Government at University of Maryland, College Park

41 faculty and 21 courses in Government at University of Maryland, College Park.

Faculty

• James Gimpel, Professor h-index 34
  Notable: “Economic Insecurity, Prejudicial Stereotypes, and Public Opinion on Immigration Policy” (2000) · 744 citations
• Ernesto Calvo, Professor and Co-Director of Graduate Studies h-index 30
  Notable: “Who Delivers? Partisan Clients in the Argentine Electoral Market” (2004) · 674 citations
• Kathleen Gallagher Cunningham, Professor h-index 25
  Notable: “Shirts Today, Skins Tomorrow” (2012) · 228 citations
• Margaret Pearson, Professor h-index 22
  Notable: “The Business of Governing Business in China: Institutions and Norms of the Emerging Regulatory State” (2005) · 254 citations
• Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor and Director of Center for Post-communist Societies h-index 22
  Notable: “Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel” (1992) · 132 citations
• Todd Allee, Associate Professor h-index 21
  Notable: “Legitimizing Dispute Settlement: International Legal Rulings as Domestic Political Cover” (2006) · 257 citations
• Paul Huth, Professor & Director of CIDCM h-index 20
  Notable: “Civil Wars Kill and Maim People—Long After the Shooting Stops” (2003) · 719 citations
• Virginia Haufler, Professor and Director of GVPT Global h-index 20
  Notable: “Disclosure as Governance: The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative and Resource Management in the Developing World” (2010) · 350 citations
• David Cunningham, Professor h-index 20
  Notable: “It Takes Two” (2009) · 671 citations
• Michael Hanmer, Professor & CDCE Director h-index 19
  Notable: “Behind the Curve: Clarifying the Best Approach to Calculating Predicted Probabilities and Marginal Effects from Limited Dependent Variable Models” (2012) · 695 citations
• David Karol, Associate Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “A Theory of Political Parties: Groups, Policy Demands and Nominations in American Politics” (2012) · 848 citations
• Scott Kastner, Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “Is China a Status Quo or Revisionist State? Leadership Travel as an Empirical Indicator of Foreign Policy Priorities1” (2011) · 145 citations
• Sarah Croco, Professor h-index 16
  Notable: “The Decider's Dilemma: Leader Culpability, War Outcomes, and Domestic Punishment” (2011) · 252 citations
• Jóhanna Birnir, Lionel L. Bauman Endowed Professor of Politics h-index 14
  Notable: “Divergence in Diversity? The Dissimilar Effects of Cleavages on Electoral Politics in New Democracies” (2007) · 122 citations
• Antoine Banks, Professor and Department Chair h-index 13
• Giancarlo Visconti, Assistant Professor h-index 13
• Shibley Telhami, Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development h-index 12
  Notable: “Reciprocity, Triangularity, and Cooperation in the Middle East, 1979-97” (2001) · 96 citations
• Calvert W. Jones, Associate Professor h-index 10
  Notable: “Assessing the Dangers of Illicit Networks: Why al-Qaida May Be Less Threatening Than Many Think” (2008) · 161 citations
• Isabella Alcañiz, Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate Education h-index 10
  Notable: “Who’s to Blame? The Distribution of Responsibility in Developing Democracies” (2010) · 167 citations
• Chryl Laird, Associate Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Selling Out?: The Politics of Navigating Conflicts between Racial Group Interest and Self-interest” (2014) · 151 citations
• Richard Engstrom, Associate Research Professor h-index 8
• Piotr Swistak, Associate Professor h-index 7
• Shannon Carcelli, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Signaling in Foreign Policy” (2017) · 41 citations
• Marcus Johnson, Assistant Professor h-index 6
  Notable: “Dynamics of Polarizing Rhetoric in Congressional Tweets” (2022) · 82 citations
• Stacy J. Kosko, Associate Research Professor h-index 6
• Fiona Shen-Bayh, Associate Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Strategies of Repression” (2018) · 87 citations
• Deniz Cil, Assistant Research Professor h-index 4
• Candace Turitto, Senior Lecturer & APAN Program Director h-index 4
• Michael Spivey, Principal Lecturer h-index 3
• Jacob Aronson, Faculty h-index 3
• Neil Lund, Lecturer h-index 2
  Notable: “Introducing the ICBe Dataset: Very High Recall and Precision Event Extraction from Narratives about International Crises” (2022) · 4 citations
• Alex Flores, Assistant Professor
• Allison Berland, Senior Lecturer
• Breanna C. Gray, Assistant Professor
• Conny Kazungu, Lecturer and Faculty Advisor
• Hyunki Kim, Lecturer
• John McCauley, Professor & Director of IDCM
• Kris Miler, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
• Sujith Kumar, Senior Lecturer
• William Reed, Professor & Associate Provost for Academic Planning
• William Zachariah Mundy, Lecturer & Director Maryland Mock Trial Program

Courses

• Introduction to Political Science GVPT101
• Introduction to Political Ethics GVPT105
• American Government GVPT170
• International Political Relations GVPT200
• Scope and Methods for Political Science Research GVPT201
• Law or Politics? The U.S. Supreme Court and Individual Rights GVPT202
• The Challenge of Authoritarianism GVPT203
• Uncertain Partners: US and China in a Changing World GVPT204
• Appetite for Change: Politics and the Globalization of Food GVPT206
• Racial and Ethnic Politics in the Obama Era GVPT207
• Religions, Beliefs, and World Affairs GVPT210
• Peace in Our Time? Conflict and Conflict Resolution in International Politics GVPT211
• Introduction to Formal Theories of Political Behavior and Politics GVPT221
• The Study of Political Philosophy: Ancient and Modern GVPT241
• Introduction to Environmental Politics GVPT273
• The Study of Comparative Politics GVPT280
• The Politics of Global Development GVPT282
• Identity and Conflict GVPT301
• Global Environmental Politics GVPT306
• Topics in International Relations GVPT309
• Mock Trial II: Advanced Trial Advocacy GVPT317

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.