Core Faculty

 

Matthew Beckmann
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004

  • presidency, congress, interest groups, mass media and politics

  •  SSPB 2253 | 949-824-6219

  • beckmann@uci.edu
  • Website
Daniel Brunstetter
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Davis, 2005

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

  •  SSPB 5289 | 949-824-9752

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

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

  •  SBSG 2334 | 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, Political Science and Asian American Studies
    Ph.D., Yale University 

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

  •  SSPB 3251 | 949-824-3192

  • cjkim@uci.edu
  • Website
Linda Levine
Cecelia Lynch
  • Professor, Political Science
    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)

  •  SST 569 | 949-824-1428

  • clynch@uci.edu
  • Website
Kristen Monroe
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1974

  • ethics, international relations, political and moral psychology, normative political theory, politics of difference, conflict resolution

  •  SSPA 4103 | 949-824-6092

  • krmonroe@uci.edu
  • Website
Kevin Olson
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Northwestern University 

  • political theory, history of political thought, legal theory, philosophy of the social sciences

  •  SSPB 5207 | 949-824-8335

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

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

  •  SSPB 5253 | 949-824-7143

  • swr@uci.edu
  • Website
  • Lab
Kamal Sadiq
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2003

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

  •  SSPB 5263 | 949-824-3126

  • kamal@uci.edu
Johanna Shapiro
Brian Skyrms
  • Distinguished Professor, Director of the Salzburg Exchange Program, Director of the History & Philosophy of Science IDP, and Director of the History & Philosophy of Science Minor
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 

  • philosophy of science, metaphysics

  •  767 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6495

  • bskyrms@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Etel Solingen
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1987

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

  •  SSPB 5259 | 949-824-6732

  • esolinge@uci.edu
  • Website
P. Kyle Stanford
  • Professor and Director of the PPE MA Program
    Ph.D., University of California, San Diego 

  • philosophy of biology, philosophy of science, epistemology and metaphysics, history of modern philosophy

  •  769 Social Science Tower | 949-824-6398

  • stanford@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Keith Topper
  • Associate Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

  • political theory

  •  SSPA 4143 | 949-824-4067

  • ktopper@uci.edu
John Whiteley

 

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