The faculty in the Department of Political Science at the University of Southern California have a distinguished publication and research record. They regularly publish in the top political science journals and university presses in the areas of American politics, comparative politics, political theory, and public law. Members of the department have won numerous grants, fellowships, and academic awards, and the department has been consistently ranked high by national evaluators. In addition to being an outstanding research department, the political science faculty have won more teaching awards than any other unit at USC, and their formal student evaluations are among the highest at the university.
Faculty also play a pivotal role in advising both undergraduate and graduate students.
Most faculty follow the scholar-teacher model, which accounts for the popularity of the major at the undergraduate level and the high number of applications for the graduate program. The following list provides specific teaching and research interests of our faculty. You may also click on an individual name to see their professional biography and E-mail address.