35 faculty and 13 courses in Government at Tulane University.
- Eduardo Silva, Professor h-index 33
Es on Latin American politics, and he has published extensively on the political economy of state-society relations, sustainable development with a focus on forest policy, and mass mobilization. He has conducted extensive field research in
Notable: “Autonomous bathymetry for risk assessment with ROAZ robotic surface vehicle” (2009) · 105 citations
- Thomas Oatley, Professor h-index 24
Notable: “The Reductionist Gamble: Open Economy Politics in the Global Economy” (2011) · 277 citations
- Martin Dimitrov, Professor & Department Chair h-index 19
Notable: “Internal Government Assessments of the Quality of Governance in China” (2014) · 121 citations
- Mark Gasiorowski, Professor Emeritus h-index 18
Notable: “Economic Crisis and Political Regime Change: An Event History Analysis” (1995) · 546 citations
- Moisés Arce, Professor h-index 17
Notable: “Globalization, Taxation, and Burden-Shifting in Latin America” (2003) · 139 citations
- J. Celeste Lay, Professor h-index 16
Notable: “Women Running “as Women”: Candidate Gender, Campaign Issues, and Voter-Targeting Strategies” (2003) · 397 citations
- Raymond Taras, Professor Emeritus h-index 16
Notable: “The Revenge of the Past: Nationalism, Revolution, and the Collapse of the Soviet Union” (1995) · 394 citations
- Sally Kenney, Professor Emerita h-index 15
Sexual violence, women’s imprisonment, women and leadership, gender and judging, judicial selection, feminist social movements, women and electoral politics, the European Court of Justice, exclusionary employment policies, and pregn
Notable: “New Research on Gendered Political Institutions” (1996) · 209 citations
- Virginia Oliveros, Associate Professor h-index 14
Elections, clientelism, corruption, and patronage politics. My current research focuses on one of the mechanisms that undermines the quality of democratic politics in developing countries —the political use of public employment. In
Notable: “Making it Personal: Clientelism, Favors, and the Personalization of Public Administration in Argentina” (2016) · 169 citations
- Martyn Thompson, Professor Emeritus h-index 13
Notable: “Reception Theory and the Interpretation of Historical Meaning” (1993) · 130 citations
- Christopher Fettweis, Professor h-index 11
Notable: “Sir Halford Mackinder, Geopolitics, and Policymaking in the 21st Century” (2000) · 58 citations
- Gary Remer, Professor h-index 10
Notable: “Political Oratory and Conversation” (1999) · 72 citations
- Patrick Egan, Associate Professor h-index 9
Notable: “Foreign direct investment and inequality in developing countries: Does sector matter?” (2017) · 151 citations
- Mary Clark, Associate Professor Emerita h-index 8
Lie at the intersection of global governance, international development, and comparative politics. She published Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America: The Costa Rican Experience (SUNY Press, 2001) and numerous articles on development an
Notable: “Nontraditional Agricultural Exports in Latin America” (1992) · 145 citations
- Emily Rains, Assistant Professor h-index 8
Notable: “Combining satellite and survey data to study Indian slums: evidence on the range of conditions and implications for urban policy” (2018) · 52 citations
- Andrew Leber, Assistant Professor h-index 7
Notable: “Saudi Arabia plans for its economic future: Vision 2030, the National Transformation Plan and Saudi fiscal reform” (2018) · 188 citations
- Nancy Maveety, Professor h-index 7
Notable: “The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court” (2018) · 42 citations
- Joshua Basseches, Assistant Professor h-index 6
Notable: “Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way forward” (2022) · 143 citations
- Brian Brox, Associate Professor h-index 5
Notable: “Reducing the Costs of Participation” (2008) · 55 citations
- Christina Kiel, Senior Professor of Practice h-index 5
Notable: “Tweeting in echo chambers? Analyzing Twitter discourse between American Jewish interest groups” (2020) · 14 citations
- Brandon Davis, Assistant Professor h-index 4
Es on American Politics, Law and Society, and Race and Ethnic Politics. Brandon is interested in normative and empirical approaches to institutions, representation, and criminal justice. In 2022, the National Science Foundation awarded fund
Notable: “Predation in State and Nation” (2018) · 24 citations
- Allison Grossman, Assistant Professor h-index 3
Notable: “Ethnic Marginalization and (Non)Compliance in Public Health Emergencies” (2020) · 39 citations
- Rachel Schoner, Assistant Professor h-index 2
Es on international organizations and human rights. I study non-state actor access in international institutions and explore how victims of human rights abuse participate in global politics. Previously, I was a Pos
Notable: “Naming and shaming in UN treaty bodies: Individual petitions’ effect on human rights” (2024) · 35 citations
- Addison Huygens, Visiting Assistant Professor
- Alexis Palmer, Instructor
. The central theme of much of Palmer's work is trust: why do people trust the institutions, leaders, and information that they do. This work is rarely focused on the actual performance of these dimensions and instead asks what shapes perce
- Andrew Ward, Instructor
- Casey Love, Senior Professor of Practice
- Changwook Ju, Assistant Professor
- Dauphine Sloan, Senior Professor of Practice
- Maayan Mor, Assistant Professor
Es on interactions between political identities, political parties, and political development in Western Europe and Israel. She also researches the causes of inequality in representation and the formation of party systems in Western Europe.
- Michael E. Jones, Professor of Practice
- Michael Pickering, Adjunct Professor
Involve how media, the judiciary, and equitable economic growth affect trends in democratization across the world. Additionally, he is the creator-host of the global news show the Lofi Poli Sci Podcast, which focuses on bringing students “w
- Philip de Mahy, Professor of Practice
- Rosalind Cook, Adjunct Professor
- Valeria Umanets, Instructor
Women’s political participation & representation, Communist & post-Communist states, Russian and Central Asian politics, historical political economy. To learn more about Valeria Umanets, please visit her
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.