Government at University of Chicago

35 faculty and 0 courses in Government at University of Chicago.

Faculty

• Susan Stokes, Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor h-index 38
• John Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science h-index 37
• John McCormick, Karl J. Weintraub Professor h-index 34
• Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor h-index 30
• Scott Gehlbach, Elise and Jack Lipsey Professor; Director of the Joint PhD Program in Political Economy h-index 29
• Andrew Eggers, Professor h-index 27
  Es on electoral systems, corruption/accountability, the relationship between money and politics, and political development in the U.S., Britain, and France. He also has an interest in research methodology. From , he was a Professor
• Jon Rogowski, Professor h-index 25
  In American politics, where he studies representation and accountability, political institutions, and American political history. Jon has written two books on the American presidency and published articles in journals including the
• Robert Pape, Professor h-index 24
• Gary Herrigel, Paul Klapper Professor in the College and Division of Social Sciences h-index 22
• Michael Albertus, Professor h-index 22
• Paul Poast, Associate Professor; Deputy Dean for Doctoral Education h-index 22
• Jennifer Pitts, Chair, Department of Political Science, David and Mary Winton Green Professor h-index 21
  Lie in the fields of modern political and international thought, particularly British and French thought of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; empire; the history of international law; and global justice. She is a co-editor of the Cam
• Paul Staniland, Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Political Science h-index 21
  Es on political violence and international security, with a regional focus on South and Southeast Asia. His first book, Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse , was published by Cornell University Press in 2
• Monika Nalepa, Professor h-index 19
  Transitional justice, parties and legislatures, and game-theoretic approaches to comparative politics. Her first book, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe was published in the Cambridge
• Cathy Cohen, D. Gale Johnson Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science h-index 17
• Linda Zerilli, Charles E. Merriam Distinguished Service Professor h-index 17
• Lisa Wedeen, Mary R. Morton Distinguished Service Professor; Director of Graduate Studies h-index 16
• Benjamin Lessing, Associate Professor h-index 14
• Austin Carson, Professor; Director, Committee on International Relations h-index 13
• Rochelle Layla Terman, Assistant Professor h-index 10
• Chiara Cordelli, Professor h-index 10
• Zhaotian Luo, Assistant Professor h-index 10
• Adom Getachew, Professor; Interim Chair, Department of Race, Diaspora, and Indigeneity h-index 9
  The history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the intellectual and political histories of Africa and the Caribbean. She is the author of Worldmaking after Empi
• Sankar Muthu, Associate Professor h-index 8
• Eric Oliver, Professor h-index 6
• Ruth Bloch Rubin, Associate Professor h-index 4
• Molly Offer-Westort, Assistant Professor h-index 4
  In causal inference and machine learning. My current work has a particular focus on applying methods for frequentist inference to data collected in adaptive experiments, and I work on methods to optimize adaptive experimental desig
• Isaac Mehlhaff, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor h-index 4
• Patricia Posey, Assistant Professor h-index 3
• Ramón Garibaldo Valdéz, Assistant Professor h-index 3
• James Lindley Wilson, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
  Span political philosophy, ethics, and law. Most of his work focuses on normative democratic theory, including the moral evaluation of democracy and what democratic ideals require of citizens and institutions. His book, Democrat
• James Robinson, Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor & University Professor
• John Brehm, Professor
• John Mark Hansen, Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor
• Robert Gulotty, Associate Professor

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.