Full Time Faculty

- Lesley Lavery
- Professor and Chair of Political Science
- American politics, political behavior, public policy, education policy
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- 651-696-6321

- Rothin Datta
- Instructor
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- Julie Dolan
- Professor of Political Science
- American politics, women and politics, bureaucracy
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- 651-696-6483

- Paul Dosh
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, Latin American politics, urban social movements
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- 651-696-6776

- Andrew Latham
- Professor of Political Science
- International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
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- 651-696-6549

- Lisa Mueller
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, African politics, behavioral and development economics, and research methods.
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- 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
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- 651-696-6147

- Wendy Weber
- Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
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- 651-696-6653
Visiting Faculty

- Della Zurick
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
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- 651-696-6807
Staff

- Bonnie Berger
- Department Coordinator
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- 651-696-6290
Affiliated Faculty

- Duchess Harris
- Professor of American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
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- 651-696-6478
Professor Emeritus

- Adrienne E. Christiansen
- Associate Professor of Political Science (Emeritus)
- Political communication, campaigns and elections
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- 651-696-6714

- David L. Blaney
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science (Emeritus)
- Global political economy, international political theory
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- 651-696-6020

- Franklin Hugh Adler
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor, Political Science (Emeritus)
- Focuses on political theory and comparative politics, Western Marxism, Frankfurt School, and hermeneutics
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