 159 citations
- Celeste Arrington, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 9
Law and social change, governance, civil society, social movements, policy-making processes, lawyers, the media and politics, and qualitative methods. She is also interested in the international relations and security of Northeast A
Notable: “Cause Lawyering and Movement Tactics: Disability Rights Movements in South Korea and Japan” (2019) · 35 citations
- Omar Garcia-Ponce, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 8
Notable: “Partisan losers' effects: Perceptions of electoral integrity in Mexico” (2015) · 100 citations
- Jeffrey Ding, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 8
Notable: “The Logic of Strategic Assets: From Oil to AI” (2021) · 40 citations
- Ingrid Creppell, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 7
Notable: “On Justification: Economies of Worth” (2007) · 934 citations
- Eric Grynaviski, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 7
Notable: “Contrasts, counterfactuals,and causes” (2012) · 52 citations
- Derek Holliday, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 7
Notable: “Uncommon and nonpartisan: Antidemocratic attitudes in the American public” (2024) · 56 citations
- Michael Hankinson, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 6
Notable: “When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism” (2018) · 226 citations
- Kelly Bauer, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 6
Notable: “Land versus Territory: Evaluating Indigenous Land Policy for the Mapuche inChile” (2015) · 47 citations
- Alasdair Bowie, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 4
Notable: “The Politics of Open Economies” (1997) · 15 citations
- Nicholas Anderson, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs h-index 3
Notable: “An Assessment of State Laws Providing Gubernatorial Authority to Remove Legal Barriers to Emergency Response” (2019) · 12 citations
- Rachel Metz, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 2
Notable: “Issue linkage in security assistance: A pathway to recipient security sector reform” (2024) · 3 citations
- Harvey B. Feigenbaum, Professor of Political Science
- Nicole Bartels, Teaching Associate Professor of Political Science
- Paz Avila, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
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.