Faculty & Staff
Full Time Faculty
- Lisa Mueller
- Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science
- Comparative politics, social movements, African politics, behavioral and development economics, and research methods.
- lmueller@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6692
- Rothin Datta
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- Political theory; value-form theory; history of economic thought
- rdatta1@macalester.edu
- Julie Dolan
- Professor of Political Science
- American politics, women and politics, bureaucracy
- dolan@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6483
- Paul Dosh
- Associate Professor of Political Science
- Comparative politics, Latin American politics, urban social movements
- dosh@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6776
- Sheharyar Imran
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
- International relations theory; global political economy
- simran@macalester.edu
- Andrew Latham
- Professor of Political Science
- International relations; regional conflict and security; foreign policy; political thought
- latham@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6549
- Lesley Lavery
- Professor of Political Science
- American politics, political behavior, public policy, education policy
- llavery@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6321
- 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
- schmidtp@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6147
- Wendy Weber
- Senior Lecturer of Political Science and Chair of Human Rights and Humanitarianism
- weberw@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6653
Visiting Faculty
- Della Zurick
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
- dzurick@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6807
Staff
- Michael Zis
- Department Coordinator
- zis@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6290
Affiliated Faculty
- Duchess Harris
- Professor of American Studies
- Focuses on 20th-century African American political history and civil rights
- harris@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6478
Professor Emeritus
- David L. Blaney
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science (Emeritus)
- Global political economy, international political theory
- blaney@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6020
- Adrienne E. Christiansen
- Associate Professor of Political Science (Emeritus)
- Political communication, campaigns and elections
- christiansen@macalester.edu
- 651-696-6714
- Franklin Hugh Adler
- G. Theodore Mitau Professor, Political Science (Emeritus)
- Focuses on political theory and comparative politics, Western Marxism, Frankfurt School, and hermeneutics
- adler@macalester.edu