Full Time Faculty
- Lesley Lavery
- Associate Professor & Chair of Political Science
- American politics, political behavior, public policy, education policy
- llavery@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6321
- David L. Blaney
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science
- Global political economy, international political theory
- blaney@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6020
- Adrienne E. Christiansen
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Political communication, campaigns and elections
- christiansen@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6714
- Julie Dolan
- Professor of Political Science
- American politics, women and politics, bureaucracy
- dolan@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6483
- Paul Dosh
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, Latin American politics, urban social movements
- dosh@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6776
- Jeanette Beger
- Department Coordinator, Political Science
- jbeger@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6290
- She/Her
- Andrew Latham
- Professor of Political Science
- International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
- latham@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6549
- Lisa Mueller
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, African politics, behavioral and development economics, and research methods.
- lmueller@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6692
- Patrick Schmidt
- Professor of Political Science, Pre-Law Advisor, and Co-Director of Legal Studies
- U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional law, law & society, regulation, corruption and transparency
- schmidtp@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6147
- Wendy Weber
- Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
- weberw@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6653
- Michael Zis
- Senior Instructor of Political Science
- U.S. politics, institutions, and public policy, urban politics, and American political history
- zis@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6536
Affiliated Faculty
- Duchess Harris
- Professor of American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
- harris@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6478
Professor Emeritus
- Franklin Hugh Adler
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor, Political Science (Emeritus)
- Focuses on political theory and comparative politics, Western Marxism, Frankfurt School, and hermeneutics
- adler@macalester.edu