Core Faculty

 

Matthew Beckmann
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan 

  • American governing institutions, presidency, executive leadership

  •  2253 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6219

  • beckmann@uci.edu
  • Website
Daniel Brunstetter
  • Professor and Graduate Program Director; Director, Center for Citizen Peacebuilding
    Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2005

  • just war, early modern thought, otherness/identity, new world discovery, montaigne, rousseau, french immigration

  •  5289 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-9752

  • dbrunste@uci.edu
  • Website
Nadia Chernyak
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Cornell University, 2014

  • cognitive development, social cognition, prosocial behavior, moral cognition, agency and free will, conceptual development

  •  2334 Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway | 949-824-9788

  • nadia.chernyak@uci.edu
  • Lab
Roxane Cohen Silver
Peter Ditto
Margaret Gilbert
  • Distinguished Professor and the Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy
    Ph.D., Oxford University 

  • topics in social, political, and moral philosophy, rights theory, and philosophy of law

  •  HIB 94 | 949-824-6520

  • mpgilber@uci.edu
  • Website
Wendy Goldberg
Mahtab Jafari
Claire Kim
  • Professor, Asian American Studies
    Ph.D., Yale University 

  • race, asian american politics, black politics, social movements, immigration, human-animal studies

  •  3251 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-3192

  • cjkim@uci.edu
  • Website
Linda Levine
Cecelia Lynch
  • Professor Emerita
    Ph.D., Columbia University, 1993

  • international relations (theory, organization, law), religion and ethics, social movements and civil society actors (on peace, security, globalization, humanitarianism, and religion)

  • clynch@uci.edu
  • Website
Kristen Monroe
Kevin Olson
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Northwestern University 

  • political theory, insurgent and popular politics, postcoloniality, cultural politics, poststructuralism, critical theory

  •  5207 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-8335

  • kevin.olson@uci.edu
  • Website
Shawn Rosenberg
  • Professor
    M. Litt., University of Oxford 

  • political psychology, populism, deliberative democracy, ideology, social theory, social and development psychology

  •  5253 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-7143

  • swr@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Kamal Sadiq
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., The University of Chicago 

  • comparative politics, international relations, immigration and citizenship in developing countries, asian security, india and southeast asia

  •  5263 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-3126

  • kamal@uci.edu
Johanna Shapiro
Brian Skyrms
Etel Solingen
  • Distinguished Professor
    Thomas T. And Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies  
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles 

  • international relations theory, international political economy, international cooperation, macropolitics/institutions, comparative politics, world politics and regional orders

  •  5259 Social Science Plaza B | 949-824-6732

  • esolinge@uci.edu
  • Website
P. Kyle Stanford
Keith Topper
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

  • political theory

  •  4143 Social Science Plaza A | 949-824-4067

  • ktopper@uci.edu
John Whiteley