Director, Middle East Studies
Robert Family Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology and Middle East Studies
Areas of Interest: Middle East; gender; feminism; war and conflict; migration and diaspora studies
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.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, 2018-2019, 2021-2022
Assistant Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at the University of Washington
Areas of Interest: International migration, refugee studies, law, human rights, race and ethnicity, gender, inequality, conflict and post-conflict societies
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: US Foreign Policy, Diplomacy, International Development Cooperation, Congressional War Powers, Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Transitions, Europe and Africa.
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.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: urban studies, bureaucracy, state space, development, brokerage
Samuel Pisar Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Areas of Interest: Modern European History, modern warfare, Nazism, Holocaust, genocide, interethnic relations, borderlands, modern Jewish history.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: transitional justice, human rights, international law and institutions
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.
Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory
Professor of Africana Studies
Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Areas of Interest: African and African diaspora political theory, intellectual and cultural histories; African and Caribbean politics; Global South development issues; Caribbean Art; political economy of race, slavery and the history of capitalism.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: National Defense; Aviation; Leadership; Humanitarian Assistance; Innovation
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: international relations, civil-military relations, political psychology
Harmon Family Professor of Sociology
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Global Health, Foreign Aid, International Organizations, Globalization, Neoliberalism.
Director of Climate Solutions Lab
Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International order; energy; climate change; oil politics; causes of war
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
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Politics, journalism, media, Biden, White House
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Professor of the Practice of Computer Science
Areas of Interest: Digital policy, cybersecurity, privacy and civil liberties, intelligence, open government and information sharing, U.S. national security policy process.
Senior Lecturer in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Comparative politics, transitions theory, Latin American politics, political representation and electoral reform.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: slavery, criminal justice, racial violence across the Americas
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Diplomacy, Geoeconomics, Geopolitics, Strategy
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: time and social theory, mass incarceration, women's incarceration, women, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, critical criminology, social movements, resistance
Briger Family Distinguished Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Chair of the Economics Department
Areas of Interest: Public Economics and Political Economy
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Senior Principal, Climate Intelligence Program, RMI
Areas of Interest: Energy innovation, climate policy, oil and gas sector, science and technology
Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Chair of Latin American History
Professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies
Areas of Interest: Modern Brazilian history and society, U.S.-Latin American relationships, gender and sexuality in Latin America.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: international relations, arms transfers, foreign policy analysis.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Iran's internal politics and foreign policy, US-Iranian security relations, conflict resolution, negotiation, and threat reduction, Middle East political change, social context of technology, teaching and learning political literacy.
Louis and Elizabeth Schreck Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences
Areas of Interest: National and International Human and Robotic Space Exploration and related national policies with particular emphasis on United States, European Space Agency, Russia and China.
Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development, globalization, social theory, democratization, governance, urban transformation.
Associate Professor of History
Areas of Interest: Africa, the Maghrib, empire, nationalism, decolonization, humanitarianism, public health and international organizations.
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Chinese foreign policy, bureaucratic politics, international security
Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology
Areas of Interest: US-Mexico border, security, migration, emergency medical services, crime, violence, gun policy and gun trafficking
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.
Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Science
Professor of Anthropology and Italian Studies
Areas of Interest: Italian politics and society, role of symbolism and ritual in politics, history of Vatican relations with the Italian state, modern history of anti-Semitism, the history of the family in Europe.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: American foreign policy; US intervention; Latin America, Turkey, Iran, Rwanda.
Director of Brazil Initiative
Interim Associate Director for World Languages and Cultures
Senior Lecturer in Language Studies
Senior Lecturer in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies Center for Language Studies
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: State Government, workforce development, apprenticeship, social benefit programs, and the work-life continuum
Director, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Health Services, Policy & Practice
Areas of Interest: Disasters, emerging infectious diseases, humanitarian emergencies, human rights.
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'
Director, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Caribbean history, Theories of development, Migration, International trade, Regional integration schemes , Regional trade agreements
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: social policy, gender, health, U.S. maternal and child welfare, culture, organizations
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.
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Small wars and low-intensity conflict, Interagency relationships, Civil-military relations
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
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: labor economics, public economics, inequality, gender, education, innovation
IJC Assistant Professor of Economics and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Development economics, labor economics, public economics.
Director of Academic Programs
Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Education policy, regulatory policy, health policy.
JJE Goldman Sachs University Professor in Economics
Areas of Interest: Health economics, development economics.
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.
Dean's Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy
Areas of Interest: Nuclear proliferation, nuclear strategy, coercion, wargaming, international security.
Senior Researcher
Director of Programs, Costs of War Project
Areas of Interest: Economics of war; Military Contracting; Employment Effects of Military and Domestic Spending; Economics of Energy Policy; Employment Effects of Transition to Low-Carbon Economy
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Climate Change
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Director, Military Fellows Program
Areas of Interest: Military planning, strategy development, humanitarian response, human security, leadership.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Immigration Policy, Refugee/Refugee Resettlement, Health Care Civil Rights, Municipal Government, Criminal Justice and Policing
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: global health policy and economics, quality of care, patient-centeredness, reproductive rights, health financing, pandemic preparedness and response
Senior Researcher
Co-Director of the Costs of War
Areas of Interest: Militarism, security, civic engagement, political culture.
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: Comparative sociology: political, economic, organizational
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: National Security, Technology Policy, Congress, Defense Research, Emerging Technologies
Visiting Scholar & National Defense Fellow
Areas of Interest: National Defense, Foreign Policy, Humanitarian Response, Logistics & Supply Chain Management, Leadership
Interim Director of the Graduate Program in Development
Mahatma Gandhi Associate 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.
Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. ’32 Professor of International Studies
Professor of Anthropology
Director of the Africa Initiative
Areas of Interest: Nigeria, Africa, development, medical anthropology, gender, population processes, infrastructure, corruption
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.
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Growth, Development, India, China, Trade
Nancy Donohue and Diane Elam Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs and Economics
Areas of Interest: Behavioral economics, Housing policy, Labor markets
Director of the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
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.
Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: Chinese politics, urban development, political economy
Postdoctoral Research Associate in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: public health, the welfare state, state-building
Visiting Scholar in International and Public Affairs
Areas of Interest: International Relations, ROK-US Alliance, Security Strategy
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.