Government at Vassar College

17 faculty and 48 courses in Government at Vassar College.

Faculty

• Elizabeth H. Bradley, President and Professor of Political Science h-index 66
  Notable: “Qualitative Data Analysis for Health Services Research: Developing Taxonomy, Themes, and Theory” (2007) · 3,486 citations
• Fubing Su, Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies h-index 19
  Notable: “Land Leasing and Local Public Finance in China’s Regional Development: Evidence from Prefecture-level Cities” (2010) · 475 citations
• Katherine Hite, Professor of Political Science on the F. Thompson Chair h-index 13
  Notable: “Memorial Fragments, Monumental Silences and Reawakenings in 21st-Century Chile” (2009) · 62 citations
• Himadeep Muppidi, Professor of Political Science on the Betty Goff Cook Cartwright Chair h-index 9
  Notable: “Tales of Entanglement” (2021) · 16 citations
• Sidney Plotkin, Professor of Political Science on the Margaret Stiles Halleck Chair h-index 6
  Notable: “Property, policy and politics: towards a theory of urban land‐use conflict” (1987) · 22 citations
• Stephen R. Rock, Professor and Chair of Political Science h-index 4
  Notable: “Why Peace Breaks out: Great Power Rapprochement in Historical Perspective” (1990) · 60 citations
• Taneisha Means, Associate Professor h-index 4
  Notable: “Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States” (2016) · 37 citations
• Taneisha N. Means, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 4
  Notable: “Race, power, and knowledge: tracing the roots of exclusion in the development of political science in the United States” (2016) · 37 citations
• Arpitha Kodiveri, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 4
  Notable: “India’s Forest Rights Act, 2006: Stuck in a Maze of Bureaucratic Interpretations?” (2019) · 7 citations
• Chibuzo Achinivu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 1
  Notable: “The Supply of Digital Authoritarianism to Africa: an Empirical Study” (2024) · 1 citations
• Andrew Davison, Professor of Political Science
• Claire Sagan, Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Mallory Whiteduck, Assistant Professor of Political Science on the Class of 1951 Chair
• Maxwell Fuerderer, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
• Maya Van Nuys, Assistant Professor
• Richard Born, Professor of Political Science
  Lie within the area of congressional elections. His most recent work involves analyzing the consequences of the growing partisan homogeneity of US House districts. His course offerings at Vassar include American Politics, the American Presi
• Samson Okoth Opondo, Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies

Courses

• American Politics POLI 140
• Comparative Politics POLI 150
• International Politics POLI 160
• Political Theory POLI 170
• Political Analysis POLI 207
• Anishinabemowin: The Politics and Practice of a Native Language POLI 231
• International Law and The Anthropocene POLI 232
• Media and Politics POLI 234
• The Military and American Politics POLI 236
• Power and Public Policy POLI 238
• Civil Rights & Civil Liberties in the United States POLI 239
• The American Presidency POLI 240
• Congress POLI 241
• Constitutional Law POLI 243
• Political Parties and Public Opinion POLI 244
• Courts, Judges and American Judicial Politics POLI 245
• Civil Rights POLI 246
• The Politics of Difference POLI 247
• Racial and Ethnic Group Politics in Popular Culture POLI 248
• Politics as Games POLI 250
• The Politics of Modern Social Movements POLI 252
• Chinese Politics and Economy POLI 254
• Subaltern Politics POLI 255
• Walking Poughkeepsie: Uncovering Poughkeepsie's Symbolic Landscape and Imagining Otherwise POLI 256
• Genre and the Postcolonial City POLI 257
• Latin American Politics POLI 258
• Settler Colonialism in a Comparative Perspective POLI 259
• Human Rights in Context POLI 260
• Theories of War and Peace POLI 261
• India, China and the State of Post-coloniality POLI 262
• Critical International Relations POLI 263
• The Foreign Policy of the United States POLI 264
• Transits of US Empire Transits through US Empire POLI 267
• The Politics of Globalization POLI 268
• Native American Visual Sovereignty POLI 271
• Feminist Thought and Politics: Sex, Gender, Matter POLI 272
• Interpreting Politics POLI 273
• Indigenous Political Thought POLI 274
• Anatolian Struggles POLI 275
• Contemporary Marxist Theories POLI 276
• The Politics of Capitalism POLI 277
• Environmental Political Thought POLI 278
• Temporality, Ecology & Technoscience POLI 279
• Community-Engaged Learning POLI 290
• Independent Work POLI 298
• Senior Thesis POLI 300
• + 2 more courses

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.