Susan Moffitt
Director of Academic Programs
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Education policy, regulatory policy, health policy.
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Director of Academic Programs
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Education policy, regulatory policy, health policy.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Nonprofit practice and policy and high performance, high impact and innovative nonprofit organizations, social entrepreneurship, strategic thinking and planning.
John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Transnational crime and crime control, borders and border security, immigration and drug control policy.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science
Areas of Interest: Legislative behavior, use and abuse of Congressional procedure; campaigns and elections; appropriations process, the budget process and earmarks; roots and history of ideological and partisan polarization in the American political culture.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Indigenous and other subjugated knowledge systems, science and technology policy in the Global South, Black transnationalism and history of black resistance (USA, Southern Africa, Brazil), critical black geographies, transformation of higher education systems.
Associate Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs, Faculty Affiliate of the Economics Department
Areas of Interest: Gains from Migration, Economic Growth and Development, Productivity, Innovation, Structural Transformation.
Arkadij Eisler Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Peacekeeping, statebuilding, security sector reform, quantitative and experimental methods.
Associate Professor of the Practice of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Race and Public Policy, Civil Rights
Director of the William R. Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
The William R. Rhodes ’57 Professor of International Economics
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Political Economy and finance.
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy
Professor of Political Science
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Criminal justice, child abuse, ethics in government, the politics of food.
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Congressman, Rhode Island District One
Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Energy politics, causes of war, political revolutions.
Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Education
Areas of Interest: Race and ethnic politics, education politics and policy, urban politics, state and local politics, democratic theory
Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Chair of the Economics Department
Areas of Interest: Public Economics and Political Economy
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Securities law and regulation, management, leadership.
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Director of the Graduate Program in Development
Areas of Interest: Development, globalization, social theory, democratization, governance, urban transformation.
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Globalizing knowledge and universities, social movements, cultural politics and social change in Europe and Eurasia, cultural politics and energy security in Europe and Eurasia.
Policy & Governance Track Director, Undergraduate International and Public Affairs Concentration
Director, Undergraduate Public Policy Concentration
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Intergovernmental fiscal relations, education finance and governments, post-communist Europe, 'decentralization'
Provost, Brown University
Schreiber Family Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Globalization and labor standards, global supply chains, sustainability.
Professor of Economics
Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences
Areas of Interest: Applied microeconomic theory, game theory, industrial organization, natural resource economics, and the economics of race and inequality.
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Business Intelligence and Geographic Information Systems Consultant
Areas of Interest: GIS, database architecture and administration, data system integration, business intelligence, data visualization, community data systems, urban and environmental planning, crime analysis, web development.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr. Family Professor of International Studies, Professor of Anthropology
Areas of Interest: War and security, militarization, peacekeeping, automobility, photographic representation, gender.
Director of Postdoctoral Program
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations
Areas of Interest: International relations, American Foreign and Defense Policy, psychological aspects of decision-making, especially risk taking and emotion, gender, biological and genetic aspects of political attitudes and preferences, social identity, experiments, intelligence, cyber
IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.
John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies
Areas of Interest: Health care politics, politics and history, urban politics, religion and politics, race politics, democratic social movements.
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
JJE Goldman Sachs University Professor in Economics
Areas of Interest: Health economics, development economics.
Mary Tefft and John Hazen White, Sr. Assistant Professor of Public and International Affairs and Sociology
Areas of Interest: Social stratification, education, race/ethnicity, gender, organizations, social demography, population health.
Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy
Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science
Areas of Interest: The politics of policymaking, health policy, fiscal politics, policy reform, implementation, the welfare state, Congress.
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Decision theory, behavioral economics, political economy, health economics
Royce Family Professor of Teaching Excellence in Political Science
Professor of Political Science
Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy
Areas of Interest: United States Congress, political history, gender and politics.
Olive C. Watson Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Latin America, globalization, supply chains, labor standards, regulation.
Mahatma Gandhi Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of development, social welfare, identity politics including ethnic politics and nationalism, and gender politics, politics of South Asia and East Asia.
Howard R. Swearer Director of the Thomas J. Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Dean's Professor of China Studies
Professor of Political Science
Director of the China Initiative
Areas of Interest: Political economy of contemporary China, political economy of global production and innovation, political economy of energy.
Adjunct Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Director of Data Science, Lead Data Scientist, Brown University
Areas of Interest: Statistical inference, ensemble methods for machine learning, high-performance computing, parallel algorithm design, GPU programming, environmental policy
Director, International Relations Concentration
Senior Lecturer in Political Science
Areas of Interest: International security, arms control and nonproliferation, human rights, laws of war.
Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Areas of Interest: Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets
Sol Goldman Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Director of the Brown-India Initiative
Areas of Interest: lndian politics, political economy of development, ethnic conflict and nationalism.
Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science
Areas of Interest: Social policy in the US and Europe, urban politics and policy.
Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor for Education Policy
Professor of Political Science, Public Policy, and Urban Studies
Director, Urban Education Policy Program
Areas of Interest: Education governance and politics, school funding reform, accountability and equity issues in the US.
Interim Director of the Watson Postdoctoral Fellows Program
Professor of International and Public Affairs (Research)
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, political economy of Europe, comparative financial regulation, ideology and party politics in France and Germany.