Politics (POL)

HONORS: An Honors Program in politics is offered for qualified students. Politics majors who have at least a 3.500 grade-point average in the major and at least a 3.300 cumulative grade-point average at the end of their junior year qualify to write an honors thesis. Prospective honors candidates should contact the department head and potential thesis advisers in the fall of their junior year.

Department Head: Lucas E. Morel
(Interim Department Head: Rebecca Harris, Fall 2015)

Faculty

First date is the year in which the faculty member began regular faculty service at the University. Second date is the year of appointment to the present rank. 

Joseph M. Cantey Jr., Ph.D.—(2014)-2014
Assistant Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Duke University

William F. Connelly Jr. Ph.D.—(1986)-1996
John K. Boardman Professor of Politics
Ph.D., University of Virginia 

J. Tyler Dickovick, Ph.D.—(2004)-2010
Ben and Carol Grigsby Term Associate Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Princeton University

Stuart J. Gray, Ph.D.—(2015)-2015
Assistant Professor of Politics
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

Rebecca C. Harris, Ph.D.—(2005)-2011
Darrold and Kay Cannan Term Associate Professor of Politics
Ph.D., University of Illinois

Robin Le Blanc, Ph.D.—(1998)-2008
Professor of Politics
Ph.D., University of Oklahoma

Lucas E. Morel, Ph.D.—(1999)-2009
Class of 1960 Professor of Ethics and Politics
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School

Kenneth Patrick Ruscio, Ph.D.—(2006)-2006
Professor of Politics and President of the University
Ph.D., Syracuse University

Mark E. Rush, Ph.D.—(1990)-2002
The Stanley D. and Nikki Waxberg Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University

Robert A. Strong, Ph.D.—(1989)-1992
William Lyne Wilson Professor of Politics
Ph.D., University of Virginia