Faculty and staff in Saint Louis University’s Department of Political Science have expertise across a broad range of topics.

Their areas of expertise include: the presidency, U.S. state and local politics, Asian politics, Middle East politics, international security and terrorism, polling, administrative law, democratization, revolution and ethnic conflict, political leadership, public policy, civil liberties, race and gender, feminist theory, disability theory, the history of political thought, postcommunist systems, and African and Latin American development.

Ellen Carnaghan, Ph.D.
Department chair

Wynne Walker Moskop, Ph.D.
Director of graduate studies

William McCormick, S.J., Ph.D.
Director of undergraduate studies

J. D. Bowen, Ph.D., and Ness Sandoval, Ph.D.
Co-directors of the Ph.D. in public and social policy

Political Science Faculty by Subfield

American Politics

• Morgan Hazelton, Ph.D.
• Steven Rogers, Ph.D
• Kenneth Warren, Ph.D.

Comparative Politics

• J. D. Bowen, Ph.D.
• Ellen Carnaghan, Ph.D.
• Nori Katagiri, Ph.D.
• Michelle Lorenzini, Ph.D.
• Emmanuel Uwalaka, Ph.D.

International Relations

• J. D. Bowen, Ph.D.
• Nori Katagiri, Ph.D.
• Michelle Lorenzini, Ph.D.
• Emmanuel Uwalaka, Ph.D.

Political Thought

• Ruth Groff, Ph.D.
• Wynne Moskop, Ph.D.
• Penny Weiss, Ph.D.

Public Policy

• Robert Cropf, Ph.D.
• James Gilsinan, Ph.D.

Professors Emeriti

• Eloise Buker, Ph.D.
• Jean-Robert Leguey-Feilleux, Ph.D.
• Timothy Lomperis, Ph.D.
• Steven Puro, Ph.D.

Staff

• Sharilyn Bazilie, administrative assistant
• Mary Lapusan, administrative assistant