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  • Associate Professor
Comparative Politics, Ethnicity and Identity, Social Movements, Security, South Asia
 
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2008
 
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  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Environmental Politics

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  • Graduate Student

Political Theory
Comparative Politics

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  • Professor
  • Affiliate

(Department of Sociology) Political and sociological theory

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate

(Bren School of Environmental Science and Management) Environmental politics

  • Professor
  • Affiliate

Department of Feminist Studies
Chicana/Latina Feminist Thought, Political Philosophy, Gender Studies

  • Associate Professor
  • Affiliate

Department of Sociology
Politics of Identity; International Migration; Race/Ethnicity; Qualitative Methodologies

  • Distinguished Professor

Political Communication and Behavior, Collective Action, Digital Media

Ph.D., Massaschusetts Institute of Technology, 1992  

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  • Professor Emerita

Public law, law and society, feminist jurisprudence

 

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  • Senior Lecturer Emerita

Lecturer in Middle East politics

  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
International Relations

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  • Professor
  • Chair

Comparative Politics, Identity, Latin American Studies

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1993

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  • Distinguished Professor
  • Chair of Global Studies
  • Affiliate

(Global and International Studies Program) Human rights, international relations, civil society, Latin American politics

  • Distinguished Professor

International Human Rights

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1990.

  • Associate Professor

(Bren School of Environmental Policy and Management) International Relations and Environmental Policy

  • Graduate Student

American Politics
Political Communications

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  • Associate Professor; Grad Admissions Chair

International Relations, Security, Civil War

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2006

  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

International Relations, International Political Economy

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1963

Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy (1991-2021)

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  • 805-570-4199 (cell)
  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Political Economy
Migration

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  • Professor
  • Associate Dean Graduate Division

Political Philosophy

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 1988

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Political Economy 

  • Graduate Student

American Politics

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  • Alumnus

Environmental Politics
Social Movements

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  • Associate Professor

Comparative Politics, Political Communication, Japanese Politics, Media and Politics

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1996

  • Graduate Student

Political Theory
Identity Politics

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations

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  • Alumnus

American Politics
Political Communication

  • Academic Personnel Coordinator

Merits and Promotions

UC Recruit (Faculty and Temporary Lecturers) 

Appointments (New Faculty, Temp. Lecturers, Visiting Scholars) 

International and Visiting Professors/Students

Chair's Assistant 

Faculty Recruitment Events and Visiting Speakers

Leave of Absences and Sabbaticals

Summer Salary 

  • Lecturer

Democratic Theory, Environmental Political Thought, History of Political Philosophy

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  • Visiting Assistant Professor
Jungjae Hong
  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Comparative Politics

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  • Graduate Student

Enviornmental Politics

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  • Alumnus

Comparative Politics, Political Economy, International Relations, Middle East Politics, Ethnic Studies, Sustainable Development, Political Theory, Democratic Theory, Center-Periphery Model, and Neocolonialism.

 

Nikayla Jefferson
  • Graduate Student

American Politics
Environmental Politics

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  • Distinguished Professor Emeritus

American Politics, Political Socialization, Public Opinion and Political Participation, Methodology

Ph.D., University of North Carolina, 1961

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  • Alumnus

Political Theory, American Politics, International Relations

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  • Professor

Comparative Politics; Identity Politics, Qualitative Methods and Research Design, Surveys,
Subfields: Political Behavior and Public Opinion; Social Mobilization, Democratization
Fieldwork: Russia, Tatarstan, Estonia, Kazakhstan

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1981

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  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
American Politics

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  • Undergraduate Program Coordinator
  • Lecturer

Undergraduate Program Coordination

Supervisor - Academic Advising

Adjunct/Teaching Associate Mentoring Program

TA Training and Management

Course Scheduling

Department Dispute Resolution

 

Adjunct Faculty - American Politics

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  • Zoom Phone Extension: 3433
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  • Assistant Professor

Political Theory, Ancient Greek Political Thought, German Social Thought

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017

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  • Graduate Student; Teaching Associate

Political Communication
American Politics

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  • Graduate Student

American Politics
Political Communication

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  • Professor
  • Diversity Advocate

American Politics, Identity, Asian American Politics, U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics, Public Opinion and Political Behavior

 

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1995

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  • Professor Emeritus

Comparative Politics

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Denis Lomov
  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Environmental Politics

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  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Political Communication
International Relations

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  • Associate Professor

Political Methodology
Energy and Environmental Politics
Comparative Political Economy

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 2015

  • Assistant Professor

Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, Energy and Environmental Politics

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles (2022)

 

  • Assistant Professor

Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Migration, Displacement, Middle East Politics

Ph.D., Yale University, 2018

  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Political Theory

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  • Professor Emerita

American Politics, Politics of Public Policy, Bureaucracy

Ph.D., Stanford University, 1975

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  • Professor Emeritus

Comparative Politics

  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
International Relations

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  • Associate Professor

Comparative Politics, Environmental Politics, Public Opinion, Methodology

Ph.D., Yale University, 2015

  • Graduate Program Coordinator

Provides advising and guidance for POLS grad students in terms of academic tracking and monitoring

Works with TA appointments, department financial tracking, and Awards

Works in tandem with the Grad Admissions Chair to coordinate recruitment visits and process applications

  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Comparative Politics

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  • Professor
  • Affiliate

(Department of Religious Studies)
Islamic Studies, Law and Religion

  • Lecturer
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  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Identity Politics

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  • Assistant Professor

International Organizations
Global Governance
International Political Economy
International Security Cooperation

Ph.D., Princeton University, 2017

  • Associate Professor

American Politics, Political Geography, Public Policy, Local Politics, American Political Development

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2011 

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  • Associate Professor

International Relations, International Security and Conflict Management, Political Violence, International Institutions

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2012

  • Professor Emeritus

Constitutional Law, Environmental Policy, Politics of Higher Education, Politics and Culture

  • Professor Emeritus

International Relations

Assistant Professor Will Nomikos
  • Assistant Professor

International Relations & Intervention, Civil Wars, Climate Change & Conflict, Identity Politics

Ph.D., Yale University, 2019

 

  • Business Officer

Staff Supervision

Finance and Budgets

Academic Personnel Administration

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  • Professor

Political Philosophy

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1995

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  • Professor
  • Vice Chair

American Politics, Identity, Race, Ethnicity, Public Opinion

Ph.D., University of Chicago, 2001

 

  • Professor
  • Affiliate

(Bren School of Environmental Science and Management) Environmental Politics; Corporate Environmental Management

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  • Financial Analyst

Processes and advises faculty on University policies and procedures including travel, per diem, entertainment, payroll and Honoria.

Trains students on the use of Kronos and timecard management.

 

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  • Graduate Student

American Politics
Environmental Politics

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Mirana Randriamanantsoa
  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Environmental Politics

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  • Assistant Professor

Black Politics, Political Economy, Education Politics 

Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2020

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  • Graduate Student

Latino Politics
Criminal Justice
Race and Ethnic Politics
Urban Politics
American Politics
the Politics of the Poor
Comparative Politics
Central American Politics

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  • Graduate Student; Teaching Associate

International Relations
Political Economy

 

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  • Alumnus

Environmental Politics
International Relations

  • Graduate Student

Environmental Politics
Comparative Politics

  • Professor Emeritus

Political Theory

  • Alumnus

Comparative Politics

  • Professor
  • Director of Graduate Studies

South Asia, Indian Politics, Public Policy, Development Studies, Environmental Politics, Local Politics and Governance

Ph.D., University of Delhi, 1994

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Comparative Politics

  • Professor Emeritus

American Politics, Environmental Politics, Public Opinion and Voting Behavior, Congress, Political Parties

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 1982

Affilated with the Bren School of Environmental Science & Management and the Environmental Studies Program

  • Graduate Student

American Politics
Environmental Politics

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  • Lecturer

International Relations
Political Theory
International Political Economy
Political Philosophy

  • Professor
  • Affiliate

(Department of Communication) Globalization, International Organizations, Political Communication with Special Reference to Terrorism and Human Rights

  • 4125 Social Sciences & Media Studies Building
  • Associate Professor

American Politics, Energy and Environmental Politics, Public Policy, Methodology

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015

  • Associate Professor (On Leave)

Comparative Politics, Political Parties and Elections, Political Institutions, Political Representation, Quantitative Methods 

Ph.D., Stanford University, 2005

  • Graduate Student

Political Theory

  • Continuing Lecturer

International Relations

Ph.D., The Ohio State University, 2006

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  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
International Relations
Migration

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  • Assistant Professor
  • Affiliate

Department of Global Studies
Conflict and violence, civil wars, state building, genocide and mass killing, development, African and Latin American politics

  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
American Politics

  • Graduate Student; Teaching Associate

Comparative Politics
Political Economy

 

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Comparative and Environmental Politics
Migration

  • Academic Assistant & Lead Staff Advisor

Administration & Advising

General Questions

Disabled Students Program Coordination

Academic Advising for Undergraduates (Lead Staff Advisor)

Department Key Management, Textbook Orders, and Events

  • Graduate Student

International Relations

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  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Environmental Politics

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations
International Political Economy

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  • Professor Emeritus

American Politics, Politics of Public Policy, Political Economy

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1980

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  • Graduate Student

International Relations
Political Economy

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  • Graduate Student

Comparative Politics
Environmental Politics

  • Graduate Student

Environmental Politics
American Politics
Urban Political Ecology

  • Graduate Student

International Relations