Government & Law at Lafayette College

17 faculty and 38 courses in Government & Law at Lafayette College.

Faculty

• John Kincaid, Robert B. and Helen S. Meyner Professor of Government and Public Service h-index 27
  Notable: “From Cooperative to Coercive Federalism” (1990) · 221 citations
• Joshua Miller, Professor h-index 19
• Ilan Peleg, Charles A. Dana Professor of Government and Law h-index 14
  Ethnic politics and majority-minority relations; US foreign policy; the Israeli Right Fall 2026
  Notable: “Jewish-Palestinian Relations in Israel: From Hegemony to Equality?” (2004) · 32 citations
• Hannah W. Stewart-Gambino, Emeritus Professor of Government and Law & International Affairs h-index 10
  Notable: “Church and State in Latin America” (1994) · 69 citations
• Andrew J. Clarke, Associate Professor h-index 9
  American political institutions, legislative politics, ideological factions Selected publications: Kenneth S. Lowande, Jeffery A. Jenkins, and Andrew J. Clarke. 2017. “Presidential Particularism and US Trade Politics.” Political Science Re
  Notable: “Schools, pupils, and their characteristics, January 2012” (2012) · 111 citations
• Katalin Fabian, Professor h-index 9
  How women and their organizations participate in the new democracies of postcommunist countries Selected publications: Routledge Handbook on Gender in Central-Eastern Europe and Eurasia, edited with Janet Elise Johnson and Mara Lazda , 202
  Notable: “Disciplining the “Second World”: the relationship between transnational and local forces in contemporary Hungarian women's social movements” (2014) · 20 citations
• Michael Feola, Associate Professor and Assistant Department Head h-index 6
  Contemporary Political Theory; Critical Theory; the Far Right; Politics and Economy; Mass Incarceration. Fall 2026
  Notable: “You Will Not Replace Us” The Melancholic Nationalism Of Whiteness” (2010) · 73 citations
• Dylan Groves, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Comparative politics, media and politics, field experiments, environmental politics, African politics Selected Publications: Casler, Donald, and Dylan W. Groves. “Perspective Taking Through Partisan Eyes: Cross-National Empathy, Part
• Helena Silverstein, Thomas Roy and Lura Forrest Jones Emeritus Professor of Government and Law h-index 5
  Law and society; laws mandating parental involvement in the abortion decisions of pregnant minors. Selected publications : The Supreme Court (Greenwood Press, 2021) Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors (NYU Press, 2007). Unl
  Notable: “Road Closed: Evaluating the Judicial Bypass Provision of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act” (1999) · 10 citations
• Stephanie Chan, Assistant Professor h-index 4
  Race, immigration, political participation, political psychology, political networks Publications : Rolfe, Meredith and Stephanie Chan. 2016. “Voting and Participation.” In Oxford University Handbook of Political Networks, ed. Jennifer Vic
• Seo-Hyun Park, Professor and Department Head h-index 3
  International security; alliance politics; national identity politics; causes of war; the role of sovereignty in international relations; East Asian politics Honors: Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship; the Mellon Fellowship; the Corn
  Notable: “Asymmetric interdependence and the politics of energy in Europe: Hirschman’s ‘influence effect’ redux” (2020) · 11 citations
• Il Hyun Cho, Professor h-index 1
  International relations, global governance, nuclear proliferation, regionalism in world politics, Chinese foreign policy, Asian politics Selected Publications: His research has been published or forthcoming in Global Governance, Review of
• Anna Callis, Assistant Professor
  Latin American politics; comparative politics; democratization; authoritarian politics; politics of labor; historical political economy Selected Publications: Callis, Anna and Carter, Christopher. “Balancing Bossism: State Expansion in the
• Bruce Allen Murphy, Fred Morgan Kirby Professor of Civil Rights
• Erin Tatz, Visiting Assistant Professor
  Critical Race Studies, Carceral Studies, Affect Theory, Aesthetics, Postcolonial Studies, Gender and Queer Theory, Phenomenal Subjectivity Selected Publications: Tatz, Erin. “Review of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being .” Theory &
• Maryam Nahhal, Assistant Professor
• Shagun Gupta, Assistant Professor
  Trust, Urban Governance, Democratic Participation, Local Accountability, Citizen Behavior, Democratic Institutional Design, Political Economy of Development, South Asia Fall 2026

Courses

• Introduction to United States Politics GOVT 101
• Introduction to International Politics GOVT 102
• Introduction to Comparative Politics GOVT 103
• Introduction to Political Theory GOVT 104
• Race and Ethnicity in American Politics GOVT 207
• State and Local Government and Politics GOVT 211
• Law and Society GOVT 213
• Campaigns and Elections in the U.S. GOVT 215
• Politics of Public Policy GOVT 218
• The United States and Latin American Relations GOVT 220
• Politics of Africa GOVT 223
• Politics of Russia, the Other Post-Soviet States, and Eastern Europe GOVT 225
• Political Regimes and Regime Change GOVT 226
• Latin American Political History from the Conquest to the Present GOVT 227
• Democratization and Democratic Breakdown GOVT 228
• Post-Cold War Political Regimes GOVT 229
• International Politics of the Middle East and Persian Gulf GOVT 230
• Global Environmental Politics GOVT 231
• International Political Economy GOVT 232
• International Law and Organization GOVT 235
• East Asian International Relations GOVT 238
• The Politics of Fashion GOVT 241
• African American Political Thought GOVT 242
• Modern Political Theory GOVT 244
• Early American Political Thought GOVT 245
• Recent American Political Thought GOVT 246
• Capitalism and its Critics GOVT 248
• Political Opinion and Participation in the U.S. GOVT 258
• Chinese Foreign Policy GOVT 270
• Political Analysis GOVT 275
• Politics, Policy, and Law in American Federalism GOVT 310
• Constitutional Law and Politics in the United States GOVT 311
• First Amendment in the United States: Law and Politics GOVT 313
• Liberty in the United States: Law and Politics GOVT 314
• Equality in the United States: Law and Politics GOVT 315
• Inequality and the American State GOVT 317
• The Presidency and Executive Politics GOVT 320
• Congress and the Legislative Process GOVT 321

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.