35 faculty and 40 courses in Government at Loyola University Chicago.
- David Doherty, Professor & Undergraduate Program Director h-index 23
Public opinion, research methodology, and the intersection between psychology and political behavior. His work addresses topics including how people interpret and evaluate political processes, the role elites play in shaping politic
Notable: “Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts” (2010) · 809 citations
- Peter J. Schraeder, Professor & Dean of College of Arts and Sciences h-index 19
Notable: “Clarifying the Foreign Aid Puzzle: A Comparison of American, Japanese, French, and Swedish Aid Flows” (1998) · 651 citations
- Alexandru V. Grigorescu, Professor & Director of CRIA h-index 18
Notable: “Ramucirumab plus docetaxel versus placebo plus docetaxel for second-line treatment of stage IV non-small-cell lung cancer after disease progression on platinum-based therapy (REVEL): a multicentre, double-blind, randomised phase 3 trial” (2014) · 1,309 citations
- Vincent Mahler, Professor Emeritus h-index 16
Comparative social policy, Western European politics, and quantitative methods. His articles have been published in Comparative Political Studies, American Political Science Review, International Organization, Comparative Politics
Notable: “Fiscal redistribution in the developed countries: new insights from the Luxembourg Income Study1” (2006) · 260 citations
- Eric Hansen, Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director h-index 16
Es on legislative politics and representation. He has written about the occupational backgrounds of lawmakers, constituency representation, policy diffusion, and the relationship between education and voting. His work has appeared in t
Notable: “Industrial location choice in São Paulo, Brazil” (1987) · 145 citations
- Carol Jones, Part-Time Instructor h-index 15
Notable: “Comparison of the effects of water deprivation and sodium chloride imbibition on the hormone content of the neurohypophysis of the rat” (1969) · 233 citations
- Molly Melin, Professor & Chair h-index 12
Es on third party interventions in ongoing international conflicts, the role of the private sector in conflict prevention, and UN peacekeeping. She regularly teaches classes on international conflict processes, business and world politics
Notable: “Incentives for Talking: Accepting Mediation in International and Civil Wars” (2009) · 128 citations
- Jennifer Forestal, Associate Professor h-index 10
Es on questions of social media platform design and governance, digital culture, and democratic theory. She has published a book, Designing for Democracy: How to Build Community in Digital Environments (Oxford, 2022), on the rol
Notable: “Platform socialism: How to reclaim our digital future from big tech” (2022) · 45 citations
- Tofigh Maboudi, Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director h-index 9
Es on the impact of environmental laws and policies on climate outcomes. Maboudi is principal investigator of a National Science Foundation grant ) for a research project—Evaluating Climate Laws, Institutions, Policies and P
Notable: “When Talk Trumps Text: The Democratizing Effects of Deliberation during Constitution-Making, 1974–2011” (2015) · 122 citations
- Meghan Condon, Associate Professor h-index 9
Es on how social and economic inequality structures democratic life in the United States: the relationship between inequality and political attitude formation, political engagement, and the effectiveness of policies designed to reduce
Notable: “Entering Politics: General Self‐Efficacy and Voting Behavior Among Young People” (2013) · 126 citations
- Olga A. Avdeyeva, Associate Professor h-index 8
Es on international influences and domestic policy and institutional change on gender and gender equality. Her book “Defending Women’s Rights in Europe: Gender Equality and EU Enlargement” investigates the fact
Notable: “Teaching with Lecture or Debate? Testing the Effectiveness of Traditional versus Active Learning Methods of Instruction” (2008) · 148 citations
- Michael H. Walsh, Adjunct Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Courting Constituents? An Analysis of the Senate Confirmation Vote on Justice Clarence Thomas” (1992) · 106 citations
- Claudio Katz, Professor Emeritus h-index 7
Notable: “The Impact of Taxes on Growth and Distribution in Developed Capitalist Countries: A Cross-National Study” (1983) · 54 citations
- Sarah Maxey, Associate Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Mechanisms of Morality” (2017) · 97 citations
- Patrick Cunha Silva, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “The impact of cuing candidate quality on female candidates” (2020) · 33 citations
- Brian Endless, Senior Lecturer & Director of African Studies h-index 3
Notable: “The Media and Africa: The Portrayal of Africa in the New York Times (1955–1995)” (1998) · 28 citations
- Yuna Blajer de la Garza, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Es on contemporary political theory. She studies inequalities in democratic political communities and is particularly interested in how membership in a democratic political community is articulated and negotiated, not only as a matter
Notable: “Conceptualizing Belonging for Democratic Theory” (2023) · 18 citations
- Jay Kao, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Family Matters: Education and the (Conditional) Effect of State Indoctrination in China” (2021) · 16 citations
- Sooyeon Kang, Assistant Professor & Internship Coordinator h-index 2
Notable: “State Repression and Nonviolent Resistance” (2017) · 198 citations
- Justin Pottle, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Notable: “Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection” (2023) · 3 citations
- Amanda Savage, Associate Professor & Director of Law and Politics Minor h-index 2
Notable: “Amy Coney Barrett is Not Enough: How Descriptive and Substantive Representation Shape Trust and Legitimacy of the Federal Courts” (2024) · 5 citations
- Agustin Markarian, Assistant Professor
- Chris Hasselmann, Senior Lecturer & Director of European Studies
Notable: “Public attitudes abd support for the EU in the wake of the financial crisis” (2014)
- Dawn Helphand, Part-Time Instructor
- Griffin Thompson, Part-Time Instructor
- John O'Leary, Part-Time Instructor
- Luigi Sensi, Part-Time Instructor
Environmental politics, American politics, international security, insurgencies/civil conflicts and international interventions, international law and international organizations. Education J.D., Harvard Law Ph.D., Rutgers Universit
- Meghan Iverson, Part-Time Instructor
- Naida Softic, Part-Time Instructor
- Patrick Boyle, Associate Professor
African Politics, comparative politics, and the politics of development. His current writing and field research projects focus on the politics of social services in several francophone states of central Africa. His published work ha
- Randall Conway, Part-Time Instructor
- Stephen Hackney, Part-Time Instructor
- Susan Dimock, Lecturer & Director of Washington D.C. Program
- Taryn Butler, Part-Time Instructor
- Twyla Blackmond Larnell, Associate Professor
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.