23 faculty and 10 courses in Government at Wellesley College.
- Robert Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science h-index 26
Notable: “Genome-edited crops for improved food security of smallholder farmers” (2022) · 154 citations
- Craig Murphy, Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor Emeritus of Political Science h-index 24
Notable: “Global Governance: Poorly done and Poorly Understood” (2000) · 229 citations
- Stacie Goddard, Betty Freyhof Johnson '44 Professor of Political Science and Associate Provost, Wellesley in the World h-index 19
Notable: “Uncommon Ground: Indivisible Territory and the Politics of Legitimacy” (2006) · 286 citations
- Marion Just, Professor Emerita of Political Science h-index 18
Notable: “Common Knowledge: News and the Construction of Political Meaning.” (1993) · 200 citations
- Paul MacDonald, Professor of Political Science h-index 14
Es on the how powerful states create and sustain relations of dominance over others in international politics. My first book Networks of Domination: The Social Foundations of Peripheral Conquest in International Politics was published by Ox
Notable: “Useful Fiction or Miracle Maker: The Competing Epistemological Foundations of Rational Choice Theory” (2003) · 163 citations
- Wilbur Rich, Kenan Professor Emeritus of Political Science h-index 11
Notable: “Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics by Michael Dawson” (1994) · 845 citations
- Katharine Moon, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor Emerita of Asian Studies & Professor Emerita of Political Science h-index 10
Notable: “Sex among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations.” (1998) · 206 citations
- Christopher Candland, Professor of Political Science h-index 10
Notable: “Faith as social capital: Religion and community development in Southern Asia” (2000) · 64 citations
- Joel Krieger, Norma Wilentz Hess Professor Emeritus of Political Science h-index 9
Notable: “Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Decline” (1987) · 117 citations
- Maneesh Arora, Jane Bishop '51 Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 9
Race & ethnicity, public opinion, immigration, intergroup solidarity, methodology. Maneesh Arora is an associate professor of political science at Wellesley College, where he teaches courses on American politics, immigration pol
Notable: “From emotion to action among Asian Americans: assessing the roles of threat and identity in the age of Trump” (2018) · 51 citations
- William Joseph, Professor Emeritus of Political Science h-index 7
Es on Chinese politics, particularly the radicalism of Mao Zedong and the evolution of Chinese communist ideology from Mao to Xi Jinping. My major area of research interest is Chinese politics, which I have been studying for more than 50 ye
Notable: “The White-Boned Demon. A Biography of Madame Mao Zedong. By Ross Terrill. New York: William Morrow and Company (distributed in Canada by Macmillan of Canada, Toronto). pp. (illus.) US$18.95/C$26.95” (1985) · 22 citations
- Nancy Scherer, Associate Professor Emerita of Political Science h-index 6
Notable: “Does Descriptive Race Representation Enhance Institutional Legitimacy? The Case of the U.S. Courts” (2010) · 173 citations
- Jennifer Chudy, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 5
Notable: “Racial Sympathy and Its Political Consequences” (2020) · 105 citations
- Laura Grattan, Associate Professor of Political Science h-index 3
Notable: “Pierre Bourdieu and Populism:” (2012) · 9 citations
- Christian Hosam, Assistant Professor of Political Science h-index 2
Notable: “Fake News Is Real: The Significance and Sources of Disbelief in Mainstream Media in Trump’s America” (2020) · 40 citations
- Alan Schechter, Professor Emeritus of Political Science h-index 2
Notable: “Towards a World Rule of Law-Customary International Law in American Courts” (1960) · 2 citations
- Erzen Oncel, Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor in Political Science
- Faisal Ahmed, Associate Professor of Political Science
Es on political economy, international economics and politics. I study and teach political economy with a substantive focus in international economics and politics. My work is interdisciplinary and has been published in various journals, su
- Lois Wasserspring, Senior Lecturer Emerita in Political Science
- Paul Martorelli, Assistant Teaching Professor in Political Science
- Priscilla Torres, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Es on peacekeeping, peacebuilding and gender and international relations. Central to her research is the study of international initiatives and their implications for sub-national outcomes, whether that be conflict/peace or gender equality
- Stephanie Wanga, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science
- Tom Burke, Ralph Emerson and Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of Political Science
Es on the role of courts, rights, and litigation in politics. I'm currently working with Jessica Silbey (Professor of Law, Boston University) on the 10th Edition of Reason in Law , a critical analysis of the rhetoric that judges use to just
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.