Simone Chambers
  • Department Chair & Professor, Political Science
     Ph.D.,  Columbia University 

  • democratic theory, ethics, secularism, rhetoric, civility and the public sphere

  •  SSPB 5269 | 949-824-3187

  • sechambe@uci.edu
  • Website
Michelle Garfinkel
  • Professor, Economics, UCI
    Ph.D., Brown University 

  • macroeconomics, political economy, conflict

  •  SSPB 3257 | 949-824-3190

  • mrgarfin@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
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
Bernard Grofman
  • Distinguished Professor
    Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1972

  • public choice, mathematical models of collective decision making, formal democratic theory, politics of small groups, representation, voting rights

  •  SSPB 2291 | 949-824-6394

  • bgrofman@uci.edu
  • Website
Aaron James
  • Professor, Philosophy
    Ph.D., Harvard University 

  • ethics (foundations and moral theory), political philosophy

  •  HIB 96 | 949-824-6520

  • aaron.james@uci.edu
Marek Kaminski
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Univ. of Maryland, 1997

  • voting models, democratization, political consequences of electoral laws

  •  SSPB 2283 | 949-824-2744

  • mkaminsk@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Igor Kopylov
  • Associate Professor, Economics, UCI
    Ph.D., University of Rochester 

  • microeconomic theory, decision theory, game theory

  •  SSPA 3177 | 949-824-6182

  • ikopylov@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Erin Lockwood
  • Assistant Professor
     Ph.D.,  Northwestern University,  2017

  • financial derivatives, financial regulation, international political economy, political theory, risk and uncertainty

  •  SSPB 5279

  • eklockwo@uci.edu
Michael McBride
  • Professor, Economics
    Ph.D., Yale University 

  • game theory, experimental economics, political economy, social networks, religion

  •  SSPA 3129 | 949-824-7417

  • mcbride@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Louis Narens
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1970

  • measurement, logic, metacognition

  •  SSPA 2177 | 949-824-5360

  • lnarens@uci.edu
  • Website
Davin Phoenix
  • Undergraduate Honors Director, Political Science & Associate Professor, Political Science
     Ph.D.,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

  • racial attitudes, affect and behavior; public opinion; political communication; urban politics; mobilization of marginalized groups

  •  SSPB 5201 | 949-824-5698

  • dphoenix@uci.edu
Duncan Pritchard
  • Distinguished Professor, Philosophy

  • epistemology, skepticism, wittgenstein, philosophy of cognitive science, philosophy of religion, philosophy of education, philosophy of law
Donald Saari
  • Distinguished Research Professor
    Ph.D. Purdue University  

  • mathematics and applications of dynamical systems to social sciences

  •  SSPB 3295 | 949-824-5894

  • dsaari@uci.edu
  • Website
Stergios Skaperdas
  • Clifford S. Heinz Chair and Professor, Economics, UCI
    Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University 

  • economic theory, political economy

  •  SSPA 3123 | 9498244167

  • sskaperd@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Charles Smith
  • Professor
    Ph.D., University of California - San Diego, 2004
    J.D., University of Florida, 1987

  • law and legal institutions, comparative and international law

  •  SSPB 2279 | 949-824-5403

  • casmith@uci.edu
  • Website
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
  • CV
Michael Tesler
  • Graduate Admissions Director and Professor, Political Science
     Ph.D.,  University of California, Los Angeles,  2011

  • american politics, race, ethnicity & politics, quantitative methods

  •  SSPB 5251 | 949-824-1869

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

  • political theory

  •  SSPA 4143 | 949-824-4067

  • ktopper@uci.edu
Carole Uhlaner
  • Professor
    Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978

  • comparative political behavior, formal theory/social choice

  •  SSPA 3125 | 949-824-7329

  • cuhlaner@uci.edu
  • Website
Samantha Vortherms
  • Assistant Professor
     Ph.D.,  University of Wisconsin-Madison 

  • comparative political economy, development, social welfare

  •  SSPB 5253

  • s.vortherms@uci.edu
James Owen Weatherall
  • Professor / Director of Graduate Studies / On Leave Winter 2022
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2012
    Ph.D., Stevens Institute of Technology, 2009

  • philosophy of physics, philosophy of science, mathematical physics

  •  SST 781 | 949-824-6656

  • weatherj@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Kai Wehmeier
  • Dean's Professor / Director, C-ALPHA / Academic Personnel and Awards Committee / Director of Undergraduate Studies
    Ph.D., Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster,  1996

  • logic, philosophy of logic and language, early analytic philosophy, and philosophy of mathematics

  •  SST 783 | 949-824-7792

  • wehmeier@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV

 

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