Faculty and Staff
An Accomplished and Accessible Faculty
The Department’s stature in political science is reflected in the quality and reputation of its faculty. The Department's faculty have extensive records of producing high impact, theoretically and methodologically rigorous research. The faculty have authored or co-authored 18 books and published another 21 edited, text, or reference books. Twenty-one of these 39 books were published by university presses. Among our faculty are a SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, two UB Distinguished Professors, and faculty with many other recognitions of achievements.
Faculty have published more than 100 book chapters and 250 articles in scholarly journals. Of these articles, nearly 100 have been published in journals ranked among the top 25 in the political science. These include the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, World Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Political Research Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and American Politics Research among others. Collectively the faculty have an impressive 21 articles published in what are considered by many to be the top three journals in the discipline: the APSR, AJPS, and JOP.
To find out more about each member of the faculty, click on their names below.
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To find out more about the Deparment's history, including a roster of faculty since 1962, click here.
Faculty
Philip Arena
Assistant Professor
International Politics
PhD, Penn State University
parena@buffalo.edu
716-645-8444
James Coleman Battista
Assistant Professor
American Politics
Ph.D., Duke University
jbattist@buffalo.edu
716-645-8445
Associate Professor
International Politics.
Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School
716-645-8448
Assistant Professor
Public Law
Ph.D., Washington University, St. Louis
716-645-8439
James E. Campbell
UB Distinguished Professor
American Politics
Department Chair
Ph.D., Syracuse University
jcampbel@buffalo.edu
716-645-8452
Associate Professor
International Politics.
Ph.D., University at Buffalo, SUNY
vesna@buffalo.edu
716-645-8443
Dinissa S. Duvanova
Assistant Professor
Comparative Politics
Ph.D., Ohio State University
duvanova@buffalo.edu
716-645-8437
Joshua J. Dyck
Associate Professor
American Politics
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Maryland
jdyck@buffalo.edu
716-645-8435
Professor
Comparative Politics
Director of the Canadian Studies Program
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
eagles@buffalo.edu
716-645-2711
Stephen Halpern
Professor
Public Law
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
shalpern@buffalo.edu
716-645-8446
Charles M. Lamb
Professor
Public Law
Ph.D., University of Alabama
clamb@buffalo.edu
716-645-8441
Research Professor and Professor of Law
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine
lmather@buffalo.edu
716-645-5541
Harvey D. Palmer
Associate Professor
American and Comparative Politics
Director of Graduate Studies
Ph.D., University of Rochester
716-645-8449
Jason Sorens
Assistant Professor
Comparative and International Politics
Ph.D., Yale University
jsorens@buffalo.edu
716-645-8436
Claude E. Welch, Jr.
SUNY Distinguished Service Professor
Comparative Politics
Ph.D., Oxford University
cwelch@buffalo.edu
716-645-8434
Frank C. Zagare
UB Distinguished Professor
International Politics
Ph.D., New York University
fczagare@buffalo.edu
716-645-8442
Instructors
Kristin L. Campbell
Voluntary Adjunct
kcampbel@buffalo.edu
716-645-8447
Tasha Lavey
716-645-8450
Diane Oyler
716-645-8447
Lisa K. Parshall
Voluntary Adjunct
lkp@buffalo.edu
lparshal@daemen.edu
716-645-8447
Emeritus Faculty
Richard H. Cox
Professor Emeritus
Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy, the relationship of Political Philosophy to poetry and history, American Constitutionalism.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Frederic J. Fleron, Jr.
Professor Emeritus
Comparative Politics, Politics of the USSR and Russia, Political Culture and the Politics of Technology.
Ph.D., Indiana
ffleron@buffalo.edu
John C. Lane
Professor Emeritus
Western European Politics, Comparative Political Institutions, Comparative Constitutional Law, Maltese Elections.
Ph.D., Columbia University
Franco Mattei
Associate Professor, Retired December, 2010
American Politics
Ph.D., Florence
mattei@buffalo.edu
716-645-8451
Donald B. Rosenthal
Professor Emeritus
American Politics, Urban Politics, Public Policy, Federalism.
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Jerome Slater
Professor Emeritus
International politics, American Foreign Policy, and International Security.
Ph.D., Princeton University
jnslater@buffalo.edu
Robert H. Stern
Professor Emeritus
Constitutional Law, Civil Liberties, American Political Thought.
Ph.D., Harvard University
Staff
Senior Staff Assistant
Graduate Coordinator
Undergraduate Coordinator