Vellore Arthi
  • Assistant Professor
    Ph.D., University of Oxford 

  • health, economic history, labor, development

  •  SSPB 3209 | 949-824-2182

  • varthi@uci.edu
Jeffrey A. Barrett
  • Chancellor's Professor and Chair of Council on Research, Computing, and Library Resources (CORCLR)
    Ph.D., Columbia, 1992

  • philosophy of science; philosophy of physics; epistemology; game theory, decision theory, and rational choice

  •  SST 765 | 949-824-6491

  • jabarret@uci.edu
  • Website
Jean-Paul Carvalho
  • Associate Professor, Economics, UCI; Interim Director, IMBS
    Ph.D., University of Oxford, 2009

  • Economics of identity and culture, political economy

  •  SSPA 3117 | 949-824-3417

  • jpcarv@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Simone Chambers
  • Professor
     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
  • Abraham I. Melden Chair in Moral Philosophy and Distinguished Professor, 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
Jeff Heimreich
  • Assistant Professor

  • ethics, action theory, jurisprudence
Simon Huttegger
  • Professor / Department Chair
    Ph.D., University of Salzburg, 2006

  • game and decision theory, philosophy of biology, philosophy of science

  •  SST 785 | 949-824-3220

  • shuttegg@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
  • Associate 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, UCI
    Ph.D., Yale University 

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

  •  SSPA 3129 | 949-824-7417

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

  • measurement, logic, metacognition

  •  SSPA 2177 | 949-824-5360

  • lnarens@uci.edu
  • Website
Cailin O'Connor
  • Associate Professor / Director, PPE MA Program
    Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, 2013

  • philosophy of biology, evolutionary game theory, philosophy of science

  •  SST 793 | 949-824-3954

  • cailino@uci.edu
  • Website
  • CV
Davin Phoenix
  • Assistant Professor
     Ph.D.,  University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 

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

  •  SSPB 5201 | 949-824-2292

  • 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
Brian Skyrms
  • Distinguished Professor / Director, Salzburg Exchange Program / Director, History & Philosophy of Science - IDP
    Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh 

  • philosophy of science, metaphysics

  •  SST 767 | 949-824-6495

  • bskyrms@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
Michael Tesler
  • Associate Professor
     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 (DGS) / DECADE Mentor / LPS Website Liaison
    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
    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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